Kaedehara Kazuha's Many Japanese Inspirations (Genshin Impact Character Design Analysis) 

Yes, it is an error. In 0:27 of his trailer (video you linked), we get a slight glimpse of his fingers being bandaged and at 1:35, when he's grabbing the vision, only his wrist is bandaged (thank you for the correction below) Regardless, I like the concept of his fingers being burnt by his friend's vision leading him to bandage them.

@@Guest-lr3eu i rewatched it and at 1:35 it seems only his wrist is bandaged

before he snatch the vision of his friend the only bondage is his wrist but after that you can see ingame that his whole arm and fingers are now bondage because of the burn.

wait i thought his friend's vision burning was just a metaphor about his burning passion or something

@@pigeoncatangel Yes, correct. My apologies that I mentioned the entire hand rather than the wrist. What I meant was that his fingers weren't bandaged in the later cutscene, that's all.

Dear god Kazuha not only has mastered the Sword but also the unlimited power that only Latin moms posses: La Chanca

@@joaquingamarra3248 so can he now be counted as a milf?

JAJAJAJAJA LOVE THIS.

@@joaquingamarra3248 our asian parents do have a different name for chanclas...so...

@@Xx_Yasomi_xX obviously… 😑 You can’t even joke anymore…

I read this in his voice lmao 💀

id love to see him wear his haori with both sleeves on

Reminds me of Gintoki from Gintama

I think that's a ronin thing. Samurai who have no master sometimes wear only one sleeve to show disgrace. Not 100% certain but I remember reading something like that way back when googling Auron from FFX

@@VivaLaReverend The disgrace aspect is actually a myth. Most samurai would keep their arms out of their sleeves for various reasons (i.e. practical things such as conserving body heat in winter), but I think it's mainly for comfort. There's that iconic photo of a samurai with his arms tucked into his kimono, with both of his sleeves dangling on either side. I don't remember what period it was from, but I think a quick google search would bring it up.

With the team stuff you were taking about, it made me think that his hair having both white and red may indicate that he is not on a particular team, or that he is on both teams. He is a wanderer with no nation, but he wants to right the wrongs of his home.

@@Canditan I think he leans more towards he is on neither team, and is on his own.

Wikipedia Also says it means happy and sad events in life

There's also the Kohaku Uta Gassen, or Red and White Singing Competition that is held in Japan every year

Mihoyo gotta make it sound cool

Oooo the game-

MAPLE SU TO RI

@@seinyaaa4504 MA MA MAAAAPU MAAAPUSITORI

That's a lot of designs in general.

Yes

Yeah the design team put a lot of efforts into creating Kazuha, and then there are some players out there call him "cAnAdiAn aEther". Welp, joke or not. I think its not funny anymore🤧

@@ThuyNguyen-hg2qj ye tbh kazuha looks more cooler than aether in my opinion

Yeah. I'm also glad this guy exists. Cuz in this community there are too much nimrods who call every new char boring

I was gonna be shocked if his birthday wasn't in autumn.

His birthday is 6 days after mine :0

Eey nioce

im australia hes born in spring and im born in autumn, but its opposite in northern hemisphere lol 💀

Yeah! Kazuha's birthday is on October 29th, so it does show up in the season of Autumn! ^_^ So awesome that he was born in the season of Autumn! :D

His burst name did not change, it was just translated to english i believe. But the english translation took it too literally, which is why it sounds kind of awkward haha

Imo manyou no ittou sounds more badass than kazuha slash

@@AmenoHoshizora true even though it literally means the same thing

@@ww-wr4vi yeah but kazuha slash is just... I know that it's hard to translate it without it being unnecessarily long but in this case using Japanese romanization re much better imo

Japanese know how to make everything sound and feel beautiful

Actually annoying when people who don't understand things yell about the things they dont understand

I honestly i don't understand how it's a big of a deal, like is kazuha's long name the reason why you got two stars on abyss? 💀

@@voltaicangelo Some of them dont even have Kazuha but they still complaint. "Its unfair, why the Mondstadt people doesnt have their full name too then" when they know nothing why Mihoyo does it🗿

It's aesthetically shit, and I don't give a fuck about its cultural significance. This is a game; not real life. There's your criticism after research.

@@Apinanoob im sorry but saying this after knowing the cultural significance behind it is just disrespectful. Yes, genshin is a video game but things such as the names and clothes of certain characters are inspired by real life cultures and customs which are important to the people from these so ignoring important cultural aspects for the sake of insignificant things like aesthetics is really wrong.

