Nationality, token gajin

So far people seem to agree on her having some foreigner in her.
Lets see what gets favoure

The idea of her speaking japanese with a heavy aussie accent amuses me.

I don't know why, but Russian seems hot to me.

I don't think there's ever been a real Aussie character in a relatively well-known manga, anime, or eroge. So I'll vote for a precedent. Go Australia!

Canadian because I've gotta represent. Some of the Japanese in British Columbia were deported during WWII, so her Canadian Grandpa might have left with her Japanese Grandma at that time. Nationality I don't think really matters much. People care too much about other people's nationalities.

Canadaman here. I still support Australia, I'm sure that Australia has a Japanese community like in the West Coast, and I'm sure a lot of the things that happened to them in Canada happened in Australia.

It isn't all too importent I agree, but it sorta adds sa little cultural flavor.
Thats why I suggested Russia, they have this huge influence on classic going on which works well with the whole refinement deal.
As good as Australia sounds I'm frankly stumped to how this would affect her accent.
(though if it turns out that way we'll make her Steve Irwin's illegitiamate lovechild, kay?)

Russia's changed in the last hundred years. Nowadays, they're known for dingy Soviet-era apartment blocks, gulags, and a facist Judo-throwing president. Russia hasn't had a great deal of "classical culture" for a good 100 years.

Russia's changed in the last hundred years. Nowadays, they're known for dingy Soviet-era apartment blocks, gulags, and a facist Judo-throwing president. Russia hasn't had a great deal of "classical culture" for a good 100 years.

But that's still a good deal of classical culture even 100 years later (,least when compaired to the new world.)
Also, communist Russia isn't helping your cause

You mean next door?

Examples or it didn't happen.

And I wouldn't count Sergei Eisenstein as "classical art". He's a revolutionary (pun not intended) filmmaker, which is not in the realm of what usually qualifies as "classical art". Igor Stravinsky counts, but alone he's not enough to be "a good deal of classical culture". The Soviet regime basically liquidated much of Russia's fine art holdings, including what was in the Hermitage.

Every mental image I've had of her has put her as a European. I'm having a bit of trouble imagining her with an Australian accent, but that might have more to do with the stereotypical and downright offensive way Australians are depicted in American popular culture.

Shame on us.

Examples or it didn't happen.

And I wouldn't count Sergei Eisenstein as "classical art". He's a revolutionary (pun not intended) filmmaker, which is not in the realm of what usually qualifies as "classical art". Igor Stravinsky counts, but alone he's not enough to be "a good deal of classical culture". The Soviet regime basically liquidated much of Russia's fine art holdings, including what was in the Hermitage.

Dimitri Shostakovitch.

He was a damn fine composer, in my opinion. That's the only one I can come up with off the top of my head, but Shostakovitch was good enough that the government gave him the boot eventually.

Mussorgsky and Glinka besides whats already been mentioned,if there are comparable historical figures in Australia I'd like to hear about them.

I wasn't saying the soviets didn't butcher the arts beyond propaganda, but that propaganda was frickin hilarious(and yaknow, unlimited meme works)

This discussion is getting to be pointless. Anyway, my support for Australia is not because of culture, it's more because it makes her unique, and breaking stereotypes. She is neither a bush baby (a la Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee), nor a beach person, nor a surfer.

Anyway, she would have grown up in Japan in the first place, so it wouldn't make that much of a difference.

'nother vote for Aussie ^^;