Help me /tg/

>>52606955
Slayers and Record of Lodoss War.

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>>52606955
Inda no Himekishi Janne
Himekishi Lilia
Ikusa Otome Valkyrie 2
Elf Hime Nina
Mashou no Nie 3

>>52607203
Don't forget Boku no Pico.

>>52607203
>no Kuroinu
c'mon

>>52606955
Hitsugi no Chaika
Do not, under any circumstances, watch this dubbed.

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>>52606955
Record of Lodoss War is basically japans LotR. There is also Berserk, though the old anime isn't that great and the newer ones supposedly suck.

Slayers is best of them. Lodoss War is bad/mediocre and so is Berserk in anime form. Manga of Berserk is very good though. Another one is Those Who Hunt Elves which is very good comedy, but fantasy in it isn't very interesting.

There's also many new isekai fantasy series, but you wanted classics.

Also, you should play Sengoku Rance and Kichikuou Rance.

>>52606955
Some I liked:

Claymore: A lot like Berserk, but features a female protag.
Scrapped Princess: Can be a bit depressing but it has a solid story.
Legend of the Legendary Heroes: No, there's no Season 2 unfortunately but what's there is good.
Guin Saga: Leopard head warrior who protects a couple of royal children. Has Berserk motifs at the end.
Tears to Tiara: If I remember correctly there was a touching scene towards the end on how that world came to be.
Escaflowne (TV Series): Has mechanical robots but takes place in a fantasy world, with the main machine of the protag using a dragon's heart as a power source. The movie has great animation but the story is horrible.

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>>52607326
record of lodoss is awesome, if you can get past the 10 times rehash animation in the span of 20min

>>52606955
Spice & Wolf
Rage of Bahamut: Genesis

These are both answers to your question, but have no other similarities to each other.

>>52607528
Spice&wolf is just economics in a vaguely fantastic backdrop, though.

>>52607399
>Legend of the Legendary Heroes
>good
I... what? How would you consider that show good? 2/3rds of the main characters fail totally at their assigned job, the last one undergoes an inexplicable heel turn at the last minute, and two dozen major plot points remain completely unresolved and unexplained. It's a show that needs one or two more seasons just to explain and wrap things up but that first season was NOT high enough quality to warrant deserving an OVA, much less a full second season.

Claymore I can understand, Scrapped Princess isn't that bad, Escaflowne is awesome, but bloody Legend of the Legendary Heroes? Really?

>>52606955
if you don't mind some genre blending here's a couple;

Aura Battler Dunbine
Panzer World Galiant
Magic Knight Rayearth
Lord of Lords Ryu Knight
Madou King Granzort
Beast King Go-Lion
Escaflowne
Neo Ranga

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>>52607618
Maoyuu Maou Yuusha is kinda like that too.
I still like it ...

Record of the Lodoss War, Berserk, Claymore, Slayers

>>52607220
Not afantasy setting.
Well, depends on what fantasy you are talking about ...

>>52607203
>>52607233
Why are there so many weird hentai on a medieval fantasy setting?

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>>52607291
Chaika
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iHFGxZblOo

>>52606955
Re:Zero is good so long as you can stumach some of that waifu bait and it's worth watching if only for the Petelguise being a interesting antagonists in both magical gimmick and personality.

>>52606955
Little Witch Academia
Berserk (pre-2016)
Thunderbolt Fantasy, assuming you consider it anime
Claymore
FMA:B

>>52607855
Re:zero is dogshit

>>52607935
I enjoyed Re:Zero, but you know every anime people universally agree are good has been mentioned so why not add to the conversation then simply say everything everyone else has already stated.

>>52607791
Elves are the reason for that. Also, third part of Boku no Pico might be urban fantasy since Chico is implied to be some sort of supernatural being.

>>52608031
>Elves are the reason for that
Not even half he mentioned has elves in it.

>>52607791
Because you can check off a lot of fetish boxes with a medieval fantasy setting.

