It's an Anime! No! It's a Game! No!...

[TheDarkness]

What anime is inspired from a game?
What game is inspired from an anime?
What anime features a game inside of it?

Share your gaming and/or anime watching
experiences where these two worlds
collide.

[Angela]

Final Fantasy: Last Order, Final Fantasy VII:Advent Children...inspired from Final Fantasy VII.
and....
Not too sure which came first, the .//Hack games or the .//Hack Anime

I'm sure there's more, but I'm just waking up and my brain had to overwork to come up with those, haha.

[suquamish]

> Not too sure which came first, the .//Hack games or the .//Hack Anime

IIRC, they were simultaneous. The .hack project included the PS2 game, .hack//INFECTION and the anime series .hack//SIGN.

[Angela]

Also note:
Xenosaga anime inspired from game series
and
Devil May Cry anime inspired from game series (I own both the anime and the game....I'm still trying to figure out how I forgot to mention it in my initial post.)

[TheDarkness]

some of the Tales series have anime associated with and from them.

Tales of Eternia.
Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Symphonia
Tales of the Abyss

[TheDarkness]

in case ya didn't know...

Gungrave, the anime, came from Gungrave, the game. in fact, there are two Gungrave games.

[Angela]

Just heard that Tales of Vesperia is coming to anime. I'm playing the game right now, and from what I understand the anime will be a prequel of sorts to the events that transpired in the game.

[Angela]

Just finished off Sengoku Basara. It's a play off of the Devil Kings video game. It primarily deals with feudal Japanese history. It wasn't anything spectacular and neither was the game really. I was glad to see more of Reaper (aka Mitsuhide Akechi) in the anime as he had a very small, npc part in the game itself but that really wasn't enough to save it for me.

A far cry from the Mitsuhide found in the Samurai Warriors game series, and though I'm not sure which representation I like better, I do know that Koei's SW is by far the better game when it comes to role playing in feudal Japan. If only they'd make an anime based from that one instead...

[Orion1]

Well I'm not sure if you will be happy about this or not but it looks like Sengoku Basera will be released by FUNimation. I don't think that it's one of FUNimations strongest picks. Actually I'm curious whether or not it will make them any money.

[Angela]

Haha, yeah I think it's a bad business move on their part. I don't know though, maybe they got better results with a younger demographic. I don't really understand it, cause even the game was met with lukewarm results. It will be interesting to see if they reap any profits...