Are there anime that Veeky Forums could rec for setting inspiration or to get players some reference material on how to...

Its not anime but I am doing a DnD campaign in the world of RWBY about 15 years before the show takes place. It would all be dependent on what kind of setting you are intrested in.

My current setting was partially inspired by Fairy Tail. The players are members of an adventurer's guild, and they go on quests, meet colorful NPCs, etc.

What they DON'T realize is that the headmaster is evil and this entire campaign is an excuse to run The Apocalypse Stone once they get high enough level

> Are there anime that Veeky Forums could rec
That reminds me, I should probably write my personal recommendation list someday.

generic fantasy: Record of Lodoss War (literally based on a D&D campaign)
dungeon crawling: The Weathering Continent

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet.

>unironically recommending seiken no blacksmith

I'm just reposting an old image. I've maybe seen only half of those.

Dungeon Meshi

The thing is, the anime I've got my best Veeky Forums inspirations from had very little to do with generic Veeky Forums settings.

> For Fantasy

Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash - watch a low level party struggle with low level problems.

Konosuba - Its Always Sunny in a fantasy setting, fucking hilarious once you get past the first episode

Vision of Escaflowne - what if this fantasy setting had mecha, but still felt like a fantasy setting? Alternatively: There is a reason we stopped using high level magic

> For Supers

One Punch Man - being overpowered is fucking BORING (its a comedy)

Mob Psycho 100 - Kid with amazing psychic powers interns for local "psychic" conman for "advice" on how to use his powers. Ghostbusting ensues.

My Hero Academia - what if the plot of Xmen fast forwarded 80 years, and now less than 10% of the human population didn't have a mutant power? What if one of those powerless people wanted to be a superhero anyway?

Tiger and Bunny - mutant powers are real, but they generally don't make you bullet proof and superhero fights have collateral damage out the wazoo. Watch the people with the best powers stop real crimes on TV as part of a reality show, each one with multiple corporate sponsors to pay for their nascar-looking armor and the cost of their fights. Spoiler: The flashbacks are more important than you realize. At first they seem over used, but at some point what 'happens' in the flash back starts CHANGING...

>Still buttblasted about yarns of katana is better than whatever bullshit weapon you like after so many years.
You are pathetic

>the old FmA

I really like the new one that stuck to the manga better, the old one went bonkers at the end.

Black Lagoon is good for a pulpy urban fantasy campaign.
If you want to do a space opera or a mecha war campaign, the Gundam series is good.
Cowboy Bebop is good for a bounty hunting villian-per-session type of campaign.

That's manga, m8. OP ask for anime so try to stick to that.

> For Scifi

Starship Operators - Surprisingly realistic space battle anime. After a planet is annexed by a large space empire known as the kingdom, a bunch of military students highjack the ship they were training on and become freedom fighters. The twist? Space battleships are ABSURDLY expensive. The Kingdom only has like 35 battleships TOTAL, and thats more than enough to dominate the region and throw its weight around.

Gargantia: A Space Marine and his AI controlled spaceship crashland on water world. After having living with a harshly controlled military regime waging a war of extermination, space guy needs to learn to chill the fuck out and deprogram. Tightly written plot, has some of the best written AI I have seen in fiction in any genre.

Expelled from Paradise - After the world got fucked up, 98% of currently alive 'humans' are actually digital uploads living in a voluntary Matrix in a space station in orbit. But after the matrix gets hacked from someone outside, someone still down on the surface, System Security is forced to redownload some agents into organic bodies and send them to stop the source of the cyberattacks. For many of them, this is their first time ever being flesh and blood.

Bodacious Space Pirates - A highschool girl on a far off colony world finds out that she is the only one legally able to inherit the Letter of Marque for a still active Pirate Ship. If she doesn't take the position of captain, the ship and its crew are out of a job. Legal technicalities and Insurance Fraud in space.

SDF Macross (and its sequels) - After an alien ship crashlands on Earth, humanity salvages it and rebuilds it into a human starship dubbed the Macross. Each Macross show is built on the foundation of music, a love triangle, and space planes that transform into robots. It builds up a strange internal logic that results in a bunch of really absurd sounding stuff that makes perfect sense in context by the time you get there.

For Cyberpunk:
Psycho-Pass
Shimoneta
Stein's Gate

I know, 1d4chan is (somehow) despite amongst anons her, but why has noone posted this yet?
1d4chan.org/wiki/Approved_anime

I would also add Goblin Slayer (if mangas are fine too)

>1d4chan.org/wiki/Approved_anime

>scroll through the page
>"Science Fiction"
>hm, real decent, but not really what I would put into SF category
>"Mecha"
>pretty good, but again, not what I would put into the category
>"Gaming" and everything below
WHAT THE FUCK

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING DISGUSTING
END YOURSELF

ESPECIALLY FUCKING "ACTION" AND "COMEDY" SECTIONS ARE FUCKING DISGUSTING
HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Oh no, someone put some moe anime in there!

>ACTION
The fuck, it's a good list with DBZ being an outlier and you could still argue "it's based on the Journey to the West or at least it was"

>COMEDY
Can't handle the insanity of nyaruko?
And monstergirls are common magical realm territory and given the love/hate relationship Veeky Forums have for those, it's a perfect fit I'd say.

>Oh no, someone put some moe anime in there!
The problem isn't moe, the problem is there nothing but moe.

The only good "action" anime there is Samurai Champloo. All others are not even about "action", they're just powerlevels bullshit. That doesn't automatically make them bad, vut come the fuck on.
And I can think of a lot better comedy shows than the mediocre shit that is there.

>the problem is there nothing but moe
But... there isn't?

>they're just powerlevels bullshit
But it still has action has in "fight scene", you may not like does but they still qualify.

>And I can think of a lot better comedy shows than the mediocre shit that is there
I agree but is their subject matter often talked about on Veeky Forums? Because Eldritch abomination and monstergirl/magical realms are.

Upset they retconned the rape

it's /v/ tier

>1d4chan.org/wiki/Approved_anime

> There is a mecha section
> Evangelion is on the list, but not in the mecha section

How and why

I'm legit surprised konosuba is not on the list.

Konosuba don't have the great of a world building for a fantasy setting.
It rely too much of characterizations and while that part is fantastic, the world is crap for a coherent setting.

>Fantasy recommendations.
>No Berserk.
Fucking what?

It's right there you double grognard.

Outlaw Star

The Eva units aren't robots. They're living organisms with human tech grafted on to them.

I'd put spoilers but you can see it as early as episode 2..

>no one mentioned Slayers yet

Record of Lodoss War is what you expect your D&D campaign to be like.

Slayers is how your campaign actually develops.

But under that definition Eureka 7 should also not be mecha, and yet it is there

Shouldn't it be in the comedy section then?

Ayakashi and Mononoke for Japanese supernatural horror.

>PCs are criminals/anti-heroes/general shady individuals/you're playing Rogue Trader
Black Lagoon and Cowboy Bebop

Maoyuu Maou Yuusha?

>not seeing it next to Claymore on the top row.

Fist of the North Star

Beet the Vandel Buster is a cruel recommendation, the manga just got off a 10-year hiatus and then immediately went on another break.