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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 9669399" data-attributes="member: 15582">"How does someone sat they have not seen Record of the Lodoss War, without saying it."I am just being silly, I apologize.If memory serves, the Lodoss novels, manga, and anime from the 80s and 90s was based on the writer's own D&D ttrpg story lines. They called it "replays," essentially Actual Play long before it became a thing. Evidently the replay were so popular it launched the writer's writing career into high fantasy.  That novel series alone sold 10 million copies, and Barnes and Noble was selling the latest manga about 6 years ago.I also think this is were anime elves got their super looong ears from.So depending on the perspective, the amount of European high fantasy in Japanese pop culture is about the legacy of D&D and Lodoss than being about the default fantasy tropes in Japan. [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_of_Lodoss_War[/URL]As a side note, Call of Cthulhu is exploding in Japan but not with the tradition 1930s setting but in modern day.</blockquote>