Make a 40k anime

>Anime
>Upbeat
>Nigga, do you even Muv-Luv: Total Eclipse/Attack on Titan/That new show with the zombie apocalypse and the survivors living on a train.

Anime has been into Grimdark for a while. One of the most popular genres of anime for a long time has always been "the last remnants of Humanity under siege by unstoppable monsters.

While anime based on Warhammer 40k's huge set piece battles would probably suck, something based on Dark Heresy that really drives home how absolutely FUCKED Humanity is, would be awesome.

Also, cute gothic lolita dresses are surprisingly appropriate for 40k.

All y'all fuckers who don't think anime can be grim dark need to go watch Jin-Roh. Holy tits that was soul crushing.

Also would be exactly how to do WH40K as an anime.

Anime adaptation of the Horus Heresy. Emperor and primarchs are all pretty boys, lots of fanservice and yaoi implications.

>tfw you'll never be bossed around by a qt gothic lolita inquisitor and risk getting shot for heresy every time you accidentally walk into her while she is changing like a typical harem protagonist.

fire caste teens pilot giant robots

Girl who loves main character: sacrifices herself so main character lives, he finds out later she loved him and goes sad.
Overly zealous guy: Plottwist! he worked for chaos all along, killing off some of the squad.

They stumble upon a Watcher in the Dark, they team up. Hes not as they are in lore, hes joyful and makes funny faces when someone says something dangerous.
The tech guy, finds a piece of STC and build mecha robot.

>This sounds like shit
Its anime m8 wattcha expect?

All the gods from wh40k live in a nice suburban neighborhood and wacky high jinxs ensue

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>GET IN THE FUCKING ROBOT, SHAS'O

Instead of focus on Space Marines, have the MC be a Commissar like Cain or Gaunt.

tsundere fire caste bitch is muh waifu

>MC is lowly guard
>takes notes in his little journal book/data slate
>Regiment gets deployed with other regiments in a planet spanning war against chaos heretics
>Other regiments are Cadian, Catachan, Krieg, etc
>Inquisition doing shady stuff behind the scene.
>All of a sudden 'NIDS!
>Deathwatch called in.
>MC's regiment gets ground up. Leftovers and other guardsmen are deployed to help Killteam deal with Tyranid primary nest.
>MC dies
>later reveal =I= agents going over dead MC journal.

Way to human-like Eldars in high school

Take Akira, add in some Imperial iconography, bam. You're good to go. Story about rogue psyker and his hive gang buddy who has to stop him.

>it's about 6 Chaos raiders going around in the Eye of Terror, in more of a black crusade show
>There's one crewmember for each God, including Malal and Unaligned
>it's more of an arc-based story system where the goal changes as needed for an ongoing show

Honestly I'd like to keep this degenerate shit as far from muh 40ks as possible.

>Damn it Shin'ji, get is the Riptide! It's the only way we can stop the Gue'la's Titan!
>I can't.
>DO IT!
>I CAN'T!
>Fine, bring in R'ei and have her do it instead!
>An injured fire caste girl is wheeled in.
>Explosion, debris fall everywhere and knocks the poor injured girl on the ground and is unable it get up.
>Fine! I'll do it!
>Excelent Shin'ji! Now go!

R'ei is prolly air caste

that much more fragile

s-stupid gue'la

it's not like we fight together for the greater good baka

MC is a milktoast boring cultist who's just been accepted to the prestigious Chaos Accademy.
While there, he quickly befriends a girl aligned to each chaos god, and from there it dissolves into a harem anime of heretical proportions.

The plot twist later in the anime is that the reason why R'ei is so fragile for a Fire Caste is that she is secretly a mass produced clone that they just replace when no one is looking when one breaks beyond healing.

Make a Galaxy Angel knock off based on Rogue Trader

A more likely result would be same Fate tier edge with lots of cuhrazey fights

>Fate/Chaos Rising
>Seven Chaos Sorcerers summon a daemonic servant of one of seven archetypes that they must fight alongside. The last surviving Chaos Sorcerer is granted a daemonic artifact that would grant them any one desire, just to find out that it will do it's best to fulfill that desire in a way that screws over the sorcerer in a true Tzeentchian fashion.

With the one dedicated to Khorne removed, technically you can have one chaos sorcerer from each of the original CSM legions and have seven right there.

in rebuild of tauvangelion, aun'va is slightly less dickish

The more I think about it, the more I would kind of like to see someone run a PvP focused Black Crusade game with this idea as a base.

Each character makes a CSM and a Human character, with each human being the summoner and each CSM being the servant.

That actually sounds really fun.

But what would we call the artifact they are competing for? Gotta have a proper daemonic and snazzy name for it.

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This kind of thing was the first thing I thought of when I read OP. Maybe it's the incredible bleakness of both subject matters matching up well.

