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No, it's not fanfic. It's not set in another continuity, it's just their own fantasy worlds are even less unique than ours. They have fanfic too of course.

• Jensson 2y ago
  > it's just their own fantasy worlds are even less unique than ours They do have many more fantasy worlds though, not being as unique means they have room for many many more and better ones. I do feel western authors focuses too much on being different so often they make things bad just to not be like the others.
  • dylan604 2y ago
    Do copyright rules exist differently in Japan than the US? Can you imagine if I created a movie that occurs within the accepted Star Wars universe so that my protagonist was from a planet called Tatooine who had a sister that was a princess? I would be sued into oblivion.
    • BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
      Of course you do the copyright scrubbing. Tatooine/Force/Jedi becomes Batoone/Energy/Cyberist(or something similarly inexplicable).
    • astrange 2y ago
      They're stricter in Japan if anything, but companies are better at knowing where their creativity comes from. (Domestically, I mean. They're pretty bad at it internationally.)