Japan socially behind the times? They do tend to force more of a social life onto the people in Japan through stigma, to be geeky, to be an "otaku" to sit at home watching TV and playing videogames all day would have other people ostracize you, you must make social connections in reality 
Homosexuality is a regular trope in Japanese games and (almost?) always a negative stereotype. Most commonly portrayed as the hyper muscular & nearly nude guy with the overtly feminine expressions or creepy perverts that prey on you (most recent game I have played that portrays the latter is persona 5). I do see caricatures in both films & anime too.
whenever I see Japanese games and media though, the lack of inclusion doesn't scream that they are homophobic, it really gives me more of an impression that gay people aren't prominent enough in their society for them to care about inclusion.
I've seen that plenty of times too, but media isn't society, real people don't act like they do on TV, those types of gay characters are often comic relief, not all of them are bad characters though. The guy in gurren Lagaan is abit flamboyant but he's probably one of the best engineers the protagonists have.Homosexuality is a regular trope in Japanese games and (almost?) always a negative stereotype. Most commonly portrayed as the hyper muscular & nearly nude guy with the overtly feminine expressions or creepy perverts that prey on you (most recent game I have played that portrays the latter is persona 5). I do see caricatures in both films & anime too.
I find it all very amusing but then it doesn't affect me and I like a bit of controversy, at the same time, I can see how people would be offended.
Don't worry about that person pouting in the corner, as if they can not find something expensive/irreplaceable, take anything!Where did my spare RDX drive, SSD and PC gamepad controller go?!
The PC gamepad controller did need some taping due to exposed wiring due to it's age (12+ years, I think)
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I feel that maybe shows more that creators in Japan feel less pressure to be dictated to by anyone else what they should and shouldn't be creating. I don't think anybody should be pressured into making decisions about what they create by others, it's the corporate side of art (wanting to sell more copies) which is creating the conditions where that pressure is felt and acted upon. I actually think that's quite sad and anti-creative. Nothing is stopping people who don't like the media on offer from creating their own, in fact I think that's a huge driving force behind creativity. But non-creative consumers thinking media creators owe it to them to create want they want to see is just a form of entitlement, fed by apologetic "the customer is always right" corporate attitudes from people who don't really care about anything other than maximising profit.
But is it all right if they know and just don't care? I mean I can understand that might be disappointing and upsetting for some of the audience, but isn't it okay for people to create things other people find offensive?
They shouldn't act like they do care then and apologise or etc. Okay Personas creators haven't but they have hinted things will change. And I would say these aren't offensive just disappointing they still need to be used. Like Rape as a plot device its disappointing it still gets used.
Oh, I'm in full agreement with you there. But again, I think when disingenuous apologies are made over content that's the corporate influence - "This is bad PR, don't upset potential consumers, don't lose your job etc." I think it's far less likely an independent creator who is actually not beholden to anybody else would act in that way.
Is it not allowed? If you don't think it's addressed appropriately then I'm interested to know how you think it should be.
I meant when used badly. It can we used correctly yes.
Persona 4 had Kanji. Ok his dungeon seemed a bit too played for laughs but then the nature of them is to show an aspect of the individual's personality taken to the extreme and it was never implicitly stated that he was bisexual or homosexual but he wasn't a typical charicature for it.