Its about a Imperial Guard regiment and its day to day life.
The final episode is them being brutally slaughtered by tyranids with no survivors.
Everything before that is sort of like MASH or something.

The Skull of Kings, pilfered by the three other gods just to fuck with Khorne.

Are saints really just grimdark magical girls/boys?

The holiest grail of all: Nurgle's toilet bowl.

>7 Cultists following 7 different legions are called by the Skull of Thrones to fight along a specially summoned daemonically infused Chaos Marine, each of which has a different specialization, to compete against each other to claim the artifact for the benefit of their region.
>Climax of the first episode has the seven Cultists summoning their respective servant.
>After the shows credits it shows Khorne giving a blessing to one of his cultists.
>Second episode starts with the seven Cultists begin the planning phase of the war and scouting out the other Cultists.
>Second half of the episode has two of the Cultists and their servants encountering each other and begin the first battle of the War of the Skull and closes on a shot of two figures standing in the shadows during the opening Volley.
>Third episode opens with the beginning of the battle from last episode shown through the figures point of view and the audience finds out through internal monolog that Khorne had found a loophole that allowed him to enter his own cultist as an 8th contestant. When the first fight starts to reach a climax Khorne Cultist-chan and servant burst onto the battlefield, revealing their existence and the episode comes to an end as the Khornate Cultist and its servant charge the first two group.

No, they lack the proper transformation sequences to hold those titles.

So Fate, but Chaos? The best part is you can even have the champions be pure expies, due to how daemon princes work.

>Heresy Grail War

Which cultist(s) is/are the protagonist? I'd say it has to be the Thousands Sons summoner and/or the Alpha Legion summoner.

The plot twist is that the Alpha Legion CSM is his summoner from the future

Black Legion Summoner

An anime about an Inquisitor. Script by Urobochi Gen, produced by Studio Shaft.

Clearly the protag is a worshiper of Chaos Undivided. His servant is Slaneeshi themed, and he has to keep from getting raped on the regular while trying defeat the others and trying to survive Khone Cultist-Chan's WTFOP servant.

I thought they were dissalowed, along with the World Eaters, since its only the original 7?

Wait, what exactly ARE the original 7 CSM legions?

Black Legion
World Eaters
Thousand Sons
Death Guard
Emperor's Children
Word Bearers
Iron Warriors
Alpha Legion
Knight Lords

are the 9, so if Black Legion and World Eaters were disallowed, that'd leave:
Thousand Sons
Death Guard
Emperor's Children
Word Bearers
Iron Warriors
Alpha Legion
Knight Lords

Well, Iron Warriors are boring, and Night Lords are fags, so they can't be the MC's legion.
It's also a bit of a problem if the MC's legion is one of the main cult-marines, so that takes out Emperor's Children, Death Guard, and Thousand Sons.

Assuming there are two MCs like in Fate Stay Night, I'd say they'd be Alpha Legion and Word Bearers.

>Knight Lords

Knight Lords!

To be fair, Knight Lords would be at least 50% better, as it makes them seem less emo.

The Alpha Legion would the the cooldere secondary MC who was granted the assassin-analog champion. The Word Bearer legion would be the one the main MC would belong too

>Night Lords have those shitty impractical decorations on their helmets
>Bretonnians have those shitty impractical decorations on their helmets
Conrad Curze confirmed for secretly Giles le Breton.

What has been seen, cannot be unseen!

Curzefag, how do you respond to the allegations that your legion is a bunch of glorious French faggots who refused to fight at the end of the world because muh honor?

Something with a space marine neophyte who is always late for class but his upbeat and friendly attitude endear him to everyone, even the stogy Sargent. His blond friend will be quiet and more tactical, knowledgeable about the codex and a splitting image of a respectful servant of the emperor. His red haired friend will be angry and difficult, but won over with the protagonist's continual friendship.

First season's about trials, training exercises, and a rival who is just as good if not better than the protagonist. He is eventually won over by the protagonist's continual friendship even in the face of the antagonist's dickishness.

second season is all fan service with scout deployments to fight every type of bad thing in 40k. Orks have power levels that they fight over measuring, daemons have chibi 4th wall breaking scenes whenever they get too dark, tau are thinly veiled critique of american ignorance and technological superiority, eldar are ancient japan, at some point several different inquisitors take interest in the protagonist so it can be a harem anime too.

shit's awful, we don't have this because its bad

>Black Legion and World Eaters were disallowed
>The Alpha Legion would the the cooldere secondary MC who was granted the assassin-analog champion. The Word Bearer legion would be the one the main MC would belong too

The World Eaters sneak in a Beserker-analog to serve as the overall antagonist for the first half. Too powerful for any of the other characters to confront directly, until the World Bearer MC and Alpha Legion character team up to stop him.
MC and his servant (what class should they be an expy of?) distract the not-Beserker while Alpha Legion and his not-Assassin kill the master.
The second half has a reveal of a not-Gilgamesh under the command of a member of the Black Legion. I haven't figured out where that part will go yet, suggestions are welcome.

night lords would probably make a good "only-sane-character" type who is introduced to and explained the king of skulls war alongside the viewers.

they also make for a less obvious conclusion because no one expects the nightlords to win and if they win no one knows what they'll do.

