We don't know if the entire continent is fantasy Japan or if these characters come from one of the two fantasy Japan analogues.
In addition to the gnome druid being a yamabushi, I noticed that the wizard is using a vajra as a spellcasting implement. Part of this could just be that symbols of...
Interestingly, Hakurokubou is dressed like a contemporary Yamabushi, which are also related to the religion of Shugendo and immortalized as a D&D class in Oriental Adventures as a Shugenja, a kind of elemental cleric with martial arts powers. It could be that they are now identifying the...
I haven't been able to find a translation; would you be willing to transcribe what the video says?
I took three years of Japanese in high school and I can barely remember how to ask for directions to a toilet.
Frankly your claim that there is any subtlety in the Realms is even less credulous than the claim that it is serious.
FR is the literary equivalent of a Michael Bay film.