I know there are a lot of anime and manga that are /tg/-adjacent, but are there any manga or anime that focus on tabletop RPGs or games themselves? Like slice-of-life about a group playing RPGs. I know there is the MtG manga, and I remember seeing a board game anime some years ago, but that's all I can think of.
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there's some mangas about asian traditional games, eg. Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku is about Mahjong
There's not a culture of that kind of thing in Japan because they don't have the space. The place to play is rental spots in specialty stores, so everything is one-shots and you have inconsistent groups. There's exceptions to this in a population of millions, but not enough to make a big enough market for manga publishing.
Quick Start!! was a 4koma manga about a group of TTRPG players playing different systems. Moe slice of life, nothing astounding but it was fun. The girl who minmaxes because her luck sucks and rolls never go her way is my favorite.
Wizard's Soul - Jihad of Love was a manga that centered around a not!MtG system that was surprisingly in-depth (apparently the mangaka has a buddy who was super into MtG and they worked out the game's rules ahead of time). Heroine had to win a tourney to get her family out of debt, and she uses her dead mom's much-maligned UB control deck. Technically a romance but the relationship more a flavoring than the focus.
There are a few others but those are the two I recommend.
Bro there are mangas about competitive knitting. It doesn't need to be this huge reference point for a culture for a dweeb to grab a pen and start drawing about it.
Oh yeah, I was going to read the ending of Wizard's Soul when it was done. I remember it getting posted here once upon a time.
It's been years since I read Wizard's Soul but I remember the ending being acceptable. The series was short and I wanted more but I don't recall it leaving a bad taste in my mouth or anything, so I assume it stuck the landing.
>CCG
Oh shit, you reminded me of "Destroy All Humanity. It Cannot Be Regenerated."
>he doesn't know about the huge underground competitive knitter scene
Translation not complete for Quick Start, bummer
Frick translation, I can't even find the raws of the later volumes.
>there are mangas about competitive knitting
*grandma stomps her foot in the arena, cracking the floor*
OBASAN?!
FUFUFU, YOU KIDS DON'T KNOW A THING ABOUT KNITTING
*throws her shawl off her shoulders*
*flexes bulging muscles*
S-SHE'S KNITTING SO FAST MY EYES CAN'T KEEP UP
B-BAKANA! KONNO BAKANA!
heh, old-fashioned and traditional knitting will only take you that far
while you were knitting mufflers for kenta-kun's birthday, then I was in Wales studding their technics of european knitting, witness this obasan
WERSH SHEEP SHAGGING
Is that Rococo game real? I want to play it.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/144344/rococo
Sweet, thanks.
Do you know if it's fun?
No you don't know or no it's not fun?
The game requires a basic amount of reading and thinking and you were unable to google 'rococo' by yourself. You will not find it fun.
Yugioh
They originally played a grid wargame where you bought the minis out of a quarter vending machine. Very genius.
That's what a gacha game originally meant.
I thought everyone already knew it but Quick Start is a manga about cute girls playing tabletop RPG's
>extremely unpopular 4koma from 2005
>it's moeshit
No one cares about this 20 year old garbage.
Please have a nice day at your earliest convenience.
Kill me yourself, NEET coward.
I loved it. I remember a chapter when a player brought an audio recorder. It was long before the live DnD trend we live in. I Nevers though about it before, it was cool learning ttrpg practice in other culture. I mastered Ryuutama and Nechronica at the time, it was refreshing.
it took me a while...
...but that image is AI generated. a bunch of mistakes were made mangaka are typically trained not to make.
That image is from 2019 when AI was barely a thing beyond spaghetti and eldritch abominations
No repeated pattern errors, anatomy frickups are consistent across multiple characters, everyone has the right number of features, and the moronic decisions are very human ones to make (overcorrection, mostly). You aren't as good at this as you think you are.
Wizard's Soul is a manga about a girl playing an annoying deck in what is functionally MtG, and hating every moment of it.
All slice of life anime is absolute slop.