Talk:Saratoga/@comment-60.52.5.218-20161130014059/@comment-26574811-20161205072247

>Hollywood has been potrayed Japanese wrongly for a long time

While receiving the criticisms they deserve. Outside TV they still know that Japan is more than Ninja, Sumo, and Sushis. Also while I'm not from the West, I think some of them probably turned to Japanese popular culture exactly because they are growing tired with Hollywood stereotypes.

What about pre-KC Japanese? For Western characters featured in Japanese animes, you can write a list no longer than twenty names to cover 80% of such appearance. You can also name one feature for each G8 country (excluding Japan itself and probably Canada as well) that will definitly appear with a charachter from that country. A German charachter is always strict and reasonable, a British must come with black tea, a Chinese must come with Chinese dress and ball-like hairstyle... it's almost like their nationality dominated their personality.

Even hollywood aren't that bad I would say. Although they still portray every Asian guy as a visually impaired geek who is good at math, at the very least they don't portray every Japanese girl to be yamato nadeshikos.

The very basic idea of KC, on the other hand, forced the devs to ditch the stereotypes because you need to make every girl unique. Bismarck can be the stereotypical German, Warspite the British, and Iowa the American, but for the second and third ship of the same nationality you just can't do the same. This is what happened with Saratoga, Eugen, Roma and some others who stands very far away from their stereotypical countrymen.