Hello all, first off this is my first article for this site so be gentle please and i hope you find the below interesting. In addition I know there are many examples i have missed and obviously this is only my point of view
Anime and games have gone hand in for a long time in Japan from Pokémon to Zone of the Enders and Blue Dragon to Street Fighter, whether it is the game inspiring the anime or the anime which has inspired the game. They go hand in hand very easily, in particular cell shaded games, where the line between anime and game can become blurry. They are ways for which to expand the existing universe into a new medium which to be honest I enjoy, so much so I tend to buy more Japanese games (whether they have anime attached to them or not) due to the extra effort they put into their gaming and anime universes.
This being said there has been a change in recent years by which Western games have been getting on this way of expanding their universe, by release complimentary anime films which fill in gaps between a game and its sequel. Such examples of these are franchises like Dead Space,

Halo and Dante’s inferno to name but a few, with Dead Space releasing Downfall and Aftermath both of which are very good and include plenty of extra content to make the games more enjoyable. Though these try to live up to the original concept of anime and game going hand in hand, they do not do as well such examples as Devil May Cry. Such franchise from the West cashing in on the popularity anime which franchises will be next? We already know that in May Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker and later in the year Mass Effect: Paragon Lost both being produced by Funimation, which in itself is a little unusually as they normally deal with the distribution of anime not creating one. So what would we like to see next, a Modern Warfare or perhaps a Darksiders anime would be better?
This being said the Japanese are still far further down this road as they produce a vast variety of games for an anime, for example Evangelion over the years has spawned many game from simple java strategy games, to a side on shooter and various dating sims. It’s not just anime generating games they also spawn manga’s, audio drama and whole sub cultures. So are we catching up in computer gaming? We have the like of dungeons and dragon crossing from the RPG game to books and a long time ago a cartoon, so this isn’t really something new, but maybe something that had been forgotten.
Personally there are a few game franchises that I feel would benefit from the Japanese touch, the Homeworld series, Warhammer 40,000 (especially the Horus Heresy part) and Sins of a Solar Empire. So is there any franchise people would like to see getting the anime treatment?
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