I disagree, i understand that the industry uses the term J-RPG not to games made in japan, but to those that follow a japanese school of design/narrative. 

That's why we can find "western J-RPG" references for example. We can make a pool about that later to see how VGC gamers see this.

I do agree the name was a mistake from the industry. We should be calling them "narrative RPG" (where we have a story to listen, like final fantasy) and "expression RPG" (where the focus on story will be smaller to allow you to do (and be) whatever you want, like Skyrim).

It's an abbreviation for Japanese Role Playing Game. It only needs to be a rpg and made in japan to fit that. It does not pertain to a certain design or narrative. There's many sources I can find that agrees completely with what I said. 

If you can find quotes from japanese devs who say that games like demon's souls or dragon's dogma are not JRPGs, I'll believe you. 

The jrpgs that are currently on my radar:

- Genei Ibun Roku #FE
- Persona 5
- Yo-kai Watch
- Monster Hunter Stories (depending on what kind of game it turns out to be and if it comes to the West)
- Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
- Fire Emblem: Fates

So I disagree with the people who say the jrpg genre has declined...

I honestly think that JRPG's and japanese games in general are making a comeback in the west. That could be tied to the PS4's success. Japanese games do well on playstation consoles.

Yeah, FF XV and Kingdom Hearts 3 look like they're going to be good games, just not really my cup of tea unfortunatly.

There does seem to be somewhat of a new push towards the genre, especially from Sony if we are to believe Verendus' claim of them being involved in 5 JRPGs at the moment. We'll see how well that one turns out but suffice to say that there are currently more JRPGs on my radar than there've been in a long time.

That has nothing to do with the fact it's an over exagarrated testosterone character and a good exemple of an extreme american stereotype ( and european since american culture influenced a lot Europe since years ), of course you can be a good soldier and save the world without looking like a profesional bodybuilder

The one Tales game I played (Graces f) wasn't turn based. But I found the combat mechanic really fiddly that I set it to autopilot which meant I was only about 30% active in combat. The fiddly but was changing the active skills according to the vulnerabilities of the enemies, that go really tedious because  with each fight I'd have to take several minutes to set each character up.

- Genei Ibun Roku #FE
- Persona 5
- Yo-kai Watch
- Monster Hunter Stories (depending on what kind of game it turns out to be and if it comes to the West)
- Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
- Fire Emblem: Fates

These are the ones on my radar. Besides the first two, none of them look the same, play the same or have the same story.

Yo-kai Watch and Monster Hunter (Stories) are also not turn-based. Mario & Luigi is turn based, but because you need to time your button presses correctly the battles are very engaging. And characters can counter-attack during an enemy phase in Fire Emblem (and vice versa), so it's not really tedious or boring.

I don't need realism in a game at all, but there should be an explanation for things. If the enemy has no back story, it's not that I don't like it because I have different tastes, that's just plain lazy storytelling.