# Talk:Inazuma (Genshin Impact)

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Nominator: Gommeh (talk · contribs) 19:39, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
Reviewer: Noleander (talk · contribs) 19:38, 28 September 2025 (UTC)


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#### Comments from Noleander
Wording ... from Edo period Japan and many traditional Japanese cultures...  The word "cultures" doesn't sound perfect here. The sentence is mixing a time period (Edo) with "cultures", which I suppose means elements or objects from the following sentence:  shoguns, samurai and ninjas.  Consider combining with following sentence as:  ... from Edo period Japan.  The game included   traditional Japanese cultural elements such as  shoguns, samurai and ninjas.
Done. Gommeh 📖   🎮 12:04, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Real vs imaginary:  Watatsumi Island features a design reminiscent of the undersea Dragon Palace in the Ryukyu Islands, and its ...  Clarify to reader which are real and which are fictional/imaginary:
Watatsumi Island
Dragon Palace
Ryukyu Island
The whole article is about a fictional place, so if any actual place is mentioned, the reader should be explicitly told (unless it is obvious such as "Japan" or "Tokyo")
Done. Watatsumi Island is fictional but the rest you mentioned are real. I have indicated that in the article. Gommeh 📖   🎮 12:04, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

@Gommeh - It now reads Watatsumi Island features a design reminiscent of the real-world undersea Dragon Palace in the Ryukyu Islands,....  But the article Dragon Palace says that Dragon Palace is not real:  it is an imaginary palace, ostensibly located in the real-world islands of Ryukyu Islands.  Better wording might be:   Watatsumi Island features a design reminiscent of the  Dragon Palace, a structure from Japanese folklore, purportedly located in the Ryukyu Islands,... or something like that. Noleander (talk) 16:50, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
Reworded. Gommeh 📖   🎮 16:54, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
Clarify:  The first areas made available were Narukami Island, Kannazuka, and Yashiori Island.... Not clear if that means user had to do additinoal downloads/installations to get the other "areas"?  Or were all areas downloaded, and the games progression system only permitted the player to access those three areas, until the player had achieved certain progression goals.
Areas were added to the map in version updates. For example, no one could access Enkanomiya in version 2.0, because Enkanomiya wasn't part of the map until version 2.4. I've changed the wording to "the first areas to be released" to more accurately reflect this. Gommeh 📖   🎮 12:04, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Article has two (2) copyrighted images, but both have an appropriate non-free-use rationale; and both are relatively small.
I ran Earwig copy-vio tool on the article, and it indicated no copyright issues.
Citation needed for this (at end of a paragraph): The development team stated in an interview that there are two key points in Inazuma's scene design: the first is to integrate the element of Electro into how players explore the area as well as into the terrain and regional ecosystem; the second is to set a clear theme for each island. Each island was designed to have its own characteristics in terms of plot, setting, and gameplay. 
Added citation. Must have missed that when I was translating the article from zhwiki. Gommeh 📖   🎮 12:04, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

What is the origin of the word "Inazuma"?  This page Inazuma suggests the word is used in Japan for other things. The article should explain what the word means in Japan (before it was used in the game)
It means lightning in English. Translation added. Gommeh 📖   🎮 12:04, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Is there any way to include a map of the region?
Not sure if that would be needed, as none of the other Genshin location articles have maps of the regions they describe. 

Why is space so small?  The setting of the Inazuma archipelago imposed limitations on the size of the environment, so one of the development team's most important challenges was figuring out how to include enough gameplay within such a limited space.   The article should say why space was limited ... if it explains, I did not see it.
I've clarified that the space was limited because of Inazuma's island setting. Some of the islands are rather small, so I'm pretty sure that's what they're getting at. Gommeh 📖   🎮 12:04, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Photos of named places:  The design of the Grand Narukami Shrine was influenced by Fushimi Inari-taisha in Kyoto, and there are a large number of torii gates on the approach to the shrine...   The article has a photo of a shinto shrine, but it appears to be a random one, correct? Consider replacing it with photos of things named in the article such as Fushimi Inari-taisha or torii gate.
I just changed the picture to something else. Gommeh 📖   🎮 00:39, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
What did you change it to?  What I was suggesting above was that you use an image of the shrine that is named in the article body text. Noleander (talk) 03:03, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
It must not have saved. Fixed. It was changed to File:Torii path with lantern at Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, Kyoto, Japan.jpg. Gommeh 📖   🎮 12:08, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
Add wiki links: The concepts used in Inazuma can also be found in similar prototypes in Japanese history, such as the Sakoku Decree and the Kanjou Commission... .  Is the "Sakoku Decree" here the same as    Sakoku Edict of 1635?  If so, wiki link should be included.
No, the two things are separate. Gommeh 📖   🎮 00:39, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
Real vs fiction:  The concepts used in Inazuma can also be found in similar prototypes in Japanese history, such as the Sakoku Decree and the Kanjou Commission... .  Is the " Sakoku Decree " a real historical thing?  But "Kanjou Commission" is fiction within the game?  If fiction: it should not follow the words "in Japanese history.." which imply everything following was a real historical event/entity.
The two terms used there are based on real-life events. I've adjusted the wording to reflect this better. Gommeh 📖   🎮 00:39, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
Confusing introduction of place: The design of the region of Enkanomiya was inspired by Ancient Greece. What is Enkanomiya?  The sentence is worded as if the reader already knows what it is.
Added that Enkanomiya is a subterranean region of Inazuma. This is explained in a little more detail in the geography section of the article. Gommeh 📖   🎮 00:39, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
Done with review.  Passing this for GA.  The article is relatively small, but the subject of the article is a rather narrow, focused topic, so the size & depth seems sensible.  I am not a subject-matter expert, so I cannot really comment on that aspect.  I validated a couple of random sources that were in English, but many of the sources are not in English, and I was not able to read them.  Noleander (talk) 14:16, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for passing! For the record I did a spot check of a lot of the non-English sources (probably more than I needed to, lol) a while back, and they matched what I said in the article. Google Translate can sure work wonders sometimes.  Gommeh 📖   🎮 19:06, 2 October 2025 (UTC)