At 04:26 PM 7/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Yes, it's true of Japan the same as the US when it comes to regional
differences in actions, thinking and dialect. The point is well taken
but I fail to see its relevance to fanfiction writing. From a writing
perspective, so much takes place in or around Tokyo that doing
research
on any other region is a pointless exercise unless one simply wants to
better understand the differences or is introducing a new character
from
one of those regions. Those Tokyo-centric publications and
productions
seen outside Japan do represent the form of Japan most fanfiction
writers see. Even the major Japanese entertainment industry
(including
Manga and Anime) most often centers on and releases productions based
on
the Tokyo 'style'.
Even the anime that take place outside of Tokyo seem, for the most part, to
take place in one of its "suburbs", such as Nerima. (Setting for Ranma 1/2,
Nuku Nuku, and a few others I'm likely not aware of.) Often, if it's not
Tokyo, some major plot-point revolves around something in Tokyo. (Tenchi in
Tokyo, Love Hina.) Many cyberpunk or scifi anime merely take place in a
revised version of Tokyo (MegaTokyo, Tokyo-3, Crystal Tokyo, etc).
Generally, if Tokyo isn't a setting, a plot-point, or a nearby landmark, it
just doesn't come into it at all. (Anime that are set well in the future
like Gundam, or where it's simply never mentioned because most of the anime
takes place in space, like Nadesico.) Either that, or it's in a very
different world-setting, where Tokyo doesn't exist and never has (Dragonball).
I think, then, it's fairly forgivable that fanfiction comes out
Tokyo-centric, as in taking a glance at it, anime itself would appear to be
fairly Tokyo-centric.
-Rann
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