[quote=@Dblade26] I was quiet on this earlier buuuuuut.... 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. and speaking of 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 one a one-by-one basis for acceptability, she still technically could do it. [/quote] In the spirit of discussion, the 1983 run of Amethyst Princess of Gemworld went on to inspire Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura. There’s a huge depth of superhero mythos (Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Astro Boy, etc.) not to mention previous Singularized games did not contest Power Rangers. I think it’s incredibly biased, elitist, and uninformed to be staunchly anti-manga for the reason that Japanese comics are Japanese. I agree that added too many options, awkward unfamiliarities, and so forth is a good reason not to include manga but “too outlandish” is most certainly not one of them and wrong.