/d20/ - Traditional Games

There are some Eastern-inspired tabletop games. Exalted is pretty anime.

I heard they made a The Slayers d20 book, if you're looking for games based on specific anime.

I know this is a broken record, but…

GURPS.

>>420

Look up Big Eyes, Small Mouth (BESM), anime equivaalent of GURPS, you could say, derivated from the Tri-Stat

Mekton Zeta. There are rules for combining robots, transforming robots, SD robots and even Mechabeasts.

>>427

I love GURPS, but I wouldn't necessarily give that answer at all.

Are there some Anime that GURPS can do well? Hell yes. I'd look at things like VOTOMS, Ghost In the Shell, and FMA. But Sword Art Online, DBZ, and Naruto? There are definitely systems out there more suitable.

>>530

Nonsense. GURPS can do anything. It has to do anything. It has to…

>>533

Cease.

>>543

IT'S UNIVERSAL

>>544

Admit it, you don't even use GURPS.

Anima beyond fantasy

Magical Burst is explicitly meant to basically be a Madoka RPG.

>>420

Tenra Bansho Zero is based on a specific setting, which they lovingly detail and explore with the setting book that comes with it, but you can easily adapt it to play specific anime settings just by dropping a few of the archetypes.

The Ninja archetype, for instance, is varied enough to allow you to run a fullblown Naruto game, complete with summoning giant frogs, shadow clones, and spitting fireballs.

>>995

great art too, if you're looking for over the top syle at least. bought the books a year ago, but I have yet to play it.

>>1001

It's a hard system to run because shit can go so crazy and the mechanics put a lot of power in the hands of the players... And by that, I mean the system literally tells you, "If you want to completely fudge the rules and minmax, you totally can."

It takes a little getting used to, but once you get the hang of it, you can run some crazy games.

There are also anime based on games. Night Wizard, Record of Lodoss War, etc. that might be relevant for what you want to do. The previously mentioned BESM has a lot of different modules for different anime franchises.

I've seen some folks adapt Cinematic Unisystem to run anime campaigns. The rules for jumping and running had to be tweaked to make them more anime-like but for the most part it worked really well. Having Drama Points to influence the plot was also handy. The other advice I can give for you if you want to make a game based on anime is to determine a list of skills in advance that you'll use. I found oWoD's set of skills to be specific enough to allow heroes to do things, but not large like Call of Cthulhu's where the characters end up spreading themselves a bit too thin in terms of skill investments.

Adeptus Evangelion can be fun if you have consistent players.

Off the Top of my head

Anime Game Systems

BESM 2nd and 3rd Edition

Mecton Zeta

Dream Pod 9

Tenra Bansho Zero (is amazing)

Maid RPG (funny as hell)

Several D20 RPGS such as Slayers and Mecha D20.

Animeish

Exalted

Anima Beyond Fantasy

There is a game called Anime Prime: Steam Boats and Mega Swords witch is supposed to be Final Fantasy inspired but I didn't like it.

Although the system that powers it is pretty complicated, Champions includes enough stuff to make it useful as an anime simulator. You might need some drama points in it to make it better able to replicate the larger than life feel that anime heroes have.

http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptationsanime/animechar.html

>>1291

L5R is not an anime based game but it's good.

L5R is a fictional Asia conglomerate with history written by weeaboos.

>>1295

yes but it's still a solid and very fun game. But yeah i hate the setting.

SLA Industries falls somewhere between insanely violent anime and the movie Running Man, which is pretty cool.