Wait, so Mugen isn't Japanese?
>>137376616
He is
>>137376644
Wasn't the Ryukyuus a separate kingdom until Japan annexed it?
>>137376767
Yes.
>>137376767
yes. technically japanese but if u ask a local today they may or may not consider themselves just ryuukyu
>>137376616
Yes. He doesn't speak Ryukyu in the anime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Now3rFJH6Is
The Ryukyu Islands are outside the Japanese nation and never should have been granted back to Japan.
>>137379315
And let the chinese have them?
>>137379226
>He doesn't speak Ryukyu in the anime
I don't think they'd have bothered to teach his VA to speak it even if it'd make sense for him to
>>137379342
No, the Ryukyu should have remained independent.
>>137379396
why?
>>137379400
just another dead culture
>>137379315
But they speak a different language than Japanese and they are consider a different ethnic group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyuan_people
>>137379315
Yeah, because giving the Kuriles to the Russians turned out so well. The Ryukyus to Japan was literally the best possible outcome given they could never have remained independent on their own without some power imposing themselves on them.
>>137376616
No, He isn't. He's human instead.
>>137376767
>>137378367
Is this another Scotland? There are actually so many of those situations around the globe it's staggering, everyone and their brother is butthurt about some kind of imperialism centuries ago.
>>137379709
this reminds of a scene from the Karate Kid. The kid called Mr Miyagi Japanese and he replied "not Japanese, Okinawan".
>>137376616
Correct. Ryukyuans and Okinawans are (were) there own unique race until Japan conquered them. Also, Okuru was one of the Ainu, whose people were also conquered and subjugated by Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZCma_vRRU
>>137379396
It was only a matter of time that they would've been conquered anyway. It sucks, but it was inevitable.
>>137380747
It kinda makes better sense of Mugen's getting all pissed off at the police talking about "foreigners" in the early part of the show