Wait, we can eat it?

@@rinezly of course

@@pewpewpew1834 oh my god:0

now i really wanna go eat leaves-

So now we're talking about eating Kaede, I thought hanging and crushed by a piano was enough

Me too

woahhh, good luck!!

Elaborate designs are everywhere so I'd look into other stuff. While I personally don't think it's that good, League of Legends' designs are a pretty good place to get a grasp of character design.

mihoyo puts so much effort into everything from the characters to the regions to the lore and i absolutely love it. it immerses you more into the game and sometimes we dont even notice these little details immediately because theyre so small. it makes you love the game more and it shows that mhy didnt just put two things together randomly like they took their time and did their research for everything

Yeah

No that was a metaphor I believe- or some sort of speech. It didn’t actually burn but the passion of his friend burned brightly which was what he was referring to :)) cause I’m the cut scene he already has the bandages on before his friend passed away so yeah :))

@@kaleb7000 He had bandages on his wrist but not his fingers, i don’t think it was a metaphor i think it just burned the part of his hand that wasn’t already bandaged

Yeah some people play games for lore other for gunplay and sometimes just to play just for fun and not necessarily "being the best."

I don’t get why people think it sounds ridiculous.

If you think that the 'kazuha' in 'kazhua slash' is his name rather then an awkward translation, then it gets ridiculous imo

@@moonjustinwoohyun8796 even if it was Kazuha's name, it does not sound ridiculous to me. Y'all must be imagining a little kid screaming the names of attacks when performing said attack.

it would be cute if he just yelled haaaaahhhh "Kazuha slash!!!" >:D >w

Excuse sounds like a move from anime

hhhhhhhhhhhhh yes i'm always using his base attack because it just scratches my brain jUst rigHt

I remember thinking that he has bandages there because he accidentally hurt himself while training new swordsmanship style The explanation with vision makes much more sense

Honestly, the most I can say about Qiqi is that she was definitely inspired by Jiangshi, but that’s about it. A full video analysis would be interesting. 🤔

What if yanfei based off of and does she relate Yae?

@@xdsmile5359 yanfei is part 'xiezhi' (獬豸) which is a mythical creature found in various east asian legends; it's an ox/goat-like being with thick dark fur, bright eyes, and a single horn coming out from its forehead. the xiezhi is regarded as a symbol of justice as it has great intellect and can tell right from wrong, plus it will punish corrupt officials which is why yanfei herself is a legal adviser

@@hyyh2015 what's based on Fatui and Shenazaya?

@@gachromvisimu4437 (this is gonna be very long ahaha) snheznaya as far as we know means 'snowy' in russian and is inspired by said country and more likely named after the river of the same name located in siberia; its climate is probably similar to dragonspine but way worse, childe mentions that one can literally freeze to death in snheznaya's cold if they stop moving outside for a few moments; this in turn may be a reference to yakutia/sakha, a republic in russia that has such a climate wherein you can die of the cold by just standing outside for a few minutes; in chinese snheznaya is called 'zhidong' (至冬) meaning 'everwinter' (as in 'everwinter without mercy') and is an anagram of 'dongzhi' (冬至) meaning winter solsitce morepesok, childe's hometown means 'sea-sand' and as such is a seaside town; personally it makes me think of vladivostok which is a port city in the eastern part of russia nearest to both china and n. korea the fatui (latin for fools) harbingers are based off of stock characters from the 'commedia dell'arte' which was an early form of professional theatre originating from italy; these characters are portayed with masks (although there are exceptions) which emphasizes the aesthetic aspect of anti-humanism which is a theme present in many scenarios in the commedia (since these characters are meant to mock the typical figures you encounter in much of society, like the fatui donning masks and in turn mock the world and life itself, as well as handling operations covertly and having the facade of a benevolent group in broad daylight made evident from their public relationship with the knights of favonius) since we only know a few of the harbingers who already appeared in person i'll just talk about them for the meantime, plus this contains a lot of spoilers so read with caution tartaglia means 'stutterer', he is a stuttering statesman wearing a large hat and coat along with a pair of oversized boots, his social status varies depending on the portrayal, sometimes he is of high society, in others he is of lower or middle class ajax 'childe' [young lord or 'gongzi' (公子) in the original chinese] meanwhile poses as a toy salesman to his little brother teucer as a way to mask his fatui activity, his main reason for being in liyue was to be in charge of the funding for the fatui stationed there, and has official art of him donning a large fur trimmed winter coat which connects to the original stock character la signora means 'the lady', she is a beautiful, tough, and shrewd woman who is the wife of pantalone and mistress to pedrolino, she also dresses excessively and wears heavy makeup, and is also known by the name 'rosaura'; la signora is the female counterpart to il capitano rosalyne 'the fair lady' on the other hand pretty much resembles the original stock character; later revealed to be the crimson witch of flames, she was a gifted apprentice at sumeru academia who studied pyro magic and posed as diplomat to inazuma well before she got deleted off of existence by the raiden shogun scaramouche (scaramuccia) means 'little skirmisher', he is sly and conceited, almost a starscream type of character; he has villainous tendencies and entertains the audience with a grimacing face and affected language kunikuzushi 'the balladeer' also bears resemblance, and made more clear after we know of his actions as childe revealed to us in the labyrinth warriors event (he ran off with the gnosis after yae gave it to him in exchange for the traveler's life while they passed out in the delusion factory, presumably he just upped and left without so much as reporting back to the tsaritsa or the other harbingers and has subsequently gone rogue), he is not shown to wear a mask, which rings true to the stock character who is portrayed wearing without one il dottore 'the doctor' also known as 'dottor balan' or 'balanzone' is a pompous know-it-all type of character meant to mock society's intellectuals; he claims to be an expert in many subjects but actually has no idea of what he's talking about and tends to just speak nonsense; he is a womanizer though unfaithful, and also a glutton who is particularly fond of chocolate; in scenarios he is an obstacle towards the innamorati who are a pair of lovers, and a foil to pantalone dottore 'the wise doctor' so far has appeared in the manga and is sparsely mentioned in the game (the most during childe's story quest), a diplomat to mondstadt, he is shown to be quite ruthless, conducting dangerous and inhumane experiments as evidenced by using collei as a test subject for the fatui's archon residue experiments that's only much i can tell for now, i'm still curious about the rest of the harbingers, especially pierro and pulcinella