>>52608066
Yeah, like all sorts of monsters, elves, orcs, bdsm stuff (because of feudalism) etc.

I think partly it is also because ERPG seems to more common in Japan.

>>52607708
It's rhetorical, it tells a story you want to know more about, hence why you stated that it would require more seasons to wrap up. What I liked about it the most probably was the expression of nihilism in the Lonely Demon. The whole: I hope for nothing, I wish for nothing. For me, it showed what nihilism was, a sort of destructive madness. Also, the ability of one of the antagonists to traverse anywhere within the boundaries of the kingdom I found unique. It's one of those shows where after you've watched it you're annoyed at how it ended, but after time you appreciate the show for what it is. This is compared to Claymore where when it finished there was no opening for a sequel, it had an anime original end. That was frustrating because the manga at the time it finished was getting interesting. Looking back I appreciate the way Heroes did the ending better than Claymore, while we may never get a sequel to either at least Heroes was truer to the source material.

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Utsunomiko: Heaven Chapter
Record of Lodoss War
The Heroic Legend of Arslan (the old OVAs)
The Weathering Continent (not that good but /tg/ as fuck)
Aura Battler Dunbine

>>52607855
I know Re:Zero takes place in a fantasy world but the show had more to do with the ability to live through death, and the consequences of ones actions. I was thinking the OP wanted something more fantasy oriented, that is, the main draw to the show is the world that the anime is set it, rather than specific quirks that the show employs.

Re:zero is well written in the sense that it keeps you interested but half-way through you realize that the whole death mechanic was a way to pull the viewer's strings with as much plausability as possible. It reminded me of how Aldnoah dealt with character deaths. Eventually, you see the characters not as believable people in a story, but as buttons that are pressed to get a rise out of the viewer. It's why I dropped Re:Zero towards the end and didn't pick it back up.

>>52606955
Seven deadly sins

Also stay away from /a/. It's the worst board on 4chan

>>52608347
Nah, /r9k/ is far worse than anything else on this site.

>>52607618
Isn't one of the main themes of the show the relationship between Lawrence and Horo? And the main complicating element in this relationship is that Horo is a wolf goddess. I always viewed the series as sort of love story than one of economics, where the economic part of the story served to bring Horo and Lawrence closer together, through having to rely on each other to get through problems.

Might as well ask here.
Is there a decent/good anime with a tone similar to The X Files/Call of Chthulthu/Delta green

>>52608347
Seven Deadly Sins is boring as fuck.

>>52606955
shingeki no bahamut

>>52608527
The original Vampire Princess Miyu OAV.

That is one fucked up universe.

>>52608527
Kokoro Connect.

>>52608575
the 1988 one?

>>52608590
Yes.

>>52608576
I saw the vintage hentai with the same premise (^:

I've heard Maria the Virgin Witch is pretty good.

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>>52606955

The gate is okay.

It's main purpose is to suckle heartily on little, yellow, dongs of the Japanese Defence Force, but apart from that it's not a bad entry in the fantasy-setting-meets-modern-Earth sub-genre. Not great, but certainly not bad.

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>>52608527
episode 13 of Digimon 02
Serial Experiments Lain
Digimon Tamers
Another

>>52608527
Boogiepop Phantom

>>52606955
Magic Knight Rayearth.

It's not at all what you think it is.

>>52608706
No, it's pretty awful.

>>52608708
Lain is pure cyberpunk not fantasy. Only fantastic things it has are in line with cyberpunk genre. In fact it's more cyberpunk than Ghost in The Shell which is lacking on punk aspect.

>>52608863
You should probably look at the post he is replying to

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>>52608527

That's kind of a big net you're casting, but you might like Shiki if you can get over the crazy hair.

>>52608347

Someone's never been to /soc/.

