Sankaku Complex: Why are JRPG Heroes All Emo Teenagers (NSFW)

One of the writers with Kojima Productions has written a politely scathing piece in which he decries the JRPG’s single-minded obsession with having overwrought teenage boys as their protagonists, suggesting that is tied to a wider lack of heroic adult male archetypes in contemporary Japanese culture.

The original source is in the Kojima Productions Blog (in Japanese):

http://ameblo.jp/kp-blogcas…