I disagree actually as I think it's a pretty clearly defined subgenre (party-based RPGs with self-contained battles and a linear structure), much more so than "soulslikes" for example, the name is just a bit misleading because not every RPG made in japan is a JRPG and not every JRPG is made in japan (any longer).

Any longer? The first JRPGs by the given definition were Wizardry and Ultima, both games that Dragon Quest took clearly notes from. JRPGs were born in the west!

Fair enough I don't know enough about those to say if I'd consider them JRPGs, but it's true DQ didn't come from nowhere and borrowed a lot from western RPGs on and off the screen.

Edit: Essentially, in the RPG "genre-tree" JRPGs probably sprung from the trunk like anything else but grew to be a major branch of their own that's pretty easily distinguisable from other subgenres. I'd say it's as sizeable and distinctive as many other commonly acknowledged genres.

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