>>52608706
>Gate
>Anything else than eye-gouging horrible
Just for the sake of argument forget it's jingoistic "JSDF is the bestest in the universe" piece of crap and focus on the fact it fails with own premise, as in - modern shit vs fantasy shit. Instead it's "modern shit obliterates everything with absolutely zero effort; also - lolis".
It's a fucking travesty

>>52608743
Care to expand on this opinion? As I said, I didn't think it was particularly wonderful or anything, but I thought it was better than a jab in the jacksey with a red-hot poker.

>>52608527
Narutaru is very Lovecraftian in some ways, but it's also very different from what Lovecraftian things typically are. It's also very dark without being edgy, but actually having a point and giving food for thought.

Very underrated and unknown anime.

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>>52607855
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>>52608930
> "modern shit obliterates everything with absolutely zero effort

....Well, yeah. It's tanks & machine-guns & such vs guys with swords & bows & arrows. Of course the modern army rolls right over them.

>also - lolis".

I concede this point, though.

>>52608706
I was looking forward to gloriously blatant JSDF propaganda but it turned into a shitty harem manga after just a few chapters.
Gate just sucks, as much as I wanted to like it.

>>52608989
What is wrong with lolis? There's a plenty of good series with lolis.

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>>52608527
These two are like X-Files since I don't really have experience with the latter two.

Ghost Hound: The overarching story is about a boy who was kidnapped when he was younger with his sister, and how he is unable to recall the experience. The show deals with out of body experiences. I like how the previously mentioned kidnapping attempt is used throughout the story as a focal point on what's happening in the story.
Ghost Hunt: Probably the most like X-Files since it deals with an investigative team that pursues Ghosts. What I liked about it is how one of the highly capable protagonists deals with a certain situation that oversteps his ability to handle.

Call of C'thulu:
M3 The Dark Metal: It's mecha actually and I never finished it. But the idea is that there's black field that's slowly increasing that's swallowing everything in its path. And these kids are tasked with investigating it due to certain reasons. I never finished it myself due to how slow and psychological the show is. But the reason I'm putting it here is because of how menacing the black field is, and how it's an unknown. I never finished it though, and it could eventually be a lame excuse. It's definitely a dark show on how and why it was these kids who were chosen to explore this place.

>>52609026
Too historically accurate combat to be fantasy.

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>>52609067
honestly it wasn't a terrible show, it just wasn't very memorable.

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It makes me sad that no ones mention Mushishi.

>>52609021
>it turned into a shitty harem manga after just a few chapters.
That's not really true, though. Ladyknight and her followers end up addicted to porn, mage girl is Science - sexual, elf is traumatized and hallucinating that the MC is her father, and dark elf is a manipulative slut who just wants the soldiers to kill the dragon for her. End of the day, only the gothloli actually wants his dick.

>>52609109
Hell, isn't the only reason magic girl brought up the "three nights" thing was because she wanted to one up her magic older sister or something like that?

>>52609021
this

anyone whose critique of this anime was 'JSDF wanking' probably thinks their cornflakes are a communist plot designed to subvert america

The gate anime was trash for so many reasons, but 'nationalist wank' was not one of them

The manga is loads better but still meh/10

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>>52606955
Personally I really like Overlord. Second season will be coming, and I think the compilation movies of the first season are already out?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMoVmSV4yA8

>>52609150
Look, dude, I'm just saying here. One female JSDF trooper beating the shit out of five fully equipped not!Roman royal guards, with her rifle butt, is bullshit.

>>52609086
The period combat was though. It's actually more accurate than many historical movies which is weird considering it is otherwise standard anime.

>>52609166
tbqh I can't see anyone enjoying the overlord anime unless they read the light novels/manga/a/threads beforehand

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>>52609173
i bet if she was murrican or IDF you'd have no issues, right?

>>52609043
Awesome! Thanks

>>52609173
>I can't believe a CQC specialist BTFO some not!Romans who've most likely never seen combat before!
>Muh emersion gm! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE.....

>>52609185
I actually didn't read any of that beforehand, and only saw any of the light novels and manga afterward.