Yeah! I always hated when fans would refer to him as being Canadian! >_< He's not Canadian, and if anything he would be considered to be Japanese/Asian, especially since Inazuma is based off of ancient Japan! :D

Venti's design is heavily tied to his lore/other forms If you look closely, the placemet of cecilia is the same as the 2-leaf on his wind wisp form. Then the gem on his neck > spiked oval shape on the wisp' body Hanging on his vision are 3 feathers which either represent his wisp form 3 wings or the (more tragic) eagle feathers he never had a chance of giving nameless bard. Fun fact: cecilia is more likely based on daylily instead of lily. And daylily is "fake" lily since it's not on lilium family (like "true" lilies) Ps: yes I'm a venti simp, how can you tell?

@@elizabethvein4328 true that, i dont mean the Designs are bad, i know they have a lot of thought behind them but i think they could've made them look more like they actually belong to the place🤔 like for liyue and inazuma you can immediately tell what culture they belong to but with mondstadt characters they just look like characters from some isekai anime haha

At least we got Corsets 😔

@@ezriquinn6706 well it's something 💀

I think that, despite the name, Mondstadt is not just Germany, instead being a bit of a mix of various European nations, and typical fantasy. I mean, you've got characters like Jean or Noelle, whose names (and parts of design, in the latter's case) are undeniably French. Still, I guess it's kinda understandable. Mondstadt is kinda the "tutorial area", and it's hard not to notice that it's a bit more "generic" than Liyue and Inazuma. I imagine we'll get some more Europe-inspired "cultural" designs once we get to Fontaine.

Thank you for pointing this out the extra brainrot is much appreciated

sheaths for swords are mentioned in the archive description of at least one weapon (Lion's Roar), makes sense that 'ordinary folk' would still need them

yeah, I probably should have clarified because I don't have a problem with some of that stuff but when people complained about "Kazuha Slash" it just kinda bothered me since they didn't even have full context of the situation

No one is perfect and the fact the translators have a 6 week period to translation tons of stuff coming in update it can be...not easy and some stuff will not be correct or accurate but if most of the things are then it's fine,small translation errors isn't the end of the world

@@firdaus3603 yea I agree, I’m guessing most of the translators are Chinese translating it to English, or someone who is native to English translating Chinese from English. It can be very hard to make it completely accurate

@@kazezeze also it isn't only translating EN...it's JP,KR,FRENCH ETC...trying to make those other languages accurate is gonna be a challenge as well

@@firdaus3603 ahhhh true true, it slipped my mind as I don’t know those languages, dang translating must be a hell of a challenge

may i eat the leaves for context: someone in the comments said they tasted good