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skylordhorus · 2 years

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i wish i could read japanese in order to look up more stuff because to me the end arc of okami can be read as having an anti colonialism/imperialism message (ie. the final boss is an amalgamation of european technology, and the Root Of All Evil is a ship that has crashed into the land of kamui, ie ainu mosir/hokkaido, and its called the ark of yamato)

and im curious if any of this was intentional or whether this is simply coincidental

#*deep space noises*#like today i also found out that there is an ainu creation myth #that says that the ainu people were born of a union between a wolf kamuy and a goddess #which provides some cultural context as the why the oina can shapeshift into wolves #beyond my surface level assumption that they could do that because of racist stereotypes of indigenous people being more ‘wild’/‘animalistic #of course still not my place to say if that was an appropriate writing choice or not #and i have no idea if there were ainu writers or researchers on the okami team #but i still appreciate more knowledge and context

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