#back from laundry. the veneration and romanticization of samurai is like veryyyyyyyyyy charged and the juxtaposition of that + one of

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yay tama i always enjoy reading your thoughts about things like this they are always so interesting and well thought out. to briefly add on the politics of stb in particular looking back are like, very revealing from a particular intra-east asian perspective especially considering what they choose to leave out and how specific historical and cultural factions are portrayed (ie. samurai as a whole, the fact that yanxia, the closest analogue the game has to china, isn’t really fleshed out as much as doma.) i am not really versed enough in easian history to talk about this in depth but there are things that as someone who comes from a place with a contentious relationship with japan that you pick up on as a uniquely especially post-second world war cultural perspective