Why are there no other Asian characters besides Japanese?

Ckan said:
Well, there's Chandragupta.

I think the point was to use figures who would be considered "exotic" to the Japanese audience.

EratiK said:
You'll note Chandragupta is on the West side. Like I read somewhere that in Japan curry is considered Western cuisine.

To answer BaiHu, I think it's about priorities. Did Kawamori wanted to give a wide vison of the East? No, his focus is on Nobunaga and his close relations. So that makes the name East star wrong, but less obnoxious than calling it the Star of Dainihon.

If you reverse the point of views I can imagine an English director focusing on the Tudors because they're close to him, and then putting a bunch of random opponents against them. Or an Italian one on the Medicis'.

That said I'm getting disappointed in the anime lately. The dialogues and scenes that I suppose are close to the play barely compare to even bad John Webster. As a retelling of Nobunaga's life it's more anecdotical than insightful. And as an anime it's heavily inspired by Star Driver and Glass Fleet. The shallowness starts to impede my fun.

EratiK said:
You'll note Chandragupta is on the West side. Like I read somewhere that in Japan curry is considered Western cuisine.

BaiHu27 said:
I find it strange though that Chandragupta was put on the West Star.

BaiHu27 said:
Hm I suppose that makes sense. I just thought it was strange that there was no variety in the East Star. I can agree that the anime is getting stale. It had an interesting premise at the beginning with the two stars and I'm a huge fan of mecha anime. The story just got boring to me all of a sudden. It doesn't help that most of the characters aren't really likable to me either.

EratiK said:
Characters aren't bad imo, but for some reason Kawamori choose a "tell, don't show" logic (granted it's often favored in anime/manga to make it easy to read/view) and for me that makes it hard to feel things for the character. Starting to feel like the anime is just going through the motions.