Anime inspired by games

[ColossusCimmerian]

I'm not sure where to post this hahaha

There are other anime inspired by D&D and other RPGs from the 80s or 90s? Or even early 2000?

 

[Melcar]

I remember watching a few in those days, but fuck if I recall their names. Record of Lodoss War is obviously the most famous one.

 

[Dark Souls II]

Record of Lodoss War, obviously. It was originally a serialized playthrough of a D&D campaign published in a magazine (the complete scan was translated to English). It was essential in introducing Japan to western fantasy.

The anime has great artstyle as well:

 

[Necrensha]

Dungeon Meshi is one gigantic reference to rpgs.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

The Vision of Escaflowne is pretty much a Final Fantasy anime (namely based on the espers and magitek empire war plots of 4/6/9). Has high production values for a TV show.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Music was excellent too. Shadow of Doubt and Dance of Curse are two of my favourite tracks to this day. Escaflowne is peak anime fantasy imo.

Hmm, does the "dragon quest: your story" movie count? It's based on the old games, even if it's more recent than that. It's all 3D animation though, but good for what it is.

If it's the 90's anime style you're after with traditional fantasy stuff, I'd suggest Scrapped Princess instead, but it's not much inspired by video games or D&D beyond just having magic. Wasn't a lot of western style high fantasy stuff back then, giant robots and cyberpunk were all the rage.

 

[Tehdagah]

This one is very recent.



Game:

 

[Gerrard]

Slayers was very obviously inspired by tabletop RPGs.

 

[Lucumo]

So, what do you want? Inspired by "games" like in the title or simply RPGs? There are obviously a lot more of the former than the latter.

Dragon Quest anime

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Slayers was very obviously inspired by tabletop RPGs.

In a similar vein,


Also got a more recent Netflix adaptation (which covers more of the manga), but I'm assuming that it censored some of the more over the top stuff.

 

[Elttharion]

This one is very recent.



Game:

Never watched the anime but the game is pretty good.

 

[Ezekiel]

Escaflowne's second half is largely dull.

 

[luj1]

.hack Sign is basically about people living in a fantasy MMORPG

 

[Nutmeg]

Things that were a game first?



Salamander anime



Sakura wars anime



Tokimeki memorial anime



Dragon slayer anime



Final fantasy anime

More interesting tho is the cross pollination between the game and anime industry. I will write about it later ITT if I feel like it.

 

[Maxie]

Eroge! H mo Game mo Kaihatsu Zanmai

 

[Nirvash]

Goblin slayer is a d&d campain, with mentions of "gods moving us using dices".
But well, 90% fantasy anime are inspired by games, that where the japanese got western fantasy.
For actual reference, nearly the whole isekai genre is "you are in a mmorpg with skills and shit", hell even most normal fantasy got skill and shit now.

Beyond sakuna, this anime season also got this:

Quality Assurance in Another World​

Teams of beta testers get stuck inside a experimental VR MMORPG

 

[spookyheart]

high score girl tho honeslty that anime now in retrospect is just a fucking commercial for those compliations made by companies like bandai or sega for example and not really worth it.

 

[Dark Souls II]

If we're talking about indirect inspirations then 99% of the isekai genre fits, but of all the series that I've seen Konosuba is by design the most RPGish. The party takes quest at an inn, there are literal quest screens while starting and finishing a quest, many RPG tropes are explored, like fighting slimes (JRPG equivalent of rats) at lvl 1. The slimes leave suggestive semi-translucent goo all over the female heroines after combat? Interesting. The party has to grind to level up, the main character has a literal character sheet that he uses to level up, he tries to use his pre-isekai'd knowledge to powergame etc.

But what I find the most interesting is that Megumin is so fertile and breedable: