> Aje RavenStar wrote:

>> And being (xxx)centric is common to all varieties of media in their
>> respective culture, Japan and/or anime is no particular extreme in that

>
> I remember a scene from Doctor Who when a giant robot was going
> after a large cache of nuclear missiles, a brigadier general
> explained that the UN had entrusted guarding them to the British,
> and the Doctor drily said, "Of course, the rest were all
> foreigners."
>

>> regard.  Plenty of examples of non-Nipponcentric anime stories.  VanDread,
>> which doesn't take place on Earth at all; .hack//sign, doesn't take place
>>in
>> mundane world; Planetes, which takes place in space; Battle of the

>
> The parts of .hack//sign that do take place IRL (... well, an
> anime version of Real Life) do take place in Japan, though.
> Planetes is a good example, although focusing on a Japanese
> family, it does have Americans and Russians and third-world
> characters.
>

>> Stars/Crest of the Stars, Galaxy Railway 999, Saber Marionette J, Outlaw
>> Star, all outer space shows that don't get anywhere near Japan;

>
> Well, Crest features an exiled Japanese mutant Empire.  (I'm
> forgetting, wasn't Outlaw Star on the edge of a Chinese
> interstellar empire?)
>
> --
> -Jack