Assigning Classes to Manga Characters


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Grand Lodge

I am looking for ways to assign what classes my favorite manga characters would have, so this is a call out to other people that may have read these same mangas and might have a better insight on what classes to use.

As a test the first character I'd like to build as closes as possible within PFRG rules is Toriko.

For those that don't know anything about this manga, the story is about people called gourmet hunters that are hired out to obtain rare foods, and Toriko is one of these gourmet hunters. Toriko is a pretty strong guy that can take down powerful creatures that normally a group of hunters armed with shotguns all by himself, and he does all of his hunting bare-handed.

So here are a few things he is capable of:
1. Extraordinary sense of smell, exceeding that of a bloodhound.

2. Spiked Punch, which is mainstay attack and has several versions. Basically he does a rapid fire punch to the same location to up the damage to the target.

3. Fork attack, basically he can strengthen his hands to have incredible piercing ability, literally turning the limb into a powerful fork, also he's capable of throwing his fork attack (basically a energy projectile).

4. Knife attack, like the fork but with this he can cut through something with his bare hand (the beheading of a alligator the size of a triceratops shown quiet early on in the manga). He can also throw this too like his Fork.

5. Intimidation aura, when Toriko wants to scare away the small fry or prevent a pointless fight he uses this which basically manifest itself visually as a giant hungry looking Japanese demon

So with all of that explained I am thinking the closest thing to assign him class wise pretty much uses only classes from the upcoming Advance Class Guide: the Bloodrager (thinking abyssal bloodline), the Brawler, and the Hunter.

For more info on the character to draw on check this out:
http://toriko.wikia.com/wiki/Toriko


Monk or brawler definitely, monk would give easier access to style feats to switch unarmed attacks to piercing or slashing, for the fork throw use monk of the empty hand. Dip Sorcerer for Illusion, and put points in intimidate for the intimidation aura.

I'm coming up blank on ways to get scent right now. Only one I can think of is Keen scent but its orc/halforc only.

Liberty's Edge

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After reading through the entire reprint of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, I kinda realized that all the Sailor Guardians are the worst D&D party ever. Every single one of them is an extremely-specialized sorcerer (Sailor Mercury only learned ice-based spells, Sailor Mars only learned fire-based, &c.) with a few exceptions:

Sailor Moon: Multiclassed sorcerer/cleric (her holy symbol is the Silver Crystal. So... technically, she's a cleric of herself?)

Sailors Jupiter and Uranus: Multiclassed sorcerer/monk.

Tuxedo Mask: Considering the smoke bombs he has in the manga, I think he's actually a multiclass alchemist/fighter (with Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Thrown Roses.)

Grand Lodge

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To be honest Toriko can be quiet wild and savage in a fight so having him be a 1/2 orc that looks passing for a human would work.

As for the classes I think I have what I might be looking for, levels in Brawler and Magus. Brawler gives all the hard hitting h2h attacks and with magus (particularly the spell blade magus, with kensai if I can choose unarmed strike by RAW) and prepare a lot of magic missile spells and for flavor they just happen to look like forks and knifes, and also add in a force punch here and there to somewhat simulate the concentrated form of the spiked punch attack.


One question: are you looking to emulate the character's actual abilities, or just get something that looks like the character?

Because I doubt a non-mythic character that isn't a caster of some sort is going to even come close to replicating some of Toriko's higher-end feats... Maybe early Toriko, before some of the power upgrades...


Can't help it.

Naruto: Ninja/Magus/Barbarian(Rasengan = Force Punch., Rasengan Shuriken = Force Punch + Reach Spell)

I'll think of others later.


There is a Big Eyes Small Mouth d20 variant out there, that you can still find on places like eBay.

I think anybody who is into Manga and Anime with any seriousness, and also understands 3.x/Pathfinder well, has a good understanding that the two do not match up well in most cases. Characters in Manga and Anime tend toward overpoweredness and often possess random powers and suddenly manifesting powers that cannot always be duplicated in a standard class format under normal RPG rules.

Flipping through BESM, you will quickly see this reflected in the drastic ways in which the classes are adjusted and even reformatted completely. I recommend this.

We've had some success replicating a few Anime characters using psionic rules from the 3.5 Expanded Psionics Handbook and some sorcerer variants, but the effects are more aesthetic and require some concept compromise on the part of the player.

We've had greater success in cases where I helped my players create characters with racial abilities that replicate whatever abilities they liked in their favorite anime characters. We treat those characters basically like "monsters" for purposes of determining a CR to add class levels to. We proceed from that point as outlined in the Bestiary section on using monsters as PCs.

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Roy Mustang: Sorcerer (Fire) with Riza Hawkeye as a cohort (who is of course a Gunslinger).

Greed: Ironskin Monk (with homebrew Ironskin ki power as well). Alternatively, a stalwart indestructible rager.

