Rookie Jet has made some anime-inspired RPGs set in horrible worlds or confronting dangerous people. Chronicle Connection Plus is a dating RPG. I suppose there’s a clever and cynical joke about sticking to the theme!
Empty Cycle: School drama, teen angst and giant robots RPG
Empty Cycle is inspired by anime like FLCL and Kill la Kill, which means school, emotional discovery and invading alien robots on your lunch break.
As horribly brutal as you want it to be: A review of the Red Giant RPG
If your gaming group is also fond of darkly adult anime, then I really think you should introduce Red Giant to them.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #138
A summary of RPGs news from the week Cynthia Williams becomes the boss of D&D and Wizards of the Coast, Zine Month launches, and the One Ring RPG gets a release date.
Red Giant RPG: The dark torture of anime like Berserk, Claymore and Vampire Hunter D for the tabletop
Red Giant is inspired by brutal horror-action anime like Berserk, Claymore and Vampire Hunter D and with a dark aesthetic.
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RPG news in a week of new game announcements, franchise deals and licenses. We’ve attracted lots of Cthulhu, too.
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A weekly RPG news summary covering D&D, 2d20, indie news, events, reviews, interviews and even encounter tables.
Become a living weapon in Gimmick Zero the free anime-inspired RPG (quick start)
Gimmick Zero is designed to be different each time, with tables to roll (or modify and then roll) to see what happened to your world.
Bizarre Adventure, Straight-forward System: A review of Over Arms RPG
Over Arms is full of contradictions that shouldn’t work but do.
Over Arms: An RPG inspired by JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Persona
Rookie Jet Studio have a rules-light tabletop RPG based on the concept of battling avatars where characters have “Anima” to manifest and do battle with.
