What would you roleplay?

[Belle Hibiki]

Yes they started as comics/manga but their success and exposure didn't explode until they were anime and video games. Comics were successful since the like the great depression. Declining only when the censorship bureau accused them of influencing the youth and promoting violence.

Every manga protagonists follows a character archetype created within the comic universes of DC and Marvel.

Still comics.

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On topic: Not really interested in doing western comic settings at all. DC and Marvel's universes are so incredibly fucked up that it's hard to find a baseline. Most RPGs end up just creating their own version of the X-Men or DC universes to accommodate all the bullshit. That cheapens the experience somewhat.

There's also the fact that "mutants with powers" is basically what we've been doing for the last couple years, with some people sticking closer to the DBZ theme than others. I'd rather do something different than that, and a bit lighter in tone.

(I suppose you could argue, though, that One Piece is really not all that different from X-Men, either, with the difference that people get special abilities from eating Devil Fruits instead of being born with it. The difference is the setting, which is pretty quirky and kooky. Less "uwaaaaaaah my power manifested and i killed my parents" and more "i ate the sweep sweep fruit and became a broom man. i am now a hero to my island")