Silver Crusade

Petty Alchemy wrote:

Roy Mustang: Sorcerer (Fire) with Riza Hawkeye as a cohort (who is of course a Gunslinger).

Greed: Ironskin Monk (with homebrew Ironskin ki power as well). Alternatively, a stalwart indestructible rager.

I'd say the second for Greed, and maybe a fire focused Magus for Mustang, since he's in the thick of combat a lot too. Although having a certain material bypass Greed's damage reduction would honestly make a lot of sense with how him and Wrath went at it (unless we're just assuming Wrath was putting out WAY more damage than the DR could deal with)

A lot of Shonen protags would be Magus, due to their combat prowess and magical ability, probably the best way to represent a lot of them.


Bruunwald wrote:


I think anybody who is into Manga and Anime with any seriousness, and also understands 3.x/Pathfinder well, has a good understanding that the two do not match up well in most cases. Characters in Manga and Anime tend toward overpoweredness and often possess random powers and suddenly manifesting powers that cannot always be duplicated in a standard class format under normal RPG rules.

They only seem 'overpowered' if you're comparing them to fighters and rogues. A mid level cleric is versatile enough to replicate the abilities of many anime characters.

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N. Jolly wrote:
Petty Alchemy wrote:

Roy Mustang: Sorcerer (Fire) with Riza Hawkeye as a cohort (who is of course a Gunslinger).

Greed: Ironskin Monk (with homebrew Ironskin ki power as well). Alternatively, a stalwart indestructible rager.

I'd say the second for Greed, and maybe a fire focused Magus for Mustang, since he's in the thick of combat a lot too. Although having a certain material bypass Greed's damage reduction would honestly make a lot of sense with how him and Wrath went at it (unless we're just assuming Wrath was putting out WAY more damage than the DR could deal with)

A lot of Shonen protags would be Magus, due to their combat prowess and magical ability, probably the best way to represent a lot of them.

Think Wrath just had plain swords. It would not be amiss to grant him some piercing ability due to his eye though. Perhaps a version of Penetrating Strike that isn't awful.

True that Mustang is often danger close, but I don't recall him ever using magus trademarks like spellstrike/spell combat. It's all about better blasts.

Envy: Simply a Druid. Urban Druid possibly, if lower level.

Silver Crusade

I don't have a bunch of the classes/archetypes memorized, but let's see what I can do.

Natsu from Fairy Tale: Draconic Sorcerer/Elemental Fist monk.

Gamagoori from Kill La Kill: Half-giant Armiger (It's a 3rd party class) that uses a whip.

Yoko Littner from Gurren Lagann: Gunslinger that takes as many feats to improve long-range accuracy as possible.

Kamina from Gurren Lagann: Shogun Samurai.

Yuno Gasai from Mirai Nikki: Gunslinger/Ninja/Time Oracle (Or a psionic class that gives a lot of precognition) with tons of Sense Motive and Bluff.

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Yuno:
Yuno has divine ranks, I don't know if Mythic covers it


N. Jolly wrote:
Petty Alchemy wrote:

Roy Mustang: Sorcerer (Fire) with Riza Hawkeye as a cohort (who is of course a Gunslinger).

Greed: Ironskin Monk (with homebrew Ironskin ki power as well). Alternatively, a stalwart indestructible rager.

I'd say the second for Greed, and maybe a fire focused Magus for Mustang, since he's in the thick of combat a lot too. Although having a certain material bypass Greed's damage reduction would honestly make a lot of sense with how him and Wrath went at it (unless we're just assuming Wrath was putting out WAY more damage than the DR could deal with)

A lot of Shonen protags would be Magus, due to their combat prowess and magical ability, probably the best way to represent a lot of them.

Wrath never bypassed his armor and his sword actually broke when he hit it. He simply attacked so fast that he couldn't harden himself in time.


I have to disagree with you, Aziraya Zhwan. Kamina was some form of bard, maybe arcane duelist. His biggest ability was inspiring courage in the Dai Gurren Brigade.


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Yeah, Kamina was definitely a bard of some sort. He was good with his sword, but his real strength was leadership, tactics, and having Simon to do the heavy lifting.

Silver Crusade

I was thinking samurai because of their banner abilities would cover the inspiration part, and the challenges/resolve features fit his style quite well. Although it's true that he inspires using his voice instead of through visuals, that only covers a single aspect of his style while the samurai covers multiple/all of his defining features in some form or another.


Guts: 20th level Fighter.

Lina Inverse: 20th level Evoker.


Jeez, you guys watch such violent shows.

Haruhi Fujioka of Ouran High School Host Club: Commoner 1/Bard 1 with Skill Focus (Perform (Host)) and Skill Focus (Disguise).

Honey Sempai of Ouran: Childlike Halfling Tetori Monk 5/level 2 Bard.

