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ARMSmasters is a 2D animation project intended to produce a western action-adventure cartoon with certain anime aesthetics in the vein of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Young Justice. It’s a high-fantasy magical world where mythical, powerful heroes perform incredible deeds. This project caught my eye for how reminiscent it was of certain RPG products we all know that possess similar conceits. Dungeons And Dragons 4th Edition and White Wolf’s Exalted products spring to mind as examples of this setup: a group of powerful and extraordinary heroes must band together and depend on one another as they take on a landscape of larger-than-life villains in order to secure powerful artifacts that could shake the status quo of the world. This is the kind of world you’d see in a Final Fantasy title, with its magical technology and superpowered fantasy heroes, but that seems pretty scarce on TV, despite the amount of fantasy headspace that these concepts consume in the culture at large.

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