Indeed it does, gave me a laugh.

That goes all the way back to the '70s, when magazines and suplements for the original RPGs had paintings of sword-wielding women going into battle dressed like that.

Dragon magazine once featured a wonderful cartoon showing a woman warrior sitting in a tavern. She is wearing a chainmail bikini with several arrows stuck in the top and bottom, and saying to the guy sitting next to her "Good thing I had my armor on!"

That brings back fond memories of several of my Dad's board games. :DL

Western games can be cute and cuddly just fine by themselves:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath...nome-thumb.jpg

I really thought it was awesome everyone in my guild thought I was cute teen girl rather than, say, a muscular middle-aged man w/a shaved head. I mean, would you help a muscular middle-aged man on his quests? Of course not!!

Personally, i always thought that WoW was most definitely influenced by anime. Not a direct copy, but definitely influenced by it. Perhaps as foresight for appeal to the asian market?

At any rate, the pic there is sporting the anime like pigtails. Night elf hair styles also have simularities to anime.

ever see yu-gi-oh?


Every action in an anime show is like overemphasized to the point of insanity. If a character takes a dump He has to do 4 backflips through messed up air and come down screaming pounding his fist into the ground and making the ground split in two. for a dump. And they all look like crack addicts with those bug eyes and gravity/all physics-defying hairdo.

its the mental projection of what a normal human does from a mentally insane, high-as-a-kite-in-a-hurricane, brain dead, banzaaaaaaiiiiiiii-type japanese dude who had FUBAR brain surgery from a nutless monkey, and this japanese dude melted a cookie and injected it into his bloodstream. Aaaaaaand he has
Schizophrenia and the IQ of a 6 year old african child living faaaar away from any kind of civilization.

OMG Steve has read Dragon magazine. !

Hey what was on the other side of the mag?

Steve been around so long he remembers actual dragons... :O:

I don't remember.

But it made me a huge Phil Foglio fan. :D

Attention duelists!

http://www.yugiohabridged.com/page-episodes

Speaking of Anime:

Just watched a vid for the new Dragon Age game. Emo haircuts, big swords, console like combat, yyyeaach...

Why dungeons of course...

Remember one side of the magazine was Dragons (for players), when you flipped the mag over the other side was Dungeons (for DM's).

Okay Ill stop before I embarress myself.

Wasn't Red Sonja was it?:hmmm:

The only thing that can be said is that the Japanese have a very strange attitude to women.

For example, take Ghost in the Shell, in it's various guises. Major Kusanagi is meant to be the field commander of an elite counter terrorism unit. But the way the character is designed, she's the series' eye candy. Looks like a supermodel in a skintight outfit, but is able to command a bunch of burly men?:doh:

I always find it highly amusing that in the first season of the "Stand Alone Complex" tv series, she starts out in what is effectively a basque, but by the end, thay actually had her wearing trousers! That's a bit unusual by anime standards!

Now, have a look at this:http://pitroad.s232.xrea.com/soreyuke/

I feel sorry for any Japanese woman trying to build a career in the Defence Forces if they're reduced to that!

Mike.:hmmm:

Pretty broad statement seeing there is very little more than a CINEMATIC trailer released. :)

(Tho, I do agree the guy's hair is a bit on the emo side of things :O:)

Japan does seem to be, from an outsiders point of view, a very male orientated country, and their anime and manga does tend to reflect that, however exposure to western media and attitudes is swinging the balance in the media.