/lit/ - Literature

>>17849883
>I agree with the rest and I find it really sad how Japan seems to care more about European history, or Pseudo-European settings
Having a few half-timbered houses in a ringed city is not an appreciation of European history. This isn't really the place to discuss it, light novels and the like have never been welcomed on /lit/, but most Japanese fantasy completely lacks a "setting," what they have is a set of interchangeable shared cliches that are used so that people who read certain genres can dive into one cheap series after another and make Kadokawa a lot of money. Hell, a lot of (bad) Western fantasy, particularly short stories, are the same. A lot of great S&S series started off like that if they didn't coin the cliches themselves and only became recognisable "settings" over the course of several stories. You can pick out a few gems from Japanese comic books, never light novels, that are exceptions to the rule, but that does not mean that Japanese people care about European history, or Tolkien or even Howard for that matter.