Okami is one of my absolute most favorite video games of all time. It originally came out on the Playstation 2 and then was re-released for the Wii some time ago. The controls on the Wii are awesome - you paint your way through the game. I chose this as an "Asian" typography because it's kind of out of the ordinary. I wasn't sure if we were supposed to be finding actual characters from a language (i.e. Japanese, Chinese, Korean) or something influenced by the type of characters that they have.
I went with this typography because it is anglicized, because you can read what it says, but it is reminiscent of the brush strokes of Japanese characters. The video game is essentially set in Japan, though arguably a different type period - the land is called Nippon. There are a lot of plays on Japanese history and mythology and it all ties in to the essential part of the game - the brush strokes. I.e. how the "typography" is formed. Although, arguably, Japanese characters like Kanji are probably more like calligraphy than typography. I'm actually not sure what calligraphy would be considered.
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