>>52609173
That's just standard animu plot armor lad, I don't know what you expected

She doesn't have plot armor because she's 'JSDF' she has plot armor because she's a 'good guy'

>>52609150
>thinks their cornflakes are a communist plot designed to subvert america
Kellogs are, he's a sick fuck who thinks genital mutilation is an apt punishment for masturbation.

>>52607855
Regardless of your opinion on Re:Zero's quality, it absolutely does not focus on the fantasy elements of its setting, thus it's not really a good suggestion for OP.

>>52609185
I watched Overlord before reading the LNs and enjoyed it immensely. But, then again, the fact that it was written by one of the handful of people who based their LNs off their old D&D group (like Log Horizon and Altina the Sword Princess if I remember correctly).

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I really liked Tower of Druaga, even though it's very jrpg-ish. It does a good job at portraying each party members skills and roles.

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>fantasy anime
>but it's actually an MMO or uses MMO-esque stats or mechanics for power levels

why do they keep doing this.

is romeo x Juliet any good? it sounds kinda neat

>>52607708
The explanation I remember about LoLH from back in the day is: it's based on a series of books, and is the prequel series the author realized he'd have to write first in order to write the series he actually wanted to write. (Which he did go on to write after - he's got like 30+ books out.)

So the anime is a bit all over the place because it rushed to cover ten books or so of stuff needed to explain a series that we then never got to see animated.

>>52608963
Shounen-maid Kuro-kun

>>52609226
Didn't he also believe that yoghurt enemas can cure everything?

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>>52609299
Jokes on you, I've spent enough time on porn sites to already know to stay away from that one!

>>52609307
Not sure, but he certainly advocated for live circumcision on teenage boys, and rubbing nettle on genitals of young girls who were masturbating.
All around great guy to have as a face of your cornflakes.

>>52609299
Pico trilogy is far better than this garbage. Manga is decent though.

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Urara Meirochou is a pretty cool fantasy deal.

But if you mean generic sword and sorcery then Ruin Explorers is your deal.

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>>52609088
I struggle to think of it as fantasy, but I suppose it technically is. Definitely isn't /tg/-flavoured fantasy, though.

>>52609279
'we want the deadbeat gamer audience'

and also hacks whose experience with 'fantasy' is literally just MMOs. They write what they know.

Konosuba
?
Grimgar
?

>>52609279
>dying and being reborn into a fantasy world based on video games
>Japan's society is so fucked it needs three layers of escapism
>contemporary escapist fantasies are an escapist fantasy about escaping (through death) to an in-universe escapist fantasy
The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race-

>>52609404
>Isekai MMO shit
No thank you

>>52609212
I can't believe 5 elite veteran soldiers trained exclusively in melee combat got BTFO by an affirmative-action-enlistee who has most likely never seen combat before.

>>52609420
I didn't know Grimgar was an MMO shit.
Seconding Konosuba though, although it's full-on comedy/parody so might not be what OP's looking for.

>>52609404
Konosuba is a parody, so doesn't fit into the "classical" mold.

Grimgar is "technically" isekai because the very first episode sets them up as "amnesiacs from our world". It just doesn't go anywhere with it, except for the offhand "accepting that this is home now" thing.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Another_World_With_My_Smartphone

>15-year-old Touya Mochizuki is accidentally struck by lightning and killed by God. As an apology, God allows him to be reborn into a fantasy world along with a single special request. Touya uses his request in order to bring his Smartphone into the new world with him. God also amplifies Touya's physical, magical, and mental prowess to a certain degree as a further apology for the inconvenience of killing him. Taking full of advantage of his second chance at life, Touya befriends many different people in the new world. He begins to travel from country to country, solving political disputes, minor quests, and nonchalantly enjoying himself with his newfound allies.

fuck's sake Japan.

>>52609225
This.

>>52609421
>elite veteran soldiers
>affirmative-action-enlistee
>most likely never seen combat before

that's at least 3 levels of citation required, lad.

>>52609347
I remember that film where he was played by Sir Anthony Hopkins & kept saying "An erection is a flagpole on your grave!"

