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Well even though you say you're not trying to be offensive, the term you use is derogatory and it is offensive to a lot of people. How about writing "Japanese facial features" if you are wanting to have a serious discussion about the cultural implications of Japanese gaming, TV and movie facial animation styles.

If you're trying to be amusing there are ways you can go about using culturally or racially offensive terms in an ironic or disarming fashion. But in this instance it just looks to me like poor taste and poor choice of words.

For starters, VC is a game set in a fictional Europe. It makes sense for the character animations to have stylised European features, rather than stylised Japanese features. I imagine a lot of other games have a similarly non-Japan setting. Or you want to go further and suggest Japanese game developers shouldn't make games based in fictional European settings.

Secondly, you've obviously never played (or heard of?) Kessen. It seems when a game is explicitly set in Japan they use Japanese featured character animation.

I did find it interesting that FFXIII has a token and rather stereotyped (from what I've seen of the game) African American styled character.

I think there might be some interesting cultural reasons why a lot (most? The vast majority?) of Japanese produced animation doesn't have Japanese featured characters. In fact, there could be a cultural anthropology Masters or even PhD thesis in the topic, which would allow you to spend a heck of a lot of time watching Japanese manga/anime and playing a whole lot of Japanese made games all in the name of serious academic research. You might need to slightly alter your writing style though.



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