I'm not an anime fan. I don't have anything against it, and I'm not saying it can't be good, but I've tried watching some and I just don't really like it much.

That said, I feel like a lot of D&D players are anime fans, which I have no problem with. I'm just not a big fan of when they bring anime-styled characters, plots, or tone to the game. I like my D&D classic and not so over-the-top, more like Lord of the Rings, so it kind of interrupts my fantasy vision.

That's just me, and I'm not saying you shouldn't do an anime-styled game if everyone in your group has fun with it! This is not meant to be an argument over the right and wrong way to play: there's no such thing, and as long as everyone is having fun, that's all that matters. But I'm curious how common different play styles are, hence the poll.

Why the scare quotes?

Good point, they weren't really necessary. I guess because it's about an anime feel rather than anime itself, but that was probably obvious anyway. Sorry.

I think it depends on what someone wants when they wish to see or not see anime elements in D&D because that is incredibly vague.

This is true. I intentionally left it vague because I wanted the question to be broad, but I guess I’m mostly focused on the tone that most anime has, and the story tropes associated with it, rather than any specific genre.

I won't bring my super weeby characters in the back of my notebooks unless they fit the game

I am an anime fan but, the games I play aren't that style. I don't think I would want that element as a singularity, it would be to disparate within the normal system. That said, I could see adapting the whole D&D game framework as a platform for a full fledged anime style game(thematic reskin). That could be fun.

TLDR; I wouldn't want to combine standard D&D with Anime.

I’m a fan of anime, not crazy hard core but there is a lot of anime that I like. I have created characters based on anime characters as well, though I do still make sure they fit into the themes of the campaigns that I play in. Many players at my table do the same thing, taking inspiration for anime on top of other sources.There is a lot of anime that can make for great D&D inspiration.

That said, I would be wary of any sort of official D&D/Anime cross over. I think flavoring D&D with anime should be kept to a table by table basis. 

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I’m a fan of anime, not crazy hard core but there is a lot of anime that I like. I have created characters based on anime characters as well, though I do still make sure they fit into the themes of the campaigns that I play in. Many players at my table do the same thing, taking inspiration for anime on top of other sources.There is a lot of anime that can make for great D&D inspiration.

That said, I would be wary of any sort of official D&D/Anime cross over. I think flavoring D&D with anime should be kept to a table by table basis. 

 you said in almost perfect wording what i was going to

Not an anime fan personally, and the type of DnD setting I prefer is a lot more down to earth like LotR, GoT, The Witcher, and similar settings.

So a lot of the crazy physics defying high powered anime tropes just seem too alien for me to enjoy.

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I'm not an anime fan. The way that they translate them into English makes it seem like they are way to dramatic. That being said, certain things in anime are cool, such as the style of combat.

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Not an anime fan personally, and the type of DnD setting I prefer is a lot more down to earth like LotR, GoT, The Witcher, and similar settings.

So a lot of the crazy physics defying high powered anime tropes just seem too alien for me to enjoy.

That's something that's largely found in shonen works (stuff that's aimed at boys).  Shonen is by a wide margin the most commonly exported type of anime since it includes many of the really big names- Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, and so on.  It's heavily derived from kabuki theater, which is why characters in shonen works tend to wear such ridiculous outfits, have utterly bonkers hairstyles, and dramatically overact everything.  Since much of it is heavily serialized, it also tends to feature very formulaic plots and one-dimensional characters.

I'm an anime fan, and while I don't go full anime with my campaigns I do like to throw in some over the top scenes to make the party feel cool or to show them that they are 100% out of their league. It's not something to do all the time, but throwing it in occasionally isn't gonna hurt your games at all.

In my opinion, saying "anime styled stuff" is no different from saying "movie styled stuff" or "television show styled stuff". The only unifying thing between all anime is art style and aesthetics, and maybe place of origin and cultural references that comes with it. Avatar the Last Airbender can be loosely classified as both an anime (art style) and cartoon (from America). Similarly, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt can be loosely classified as an anime (from Japan) and cartoon (art style).

Off the top of my head, Scrapped Princess, Tower of Druaga, The Heroic Legend of Arslan, and Goblin Slayer are some of my top fantasy anime. In my opinion, fantasy anime is not all that different from fantasy from the west. Swords, magic, fantasy creatures, etc. are all there. Goblin Slayer in particular is the only work of fantasy that I know of that uses D&D's magic system. When I first saw the anime, I thought the magic system was a little weird and stupid until I started playing D&D and understood what was going on. You can rip Goblin Slayers' characters, plot, and setting and your players would never know that it came from an anime.

I'm not an Anime fan and my players wouldn't enjoy Anime styled D&D.

To me Anime is the cultural equivalent of using sandpaper as toilet paper. Keep it out of D&D along with music at gaming tables, slash fiction masquerading as character backstories or people with critical role acting ambitions but the talent of Pia Zadora.

I know very, very little about Anime. I haven't ever watched it, and only recognize a couple of the titles people have said in this thread. I don't enjoy the crazy, over the top style that some animes use, but other people might. I wouldn't have a problem with an anime sourcebook, I just wouldn't use it. 

I like some anime. A small minority of it I'd go so far as to consider myself a fan, but most of it I dislike, so it would be hard for me to say whether I'd like anime influence in D&D. If done right, I'd be open to it if not exactly excited by it, but if the anime inspirations drew too strongly from the material that I don't care for I'd probably actively avoid it.

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As a huge weeb(not in a bad way, I have my limits)I will sometimes allow an anime-themed stuff, as long as it doesn't get in the way of the story. Like, no you can't be a kawaii slime girl in a gritty, Gothic fantasy where we fight vampires, and slay demons. But, I have run anime-themed campaigns(DBZ one Piece, etc.,etc.) and they are SUPER fun. I played in a JJK One, as a former legendary sorcerer (both kinds, as in sorcerer class, and jujutsu sorcerer)but I almost died in battle against a fellow sorcerer, and before I died, I made a heavenly restriction. I lost my technique, and magic(We added that, since if you only lost your technique, you could basically play as a spellcaster tank, which is too powerful), but became a Rogue.