Xanadu Dragonslayer Densetsu

Retro high fantasy, medieval fantasy and DnD lookalikes. Isekai included. No hentai included.
For more retro high fantasy including stuff made in the 2000s, check this chart:
https://www.edison23.net/dir/ar/img/fantasy.jpg

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/32825

Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awgehIvCXs8

A non-curated roster of High Fantasy works.

High Fantasy is a subgenre of Fantasy focusing on entirely original worlds and histories, as opposed to Low Fantasy, where the magical and/or supernatural instead intrude upon the Earth that we know. Note that the term "High" does not mean this subgenre is of inherently greater quality than the other, though of course many have identified such a coincidental trend.

It is a common misconception that High Fantasy and Low Fantasy instead refer to the level to which magic and all it entails are integrated into the world, with those where said elements are abundant being "High" and if rare then "Low." This is, however, completely incorrect, as the distinction is actually in how removed the world is from our own.

There is, naturally, a spectrum between the subgenres, rather than a clear-cut line. Isekai, for instance, is somewhere in the middle, as though works of that genre typically involve a completely fictional setting, the real world is still relevant. For that reason, no Isekai appear on this list, thankfully.

Because of the popularity of what was mentioned above, High Fantasy is in something of a state of decline. Note that the majority of entries shown are from before the turn of the century. Care has been taken, however, to include more recent examples, few though there are.

Sequels, remakes, spinoffs and the like are omitted for brevity.

Every cinema or direct to video anime film that came out in 1988.

1987: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34036
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34037
1989: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34458

Fantasy works set in medieval or archaic settings.

Short form anime series on this site can often be underappreciated. In the same way poetry is radically different from fiction novels, which are radically different from screenplays and so forth, I view shorter series, typically OVAs, in the same way. Too frequently they're compared to TV series, and there will be many comparative allusions roughly paraphrasing, "You can't expect much from the story/characters because of how short it is", or other similar comments. The value of the efficacy of the presentation in both shorter and longer series are for the most part incomparable to each other. They both strive to do very different things through very different means despite the shared medium of "anime". Of course, what constitutes the differences or goals of a creator is quite vast, but the point is that from my personal view, because the context of the existence of shows that would either be shorter in length or longer are so different and require much different means for communicating the information that they present, I think they should be judged by different standards. How a person judges them is up to themselves, but I do believe short series are worthy of the praise that many would only attribute to more lengthy series. What I want to do is give reverence for the fun-sized length series I have come across and enjoyed to some degree.

What constitutes a “short” series is something shorter in length than a standard minimum length TV series, which is 12 episodes in length. The focus is not on the number of episodes, but rather judging roughly the amount of time. So, if there is a series with 24 episodes, but they are only 3 minutes in length, for example, that would constitute a short series.

All Anime Which Using this Suffix at the Titles End.

All OVAS,ONA,Special, TV Special with Opening for AMQ, Famous or not!

(Openings being single, not part from TV series)

Parts 1-10
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54788
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54790
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54791
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54792
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54793
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54795
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54798
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54800
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/61415

Personal list of stuff to watch to get that 90s fantasy adventuring vibe. Break!! RPG is a TTRPG inspired by fantasy anime and JRPGs. Some entries might be from the 80s or 00s, because I'm a maverick.