AGP storyline, with the first mission being the first episode and exposition about their past being given throughout with twitch's flashbacks, nubbys tall tales to random shipmen and surge and docs conversations. GLORIOUSLY animated by bones, probably. Includes a forty second long segment of grenades, lasfire and macross-tier grenade-launcher/missile barrage

Thousand Sons would obviously have not-caster
Iron Warriors would have not-archer due to meh siege warfare
Death Guard would originally be not-Berserker but killed off early and their place taken by World Eater's not-berserker
Night Lords would have a semi-sneaky not-Saber
Emperor's Children might have a not-lancer
which would leave the main MC with a not-Rider

There shouldn't have traditional Fate classes, but new ones for CSM. They are...
>Sorcerer
>Warp smith (or Biker)
>Dark apostle
>Raptor
>Terminator
>Chosen (or Posessed)
>Havoc

MC should be a Word Bearer Dark Apostle, while the Alpha Legion should be the Raptor or the Havoc.

It's the Night Lords that are big on Raptors, the Alpha Legion tend to be more on the Infiltration and sabotage line of specialization.

Maybe havoc, then? It does fit with the idea of Alpha Legion guy being Shiroe/Archer...
You know, he could be a melee Havoc? That would fit thematically.

I think that this ridiculous idea that will never see the light of day past this thread each champion should be decided by their legion's motif rather than their "class". I think that FOC choices and further equipment should be determined by the champion's personal preference as well.

each of the classes is already pretty close to beign 1-for-1 with their Legion's tactics.
Thousand Sons: sorcerer
Word Bearer: dark apostle
Iron Warriors: warpsmith
Night Lords: raptor
Death Guard: Terminator (or Plague Marine)

only place where it doesn't add up entirely is Emperor's Children and Alpha Legion, but that's mostly because they're rather interchangeable in their tactics.

konrad is yandere chan

the lion is senpai

The Word Bearers were also known for their possessed, the Night Lords had fuck tonnes of terminators, the Death Guard already have two choices in your chart. I think it would be better to mix it up and let each legion or warband involved choose their own champion, with his own wargear.

I suppose that's fair, yeah.

So, are these CSM gonna be the souls of other important CSM heroes, or just random servants? What are they gonna have instead of Noble Phantasms?

what anime from?

I like the legendary figure theme that FS/N had going for it. Maybe make the summoned figures lesser "heroes" though.

Another idea I had, rather than simply reskinning Fate is to have cabals of daemons working with the black legion and the word bearers to link random humans/cultists to various living chaos champions through daemon parasites. Each contestant would be from each legion and would have their life 'linked' to a fragile being to protect. Bonus points for having some of the 'linked' beings completely unaware of the situation until random chaos champions show up to kill/protect the unlucky contestant. Loyal to the emperor or not they're going to start caring a lot more about their life-linked contestant.

Musiagen no Phantom World. It's OK.

I like the idea that they're not linked by choice. I think that only the Black Legion should be doing that, not the Word Bearers, since Word Bearers are part of the competition.

the mage's tower competed every holy grail.

So Thousand Sons, then :^)

If the Black Legion is the one doing it, then we have to ask why. What do they have to gain?

The thousand sons don't actually seem that heretical to me to be honest. The only legion I could see linking humans and champions via daemons is the word bearers. It would be a game played for the gods and a propaganda regime played for the word bearers. I'm not sure what the black legion would get out of it though.

I'd go with something Dark-Heresyish with Adepta Sororitas. Investigating and destroying cultsy

It's a good mix of hope and darkness. Guard could very easily end up in that sort of hopelessness that makes people turn off rather than invested. The Sisters are very good at making a bad situation hopeful. The Sisters also have enough groups that you could easily get a versatile group of equals. Battle Sisters, Famulous, Hospitalers etc...

That and sweaty otaku dollars. It's not like they don't go crazy over the Major and other physically impressive women.

how about the black legion are hosting this battle royale to find new champions. The legion/warband who provides the victorious champion gets much needed supplies like gene-seed, and the champion gets hauled off into the recruitment room as trade.

Abaddon uses the competition as a way to give out boons to his allied CSM legions in a way that everyone agrees to politically without it looking like he's playing favorites.

Thousand Sons are plenty heretical. It's just that Magnus is a very likable character.

