>>108403942>If they are supposed to be a requirement then it's sure strange how many popular anime don't have themYes they do, it's just that those which are an "isekai" (mc goes to a alternate/parallel universe/world) play it off as if it was the most mundane thing or reverse it by putting the jap mc in foreign territory, or "takes place in different world then ours so don't bring in your real life comparisons and never mind the convenient similarities such as regional aesthetics and regional culture aspects such as names and habits" approach, e.g one piece, the japs weren't into piracy during the era when the piracy one piece is built on was at it's contemporaneous peak, they were in their isolationist phase, but anyone can tell that "roronoa zoro" is supposed to be a jap, "sanji" a french/german, "vivi" and her folk are m.e sand tribe. Many other popular media does the same, it can resumed as, if doesn't look aesthetically asian or sound asian, it isn't, they just wanted to tip off some demographic appeal check mark and squeeze it in whatever context for wider coverage, like I wrote, "marketing requirement".
>Japan isn't a multicultist societyOh I know, I'm not debating that, I'm just claiming that their artistic media consumers have a thing or two for euro/slavic aesthetics/themes, be it either some big titty blonde or some gothic lolita for their self-insert typical japano-main characters harem of wish fulfillment with the hypocritical caveat that "it can't be too foreign".
Which is why the chinks aren't so much of a thing to them, they already are up to the neck, considering they are chinese that wandered off to an island, plenty of their media feature china in some way, shape or form, dragon ball, card captor sakura, ranma, any food or sports anime, they just don't have the overly pandering mentality the "west" has, corporation wise.
