Thread 283031935

>author picks a European/arabian/Chinese setting for his story
>the characters are just japs with a different skin tone with some one dimensional stereotype baked in
Is this a result of the Japanese disinterest in foreign media?

You're mentally ill

>>283031935 (OP)
It's the result of people creating anime and manga not reading/watching anything except anime and manga. And no money or time to travel, when you're shackled to your job for life

There's basically three kinds of Japanese people (in terms of attitudes toward the outside world):
-The cosmopolitan nihonjin who is fascinated with the wide world outside of Japan and turns the perfectionist attitude of Japanese creative arts towards producing works that blend foreign and native influence. When they feature foreign cultures in their works, it's often with an impressive attention to the minutiae. Ex: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure with it's infamous "travelogue-esque" segments in Parts 3 and 5 extoling the local sights and culture of various parts of Central Asia, Egypt, and Italy.
-The plebian nihonjin who has little intellectual curiosity towards the outside world, but will happily consume media produced by both of the other groups. If they do feature foreign cultures in their works, they'll likely try to ape the cosmopolitan, but will get key details wrong and display clear Japanese biases, or else restrict themselves to a few "exotic" token characters. Ex: Bleach, which has Chad the quarter-Hispanic giant and uses a lot of Spanish for purely stylistic reasons.
-The Ultranationalist nihonjin who views the world outside of Japan as inherently and categorically inferior. These people almost never make content that isn't focused on Japan or a fantasy world that has strongly Japanese ethics, and are generally not particularly popular outside of Japan if their personal views seep into their work. Ex: GATE, which portrays the JSDF as, essentially, the world's best military, pretends the Japanese government literally doesn't even know what war crimes ARE, and features such amazing plot twists as "We know these spec ops soldiers are American because one of them's black."

>>283031935 (OP)
This is basically what wypipo did for ages too.

>>283032115
>The Ultranationalist nihonjin who views the world outside of Japan as inherently and categorically inferior.
Un ronically the main reason why this series flopped

>>283031935 (OP)
>1932
>ships and planes already headed toward Hawaii
What did he mean by this

I want to read this thing but it has scary pre-reform spellings like ゐる。

>>283032093
FPBP

>>283031935 (OP)
kys

>>283031935 (OP)
Burzum - Filosofem (1996)

>>283031935 (OP)
You're mentally ill

>>283036972
it's a little known fact, but Scandinavia is actually a real place.

>>283032247
possibly the most pretentious person i've ever met was a severely mexican misanthrope in a high school english class who would read this in the back of the class on a motorola moto g and pontificate about nothing, like, mattering, man