It is cool, I gotta say, seing random weebs like Dan Salvato and Toby Fox getting huge amounts of success in Japan with their tributes to Japanese culture, to the point of seeing a symphony orchestra in Japan play the Undertale soundtrack
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There's a lot you can accomplish with sincerity and earnestness that can lead someone like that to succeed where much better-funded corporate attempts to cash in on Japanese culture and sell it back to Japan have failed
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But yes, it's funny seeing this reverse effect of what everyone's already talked about with Japanese attempts to do tributes to American culture finding an American audience (Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Speed Racer in the good old days)
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(It's also interesting seeing how deeply music is tied to people's understanding of foreign cultures, like Shinichiro Watanabe, creator of Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop, was specifically inspired by American *musical genres*, hip-hop and jazz)
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(And we all know about the stands in Jojo being named for various Western Top 40 songs And back in the 70s Speed Racer/Mach GoGoGo was a tribute to Elvis)
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(And on the flip side, Dan Salvato and Toby Fox both started as modders and as composers imitating Nintendo's music Fox composed Megalovania as a tribute to the Megalomania theme from Live A Live, then recycled it as one of the authentic JRPG tracks he contributed to Homestuck)
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