World of Warcraft as an RPG has drawn inspiration from many places in real world, and there is some really obvious inspirations like Pandaria taking the visual elements of chinese culture. Old Night Elven cities having some greel visuals to it, Gilneas having Gothic elements and so on.
One thing that i always found interesting, is how there are many small things inspired from japanese themes, but nothing big.
At first, there is the Orcs, their blademasters are based on the samurai, with their own twist, but you can see the eay they dress, the hairstyles.
Night Elves while have a lot of greek themed constructions, also have a heavy presence of what is known as a torii, you can see in their city entrances, in the moonwells, and there is some haircuts for night elves that seem inspired.
There is also quite a few katana transmogs, but they all seem to be vanilla era, with one exception i’ll go on later.
Now, ir seems the Jinyu and the Ankoan are the ones directly inspired by japanese themes, from their names to their culture, i don’t have much on the Jinyu, but questing so much in Nazjatar makes it clear that they are very samurai based, their weapons while not katana designs have a lot of elements of katana designs implemented.
Just something fun, have you guys know more connections that can be made? Or even other countries amd cultures that have been inspiration for something minor in Wow and you find fun or interesting.
