so among the Deep Weeb it's fairly common knowledge that 1980s anime series Record of Lodoss War found its start as writeups of a D&D campaign the series creator GMed.
What I didn't know until today:
- that D&D campaign in its entirety was the result of a PR op by D&D's Japanese publisher, which had commissioned a pop culture magazine for a series of articles about what tabletop RPGs are and how D&D specifically works
- some time in 2021, someone finally managed to source copies of these articles that had long been lost due to licensing issues preventing reprints, translated them to English, and uploaded the result to the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/record-of-lodoss-war-comptiq-magazine-english-translation