And, in doing so, are no longer even in the same genre.

(Soul Blazer is an action game.)

I tend to lean towards games with stylized art, anime included. One of my favorite games is Tobal 2, but it has more to do with being a fighting game fan than the characters being designed by Akira Toriyama. There are plenty of other games I like though, such as Klonoa 2, Jumping Flash, Legend of the Mystical Ninja, and Vandal Hearts.

As for the "most anime" game I played on GOG, it would be Trails in the Sky series. An honorable mention goes to Fault Milestone, but it's a kinetic visual novel, with no branching paths or any type of interaction.

There's a pedo bait loli character whose clothes cover less of her florida normally than mine do when I'm actually taking a dump. I can tolerate gag boobs here and there, but loli/shota is a flat no.

There's a lot of furries in anime, too, and that goes way back to Disney influences and Osamu Tezuka, who was a closet vore furry. iirc there was a censorhip scandal the other year involving the US release of a furry porn anime.

(Porn in general travels fast in either direction. Again, I think just last year one Western female creep* sued another Western female creep over some porn each of them claimed to have written, disturbingly specific enough for plagiarism charges, but by that time it had already made its way into Japanese manga and back to the West through fan translations.)

* I'd use stronger words if we weren't on GOG. My favorite manga artist, who faced a lot of both moralist and capitalist censorship through his life, wrote coomers deserved to be nuked along with the Earth for betraying humanity, and I agree.

Despite that, I'm still on the lookout for good anime-style games. My very brief involvement in indie game development showed how even purely auteur games fall victim to the whims of journos once they accrue "production values" and therefore team members who depend on their commercial success for their mortgage and whatnot get taken hostage. In contrast, Hatoful Boyfriend was originally made with stock photos and without publisher interference and is 5 times more popular. Anime-style is good. Programmer art is good. Anything that helps ideas get realized is good.

I didn't know there was a kinetic novel on GOG.

(Probably not going to buy it, but it's interesting that it exists.)

Not always. There are many Anime based on light novel (books) and visual novel (videogame).
And even anime original based on nothing else

yeah, just like not every western animated movies come from cartoons, not even in drawing style

I'm thinking that, if I ever end up playing the remake (which would probably require it getting a DRM-free release, as there's other games on my list of "games to emulate eventually" list that are higher priority), I'll probably use the original music, at least for that part of the game.

That particular music track I think works better with the synth sounds, as I find it hard to come up with a way that an orchestra would sound as good there. In any case, if I *had* to arrange it for orchestra, I would probably give the melody to flute (or possibly piccolo in the lower register) than to violin as the new soundtrack does.

Not true, while your writing does apply to the modern industrial entertainment complex (funny phrase but its true) it is unrelated to the stuff I am writing about. In case you didn't notice, I was writing about the foundations of why Anime became the way it is. I've even wrote.

"...I suggest that you should begin diving into the history of early manga in order to understand why anime is the way it is."

How can you misquote and rip out the entirety of the context of what I was typing?

It should be obvious that I am not talking about the early 80s or 70s when light novels became a thing, I don't exactly know when Visual Novels became one of the nowadays many pillars of the industrial entertainment complex but it could've been the 90s. I do suggest that you must read up on how the industry works in japan and how industrialized and normalized everything became to keep the wheels rolling.

Nowadays there are almost as many license holders then there are people making the entertainment and theres also many companies you've never heard about but are just as important as the companies in charge of a project, companies like IMAGICA and DR Movie. The industry almost works like an organism and is very intertwined, with thousands of people who work remotely and in different countries. Its very similar to the western AAA video game industry for sure but there are so many franchises in japan and license companies its impossible for an outsider who doesn't have much interest in these things anymore to keep track off. Its still an interesting subject, thats for sure.

Personally, I do believe that the herculean work of creativity is not done by the industry but the japanese indiegame market and many of the new mangaka that hold many creative ideas. There are even people who try to dive into this sort of philosophy (if you paid attention in the thread, you know exactly who I am talking about here). The indie gaming scene is really just as independent as indies in itch.io. Look up the topic of the bi-annual Comic Market, which is a seriously interesting topic even for the GOG-staffers. We really do need many more (more or less unknown) japanese indies on this platform apart from Visual Novels.

At any case, should you ever do any research about these topics then you're in for a suprise thats for sure.