Here.
Basic and lazy.
Radical Inquisitor as main character, a pragmatic man, in a quest to undo Ruinous Power's works throughout the sector. His retinue is like a circus show of murderhobos (the comical relief, supposedly).
Their encounters are filled with freaks and shenanigans, like tsundere eldar and strategy-genius heretics.

>Lamenters anime
>Takes place after the Badab War, during the century of penitent crusade
>Jin-Roh esque in atmosphere. Follows the protagonist and his interactions with his battle brothers, the way they interact with the civilians they protect, the way the other chapters view them, and their inevitable bad luck, when tyranids attack and many of those they met are killed by tyranids
>Doesn't reveal that they once turned traitor or why until halfway through, so those uninitiated have to wonder why everyone hates them
>Ends with the protagonist giving his life during a major defense against Tyranids. The fleet escapes into Warp drive while he and others hold the line.
>Left ambiguous if the Lamenters ever survived the Warp jump, as people wonder where they've gone a year later. End with reports of an unidentified fleet exiting the warp close to a sympathetic Inquisitor character's headquarters

Eldar female Dire avengers get saved by disgraced Necron Overlord
Together they will roam the galaxy in search of an artefact that might close the Eye of Terror
Hijinks ensue as they meet a dark Eldar, a Tau from the FarSight enclave, an Ork that look Smarter than it seems and a Tech-Priest in quest of a STC to prove his Mon he's not a total loser
Together the gang will unveil dark mysteries such as the true form of the Omnissiah and why is there a Porn sections in the Black Library

>SoB Lucky Star
>Canoness Konata

Would watch.

Centre it around a Knight House on a world during the Sabbat Crusades.

The main character could be a failed aspirant who ends up becoming a Scion after a bunch of the other scions are massacred by a cultist attack on their home fortress.

So Mr/Ms protagonist and a bunch of other misfit scions are tasked with restoring the house to glory, weeding out a potential traitor and also probably some anime bullshit involving a living saint, etc.

It would be the easiest thing to make a 40k anime.

Just rip off MD Geist and have it star Kharn.

I think it should be something just a bit cooler than simple supplies of gene-seed. Should be something interesting, like rare artifacts, or star ships.

Sororitas Moon
Astartes no Ken
Cypher's Bizzare Adventure
Mobile Suit Riptide
Mountain Krumpa Gorrkan Morrkann
Machine-Spirit in the Shell: Stand Alone Litany
Commorragh Ghoul
RogueDandy
Rose of Iyanden
Krump la Krump
Armored Trooper Gerantius
Webway;Gate
Revolutionary Girl Macha
Progenium High School
The Melancholy of Trazyn the Infinite
Sayonara Zetsubou Chaplain
Fullmetal Warpsmith
My Commissar Can't Be This Cute
Mahou Primarch Magnus Magica
Shingeki no Hierophant
Girls und Baneblades
Rogue Trader Captain Harlock
Boku wa Battle-Brother ga Sukunai
ChaosStar
WAAAAGH Piece
Battle Angel Sanguinius
Lucky Warp
Eldrad Lied
Kharn ga Kill!
Attack on Titan Legion
BLAM!
Imperial Knights of Sidonia
Hidamalleus Sketch
THE WARM@STER
Toaru Kagaku no Fabius
Plaguebearer demo Koi ga Shitai!
1K-SON!
Hataraku Imotekh-sama!
Swarmy Drop
Koe no Slaaneshi
Sororita&!
Darker than Black Templar
DuwawaWAAAGH!
Strike Wyches
White Scar Champloo
Golden Emperor Evangelion
Comorragh Godfathers
Tengen Toppa Imperator Titann
Nodaemonette Cantabile
Khorne/Tzeentch/Slaanesh/Nurglemonogatari
Spice and Wulfen

Newly initiated HOT BLOODED knight errants fighting an ork Waaaagh!

>Anime

Modern animators are too deluded to capture the grim-darkness of 40k.

At most you would see is a 12 episode series centred around the moment a young gaurdswoman steps off a Valkyrie and that would be it.

Half the episode would be intro, the other flash backs to her boots touching ground over monologue.

>Since I like both of these completely unrelated things they should go together in some shitty combination that no one outside of Veeky Forums would care about.

Can't believe Nobody has said it yet Motherfuckin' Eisenhorn!

>That opening scene on the Iceworld, its like a James Bond intro with more skulls
>Short chapters which would fit nicely into the Anime 26 episodes 22 minute format
>Elderly Japanese voice actor doing a Noir commentary badly subbed back into English
>Demonhosts!

>badly subbed back into English

Or how about we get western animators/voice actors to do it?

40k isn't popular enough in Japan to get a decent team to animate/produce a story from it. We'd end up with some vile, made-for-crunchyroll abomination that's more magical realm than 40k.

If you want a story to be done right, get the people who enjoyed that story to do it.

I don't,
But I'm assuming it was poorly written smut.

there were... certain events that led to tragedies and sad departures.

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