Kuranosuke of Princess Jellyfish: Aristocrat 1/Bard 1 with Skill Focus (Disguise) and the Extremely Fashionable trait.

Jiji of Princess Jellyfish: Oracle 1 with Wasting Curse and Ancestors Mystery. She would pump either Knowledge (History) or Knowledge (Local) depending on how you want to view her particular field of expertise.

Horo of Spice and Wolf: Kitsune Druid 4/Expert 1. She would have a few ranks in Profession (Merchant) and maybe the Bodyguard feat.

Squid Girl of Squid Girl: Half Squid Ranger 3 with Favoured Terrain: Beach and awful attribute scores across the board except for Charisma maybe.


Saotome Ranma (Ranma 1/2): martial artist Fighter with a bunch of ki feats. (You can't tell me that boy's Lawful enough to be a monk, even if you have a monk class that people will accept.)

Ryuko Matoi from KILL la KILL: Synthesist summoner :D


Most characters from the third and onward arcs of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: various flavors of summoner or psionic classes.


Karasu; Human Aegis whose Psychic skin looks like Tengu Style Armor

Karasu


Hero Yui (Gundam): Synthesist Summoner, the Eidolon is Exia


Tryn wrote:
Hero Yui (Gundam): Synthesist Summoner, the Eidolon is Exia

you got your gundam series' mixed up

Heero Yui from Gundam Wing Pilots Wing Gundam, Wing Gundam Zero, and Epyion Gundam depending on which story Arch you watch and Borrows Heavyarms for a Fight

Setsuna from Gundam 00 Pilots Gundam Exia and Gundam Exia 00. both with the Twin Drive System

you mixed up 2 series and 2 pilots from different series, even if both are similar.

i mean, Setsuna was based off Heero and Gundam Exia was based off Wing Gundam


Desidero wrote:
Squid Girl of Squid Girl: Half Squid Ranger 3 with Favoured Terrain: Beach and awful attribute scores across the board except for Charisma maybe.

I'd give her a pretty high Intelligence, especially considering how she learned Japanese (and math).

Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail: The closest I've gotten is an elan soulknife/aegis/metaforge. Still doesn't quite cover it.

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Arbane the Terrible wrote:
Guts: 20th level Fighter.

Guts? Fighter? He wears medium armor (breastplate), cleaves through everything with an unstoppable berserker rage, and has lots of untyped damage reduction. He tanks hits to his bare flesh constantly and never goes down all the way. I can't imagine him as anything but a barbarian, probably invulnerable rager. His rage is so unstoppable that he

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saws his own arm off through sheer force of will to get into melee range with Griffith/Femto.

Not to mention he doesn't fight like a disciplined soldier. He's a force of nature.

Edit: His present era armor is pretty much half-plate though. Must've taken proficiency at some point after the golden age.


I realized the other day that Black Star (Soul Eater) is much more easily described as a Barbarian than a Monk or a Ninja, which is fitting and amusing. Enchanted Sword mode is probably Shadowdancer levels.


While not strictly an anime/manga character... Luca Blight was the epitome of a two-handed fighter with an intimidate build.


Kaelan Ashenveil wrote:
While not strictly an anime/manga character... Luca Blight was the epitome of a two-handed fighter with an intimidate build.

He may have had a number of mythic ranks.


Well, they did Psionic Naruto Builds on the old wizard's boards... If you agree that the Dreamscarred Press updates function well enough, about half still work.

Other than all main characters having the advanced template (possibly multiple times) in Pathfinder, I don't know what to tell you...


Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:
He may have had a number of mythic ranks.

Hahaha yeah... I'm actually building a CN variant of him as an NPC until I'm able to roll him as a PC. Really looking forward to it, actually.


98% of bleach characters- Bladebound kensai magus


+ Soul inquisitor ^^


Hiei. Ifrit Kensai/Monk of the Four winds.


Decided to bump. Naruto could work as a Bloodrager (Destined Bloodline)/Ninja. Also Ichigo as a Fighter/Magus (Kensai) may work. It's not a 100% faithful adaptation both of then but it's a start.

Sovereign Court

Sure let's have a little fun list:

Black Jack - Human Chirurgeon (Alchemist Archetype)
Afro - Human Sword Saint (Samurai archetype)
Guts - Human Barbarian (Invulnerable Rager)
Alucard - Vampire Fetchling Shadowcaller (Summoner archetype)
Vash the Stampede - Android Gunslinger
L - Human Empiricist (Investigator archetype)
Lelouch Lamperouge - Human Magician (Bard archetype)
Eikichi Onizuka - Human Brawler
Arsene Lupin III - Human Rogue
Kakashi Hatake - Human Magus
Vegeta - Human Bloodrager (Abyssal bloodline)
Shinji Ikari - Human Synthesist (Summoner Archetype)

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