Have you watched fantasy rpg style anime??

mecharmor23 · January 17th, 2005

Hello all. I am actually a RPG game fan and perfers mostly ancient/medival themes. Of course psx games seems to have alot of cutscenes and anime nowadays. Most of the time I get drawn in by the anime cutscenes rather than the gameplay.

Now I am searching for anime that is medival/fantasy style. So far I have watched the 1st released episode of Tales of Phantasia and is starting on Lodoss War. Are there other series that you might recommend?? Cliches are fine, as I would love to see anime using things from rpg games.

Secondly, I am also searching for comedy anime. Can't seem to get enough of those "anime-character freaking out" moments.

Kiroshi · January 17th, 2005

Ragnarok the animation was ok. Kinda like .hack to me but still worth checking out.

Proto · January 17th, 2005

I'd like to suggest Scrapped Princess from BONES.... even though I didnt like the ending it is one of the finest works you can find out there in this genre

Another option would br Junni Kokki, although it isn't really an RPG-ish set up (if i had to associate it with a style it'd be strategy) it is set up in a fantasy world that is pretty well constructed down to the smallest detail. This series is in fact my #1 in my anime list.

About comedy style anime the only one I have manged to bear (I'm not exactly a fan of the genre...) is Azumanga Daioh!

**Kane** · January 17th, 2005

Rangnarock sucked. It started as it meant to go on, and it felt like it was filler eps. ROTW is good, both the TV and OVA, and I would concour with Proto's reccommendation.
The .hack series was an anime about a MMORPG.... they then created a series of games from it. .hack//sign was ok, but a bit slow .hack//dusk was kiddified and .hack//liminality was confusing as hell and set in the real world.
Wild Arms is quite fun although it doesn't seem to bear a great deal of resemblance to the small amount of the PSX game I played.
Arc The Lad I found to be cack, but Bareo informed me that it's quite good if you've played the game.
Other ones worth a look are Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku (Now and then, Here and There) - although I'm not certain that fits your criteria - and Slayers, Slayers Next and Slayers Try. I'm sure there are more which I've watched, but none which are yelling at me right now.
Slayers should start to fill your comedy desire, but I also reccommend Azumanga Daioh, Bobobo and Full Metal Panic ~Fumoffu~ (it does help if you've seen Full Metal Panic first, but it's not essential)

**Kellicros** · January 17th, 2005

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Originally Posted by mecharmor23

Hello all. I am actually a RPG game fan and perfers mostly ancient/medival themes. Of course psx games seems to have alot of cutscenes and anime nowadays. Most of the time I get drawn in by the anime cutscenes rather than the gameplay.

Now I am searching for anime that is medival/fantasy style. So far I have watched the 1st released episode of Tales of Phantasia and is starting on Lodoss War. Are there other series that you might recommend?? Cliches are fine, as I would love to see anime using things from rpg games.

Secondly, I am also searching for comedy anime. Can't seem to get enough of those "anime-character freaking out" moments.

There is also an anime series of Tales of Eternia, quite old but check it out, it is good.

Then we have Final Fantasy Unlimited, many people said it sucked, but weird enough, I loved it. Yes, the repetitive scenes are annoying but it is still good IMO.

For comedy, try "Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu", there are three seasons of it and all of them are hilariously funny.

**_E_** · January 17th, 2005

Wild Arms Anime kicked @ss IMO, even though most of the eps were fillers. Another Anime you might wanna consider is Tales of Eternia ( 15-16 eps) and Tales kd Phantasia OVA ( it's still being released though... )

Yours,
-Elly

The Captain · January 17th, 2005

Check out Louie the Rune Solder. It's set in a medieval/fantasy world and it's funny as well. The anime club at my school is watching it right now.

Proto · January 17th, 2005

Dunno... I quite loved the Tales of Ethernia game but the anime wasn't all that good IMO... (mainly due to the fact that the whole series is a big promo for the game, where 80% of the chapters are plain fillers)

Blade556 · January 17th, 2005

I heard Star Ocean EX was pretty good. They have it for download at Animesuki, so go there for it (Look under torrents link)

Radix865 · January 17th, 2005

I'd go for Star Ocean EX(verrry gooood!) and tales of eternia... I know they're already said but they're actually only ones I've seen that I can actually call good ones... FFU was, uh, well it wasn't that great.

Titus03 · January 17th, 2005

I have seen Star Ocean EX, too. Yeah, it's very good like Radix865 said.

MaZa · January 17th, 2005

Berzerk

Escaflowne

Final Fantasy Unlimited (which sucks)

Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (WHICH SUCKS EVEN MORE! Poorly resembles FF5, but whole anime is one pure blasphemy. good luck in finding it though)

Kaiser Sigma · January 17th, 2005

Granted they are way too old, I suggest you try to find Entaku no Kishi Monogatari: Moero Arthur (which is the anime version of King Arthur) as well as Robin Hood no Daibôken (which is the anime version of Robin Hood). Both features really good plots and immersive medieval settings (specially Robin Hood no Daibôken)...

January 17th, 2005	#1 (permalink)
mecharmor23 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 63	Have you watched fantasy rpg style anime?? Hello all. I am actually a RPG game fan and perfers mostly ancient/medival themes. Of course psx games seems to have alot of cutscenes and anime nowadays. Most of the time I get drawn in by the anime cutscenes rather than the gameplay. Now I am searching for anime that is medival/fantasy style. So far I have watched the 1st released episode of Tales of Phantasia and is starting on Lodoss War. Are there other series that you might recommend?? Cliches are fine, as I would love to see anime using things from rpg games. Secondly, I am also searching for comedy anime. Can't seem to get enough of those "anime-character freaking out" moments.