>>52609491
Name a war that the JSDF have participated in

>>52609281
I never did finish the series but I expect the story to stay true to Shakespeare's rendition. I remember the animation being great though. I still remember the child Juliet bracing herself as she expected to be cut down with a sword.

Youjo Senki for fantasy WW1 Deus Vult with psychotic edgy salaryman fedora (not the hat) loli.

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>>52609510
and you still dodge the fucking citations.

>>52608527
Dennou Coil but that's more cyber punk

>>52608508
It's composed of multi-episode arcs where the tension comes from economics, but the series-long arc is an extremely slow-burn love story.

It's also really good.

(And it really bugs me that people always recommend Maoyuu Maou Yuusha with it as if they had anything meaningful in common.)

>>52609088
I love Mushishi, but it's probably not what people were looking for here.

(If you like people going on quiet adventures I also recommend Spice & Wolf, and Kino's Journey.)

>>52609023
Ruins the enjoyment I had with it. Impossible to beat death god loli gets 10 minutes of focus every episode after episode 3.

>>52606955
If you don't mind eastern flavor in your fantasy, Juuni Koki, aka The Twelve Kingdoms, is fucking mint

>>52606955
Not sure how this is /tg/ related, but whatever.

Berserk is probably the most iconic and high quality of the fantasy anime, but uh.. It's sort of a grimdark fantasy.

There's also The Drifters, made by Kouta Hirano, the madman behind Hellsing. It's about historical figures put into a fantasy world after their death, and fighting others like them.

Highly recommend.

>>52610914
Drifters is cool. Hirano is great.

>>52610914
That Drifters opening gave me wood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0v8ZVVq9Jo

>>52610871
This very much so. Akatsuki no Yona/Yona of the Dawn also fits the bill quite nicely.

>>52606955
Utawarerumono is great... Not very fantasy though. It's mostly warring states and sun tzu shit with animal ears.

>>52608152

Controversy and Chick Tracts kept ERPG much under the surface in the weast compared the east, where, well, they didn't give a damn.

FAN AND IHRIE, RUIN EXPLORERS

>>52608706
>unironically liking Gate

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>>52606955
>anime
>good

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>>52611200
Gotta go with Drifters, OP.

It's got everything an anime needs to be successful
>grorius nippon steel folded over 100000000000 times
>boobs
>nasu no yoichi

>>52608669
>Sword art online
Fucking dropped.

>>52606955
Phantom Blood
that spooky Walking Castle thing

Maria the Virgin Witch is an interesting one. The side story about Galfa and the war is probably of interest to /tg/ but I personally was bored to shit by basically the core premise of the show.

Mahou Senshi Louie is worth a shot, since it's about anime idiot DnD Wizard who casts Club. It's very 90s Anime though with all the good and bad that entails.

Also read Goblin Slayer for a good laugh. It's actually awful (expect rape) but it's like a tha/tg/uy thread story in manga form, I can't look away from it.

>>52615490
Howl's Moving Castle.

Pretty much anything by Miyazaki is worth watching, even dubbed.

>>52616380
>even dubbed
disonorabu

Honestly I have a sort of a weird dislike toward all manner of Japanese fantasy in general. The aesthetics and themes throw me completely off.

The only ones I can tolerate at all, anime or otherwise, are Berserk and Dark Souls - but then on the opposite end, both of those are really good.

Is there anything else from Japan that might fit such narrow tastes of mine?

>>52616420
Miyazaki forced Disney to not change a goddamn thing, and to interpret the spirit of the translation, not prettify or adjust it in any way. It's the only way he would let the use anything of his at all.

>>52616420
Unpopular opinions but Dubs are okay, and there are even some that are better dubbed than subbed.

>>52615486
Everyone has a shit anime they secretly like, /anon/. At least it's SAO and not something like Kiss X Sis. Plus, at least it took you to the last line instead of the first.

Hitsugi no Chaika

It's like watching a D&D campaign, right down to people having classes/jobs like Saboteur.

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