Gender roles

Japanese Boy Band Saves the World: Postcolonial Masculinities in Final Fantasy XV

Japanese Boy Band Saves the World: Postcolonial Masculinities in Final Fantasy XV

Only in a Japanese RPG can a boy band save the world from the empire and its demonic biotechnological army. In Final Fantasy XV, four male friends use the empire’s language of violence to decolonize the kingdom of darkness. Somewhere, Fanon’s ghost is drinking sake and smoking Peace cigarettes.