Talk:Weresheep/@comment-26112029-20150215160636/@comment-25930818-20150228202133

OK, OK, let's try this from a different angle. I'm going to assume that we all agree that Zipangu is the MGE version of Japan. Why do we agree that Zipangu is the MGE version of Japan? Because it has a fucking tonne of Japanese things in it. Chochin-Obakes. People who wear kimonos. Sake-swigging onis. It's an archipelago in the East called the Kingdom of the Sun. Kitsunes. It's got a name that's an ancient IRL name for Japan. Etc. So we accept is as the MGE version of Japan. No-one disputes this.

Now, if you accept that logic, we do the same thing to the Demon Realm. What has that got in it? Lots of hellish things. It's the place where all those monsters that used to eat human's flesh and drink their blood come from. It's where the enemy of Heaven lives: the Demon Lord. Devils that try to get you to wallow in gluttinous sin. Pitch black sky. Day and night are inverted. Succubi that try to get you to wallow in lusty sin. Bloody red light pervades everywhere. The air is heavy and stifling and the atmosphere is generally ominous.

Sure, it's not got everything that we associate with Hell - it's not divided up into 9 levels, Dante style (although I do see suspicious similarities between the Bright Green bits and Dante's level 1) - but by the same token Zipangu presumably doesn't have everything we associate with IRL Japan, like sky-high suicide rates or too many old people. I guess I don't understand how you can say OK, Zipangu is MGE Japan, but not say that the Demon Realm is MGE Hell.