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OVA: The Anime Role-Playing Game

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A New Edition of the Acclaimed Anime RPG!


OVA: The Anime Role-Playing Game lets you and your friends become your favorite characters from the diverse worlds of Japanese animation. All you need are pencils, paper, dice, and your imagination! Save the princess (or prince!) from a fire-breathing dragon, tackle invading squadrons of giant robots, or find true love amid campus hijinks. It’s all up to you!

Create Your Perfect Character
With OVA, there’s no need to worry about rows of numbers and statistics. Creating characters takes just minutes—it’s as simple as describing them!

Entertaining and Lavishly Illustrated
Detailed examples and over 65 illustrations featuring OVA’s colorful, recurring characters are presented throughout the book.

Easy Yet Versatile
The rules are only as complicated as you want them to be. Whether you keep it simple or fine-tune every detail, OVA is perfect for gamers old and new.

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Benjamin N January 21, 2024 10:09 pm UTC
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Will there be a PoD version available soon?
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Trent H May 23, 2022 5:52 am UTC
I just wanted to ask for obvious reasons but just to be sure is this updated to 2nd Edition of this System or not, and if not where can I find a digital copy of the 2nd Edition for this system?
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Marco E August 17, 2022 12:37 am UTC
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This is the second edition, it has been clarified in the past. :) Actually, this is a “revised” edition of the original game. So, it’s the one and only existing OVA game ;)
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Marco E April 14, 2022 1:35 pm UTC
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Can’t review this game as a publisher, but I want show my complete appreciation for this game!

It is intuitive, versatile, blatantly (and lovely) unbalanced, in the way I would expect from any Anime styled adventure!
We are playing a home brew with it and planning more: you immediately get into the feel and it feels like the players have an easy way into the mechanics themselves!

Adding home rules is very easy (I added a couple of Drama die uses, i.e.) and the way you can create “attacks” (which don’t necessarily mean “harming others” once you get into the mindset) is a wonderful enabler for creativity!

Keep on rolling!
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Ilias L November 21, 2021 3:54 pm UTC
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Any news for a print version?
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Matthew A September 26, 2021 5:07 pm UTC
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I've been running this system for my high school students for over a decade. I have the PDF but I wish there were a POD option. Having a physical book in front of me would make a things a lot easier to find than scrolling through my phone!
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Dobos A October 20, 2022 6:09 pm UTC
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I solved it as...I looked up yt tutorials and printed and binded my own version (twice since the first attempt...was an attempt)
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Dobos A October 20, 2022 6:28 pm UTC
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Also same here..the rules were barely touched after the 3th or 4th session (it had been gone for like 15-20 session)
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Drew S September 26, 2021 4:28 am UTC
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Been playing this for years, have yet to do it correctly. Still had fun. No idea how the rules work. 10/10 would recommend to anyone wanting to run an anime game.
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Pietro G May 18, 2021 5:13 pm UTC
Sent an email, got from the website.
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Esmeralda B March 19, 2021 8:46 pm UTC
Any chance of making this Print On Demand? The softcover is sold out and goes for crazy prices on the second-hand market.
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Jory B March 21, 2021 12:37 pm UTC
I would be interested in this as well. I originally had a copy from the Wise Turtle site but lost it when someone took my copy. But now the site offers only a link to here for a pdf.
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Christophe T April 20, 2021 7:04 am UTC
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Print on Demand should be very, very appreciated.
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Dobos A May 29, 2021 1:26 pm UTC
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I made my own softcover using some yt tutorial of stitch binding...not perfect but good enough
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Jay W February 18, 2020 3:22 am UTC
Will there be a new printing and if so hardback?
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Justin B June 25, 2020 7:10 pm UTC
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if you go to www.wiseturtle.com/store.html there is an option to purchase the hardcover of that book
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Robert A P February 19, 2019 6:20 pm UTC
does OVA work at all for Mecha (at any level?) style anime? Not necessarily Uber-giant outer space, multi-person Robots - but more single person car/plane sized suits?
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Jeff M March 16, 2019 3:29 pm UTC
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the game is flexible enough for that though.
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Clay G March 21, 2019 10:13 pm UTC
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In OVA, you can create mecha just like you do any other character. There's also very easy-to-use rules for representing scale, so whether those mecha are human, plane, or building-sized, the game has you covered!

