Letter from the Producer VII

[Dubont]

Yeah, I'm actually really sad. I would much rather have a Golden Week-themed event than an Easter one. You don't have to be Christian to care about Golden Week, but you do have to be Christian to care about Easter (unless you just like fluffy bunnies and Easter candy).

You don't have to be a Christian to ENJOY Easter, do you? The same goes for Christmas. Hell, I'm an atheist, but every year, I help my family celebrate Christmas and Easter. Why? Many reasons. The main reason is that I don't like to be such a spoiled brat that I want to make others unhappy just because I don't believe what they do. The second reason is that Easter and Christmas were not originally Christian holidays....so why shouldn't I celebrate them? I can just celebrate them in a different way than everyone else. Now...if you don't want to celebrate Easter, you can just...not log in.

[Kaedan]

You don't have to be a Christian to ENJOY Easter, do you? The same goes for Christmas. Hell, I'm an atheist, but every year, I help my family celebrate Christmas and Easter. Why? Many reasons. The main reason is that I don't like to be such a spoiled brat that I want to make others unhappy just because I don't believe what they do. The second reason is that Easter and Christmas were not originally Christian holidays....so why shouldn't I celebrate them? I can just celebrate them in a different way than everyone else. Now...if you don't want to celebrate Easter, you can just...not log in.

Whoa, calm down chief.

First off: Yes, Christmas and Easter are both Christian only holidays designed by Christians. But what they did is place Christmas near the Winter Solstice and Easter near the Spring Equinox to help them convert pagans who had their own holidays at those times. Just wanted to correct you on that fact.

And you're right, you don't have to be Christian to enjoy fluffy bunnies and get Easter candy. I completely acknowledge that fact, and I also "go along with it" in my family as well.

But the point is that many Japanese people have no idea what Easter actually is. The same point can be made about Golden Week (many westerners don't know what it is), but this is a Japanese game. So if they had to choose between them (like they have), I believe the better choice would have been the Japanese one. Especially since it isn't based on a religion. I think it would be nicer to introduce more cultural events to the game than religious events.

But I suppose it doesn't matter at all since there's nothing religious about fluffy bunnies and painted eggs (and it's not like the holidays haven't all been commercialized anyway).