#there are the odd american franchise there (starbucks & mcdonalds & 7-11 have HUGE presences in east asia)

[hollowwhisperings]

that thing wherein you're reading something and just KNOW

"this person has completely forgotten that the characters here live in Japan/Korea/China/Russia"

and is, instead, writing like an American.

#to be fair: jp & cn authors are just as guilty of narrow imaginations #but those authors are also the original content creators in these instances #with american fans later consuming asian-based content & rewriting them as wholly american #british media is somewhat better about not being orientalist nowadays (south asians are the UK's largest ethnic minority group) #globalization #americanisms #not an american #fandom things #it is very weird to see walmart show up in any story set in east asia #there are the odd american franchise there (starbucks & mcdonalds & 7-11 have HUGE presences in east asia) #but for the most part? #halloween and christmas are imported holidays used almost entirely for marketing purposes #fresh fruit is eaten everyday (bc - japan especially - these places are tropical) #milk is rare except as a flavour #because the vast majority of east asians are lactose intolerant #eating cereal for breakfast is WEIRD #rice cookers!!! #at least one parent will be MIA for most of a kid's life bc work culture - JP especially - is HELL #coming out is a weird american invention #(unless YOU are a person's significant other it's VERY rude to go around asking/talking about someone else's love life) #“well-behaved” teens have very limited spare time bc of school & clubs & cram school #highschoolers are “1st/2nd/3rd years” not freshmen/sophomores“ (seniors is still used) #ages of maturity are also Different & the culture around youth-adult interactions is less policed #cops are still awful (& having even the mildest of criminal offenses renders you a social pariah FOR LIFE) #blue anime hair/irises are supposed to read as “black with a blue undertone” (unless it's aqua or something egregriously unnatural) #red anime hair/irises are supposed to read as “reddish-brown” (unless it is explicitly addressed as unnatural) #pink is also supposed to be “brown” #the reason why anime uses such fantastic colouring in the first place? #EVERYONE'S HAIR/EYES ARE BLACK OR BROWNA #even dyed hair ends up less “blond” & more “light brown”