I was quiet on this earlier buuuuuut.... [quote=@Rin] ...Someone mentioned Kamen Rider? EDIT: Eeesh, feel like I walked into a really awkward conversation here. ^^; [/quote] Eh, pretty sure the MOST awkward bits are over, and Gowi and Sloth bring up a good point, not every manga or anime is 'out there' and there are several properties I could legitimately see fitting in in Maximum if adapted right, especially things influenced heavily by western comics as is, which I'm also aware is a point that Rin tried to bring up before being sniggered down by exclusionists earlier on making comments about 'anime tiddies' and the inherent bizarre and clashing nature of the medium. ...Which honestly has never made sense to me since you already have a fair amount of manga/tokusatsu/japanese media influence in western comics [i]anyway[/i] and vice versa. Most Excellent Super-Bat and the Super Young Team come to mind despite their semi-parody nature, Dum-Dum Dugan freaking fights Godzilla at a few points and then STARK International and S.H.I.E.L.D. build a giant Red Ronin Super Robot to fight him again, which gets stolen by a twelve-year-old boy. Lord Death-Man the immortal japanese crime lord originated in the Bat-Manga but he's been re-used in Western Comics since. Sonic the Hedgehog and Megaman, two characters I've seen people involved in previous Maximum stuff before express interest in, both have their roots in Japanese media and the former is a blue, supersonic talking anthropomorphic hedgehog. Hell, under the current indie comic rules, you could probably try for Avatar stuff and that's about as manga and anime influenced as you can get in western media. As for the reverse of Manga being influenced by comics, while I could go into the history of the medium and the fact that Osamu Tezuka's stuff was all inspired by Disney Comics, I'll mostly go the route of bringing up Tiger and Bunny which is basically 'Western Superheroes exist in Japan, but they all have corporate sponsors' Kamen Rider which although it's flashy and over the top could easily be modified to fit, and the fact that both multiple comics characters and multiple comic book authors from the west have been involved in manga series of their own, some of which were actually not terrible. and as far as the thing that brought this to my attention, Kamen Rider: [hider=BOOM!] [img]http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm262/Darkaus001/RangerRiderComic.gif[/img] [/hider] Have a Kamen Rider appearing in an official Marvel Comics publication! Sure it only went one issue, but that's more than George Smiley got. So if Rin really wanted to use a Kamen Rider and people REALLY don't want manga and tokusatsu characters looked at on a one a one-by-one basis for acceptability, she still technically could do it.