I recommend you Dragon´s Crown

[LemmingofGlory]

But this is Japanese, so... sexism is not a thing? I don't get it. Japan has been deeply integrated into "western" culture for seventy years now, and in close contact for the century before that. The entire genre of Japanese comics and animation grew up in an era deeply influenced by, and in dialogue with, the English-speaking world. Feminism is not a new thing to the Japanese.

The cultural context might be sufficiently different that the Japanese recognize Dragon's Crown as satirizing our expectations of fantasy game protagonists, whereas we just see it as "Oh, more badly drawn Escher Girls." Or it might not be satirical at all, just sexist. Or maybe it's sexist AND satirical.

Here's an explanation for the artwork that argues for sexism, and it comes from the Japanese gaming market itself. My understanding is that their gaming market is viewed differently: everyone is a gamer. You don't have this marketing blindness that views girls who play games as "somebody's girlfriend who happens to have picked up a controller." The female gaming demographic is its own market. The sexualization of the Dragon's Crown characters, seen in this light, might be an attempt to appeal to different subsets. Sorceress/Amazon appeal to fans of hentai. The Elf appeals to fans of more ordinary anime/manga women. Wizard/Fighter appeal to fans of pretty pretty dorito-faced yaoi princes. The Dwarf appeals to, uh, an unusually specific niche of bara fans(?). With this view, the artwork sexualizes all characters, but perhaps not in a way that we expect as a western audience as the sexual appeal is intended to cast a wide net for Japanese gamers. As a western audience, we primarily see it as using women to titillate since the fact that the men are sexualized also isn't really registering for us.

Some things get lost in translation, but thankfully gameplay isn't one of them. I really want to give this game a try. After that, I may have more of an opinion about the art style.

Are you talking to me with that comment? Or are "some people" just FIT?

I think he's saying that we have not ruled out that FIT may be a consortium.

-Lem