If we’re going to judge the merits of FF by the subtle,oft merely implied commentaries, then how is FF6 NOT beyond godly epic?
It is a Japanese commentary on the decline of western civilization, the discourse played out though the tangential subplot of one of the secondary characters.
So careful are they, these Nihon sociologists, that they both obfuscate their intent, and simultaneously strengthen their point…
…by making him one of their own cultural phenomena.
A ninja.
Shadow is the failed everyman of the last generation of middle class American men.
He can’t hold a job, doesn’t really fit the whole structure of his society.
He lives his life in a backwater, going nowhere fast.
His parents named him Clyde.
Hell, even his father in law disdains him.
He spends most of his time alone with his dog, mourning the loss of “partner”, Billy (yes, with a y).
He then leaves his wife and child to go pursue a freer life, a life of crime, to be sure… but he becomes a FUCKING NINJA.
He escapes the shackles of his old life, living free… in the shadows.
AS A FUCKIN’ NINJA.
Shadow IS the proto-Weeaboo.
The main difference between him and the new generation of disenfranchised Otaku youth, is he didn’t suck at it.
That, and the fact that he actually and Biblically knew a woman once.
Despite his obvious preference for Billy.
Shadow was waaaaaay before his time, socially speaking.
Shadow WAS Brokeback Fujiyama.
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