I've educated myself on Japanese fairytales, ghost stories, Shinto, and historical ninja at my public library. (One book on ninja was by this guy.) Of course, I like wuxia too...

How to handle all those different tropes and what-not it in the game you're running is great info! I mean, the "angry female strike" rule in OVA & what you said about how modern hobbies apply to a total change of setting, or ideas of how laws of reality can change like in The Twelve Ki...

I've watched so much anime that explanations of archetypes waste space for me, but I do think a few example NPCs, as in the OVA book, which show off the new facets of OVA Fantasy and can touch on those different tropes or whatever could be useful. *shrug*

Feudal Japan...very tasty....the priests, too (sounds like I eat priests); like Miroku from InuYasha or the cleric in Scrapped Princess (who is wise contrary to the sometimes ridiculous dogma of the church)? Do serial experiments lain, .hack//SIGN, The Adolescence of Utena , and FLCL share a genre? ...

OVA Fantasy deals solely with the Western inspired medieval worlds so popular in anime. Samurai, ninja, and all matters of Eastern spirits and mythology will be handled in a seperate book sometime later (Along with such "genres" as shoujo and shounen) I keep wondering if it should be call...

Anime (I often go for surreal & insightful): .hack//SIGN, The Adolescence of Utena (movie), Azumanga Daioh, FLCL, Gundam Seed (I like character drama!), Miyazaki favs: Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso, & Laputa, The Vision of Escaflowne Manga (Science & Fantasy, mainly): Corner Alley 13 (...