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Author: WolfMattGrey

Sep 11th 2017 at 12:24:07 PM

I dismissed that passage as a joke (it looks like one imo) when I first read it and then completely forgot about it. Now that you draw attention back to it, I'll tell you I assumed the joke was about the different styles used to portray people in Europe and Japan. European animation and comics tend to give people big funny noses and Manga style has tiny noses. Then there's this stereotype about narrow eyes, which means European eyes would be seen as wider by comparison. Even if nothing offensive was intended I find it quite off-topic now that you mention it. Guess I'll remove it.

I thought it'd be easier to do all four cardinal tropes first so I have some solid material for the super trope later. Even if I never had the supertrope idea I think this trope could stand on its own. It was obviously originally intended as such since its premise was "West is a notable and symbolic direction for journeys, more than the other directions". Of course now the later part isn't so true but while I get everything done (and it'll take a while) this one will be fine. There are many examples of supertropes/indexes coming much later than a lot of tropes that turned out to be part of them. Feel free to start working on one of the three other cardinal tropes or even the supertrope if you got ideas about it, though. I never said I had to be the only one doing this.

Also, I'd like to keep WestwardJourney as a redirect/alternate title but I'm incredibly unfamiliar with the process. Can anyone help me with this?