Real talk, I love seeing these sort of weird syncretisms of different cultures. Stuff like how the Fire Emblem series is classical European fantasy as interpreted through the lens of a game developer in Japan, a country whose early exposure to such works was largely Dungeons and Dragons.
It’s just such a damn shame that the current imperialist world order largely turns such fusions into relations of appropriation and imposition. I can only hope I live to see the day the neocolonial order falls and cultures can interact on more equitable terms.
A lot of the Japanese anime, manga, and game creators before the 90s used to have a pretty varied diet of genre media, but it’s too bad that we’ve gotten to the point where more often than not they’re only consuming domestic media anime.
There’s exceptions of course, like Ryoko Kui (Delicious in Dungeon is fantastic - more people should read it!).
Real talk, I love seeing these sort of weird syncretisms of different cultures. Stuff like how the Fire Emblem series is classical European fantasy as interpreted through the lens of a game developer in Japan, a country whose early exposure to such works was largely Dungeons and Dragons.
It’s just such a damn shame that the current imperialist world order largely turns such fusions into relations of appropriation and imposition. I can only hope I live to see the day the neocolonial order falls and cultures can interact on more equitable terms.
A lot of the Japanese anime, manga, and game creators before the 90s used to have a pretty varied diet of genre media, but it’s too bad that we’ve gotten to the point where more often than not they’re only consuming domestic media anime.
There’s exceptions of course, like Ryoko Kui (Delicious in Dungeon is fantastic - more people should read it!).