Great article. But according to a Japanese dictionary by Portuguese missionaries at the time, "samurai" means "noble person" and the Japanese equivalent of "warrior" is "bushi". But the Japanese themselves don't understand this difference and give movies titles like "Seven Samurai". So, it doesn't matter.

I've never played the Assassin's Creed series, but I think it's an interesting franchise. And I'm happy that this one is set in feudal Japan. And as a fellow Japanese, I'm embarrassed about Japanese gamers who complain about the way Japan is treated in the game. Why get so worked up over a game? It's a made-up story, isn't it? Or you could say it's a Japan in some parallel universe. Even if it's a little different from the Japan of this world, so what? I just think that. And is the goal of a game to be "faithful to historical facts"? It's not, right? The purpose of a game, and of entertainment, is to be interesting or not.

When I saw the tiled roof on top of the torii gate in the trailer video, I thought, "Oh, this is set in another parallel universe's Japan." But that's fine. The game designer was inspired by a historical figure named Yasuke and came up with a game in which the main character, who happens to have the same name, plays an active role in another parallel universe of Japan. That's all. As for the background art, I was curious to see what kind of world American designers (that is, people from all over the world) would build by taking inspiration from feudal Japan. There is their originality there. That's why "tiled roof on torii gate" is their "creation." That's how culture spreads, interwoven. To stupid Japanese gamers who can't understand that, we should say "Is Dark Souls Europe?" or "Ramen originated in China."

Are Japanese game designers faithfully recreating medieval Europe? What about "Dark Souls"? There is no such Europe. But what's wrong with that? It's a game, isn't it? You're not taking a history class.

When I was a child, my parents used to tell me, "If you play games all the time, you'll become stupid." But now that I think about it, I feel that the causal relationship is the other way around. It's the idiots who play games all the time.

This is especially true when I see all this nonsense going on.