Someone asked for a good Anime game today, and this is the first thing that came to mind.

It’s called OVA The Anime Roleplaying Game. If I haven’t mentioned it before, I’m a big fan of all things anime, especially RPGs. I’ve only seen it in PDF so far.

OVA stands for Open Versatile Anime. As you may have already guessed, it’s another core rule set that is adaptable to any genre, much like an anime series. Space pirates, martial arts action, mecha, monster trainer and high magic samurai fantasy are all doable under one set of rules, much like Anime Hack and Big Eyes, Small Mouth which I will discuss more elsewhere.

OVA sports some very nice artwork. I feel like art can make or break a game and in this case it really sells the concepts and draws the reader in. It shows that a lot of time and love was put into making this game happen.

You get to raid the family Yahtzee box for this one as it uses d6’s. The system itself was designed to appeal to both anime fans and new players alike. If you can describe your favorite anime character, you can probably emulate it with these rules. I also enjoy the fast and easy anime style action created by this simple D6 system. The combat is flashier and relies more on character abilities than most RPGs.

It’s just my opinion, but I’ve sampled a great number of anime games over the years and I still regularly come back to OVA when I want something fast and fun. I think it does a better job of emulating a lot of animated works than most d20 systems. Even American animation could be duplicated with this system and a little practice.

Thank you so much for being here. I hope you have a great weekend. More awesomeness for #indiettrpgmonth to come.