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Actually, Japanese apparently say they look the closest to characters in anime and they have some arguments in their favor. Anime aesthetic just really brings in (mid-northern) Eurasians and both Americas somewhat together.

Some leftoids do believe that anime is modeled off Western mayoids and incessantly cops and seethe about their made up bogeyman.

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Isekai I think did away with the thin veil of anime not being set in Western cultural context. KNY is like the only major Japanese anime I remember with explicitly Japanese themes, otherwise they always use medieval west as a fantasy setting.

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I think most fantasy anime, including isekai, still have a large amount of Japanese setting influences present.

There’s Dragon Quest which I think counts. Demon Slayer is actually set in Japan compared to most fantasy anime that are set in fictional places.

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Yeah but those fictional places always have gothic architecture, popes and people with german names. Take SnK, there's explicitly one Japanese character and she isn't even the main one. They like that aesthetic to the ninja/Japanese style fort aesthetic.

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I don’t think SnK is a good example given the fantasy elements are minimal and the author had a deliberate intention of it being set in Central Europe to Western setting with early modern to 19th/1910’s technological and societal elements that is definably different from Japan and Asia, even if it’s made up.

You’re right about German names and Gothic architecture but it’s still spaced out with other stuff.

Only seen a pope in a fantasy anime once in Shield Hero.

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Zero no tsukaima had a pope. I think kumoko had one too, not sure.

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Popes in anime are cool, it’s fun to see Japanese takes on Christianity.

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“Nooo! You can’t make us step on statues of Jesus or crucify us!”

“Ha ha, crucification nail goes pam pam

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Incelkai and other fantasies are based off of Euro folktales and settings and hence often include mayoids. Otherwise mayos going we wuz waifus and shiz is pretty r-slurred

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Because they like the setting, kinda interesting to see non-Western takes on it. But there’s usually Japanese and some general East Asian settings and elements present in varying amounts depending on the piece. Older stuff leans even more into “neutral” to Japanese influences settings, it’s kinda hard to say that stuff from like Akame Ga Kill to Touhou is set, at least completely, in an East Euro or Western setting.

Technically, you can’t really tell who is a mayo or Jap, especially since the latter created the characters and they like to imagine themselves being in armor with a magic sword.

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All anime characters look like white people because they are meant to be attractive. Have you ever seen an Asian accurately depicted in cartoon form?

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