/tg/, what are things you all consider an absolute must in an asian themed setting?
>>45748380
Wonton soup and fortune cookie
>>45748380
HONORABLE COMBAT
>>45748380
Some Asian themes.
>>45748471
you spelled HONOROBRU wrong
>>45748380
tentacle themed monsters
>>45748380
Asia is a big diverse place. What is true for one part is not necessarily true for another. South Asian people don't even look anything like South East Asians. Blending them all together would be sort of like blending Inuits and Aztecs together, just because they're native to the American continent. You might get something cool out of it but the point is that there's nothing there that's an absolute must.
>>45748380
The prevalence of spears.
Wait, that's for all Medieval settings.
My point still stands.
>>45748380
basing it on grorious china instead of japanese barbarian copycats
>>45748569
>My point still stands.
I hope you didn't think you'd get away with that, anon.
>Dojos with big signs that everyone fights for
>Gigantic War-barges that are like floating cities
>Paper Magic
>Ancient Temples with statue-lined walls and several-story-tall giant statues
>Death Poems
>Wise Dragons
>Fireworks
>Elite Horseback Archers
>Scrolls with Secret Techniques
>Blind Shamisen players
>Late girls running with toast in their mouth
slanted eyes and Thai boy wives.
>>45749689
I didn't consider a lot of those, so thank you.
>>45748600
The land of nippon actually idealized the warrior more than China did, or the samurai. Samurai influence is what makes Japan, well...Japan. Use bushido, OP.
>>45748380
Asians
>>45748380
Opium and lewdness.
>>45748380
>animistic beliefs
>Eastern-style swords (katanas, dao, etc.)
>dragons
>everything written is on some sort of scroll
>ancestor worship
>crazy over-the-top martial arts styles, often named for animals
>kitsune/gumiho
>conical straw hats
>rice
>lotus flowers on fucking everything
>ki attacks
>age = respect
>MUH HONOR
Kamigawa wasn't a mistake.
>>45748380
Giant enemy crabs.
>>45748380
Damn Mongolians
>>45749689
>>45750821
>>45748569
>>45750531
OP here, nice collection of themes for me to write down. keep em comin' people.
lots of
>>45748502
>HONOROBURU
Actually
>>45752612
HONOROBOORU.com
>>45750531
Bushido actually never existed. Or rather, the romanticised idea of bushido that we have today is completely fictious. Japanese warriors had a code, sure. So did European knights. Both groups were also really good at ignoring said code when it suited them.
Honorable suicide, for example, wasn't a unique idea for Japan. European knights also had it. Neither group ever actually commited it.
>>45752694
That trancription makes no sense.
>>45752729
>Neither group ever actually commited it.
we have eyewitness accounts from the Portuguese about seppuku.
>>45752824
I'd suggest reading Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan. As Karl Friday notes, the history of the Samurai completely lacks evidence that they were any more loyal or happy to die than warriors anywhere else in the world.
Bushido as we know it today wasn't concieved until 1905.
>>45752977
I'd suggest you stop moving those goalpoats away from your claim of
>Neither group ever actually commited it.
>>45750711I came to post this.
>>45752977
>1905
Patently false, it was solidified during the Meiji Restoration from earlier notions.
>>45748380
Extreme racism. No, I'm serious, in setting they have to be super racist and xenophobic.
>>45748380
gotta throw in some tao or yin/yang symbolism in there somewhere.
>>45748380
masterwork bastard swords
>>45748380
>Advanced tech for the vague period, mixed with a universal reverence for tradition.
>Downtrodden, yet crafty peasants.
>Barbarian hordes.
>Martial artists/assassins
>Figurehead leaders given outrageous levels of reverence, while someone else runs things.
>Introspective monks whose rude/crudeness belies their wisdom.
I don't consider the supernatural particularly necessary, but widespread animism and legalistic attitude towards mysticism is cool too.
>>45749689
>Late girls running with toast in their mouth
Any kind of achievement or promotion is at least partially dependent on some kind of written exam.
>>45753513
... Narutard?
>>45753538
>Narutard
What?
He's almost certainly referring to the entrance requirements of the Chinese bureaucratic system that lasted roughly a thousand years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination
>>45753295
>Advanced tech for the vague period
Haha, wot wot? These unwashed savages don't have anything to that can compare to my Mirabelle.
> MFW intentionally lose to Reginald in Jade Empire so as to achieve best epilogue.
>>45754094
Never played it all the way through. I had no idea there even were Foreign Barbarians to lose to!
Though, on a more serious note, is it just a misconception of mine that Asia (meaning roughly the Chinese Kingdoms, Korea, Japan mainly) was technologically advanced in many ways for most of the period from about 500 AD-1400?
I know there's a lot of weeaboo bullshit exaggerations and claims and counter-claims, but my impression was that things like the Turtle Ship and some of the firebombs and such like were actually fairly impressive, plus decent enough medical/hygiene knowledge.
>>45749689
>>Late girls running with toast in their mouth
A must have.
>>45756666
At last, the evidence that anime comes from Satan. Time to call the Inquisition.
