Clearly Korean.
I thought it would be in South America, in Amazon basin because the giant lilypads Iâve seen everywhere do not exist in any of Asian countries.
Clearly it was based off the Norse.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/f/f9/Taran_Zhu.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120904021420
How is that Japanese!? Oh are you speaking of https://imgur.com/to-this-day-we-still-havent-gotten-shado-pan-transmog-zv06EZw?
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/35831 shows even that as Chinese!
Sorry but Pandaren wear Chinese garments.
Mogu wear the same type of outfit too.
Jinyu seem Buddhist in nature.
Mantid outfits are also Chinese.
Every Local of Pandaria is Chinese themed(aside from the Yaungol which are Mongolian). No Japan whatsoever!
As for the other Continents:
Broken Isles is mixed cultures: ValâSharah is Chinese(the Asian-style buildings have the same sort of doorways as Pandaria and China which are quite distinct from Japanese doorways), Highmountain is Native American, Stormheim is Norse and Suramar & Azsuna are Greek.
Draenor is mixed culture: Celtic Tribes for the Orcs, Russian Church for Draenei, Roman Empire for Ogres and India for Arakkoa.
Dragon Islesâ architecture is Greek for Dragons and Mongolia for Centaurs.
Kul Tiras is Great Britain as is Gilneas.
Ethereals and Brokers are Middle Eastern.
Point is: there is no Japanese Race in WoW not even a partially Japanese Race!
Kind of a mishmash of East Asian stereotypes, from the point of view of westerners who think those are cool.
Pandaria is based on the Chinese culture.
Not sure about history.
I think were taking things a bit too literally. While yes the chinese influence is pretty heavy handed, WoW has always cherry-picked different real life cultural influences for their various races and condensed them together to make their idenity. Pandaren arenât any different with bits of Korean, Vietnamese, and even Japanese call-backs littered throughout thier lore.
If aesthethics donât convince you, just looking up the Pandaren NPCs list you would see a collection of names borrowed from other asian and pacific backgrounds(Nyugen, Shinji, Tseh Rah, Yoona,) that are shared among the characters. Itâs a jumbo pot of everything.
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I picked up on this too when I rolled my monk, gave him the Japanese name bear-uncle " kumaoji" . he was born on and island after all.
Pandaria was added at the peak of China pandering so take a guess.
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It should of had an evil yellow bear in a red shirt name Po Bearping where the pandaren rise up to overthrow their dictator to bring freedom to the people.
Really anything to piss off the CCP would have been better than pandering for that communist approval.
The people of China deserve so much better than what government they have.
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And freeing those in Po Bearpingâs extermination camps. On the scale of World of Warcraft villains heâs probably one of the all-time worst. Millions of Pandarens subjugated in camps for rejecting Po Bearpingâs red agenda.
And nobody in the world sees interested in talking about it. All because he has Titan weapons and they get cheap (low-quality) crafted gear from Pandaria.
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Probably one of the biggest mistakes in Azerothian history was the Alliance propping up the Regime in Pandaria as a counterbalance to the Horde only to create their own worst enemy and one of the worst abusers of Pandaren rights.
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They have a bunch, my Pandaren wears one
Looks more Chinese to meâŠ
So your character has something like this (the male vesion of the kimono):
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Pandaria is just Pandaria, itâs the land of pandas.
Considering they took some inspiration from kung fu panda. (Yes, I know they were mentioned before but we all saw the opening cinematic, it was kung fu panda inspired), and that takes place in China. I would say that Chinese was the most prominent Asian culture shown.
They donât wear Samurai armor. Some of the âSamurai-ishâ looking helmets with flared sides, particularly if youâre looking at leather / mail armor sets, are Tang Dynasty based.
Some of the others appear loosely Han and Qin Dynasty, but looking through in-game armor, I donât see any âsamuraiâ armor from MoP.
I think the sushi made it confusing lol
Yes?
Most of the leveling cloth mogs look like that in Pandaria. In fact my character wears a blue one like that. They had Kimonoâs even before MoP such as here as one example https://www.wowhead.com/item=9826/durable-robe