Teenagers From Outerspace: The Anime Comedy Roleplaying Game

by Mike Pondsmith

The amazingly weird roleplaying game that lets you become a character in your own (or even somebody else's) Japanese Animation Comedy Show! Complete with everything you'll need to create Silly Superpowers, Gonzo Gadgets, Bikini Battlesuits, Mecha Mayhem, Magical Girlfriends, and the ever popular Boy/Girl Gun.

127 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

About the author

Michael Alyn Pondsmith is an American roleplaying, board, and video game designer. He founded the publisher R. Talsorian Games in 1982, where he developed a majority of the company's role-playing game lines. Pondsmith is the author of several RPG lines, including Mekton (1984), Cyberpunk (1988) and Castle Falkenstein (1994). He also contributed to the Forgotten Realms and Oriental Adventures lines of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, worked in various capacities on video games, and authored or co-created several board games. Pondsmith also worked as an instructor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology.

Reviews

[Veiltender]

A fascinating snapshot into a world before anime and manga pervaded American popular culture. The game looks playable too (although nothing I would want to play).

[Lady Entropy]

It's cheese, but it's good cheese.

I never played this, and I don't think i could play it unless I had a very specific group of people to play it with, but it was still a hilarious read, and you can tell the love and passion that went into the making of it.

[Alan Hoffman]

I don't play role-playing games, but the original reference book was funny to me and I bought it.