Gege Handicapping His Own Story (Lack of Non-Japanese Sorcerers)
First time posting here.
I just wanted to know how the community feels about this writing decision.
Caveats - I understand that Gege probably wanted to limit the scope of the story (if we're not gonna explore other places and other socerers, why even write about them?) and he also probably didn't want to come up with some stupid explanation as to why other countries' sorcerers or special-grades didn't help out over the course of the narrative. Oh and I know that JJK was writtten for a primarily Japanese audience.
To me (someone who has never written anything as interesting or as popular as JJK), Gege definitively saying that Jujustu Sorcery is incredibly rare outside of Japan feels like a major letdown. There could have been a way where he justified the lack of foreign sorcerers in his story by saying Japan has some sort of special barrier due to its isolationist history or something that stops most foreign sorcerers from entering (although he'd have to justify why Miguel and Dhruv would be allowed inside the barrier).
I'm personally fine with the aliens in Modulo, but I think it could have felt better to a lot of people if they were simply humans from another country that had a different relationship with jujustu sorcery (and yeah I get that that's what the moral/theme ended up being).
It just feels like an unecessary limitation. I would liken it to Akira Toriyama limiting his potentially infinite universes into only 12 and then further limiting those 12 universes by basically making 9 of them pointless.
Edit: I’m NOT saying I want representation for other nations (in the form of random new characters we have to build up or have show up in the story), I’m just saying that I personally believe limiting your power system in this way is a strange choice especially when your follow-up series is about how there’s a planet of aliens who just so happen to have the same type of magic powers as the people in Japan do.