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Sorry to necro the thread but i decided it need to be continued if @Randall Fragg and @Splendid are okay with it
Assuming it wasn't the first edition of it, you're lucky you didn't see that one, otherwise the Sonichu tier art would of crushed your soul even further.I've tapped out of Black Tokyo. Wraeththu was entertainingly bad. Black Tokyo is soul-crushingly bad.






Before even the term weeaboo was coined, this all helps to emphasize that weeaboos existed way back then too.Of everything here, the dissection of this book is among the most fascinating to me. The base elements feel almost tame in the context of the weird shit and increasingly nauseating politics that have been documented on KF: A creepy weeaboo neckbeard, a laundry list of his gross fetishes and painful misappropriation of Japanese culture gleaned from Wikipedia. Even more so, as a book originally published in 2008 it feels like a relic from a fading era of the internet back when gross weebs, furries and autistics on DA were the go-to targets for mockery for anyone versed in *chan culture.
But it endures as an object of fascination and scorn because of the sheer weight of effort sunk into its creation. It's not just some random oozing his psyche onto the proverbial sidewalk for passersby to step in: It collates every unpleasant manifestation of the otaku subculture from A - Z, smelts it into an alarmingly furnished world and then offers it for sale. It's as if read-throughs like this are how Chris A. Fields intended for it to be experienced - not as an RPG any meaningful number of people would actually play, but as a bizarre form of voyeurism into his stunted psyche.
Because clearly he has pride in it (the foreword is proof enough, particularly given that it's from a later reprint) and at the end of the day he published it and made money from it, which itself requires the author to believe that their creative work could - and should - be seen by the public.
I'm morbidly eager to see how many more layers there are to this weird shit.
He already shot himself in the foot by showing how creepy and objectifying weeaboos of a feather as he are. No amount of scientific fact can deny that. Even people who read hentai on the subways in Japan don't parade themselves like him about this. Has Chris been blacklisted from Japan yet? I think the Japanese Government ought to know.That's right guys, Chris lies by claiming Japan is a superior nation with much less rape than any other nation because they whack off to creepy cartoon porn all the time. So you see, hentai is actually socially PROGRESSIVE. I think that for all of Field's defenses of this stuff, this is the damning proof: Once you start dragging SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE into your RPG to prove that you're not a creepy scumbag for writing it, you've pretty much admitted that you know you should feel uncomfortable.
If the Japanese managed to stumble upon his work and see how he portrays Japan, I could at least hope his works would bugger some ultranationalistic groups. Writing Japan off as a land ruled by some demonic corporate cabal that likes to rape and eat kids while letting genetically engineered special needs catgirl run amok while protected by vagina blood shotgun witches and having school girls from a suicide forest is likely to weird out some of the Japanese.He already shot himself in the foot by showing how creepy and objectifying weeaboos of a feather as he are. No amount of scientific fact can deny that. Even people who read hentai on the subways in Japan don't parade themselves like him about this. Has Chris been blacklisted from Japan yet? I think the Japanese Government ought to know.
Do you know what lies below the tip of the iceberg?If the Japanese managed to stumble upon his work and see how he portrays Japan, I could at least hope his works would bugger some ultranationalistic groups. Writing Japan off as a land ruled by some demonic corporate cabal that likes to rape and eat kids while letting genetically engineered special needs catgirl run amok while protected by vagina blood shotgun witches and having school girls from a suicide forest is likely to weird out some of the Japanese.
I know of the death god Fields has written as an enemy with it's tentacle dicks the size of subway cars, as well as all the abilities like wearing your own shit as armor, unbirthing your enemies, incest ogre demi-gods or whatever it was that was mentioned pages back with having incest hotels, and retarded catgirl death squads. At least one of the things in it would probably leave a Japanese guy uneased if he saw something from Black Tokyo beyond it being weebshit if the guy himself wasn't a sick fuck that was into something like guro.Do you know what lies below the tip of the iceberg?
I know of the death god Fields has written as an enemy with it's tentacle dicks the size of subway cars, as well as all the abilities like wearing your own shit as armor, unbirthing your enemies, incest ogre demi-gods or whatever it was that was mentioned pages back with having incest hotels, and retarded catgirl death squads. At least one of the things in it would probably leave a Japanese guy uneased if he saw something from Black Tokyo beyond it being weebshit if the guy himself wasn't a sick fuck that was into something like guro.

