it feels like a projection because before Danger Gal Dossier, I was writing the Tygers through the lens of the cinematic yakuza by way of Stinger, and I'm not free of sin. I justified this by writing Stinger as a fan of yakuza eiga and thus trying to do a Gibsonian postmodern turn out of it, which i know is not much better than 'well you see they look like pastiches of kabuki performers because they're kabuki performers'.

In my reading on yakuza cinema, kabuki theatre comes up a lot, with the argument being that it's intensely visual, heavily invested in the actors making poses, and this translates into the cinema because yadda yadda yadda. I can't really confirm or deny this because that's also the concept of mise-en-scene. I'm not overdetermining that if it means accidentally overdetermining the same idea coming from different angles, if that makes any sense. anyway it still doesn't lend anything much validity when a western game design company chose the art direction on some minis first and an asian author had to pick up the pieces after the fact, but i guess it's food for thought. idk

tl;dr the Tygers are another use case of the Minnesota Dutch joke Doctors Cameron Kunzelman and Michael Lutz of [various podcasts] conceptualized about the Shi in Fallout 2. it's the same goddamn problem, worse because this isn't the nineties anymore

posts like this are Evil Stress Stimming. Asukas only do this when they're in distress from assignment deadlines