That said, because mecha ARE treated by the rules mostly like characters, if you're used to juggling engines and weight and other crunchier concepts, it might take a little adjustment.
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Bernard M April 05, 2019 11:51 pm UTC
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Hey Clay! wiseturtle site gives me a 404 error! where can i find your stuff now?
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Clay G April 07, 2019 5:00 pm UTC
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Must have been a fluke! Site is same place as always: www.wiseturtle.com
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Robert H December 04, 2018 8:06 am UTC
Does this have races or classes?
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Paul S January 24, 2019 4:20 pm UTC
No, but it can emulate just about any character concept you can think of. If you're familiar with Big Eyes Small Mouth (probably the best known and most successful anime-emulating tabletop RPG), it's got a similar philosophy, but a much more rules-light, easy-to-play mechanical system.
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Clay G March 21, 2019 10:19 pm UTC
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OVA is a point-based system, so you can individually tweak any element of your character. If you were inclined, you could create packages of the game's Abilities and Weaknesses, either as a nod to races and classes of other games or to speed up character creation. (But character creation is so fast already, I'd be inclined to let players interpret what being a "race" or "class" means mechanically on their own.)
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daniel B September 12, 2018 4:01 am UTC
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So I picked this up a while ago and have played it a few times to simulate action anime, to pretty positive results. But I recently had a friend ask me to run a game for her and her friends more in the vein of show's like After the Rain, or Orange. I was wondering if anyone had tried this for recreating nonviolent drama type anime and if they have had good results?
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Clay G March 21, 2019 10:23 pm UTC
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Since you can define what Abilities and Weaknesses (the game's rough equivalent to advantages and disadvantages) are relevant to your game, it's easy to focus on the things that matter to the story you and your players want to tell. The book even has some sidebars on doing this and explicitly references minimizing the importance of combat.
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Zachary R April 01, 2016 9:35 pm UTC
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Is this the latest version of the rules?
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Clay G April 02, 2016 1:06 am UTC
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Yes, this is the revised version of the game. The original is no longer available for sale on DriveThruRPG.
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Emmanuel P October 21, 2016 3:46 pm UTC
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Clay, there's no supplement being announced since the kickstarter three years ago (appart from Golden Sky). But OVA is still continued, right? I decided against BESM 3rd in favour of OVA because BESM is discontinued and I hoped OVA would be a kind of successor still alive. I really like the OVA system and it would be great to know if there will still be developement for OVA.
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Emmanuel P October 22, 2016 6:53 pm UTC
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Already answered by Clay in the Wise Turtle forums, supplements are planned. =)
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RENAUD R January 23, 2016 3:30 pm UTC
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I love this game ! Too bad there isn't a printed hardcover version...
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Clay G September 25, 2015 2:06 am UTC
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Because OVA was printed using traditional methods, it will not be available as “Print-On-Demand” through DriveThruRPG. However, if you would like a print copy, you can get one from www.wiseturtle.com.
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January 07, 2016 7:26 pm UTC
Hello,


I'm interested in this book (print version) do you have international shipping if i bought it on wiseturtle.com? Thanks.
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Clay G January 07, 2016 10:17 pm UTC
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Yes, I do! Just click the appropriate button on the products page.
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January 07, 2016 11:41 pm UTC
Thanks you very much, bought it from the website and eagerly awaiting now for the arrival he he.


Thanks again.
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Steven M March 03, 2015 3:42 am UTC
I would absolutely buy this as a book, if I could.
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