Ultimate Fan Guides

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The Ultimate Fan Guides are a series of roleplaying game supplements published by Guardians of Order. They combine information on the episodes, characters and themes of anime series with statistics and game information for those series for the roleplaying game Big Eyes, Small Mouth (BESM).

The series was started in 2001. It took the place of the company's previous practice of producing stand-alone games for anime series for which they had obtained licenses.

The Ultimate Fan Guide series has been controversial among BESM fans. Although the books are usually well put-together and almost always feature many full-color pages with stills from the series involved, many fans believe the information provided in certain guides is incomplete and unreliable. In addition, there are occasional editing errors that lead to embarrassing omissions.

Many anime series whose first RPG treatment was in the Ultimate Fan Guides series were also adapted to the d20 System edition of Big Eyes, Small Mouth. The Slayers guides were adapted into a stand-alone d20 game under the title The Slayers d20.

Due to licensing consideration, the three-volume set of fan guides for Slayers does not include any information from the movies and OVAs distributed by ADV Films. This means that there has never been an official BESM writeup for Naga the Serpent, a popular character who does not appear in the television series.

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