When it's that obnoxious "Japanese" stuff. Like, Japan isn't a monoculture, and it's kind of creepy how specific and razor focussed the stuff that a lot of geeky and nerdy people are on a very specific idea of what Japan is. The Japanophiles I know are precisely nothing like any Japanese person I've ever met, up to my Uncle's current partner. And yeah, you know, sometimes some of the comments and criticism laid at them isn't really that far off. It's fetishisation of a world that doesn't exist labelled as appreciation of another culture, through the accessible portal of amusing cartoons. It's like judging America by Transformers, Australia by Crocodile Dundee, and Britain by Blackadder.
Like, there's more to Japan than anime and manga. And honestly, that's sometimes interesting. I ended up watching a couple of random Japanese dramas at the local cinema, and they were interesting, and exactly nothing like anime. Look, I don't mind anime, although I do dislike a good chunk of what my long suffering friends subject me to, but there's this sort of rigid genre thing. The art style, plus a host of really strongly ingrained tropes and ideas that just keep being done, that seem to get the most focus, and there's more to Japan than that, really. Like really, Harem shows, that's just sad. lolsorandom, oh incest so funny, watch him squirm. Like, really? Are you the human equivalent of a tabloid? So I don't dislike Japanese games.
I dislike overly pandering anime games with poor, superfluous, or simply uninteresting gameplay, and especially those who insist on boring, pandering fanservice. Give me a real story, give me a real game, or give me a real spectacle. Anime, Japanese film, and Japanese games can all do that. It's a question if anyone even gives a fuck, because it seems like they'd rather see the next anime-disguised-as-a-game JRPG, soft core pornographic snoozefest, or awkward campfest.
