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TopicIt's funny that the West doesn't have its own Journey to the West.
FortuneCookie
09/04/21 10:09:22 PM
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I know Lord of the Rings was meant to rectify this. It was written for the poor, downtrodden Anglo-Saxon who was deprived a mythology of his or her own. And there's perhaps nothing more Western in philosophy than putting a trademark on that mythology.

But seriously, it's a bit odd that we don't have that go-to story to borrow from. If you're making a video game or anime in Japan and you're at a loss for inspiration, you just have to model your protagonist after Son Goku, your antagonist after the Ox King, or your setting around any found in the story. In the West, we don't really have that direct equivalent. Nobody says, "Oh, I can't think of a protagonist -- Ah, I know! I'll make him King Arthur."

I guess the closest thing would probably be Hercules. You do get a lot of "strength of Hercules" heroes. But that's usually about where the comparisons end.

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