Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

please repost 🤠

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Oh shit, there's a Xenoblade 2 delocalization now.

Fuck yes, maybe I'll play it in an emulator after all

@wgiwf @Goalkeeper @DrRyanSkelton I was going to start a manga publisher back in the mid 2000s, got my business plan together, got into contact with Tuttle Mori (the agency basically all works used to be licensed through) and I found out a lot of things about the Japanese industry.

1. It is market driven.
2. They are aware that they don't know what Westerners want and trust Western companies and journalists to reflect what we want to them.
3. This is not "art" to the publishers (Kodansha, Square Enix, etc). To them, it is a product to be made to sell and whatever needs to change for it to sell overrides whatever the artist might want or think unless they are a reliable hit maker (Toriyama, Seo Kouji, people like that)

The function out the other side is that they will absolutely let Western studios change just about anything they want. It got bad enough in some cases, that the Japanese companies were getting upset at having the media misrepresented to the world and clamped down a bit.

For the more artistic Japanese side reaction to this being the state of the industry, you can see the minor rebellion that Murata Range created in the form of his ROBOT books, where he got weird and interest artists together and let them just do whatever they wanted.

But generally, it's understood that this is a product and appeals to a specific genre segement (shounen, seinen, shoujo, ecchi, etc)

China doesn't have that view and is very protectionist of their culture and cultural output and how it's viewed abroad so I expect they will remain better about it.