I'd just like to say, regarding the whole anime thing, it's just a style. Drawing characters a certain way doesn't make them any more or less mature. If you want to see what I'm talking about, watch Ninja Scroll, then watch Hamtaro, then watch Serial Experiments Lain, then watch Yu-Gi-Oh!, then watch Akira. Anime is capable of being incredible stupid and childish, just it's also capable of being deep and mature, just as it's also capable of being obnoxiously juvenile and gratuitously violent. It's not superior or inferior to western animation either. I challenge anime's biggest proponents to find fault with the animation of Don Bluth or Ralph Bakshi. Of course, I also challenge the people who rush to put down anime to find fault with Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Nausiica of the Valley of the Wind, or Cowboy Bebop. Really it's like arguing over apples and oranges.

That said, I don't think Final Fantasy is going in a terribly anime derivative direction. Neither Yoshitaka Amano nor Tetsuya Nomura are working on the series any more, they're using the same designer that worked on FFTA, which KINDA had anime influence I GUESS. It really felt more fantasy video game influenced to me though. Now, if you want a REALLY anime influenced RPG, play Dragon Warrior sometime. Heck, they even have AKIRA TORIYAMA WORKING ON IT! You really CAN'T get more anime than that.