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is the island in australia ?

Jun 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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because it's near japan in real life and contains huge monsters
and if it would be in japan it would get more human visitors
an islands in japan that exists long long ago that is known only for few people is none sense
 
Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Even better, it's in China.
 
Jun 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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maybe kazuma is chinese
but really look at the forest in the credit it's definitely australia
 
Jun 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I've always headcanoned that the Island itself is floating above Japan, probably in one of the heavily forested regions of the country. (i know almost nothing about rural japan)
Now, it would be funny if the Island were Australian, but then that would mean the entire game would be upside down. That would make the game kinda hard to play.
 
Jun 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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probably in one of the heavily forested regions of the country
At the very least, we can deduce that it isn't the Aokigahara forest in front of Mt Fuji. I mean, come ooooon, the volcano would've been in plain sight.
 
Jun 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Yes it is in Australia I went there to visit Eli and I saw the floating island in the sky I swear
 
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Jun 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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because it's [...] in real life
it's not
many elements of the in-game universe fundamentally differ from ours (e.g. the existence of magic). there is no reason to believe any of these countries as we know it exist in the game
 
Jun 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Even if it's near Japan in real life, there's like, a few dozen countries that are closer than Australia.

there is no reason to believe any of these countries as we know it exist in the game
To be fair tho, whether this applies to Cave Story or not, in fantasy media there's always the region where it's very blatantly just Japan, and the Sakamotos, Itoh, the Hermit Gunsmith, and the Doctor all have Japanese names, but then there's Jenka with a Finnish name. ...Wouldn't this also mean Ballos and Misery are also Finnish? Perkele vittu saatana
 
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the Sakamotos, Itoh, the Hermit Gunsmith, and the Doctor all have Japanese names
Very fair point, you got me :pignon2:
So the research group can reasonably be inferred to have come from Japan. Now, in this universe, is Japan simply the closest major country to the Island so it's more likely to research it, or is Japan just a global leader of exploration and research so it took the initiative*, or is it simply one of many countries sending research groups that are exploring the Island (a la Antarctica)? I guess the simplest assumption to make is the first, so we can safely say the Island is close to Japan.
*Unlikely, considering Quote and Curly can be assumed to be the result of either the world leader in robotics, or an international collaboration. If this were the case the words on Quote's hat would probably be in Japanese, in which case Sue would more likely remark 'Hey that's my language!' rather than simply 'That's a language from the surface!'.
probably in one of the heavily forested regions of the country
Yeah good point, we know the island is floating above a heavily forested area with mountains around it. I don't think Australia has such geography.
and if it would be in japan it would get more human visitors
Because of Japan's high population density and the Island's proximity, you mean? I'm not so sure about that, the Island is implied to be quite dangerous and not exactly convenient to access. We do know it is being explored in a scientific capacity - again, something similar to Antarctica, or other remote/isolated islands around the world. These don't really see much tourist footfall.
 
Jun 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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What if the island was its own nation?

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its a dan_crim thread i think i'm warranted to be a bit silly.
...now that i think about it, what does what i'm saying even mean
 
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