I avoid weaboos like the plague, so no I would not take an actual anime character serious. If you have a Lalafell with a name that comes out of Naruto then I ignore you completely even if you are attempting walk-up RP. Hell, you could even be good at RP and I still won't want to RP with you for the same reason I'm not going to RP with anyone who's character is Drizzt Do'Urden: that being, I'm a lore-nazi. If you're going to RP in a world that someone created, I think you should respect that world and the setting which has, no doubt, taken a great deal of time and effort to create. If you want to ignore the setting completely and replace it with your own, then I question your point in RPing in the first place.
That said, as mentioned before, having slight anime-inspirations is fine since inspiration can come from anywhere. But if you henshin/transform, then no: welcome to the blocklist. While FF14 pokes fun and flirts with anime at bit (see: aesthetician questline and the special effects of abilities), I think any anime-esque elements of the game are simply a product of the fact that it was a Japanese game first, and, the western influences by comparison are far more substantial since the fantasy elements draw so much more inspiration from medieval periods all the way through the Renaissance (and even further still). With that in mind an anime character does not - in my opinion - fit the lore.
That said, as mentioned before, having slight anime-inspirations is fine since inspiration can come from anywhere. But if you henshin/transform, then no: welcome to the blocklist. While FF14 pokes fun and flirts with anime at bit (see: aesthetician questline and the special effects of abilities), I think any anime-esque elements of the game are simply a product of the fact that it was a Japanese game first, and, the western influences by comparison are far more substantial since the fantasy elements draw so much more inspiration from medieval periods all the way through the Renaissance (and even further still). With that in mind an anime character does not - in my opinion - fit the lore.
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