How dare you shit on the Bethesda Cycle of Infinite Power Growth.Cosplay you make an incredibly lifelike(or stylized, I suppose) costume resembling a character or person, and when wearing that costume, you can get some associated skill boosts. Like, it seems kind a like of neat, shamanistic thing. You make a mask resembling a famous painter, and when wearing it, it channels some of his painting talent. It does have kind of a loophole as a feat, though, a costume's bonuses are dependent on how great a skill check you get on "Craft: Visual Arts." Costumes can themselves enhance this skill. So you could sort of get into a loop of having costumes that grant increasingly greater bonuses to creating more costumes, assuming your rolls back it up.
I shit on the fact that Fields is an uncreative hackHow dare you shit on the Bethesda Cycle of Infinite Power Growth.
Jesus fucking christ why am I laughing so hardPiss Like A Dragon : Charge your bladder with mystical energy. Hold it in for up to 12 hours, then blast out a firehose stream of burning urine, range and damage dependent on how long it's been held back.
I suggest races because why not? I want to see what Fields comes up with player races and all the stupid shit he can put in.masturbatory writing in the most literal sense
Hentai Magic
Magical Items this is the chapter on all the WACKY MAGICAL ITEMS!!!!! in Black Tokyo. And as per usual we're treated to a quagmire of mostly forgettable shit with a few shining grains of either misery or brilliance hidden inside. If you can think of a fetish or sex toy, there's probably a magical version of it here somewhere. For instance, there's a butt plug animal tail that actually turns you into that animal if you get off while wearing it.
Then there's a small armory's worth of anti-rapist weaponry, all described in masturbatory detail down to the smallest detail of appearance, caliber and so forth. Apparently all the weapon and ammo manufacturers from the real world are ported over to the Black Tokyo world for the purpose of Field being able to crank his gun-fetishism in our faces.
I do somewhat like some of the items that are based off of Asian/Japanese culture without being straight-up pornographic, though. Like the Rice Seed Coat. Apparently much like there are stories of vampires being compelled to count spilled seeds or stones, the same stories exist for Asian demons(or do they? Someone let me know if Field is just making this shit up), and in this world those stories were real and told by the demons to each other as horror stories. Someone wearing the coat can animate its colourful silk images of the story, terrifying any demons and outsiders who view it.
The Black and Coinless Cards seem like actual things you'd see in a magic-heavy modern-occult world, the former shifting to be an ID for any identity you need, and the latter being an enchanted credit card that always conjures up enough money for you to have the necessities.
There are some magical canes that are only enchanted to those knowledgeable about Buddhist religion/philosophy, empowering them to act as demon hunters. I feel like that's a nice touch, giving some actual reason for having those skills and knowledges. I wouldn't mind seeing more like that in magic-containing campaign worlds in general.
Pretty much every piece of magical armor is fetish-related, though, latex suits, pony play suits, etc. There's a suit that women have to masturbate with to activate, and a suit that guys have to fuck to activate. Just to keep the genders equal, here.
"Lemon drops are an arcane disinhibitor, a magical date rape drug." We knew it had to be in here, I just wanted to make sure you guys saw it.
The "Gashapon Armada Bag" is basically full of enchanted, angry toys. You hurl them at people's faces and they get cut up, like a poor man's Magic Missile. It's not particularly impressive or creative in effect
Not to be forgotten, however, is Field's menstrual fetish, and there is of course a magical tampon that will give you bonus feats if you leave it stuck in there until you should be getting toxic shock.
The Silk Coil Harness is his excuse to describe Japanese porn DVD covers to us, as he explains that the majority of them have a very specific bondage pattern on them, and this is how it goes. Oh and of course you wear this item like that. Of course it's pretty much completely fucking useless outside of its purpose as a fetish tool.
Surprisingly enough there are only two magical dildos. One lets you rape female corpses to life, the other is a holy dildo that lets you knock yourself up with a half-divine child. I think I'm starting to see a kind of repetitive necrophiliac thing here, too. Jesus.
Spells!
A lot of these are just refluffed or repeated spells that you'd find in base D20 stuff, but there are a few unique ones! Biological Imperative, for instance, lets you paralyze someone with orgasms. Or vomiting. Or shitting themselves. Your choice which.
