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Originally Posted by Quadratic
True, but the guy wanting to make a feature on a "blond samurai forges ahead with karuta"...forgive my ignorance, but do Japanese people find this term (blond samurai) appealing? *cough*The Last Samurai*cough*
(Hope I'm not reopening a can of worms  ) |
Absolutely, because of the curiosity factor. To put it bluntly, Japanese people seem to be endlessly fascinated by the strangeness of those they see as different from them. And the notion of someone who looks so different (even one who, in fact, has never left Japan) actually loving the esoteric game of Karuta which Tsukuba admits "even Japanese people don't like" would be a great story. Wheras to a non-Japanese, the reaction problem would be a completely blase "Karuta? What the hell is that?"