Re: Le dernier saint chevalier
"Oriental literary tradition where female warriors were normal thing." What tradition? There is no such tradition. You could say that its perhaps a bit more common than Western tradition but even that is debatable. Female warriors are not a "normal thing" even in literature, its only been since recently that they have started to become much more common, due to feminist PC bullshit and male fetishes.
I think what you meant to say "Hentai literary tradition," cuz they are indeed a normal thing there. Anime/manga too, since that is essentially just an industry of marketing female characters to lonely virgin nerds.
It all depend of the country and the time your looking at.
The game title is in french, if you look at french history, there not a lot of fighting women....
Yet, if you look at the time between the just before the dark age and the midle age, women (at leat of a certain birth), were oftne trained in arm. During centuries, noble women where thus expected to lord over the manor/castle/town/land of their husband during his absence (for war ...), and it include organizing the land /town... defense, even leading soldier. Thus they were trained in batle. However, they weren't themselves "true knight".
Earlier, Manamana, bring out the world "Chevalresse". It exist. Officialy it mean either the wife of a knight, or a women fighting as (but not being) a knight.
It just that it's a time that fall out of common history book. Thus, it's overlooked.
(BTW, if using the world "chevalresse" for the title, you could put the whole title to the female gender => la dernière sainte chevaleresse - or depending of the meaning of "sainte" (bless by the surch, a holy knight...) it could be "la dernière chevalresse sacrée). Still, it doesn't feel good since most female word of tha period ending with -"resse" as a mark of the female gender compare to the male one where .... pejoratic word).
Still, yes, even in europe, there was a time when women fighting wasn't abnormal. But some (long) time ago, we (the society) put women in the house and erase the old way from memory.
Just read my walltext. Apologies. And I don't think it's worth going into a full debate about this. Still, it's a way to kill time, but it may end up in turning the thread into fire ...
