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Trigger Happy 
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like Lara Croft or Mario is, in these ways, 
inexhaustible. 
 
Some say life’s the thing . . . 
. . . but I prefer playing videogames. Time to dive 
once again into the bleep-ridden throngs of Makuhari, 
because it’s not just in terms of character design that 
the Japanese industry is instructive. We can also learn 
from the esoteric flora and fauna of its videogame 
biosphere that never make it to the West. Talking about 
them one night after the show in a local sushi bar, 
Japanese student Gavin Rees offers this observation: 
“The Japanese do not make the distinction between 
‘form’ and ‘content’ that we do in the West.” 
How so? Teruichi Aono, a professional Shogi (a 
board game also known as “Japanese chess”) player, 
has written about the Japanese art of flower-arranging 
that “the feeling is not so much that this flower or that 
is in itself beautiful, but that a world of elegant beauty 
is to be found, for example, in the skillful gathering and 
arranging of flowers and pampas grass.” In the tea 
ceremony, too, the rules for which it can take ten years 
to learn, the point is not so much the content (the actual 
drink) as the form (the highly traditionalized methods 
of preparing it): “The actions performed in