Board Thread:General Sly Cooper/@comment-26349008-20170329111453/@comment-1845428-20170329130247

You're saying she's anachronistic because she wasn't alive/born in the "Golden Age of Piracy," but that doesn't matter. Piracy has existed in the Caribbean since the 1500s, shortly after Christopher (or should I call him Cristoforo/Cristobal?) Columbus "discovered" the Americas in 1492. If there is commerce, there is piracy. And there was nothing stopping Rioichi from leaving Japan around 1590, or even returning shortly after. Sakoku wasn't enacted until some thirty years after we met Rioichi in Thieves in Time and 15 to 20-ish years after when Henriette was meant to steal the goblet. Plus he's a ninja. Even if he would have been prevented from leaving Japan, he could have just snuck out anyway on various trade ships and made his way around the world.

Just because something is hard to explain doesn't make it impossible. Besides, dinosaurs are still alive in 10,000 BC in the Sly Cooper universe. Any discrepancies that exist are nothing compared to that. And one final thing: history is boring to most people. That's not something you can use to insult someone. I mean... from where I'm standing it looks like you didn't do your homework. Not gonna hold it against you. As you said "the huge majority of this fandom has a view of world history on par with that of Mel Gibson."