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>what do you think about this phenomenon?
China and Korea are known for ripping off Japan and America and taking things more for substance than meaning. Just look at K-POP and Chinese movies after HK's golden era. I think that it ultimately hurts the largely Japanese-based industry through Sinicization and also has a negative effect on it in the public eye both in Japan and abroad. Foreign games like Blue Archive dominate the market, and one of Japan's pillars of its identity after the war was otaku culture. BA and things like it are foreign and impose foreign values and rights agreements and thus become targets of attack. In the West, the image of Japanese games was already a mix of Cool Japan and sexualization, and the heavy presence of Chinese and Koreans tips this toward sexualization with the same weight as their presence. This isn't to mention how China and Korea are cultures which were propelled from being largely rural to largely industrialized without gene segregation and have had greater trends for phenomena like feminism and cuckoldry. Just look at Manhua and Manhwa or read up on Korean politics, and these things become readily apparent. The Callisto Protocol and Stellar Blade are examples of this in the games industry. India, Ghana, Nigeria, and even Australia show similar behavior when it comes to aping things but not understanding their meaning or replicating their cultural context.
>do you think it is a passing fad and they will return?
They might return in Japan, but not until after some pain between it, China, and Korea. Globalization is an obvious problem which has shot the Japanese market in the foot as part of its appeal was its different sexualization and mindset around it. Once restrictions on mindset come into play to appeal to global audiences rather than local audiences which can then be projected to global audiences, the psychology behind works becomes more incoherent. This is what people used to mean when they talked about executives making changes or demands to games, but executives demanding things isn't always bad. Not having restrictions is how you get people like Miyamoto, Kojima, Lynch, etc, people who were groundbreaking for their time but became more vapid and dependent on others as they rose to higher positions until they could only get along through name recognition.
Restricting expressions of sexuality which already had rather tight restrictions inside their own culture for the sake of target audiences outside of the culture is always bad unless these expressions are harmful through real practice, and you can see the more sweeping effects of this kind of thing in Japan's recent fascination with non-binary identity and fashion. Unfortunately, "global audiences" are really black and brown (and yellow) people, not whites and Japanese. Even if the moral standards were originally being pushed by whites and are/were talked about to make them more appealing to sensitivities in white countries, it's obvious that things are propped up by black and brown people, who will buy anything because their cultures are largely underdeveloped when it comes to content production relative to developed nations, and children, who will buy anything for social purposes. "Get woke go broke" is true for works that appeal to
no one, such as in comic books, but even then that's a hard place to reach and requires fundamental failure of the medium for sweeping effects, something almost impossible to do for video games because of their interactivity and social nature. The values required for that are only found among whites and, to an extent, Japanese. Yellow people such as those found in China and Korea (hence why I put yellow in parenthesis), and whites in Eurasia, also have a hand in propping up these trends through thoughtless consumption and promotion but for different reasons. It's not like every white has this sort of standard, but these general statements are easier to make than writing essays.
>will you switch to gook and chink games if they deliver when japs won't?
No. I already have issues with Japanese writing and the Japanese mindset and don't see them as equals, but Korea and China are far worse. I'd rather see mainland East Asia turned into a nuclear wasteland than switch to Korean and Chinese works outside of enclaves like Hong Kong.