GURPS Anime...what should be in it?

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Johnny Angel

Big Spikey Hair

Distinctive Features, p. B165.

Bill Stoddard

[whswhs]

Here's an off-the-wall idea for you: The first GURPS Anime campaign setting is already in print, or in some cases out of print. It's called Transhuman Space. You could perfectly well adapt THS to an anime style. . . .

Bill Stoddard

[WingedKagouti]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Here's an off-the-wall idea for you: The first GURPS Anime campaign setting is already in print, or in some cases out of print. It's called Transhuman Space. You could perfectly well adapt THS to an anime style. . . .

Bill Stoddard

There's another out of print anime setting as well: IOU.

There's a huge amount of anime series that focus on a class or school, and plenty of them have weird abilities that may or may not be secret. In fact, most anime characters would most likely gravitate towards IOU once they're in the right age group.

Banestorm only needs minor adjustments to fit in as well. IST only needs a slight push in power scales to fit in with many Shounen publications.

[Kuroshima]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Here's an off-the-wall idea for you: The first GURPS Anime campaign setting is already in print, or in some cases out of print. It's called Transhuman Space. You could perfectly well adapt THS to an anime style. . . .

Bill Stoddard

Let's see, my favourite anime/manga:

Ghost in the Shell: Oh, it's like Transhuman space with extra cinematicness!
Berserk: Once we get the rules for scaling weapons in LTC2, we will have everything (and you could simply use the rules in DF).
Guin Saga: Again we have everything available
Escaflowne: Build the mechs as allies, nothing else is needed
Ruroni Kenshin: MA all the way. GURPS Japan for background/cultural information

and so on. Oh, and they're all very different. Yeah, GURPS could use some anime-stile gameworlds, but again, interesting gameworlds of any sort are hard to write, and usually don't sell well.

P.S.: If you like anime-flavoured action, gy all means grab Imbuements. Excellent stuff.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

A world superficially like ours, except that behind the scenes it is actually run by the Cabal. However, 16 years ago a rebel cast some kind of magical ritual designed to destroy the Cabal and after that, "espers" started to be born in great numbers. Now in their teens they are starting to come into their powers and the Cabal is split between those who want to study the "new power" and those who see them as the culmination of the ritual and want them all destroyed.

I'll bite... What's the source?

[Rikimaru]

Originally Posted by Mailanka

You absolutely need:

• Giant Mecha
  

I'd like to see this covered in GURPS.


Really.


It hasn't to be in a Anime way (though I see no bad in it), there's a lot of mecha stuff in many settings out there: Matrix, Supers, and Front Mission series...

GURPS Mecha FTW!

[Kromm]

IMO, anime is a medium – not a unified visual style, not a consistent set of tropes, and most definitely not a genre. As such, GURPS Anime would be like GURPS Comics, GURPS Movies, GURPS Novels, GURPS Television, etc., or for that matter GURPS Billboard Ads or GURPS Text Messages. I'm not sure it would make sense.

Most people who want GURPS Anime really want "advice on applying the individual tropes of specific anime I like in such a way that the implied genres are handled in a way that I find easy to visualize in the style I prefer while still using GURPS." That's not even a series. That's a life-long project to create an individualized 256-page guide for each and every anime fan.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Not another shrubbery

I'll bite... What's the source?

Source? No specific source but you could think of it as Majutsu no Index meets Kaze no Stigma. But there were a lot of series where teenage espers end up at odds with murky conspiracies.

[Dwarf99]

on a tangental note what's Xenophilia worth

[WingedKagouti]

Originally Posted by Dwarf99

on a tangental note what's Xenophilia worth

Go check B162.