How popular is Lovecraft in Japan? It seems like his influence seems to be quite prevelant but I sometimes wonder to what degree it's just intermediate influence. If it wasn't just Go Nagai being influenced by him, and then his work inspiring Miura and Anno, Anno's work then inspiring things like FF VII or Xenogears. I know Chiaki Konaka and Miyazaki with Bloodborne definitely were influenced by him directly though.
Lovecraft in Japan and anime
Mason Smith
Bentley Nelson
bump
Hunter Moore
there's manga of Mountain of Madness and hentai manga based on lovecraft books, it's in english on sadpanda
also nyaruko-san
Ayden Robinson
It's well known Junji Ito is inspired by him
Lincoln Wright
japan doesn't have reddit so they wouldn't know him
Charles Edwards
faggot that's medusa, I know soi drinking millennials will find this hard to understand but not everything is a reference to le ebin lovecraft
Oliver Jackson
It's literally an illustration of Cthulhu by Tatsuya Morino. I know boomers prefer to get by word of mouth and faith rather than reserarching information but it's time to catch up grandpa. If you can use the internet you have no excuse for ignorance.
Since when was medusa colossal and lived in the sea anyway?
Dominic Johnson
>japan doesn't have reddit
what the heck are you talking about
Andrew Stewart
references in digimon
Asher Gonzalez
what the fuck I hate digimon now
Jeremiah Wilson
I guess they wouldn't know anime either then.
Gavin Turner
>It's literally an illustration of Cthulhu
Weird interpretation, honestly made me think of Medusa's Coil first but then the bottom half of the picture didn't make sense.
Jeremiah Kelly
You don't know Haiyore Nyaruko-san? How fucking new are you?
Ethan Hall
anyone who likes lovecraft is underage
Bentley Flores
>Since when was medusa colossal and lived in the sea anyway?
She was exiled to an island. And collosals are much bigger.
Jace Hall
Cthulhu isn't mentioned to have specificially tentacles coming out of his face. I have a book at home that's a collection of his stories where the tentacles are coming out of the back of his head as well.
Benjamin Davis
Like Konaka or Go Nagai?
Jeremiah Evans
I know, the figure still looks womanly at a glance though. Also I suggest that everyone in this thread read Medusa's Coil as it is one of Lovecraft's more overtly hilariously racist works.
Luke Turner
I know of it, but haven't seen it. Plus that doesn't really answer my question.
Benjamin Miller
It's mildly popular. Popular enough to have some folks running homebrew scenarios of CoC on youtube, at least.
Jayden Peterson
It makes for a very interesting /ss/ series.
Bentley Cooper
The Call of Cthulhu RPG is, apparently, very popular over there to the point where a run-of-the-mill otaku would instantly know what SAN is a reference to.
Dylan Price
Junji ito takes a lot of influence from lovecraft. Uzumaki is an obvious example but I personally enjoy hellstar remina more
Luis Davis
Why do you care so much about Lovecraft in anime so much? Lovecraft itself is boring as fuck.
Henry Nguyen
The image is clearly an allegory for the rape of Imperial Japan, the gorgon, by the American navy, Poseidon.
Brody Butler
Older Japanese creators were avid readers and borrowed a lot from Western fantasy in general, its hard to think of any fantasy franchise that doesn't have some Lovecraft/Moorcock/Vance influence in it whether its intentional or not
Angel Cook
Brandon Morgan
Here's your Cthulhu bro.
Camden Clark
Ugly shit
Hunter Hall
Alexander Sanchez
Call of Cthulhu is the most popular TTRPG in Japan, I'm pretty sure that's contributed a lot to Lovecraft's popularity there.