SOA-Japan, it should have a thread. Options

[Snow_Fox]

ok there have been a few comments on this chapter in other threads but it really needs to have it's own thread.

The person who wrote this chapter really took a risk. Japan could full a whole book on it's own. It sure deserves it's own book and in the limited space it would be almost impossible to write something that doesn't just manage to leave out something that someone thinks is vital. The risk of disappointment is high. Someone either in love with a challenge or looking for abuse would offer to do this. but I think they pull it off.

To point out the two things I didn't like (lets get the nasty stuff out of the way first and I am nit picking). Ninja: the Oni way. sure the tradition is to draw from the lowest class but before the current emperor metahumans were not allowed in the ocuntry at all. It is not like in SF or seattle where a target might not pay attention to the ork cleaner, in Japan it would stand out "One of them?yuck.":ork

The other was the translation of soto-uchi as us vs them. It actually is insider/outsider. OK I'm picking.

DLN also expressed to me her...displeasure, with the seciton on Shinto but that is someone else's hand I believe.

Considering how much there is to cover in Japan I think the writer did a wonderful job of hitting the high points. Sure I would like something on food or dress or saki or natural sights, but there was only a limited space. They hit the government, and culture-and the corps are well documented elsewhere.

The key things that are needed to run the culture and such were hit. the ingrained sense of self superiority, the painful emphisis on manners and the fact that Japan sees itself as dominating the 21st century the way the Americans dominated the 20th and the the British the 19th.