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EtheusRook t1_jadbcko wrote

It is something of a revelation, but it also you know... kind of makes sense. It is weird that we define entire genres of art not by their characteristics but rather by their source country. It's why I define things like Avatar and Arcane as anime - because they look and act like it.

There definitely are design differences between Final Fantasy and Skyrim, but perhaps they should be defined in terms of what they focus on. Like, the JRPG could become the Narrative or Cinematic RPG, because they do tend to be more linear and story-focused (and that's not a bad thing).

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tmntnyc t1_jadpo2k wrote

Seems kind of hypocritical on Japan's part because they use terms like Jpop and JRock.

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DdCno1 t1_jadxtxz wrote

Do they or are those terms people outside of Japan came up with as well?

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tmntnyc t1_jae1092 wrote

Japanese rock (Japanese: 日本のロック, Hepburn: Nihon no Rokku), sometimes abbreviated to J-rock (ジェイ・ロック, Jei Rokku), 

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