Hideki Kamiya, who you'll probably know as the creator of Bayonetta and Okami and as that guy who blocked you on Twitter, thinks "JRPG" is A-OK. The vice president of Platinum Games was asked for his take on the term—which has been the subject of a debate in the last few months—in a chat with VGC, and came out strongly in favour of it. In fact, he thinks Japan should wear it as a badge of honour: A symbol of everything unique and essential about the country's games.
Kamiya's comments come after Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida (Yoshi-P) sparked a discussion over the term JRPG during an interview in February. Yoshida revealed that, back when the term came into use, a number of Japanese devs had considered the term JRPG a "discriminatory" one, that "[compartmentalised] what we were creating into a JRPG box," even as Japanese devs felt they were "just making RPGs". Even today, when Yoshida says he knows that "JRPG has better connotations" and is "used as a positive," there still seems to be some lingering bad feelings about it.