Minutes Become Hours is actually a kind of cool spell, in that it lets you accelerate time in a small zone. It's not useful in combat, but it literally lets you spend a full day of recovery in half an hour or so. So if you're in a hurry and someone needs time to recuperate or rememorize spells, that sort of thing, this would be damn handy.
Red Zone: Zone of Boners. Everyone within this zone gets horny. You knew the spell had to be in here somewhere.
The chapter is surprisingly short, but honestly I'm pretty cool with that. To my further amazement there are no spells related to menstruating, corpsefucking or furries.https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3421366&pagenumber=226#post403543379
Chris "Asian Superiority" Field
Cosmology
Despite the name, this is just a bestiary for the book. Also the first piece of art in this chapter is some dude jerking off while watching a girl taking a piss, the entire thing is in black and white except for the piss which is a vibrant, golden yellow. Fuck's sake. And it's associated with a species of ghosts that do nothing but watch people take a dump .
We have a bunch of these original inventions, and a bunch of things happily ripped from Japanese mythology, and the main difference is that pretty much every creature has its genitals described. Whether they're "rotted stubs" or surrounded by eyes or worse.
Did I mention that the art is still utter, utter shit? Not Safe For Work as usual.
Rape rape rape rapitty rape rape rape. Either it's some SILLY WACKY ANIME CATGIRL/FOXGIRL, the ghost or zombie of someone who was raped in life or it's a demon who rapes people. There, I have now relayed for you some 30 pages of bestiary with no nuance lost.
The World of Black Tokyo
So, Field? Yeah, raging weeaboo, we know that already. And he reminds us of it on the very first page of the "world" section. He starts off by talking about prostitution and porn in Japan, telling us how it's SO MUCH MESS stigmatized than in the West(because obviously the Japanese are super-enlightened!) and that while he totally didn't want to go into it... he just has to remind us that you can fuck 13 or 14-year-olds legally in Japan and that while he's totally not going to go into it in the book, you could totally use it as a plot hook. You know, if you really wanted to.
Next is a completely pointless bit about how birthrates are dropping in Japan. It has no relation to anything except for Field to remind us that he knows SO MUCH about Japan.
Then we get to LOCATIONS! And by "locations" I mean that Field describes a brothel with MAGICAL PROSTITUTES. Of course at least one of the POTENTIAL MAGICAL PROSTITUTES is a Flow Witch who sells glasses of her menstrual blood and piss. Thank you, Field, I didn't want my appetite after all. Then there's a magical baseball field where demons pop in to rape people. I really cannot describe how impossibly dull all the rape gets after a while.
Next up, something that can actually be used for something other than fetish fuel:
Project GILGAMESH
After invading Japan, the Americans find a slumbering EVIL DEMON TURTLE underground that must be kept sleeping at any cost because it's huge and fucking dangerous. Everyone's been studying the dumb thing since the Cold War or so and no one's figured out anything except that it's big and evil and no one has any clue how to kill it or keep it sleeping. Also it'd be really bad if it woke up.
It suggests that PC's can be working for the, now-underfunded project, and then also suggests that working near the EVIL DEMON TURTLE is slowly turning them all into rapists. Great. Alternately, it could be that the EVIL DEMON TURTLE is waking up, turning the whole base into HELL CITY and then suggests that F.E.A.R. is obviously the best inspiration for a "mission into a military base that has become a portal to hell itself." I'm not sure if it's funnier that Field constantly has to mention pop culture stuff or the fact that he misses out on referencing Doom here.
Next up he tells us about some mind-numbingly dull other organizations PC's could work for. All of them are just Generic Demon Fighting Dudes except for the ones that are Generic Demon Fighting Ladies but in being feminist, Field reminds us, they're totally more passionate and awesome than those stupid organizations that involve both genders.
This section weirdly cuts off right in the middle of a paragraph about haunted train cars full of demonic feces and demonic rape. I can't say I'm particularly sad about that.
And finally there is a stunted little bibliography section where you see that literally everything Field knows, or thinks he knows, about Japan, is from a single website, one magazine from 2005, anime(FLCL, Battle Royale, various hentai things), Panty Explosion, Silent Hill(the movie, not the game) and The Ring.
Which one do you want me review next among the following (I'll be able to review these faster that the others): Chastity & Depravity, Races of Black Tokyo or Races of the Tatakama?