14 Looking Forward, Turning BackNi no Kuni as a Renegotiation of the Animēshon Concept
Jason Cody Douglass and Rayna Denison
Ni no Kuni is a game franchise of overlapping worlds. Games in the series belong to a subset of Japanese Role-Playing Game (JRPG) born out of a genre of world-crossing fan fiction now known as isekai (another world) media.1 Ni no Kuni is one of the more overt adherents to this genre, named specifically for the magical “second world” (ni no kuni) into which Oliver, protagonist of the first game, travels in an attempt to revive his dead mother. It is in this second world that much of the gameplay takes place, emphasizing the importance of magic, the fantastic, and puzzle solving to the game’s ...
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