Tales of Vandea

"The Otkal keep talking of a world without races, a love that has no borders, freedom for everyone. Only the mind of a monster can conceive such bullshit! People must belong where their blood calls them, they must love the borders that make them what they are, they must do what the gods created them to do, otherwise their substance amounts to nothing. In this era of degeneration, people with a noble soul are known as weaboos, and those belonging to no blood are called protectors of human rights. I am not a human and I will never be a human, I am a Yagami and only a Yagami!"
-Yagami no Hideto's catchphrase
Tales of Vandea is the next JRPG in the Tales series after Tales of Arise. 
The "Vandea" in the title obviously alludes to the real-life anti-Jacobin Vendee Insurrection, as the game puts the player in the shoes of a strongly anti-egalitarian faction.
The characteristic genre of the game is "RPG Where Immortal Dharma Eradicates Egalitarian Degeneration".
Unlike most Tales which take place in a medieval setting, this game takes inspiration from Guillaume Faye's "Archeofuturism", AKA a type of futuristic world that is strongly rooted in traditionalism. Digitalization is an important theme, as is the reactionary philosophy of Julius Evola (controversial author in the West).
== Playable characters ==
The protagonists are called "Ultimo Reparto" are a secret society composed of anti-democratic revolutionaries.
* "Black Scion" Yagami no Hideto: Last heir of the Yagami dynasty which used to rule the Empire of Akasha before the Jakai faction and the Otkal overthrew them during the Akashan Revolution. Hideto, without a kingdom already from the age of three, was born from a mother who had fled her country to seek protection by the Kingdom of Kalanaj. Yagami no Hideto contrasts with most Tales protagonists in that he's very Japanese-themed and an elitist who despises democracy (while most Tales protagonists tend to fight in the name of equality). Hideto's hatred of democracy mostly stems from fear caused by him seeing the Jakai burn his palace and Jakai sympathizers committing massacres all over Kalanaj. Hideto uses a mana bazooka in battle. 
* Kalasaq no Zuleya: A princess from Kalanaj, and a childhood friend of Hideto. Zuleya uses a khopesh and a kukri in battle. 
* Nakamura no Yukiko: Hideto's fiancee, from the noble House of Nakamura. She and Hideto were friends from birth. Yukiko uses a mana drone in battle. 
== Trivia ==
* The game was banned in France due to it mocking the Jacobins. It was also banned in the USA due to Yagami no Hideto being very elitist and racist unlike past Tales protagonists. 
* Cameo bosses are many anti-elitist Tales protagonists such as Lloyd Irving, Veigue Lungberg and Yuri Lowell. All of them are actually cognitive entities created in Hideto's head, representing his fear of a world not bound by Dharma. 
* In this fictional universe, the term "weaboo" is used by democracy-aligned people and especially the Otkol to mean a loyalist. In real life, "weaboo" usually means someone obsessed with Japanese culture and rarely has a political meaning of "anti-democratic". 
* This game does not always use Katakana and Western name ordering, unlike most Tales games: high-class characters are distinguished from low-class ones because high class characters have Japanese names in Kanji and Eastern ordering with a Hiragana "no" between last name and name (including a Kalasaq no Zuleya and a Sachsen no Friedrich-Hilbert), while Western names in Katakana are typical of low social class. Non-Akashan characters, placenames, and names of monsters and gods are always in katakana. 
* This game is the first Tales game showing a gay relationship... between two villains, one of which is an Otkal.