January 17th, 2005	#2 (permalink)
Kiroshi Dont Touch Me There Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Metropolis Posts: 287	Ragnarok the animation was ok. Kinda like .hack to me but still worth checking out. __________________ "血の死体のコレクター"

January 17th, 2005	#3 (permalink)
Proto Knowledge is the solution Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mexico City, Mexico Posts: 5,580	I'd like to suggest Scrapped Princess from BONES.... even though I didnt like the ending it is one of the finest works you can find out there in this genre Another option would br Junni Kokki, although it isn't really an RPG-ish set up (if i had to associate it with a style it'd be strategy) it is set up in a fantasy world that is pretty well constructed down to the smallest detail. This series is in fact my #1 in my anime list. About comedy style anime the only one I have manged to bear (I'm not exactly a fan of the genre...) is Azumanga Daioh! __________________

January 17th, 2005	#4 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Rangnarock sucked. It started as it meant to go on, and it felt like it was filler eps. ROTW is good, both the TV and OVA, and I would concour with Proto's reccommendation. The .hack series was an anime about a MMORPG.... they then created a series of games from it. .hack//sign was ok, but a bit slow .hack//dusk was kiddified and .hack//liminality was confusing as hell and set in the real world. Wild Arms is quite fun although it doesn't seem to bear a great deal of resemblance to the small amount of the PSX game I played. Arc The Lad I found to be cack, but Bareo informed me that it's quite good if you've played the game. Other ones worth a look are Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku (Now and then, Here and There) - although I'm not certain that fits your criteria - and Slayers, Slayers Next and Slayers Try. I'm sure there are more which I've watched, but none which are yelling at me right now. Slayers should start to fill your comedy desire, but I also reccommend Azumanga Daioh, Bobobo and Full Metal Panic ~Fumoffu~ (it does help if you've seen Full Metal Panic first, but it's not essential) __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

January 17th, 2005	#6 (permalink)
_E_ Administrator Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: somewhere Posts: 8,639	Wild Arms Anime kicked @ss IMO, even though most of the eps were fillers. Another Anime you might wanna consider is Tales of Eternia ( 15-16 eps) and Tales kd Phantasia OVA ( it's still being released though... ) Yours, -Elly __________________ -= Now watching=-

January 17th, 2005	#7 (permalink)
The Captain Crono! Wake up! Join Date: May 2002 Location: cyberspace Posts: 1,446	Check out Louie the Rune Solder. It's set in a medieval/fantasy world and it's funny as well. The anime club at my school is watching it right now. __________________ DFI LT X38 mobo, E8400 OC @ 4ghz, 4gb G.Skill DDR2 1066mhz, 8800GTS 320mb (G80), 2 x 150gb WD Raptors in RAID 0, 2 x 320gb media/backup drives, NB & CPU DangerDen waterblocks, BlackIce GTX 360 radiator

January 17th, 2005	#8 (permalink)
Proto Knowledge is the solution Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mexico City, Mexico Posts: 5,580	Dunno... I quite loved the Tales of Ethernia game but the anime wasn't all that good IMO... (mainly due to the fact that the whole series is a big promo for the game, where 80% of the chapters are plain fillers) __________________

January 17th, 2005	#9 (permalink)
Blade556 Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Barrie Posts: 118	I heard Star Ocean EX was pretty good. They have it for download at Animesuki, so go there for it (Look under torrents link) Last edited by Kane-Sama; January 17th, 2005 at 10:34.

January 17th, 2005	#10 (permalink)
Radix865 Anger leads to sadness... Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Finland, just below arctic circle. Posts: 1,885	I'd go for Star Ocean EX(verrry gooood!) and tales of eternia... I know they're already said but they're actually only ones I've seen that I can actually call good ones... FFU was, uh, well it wasn't that great. __________________

January 17th, 2005	#11 (permalink)
Titus03 Advent yourself Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ? (In PAL-area) Posts: 725	I have seen Star Ocean EX, too. Yeah, it's very good like Radix865 said. __________________ - SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS: ---------------------------------- Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @3.00GHz \|\| ASUS Commando 2GB DDR2 800MHz RAM \|\| EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512Mb Corsair 620W 620HX \|\| 3x Seagate 160Gb SATAII HDD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Windows XP Professional SP3/Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron ------------------------------------------------------------------

January 17th, 2005	#12 (permalink)
MaZa !!!METAL UNCLE!!! Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Finland Posts: 1,949	Berzerk Escaflowne Final Fantasy Unlimited (which sucks) Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (WHICH SUCKS EVEN MORE! Poorly resembles FF5, but whole anime is one pure blasphemy. good luck in finding it though) __________________ Athlon XP 2600+ Barton, 1GB 333mhz DDR RAM, NVidia 6800GT, 2x160GB HD + gainward 3d glasses :fart:

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Kaiser Sigma ~ Lord of Darkness ~ Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: A place darker than the night Posts: 14,591	Granted they are way too old, I suggest you try to find Entaku no Kishi Monogatari: Moero Arthur (which is the anime version of King Arthur) as well as Robin Hood no Daibôken (which is the anime version of Robin Hood). Both features really good plots and immersive medieval settings (specially Robin Hood no Daibôken)...

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