Why are only Japanese people magical lol

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Everyone else is confined to science and technology, why are the Shimada’s and Kiriko allowed to run around with spirit animals? Feels like a lazy way to create interesting designs, especially if you’re making two of them pretty explicit weeb-bait.

All was well in the Overwatch cinematic universe until some quirked up fox girl literally teleported in blowing magical papers in everyone’s faces. At least Zenyatta is a robot, giving some techy explanation to his weird kit. Kiriko feels like an anime character retconned into Overwatch.

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It’s quantum nano holographic technologies, not magic, of course !

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Does it really matter though.

Shimadas are cool and Kiriko is cute.

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Because the Japanese side of the lore is supposed to be anime protagonists that appeal to the weebs.

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As a certain Senator once said…

"Nanomachines, son! "

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Aren’t Zen’s orbs like some monk magic or something? And Mercy’s Res doesn’t really obey the laws of science, right?

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it just opens up a massive can of worms. why is magic seemingly exclusive to Japan? why wasn’t it used during the Omnic war? why are they gatekeeping it from people like Mercy who could use it for the greater good?

when you introduce stuff for marketing without explaining it’s connection to the pre-established lore it pokes really big holes in the story.

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Mercy doesn’t actually Res anyone lore-wise,she can stabilize someone close to death but if they’re actually dead she can’t do anything.It’s just a gameplay mechanic.

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oh, that makes sense. Sorry, I honestly don’t really pay that much attention to the genuine lore, and only really know the game stuff.

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Culturally speaking it’s kind of weird that one of the countries on the forefront of automation and technology has it’s three characters being a dude with a bow and arrow, a lady who throws kunai (NO. NO. STOP. Kunai were not throwing weapons. What the hell is wrong with you people?) and a dude who was made into a cyborg ninja… by Europeans.

I’m guessing Genji can’t yell about nano machines for legal reasons.

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don’t apologise!! mercy doesn’t have her own cinematic, so it makes sense that theres some ambiguity around her character, same with zen. all three of the shimada’s have canonical stories, which is why their use of magic makes me a bit peeved.

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Zen’s orbs e.g. discord orbs can be explained as somewhat of a “bad omen”, “bad feeling”, just a gameplay explanation of chaos and order in omnic’s religion

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The Dragons cinematic allready confirmed magic in the world of Overwatch… why is NOW everyone upset about it?

It is just weird that all the ones who are magic are in fact japanese, I agree. But a Fox Girl was a obvious decision. Maybe future heroes that ain’t japanese can dive into the more spiritual aspect of OW, there is enough material Blizzard could use easily

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I’m fairly sure that one of the people in the Overwatch team denied the fact that the spirit dragons were magical via a tweet.

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I think zen’s orbs aren’t cannon

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We don’t know a whole lot about how Mercy rescued Genji but it seems like she just made him into a cyborg,the ninja part is his choosing.

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It wasn’t magic, at least Blizzard said that.
Those dragons can be explained as a vision that Shimadas have when they do some family rituals, like act in some way, speak in some way, etc

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Weebs.

Dont get me wrong i like anime too, but its no coincidence that the only japanese characters in the game summon dragons and do backflips and stuff

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Guys we just saw me in real time find out for the first time that the gameplay isn’t always canonical to the lore lol

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Somehow, it must be racist :roll_eyes: