The Fantasy Genre and Creating

I will be honest, but I do not know why I have such affinity to the fantasy genre, which I primarily write about. I think that my first real exposure to it was playing the Nintendo role-playing game, Dragon Warrior (or Dragon Quest, as it was originally called and is now called in the U.S.). There was just something about the weapons, armor, magic, monsters, quests, castles and the Medieval setting that I still find fun and fascinating. Other games after that like Zelda just made me more into fantasy. Now, with all the different platforms to tell stories such as movies, books, anime, etc., there are just more fantasy stories to tell.

RPG video games really got me started, but anime/manga kept the fantasy genre going for me. Now, I enjoy reading a lot more (yet I still watch a lot of anime and read a lot of manga), so I am very much into Wuxia novels, which have the fantasy elements along with martial arts and Chinese history. Practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu currently while having practiced kickboxing before, Wuxia novels are perfect for me as they combine martial arts and fantasy.

I suppose that part of the appeal to me is just the level of escapism that the fantasy genre employs. A lot of times, fantasy does not take place in our world, so there is a level of world-building. It does not feel constrained by the real world and its logic, which I feel is where the science fiction genre differs at times (exceptions would be Star Wars, for example, which feels more like a fantasy with science fiction elements). As a writer, there is something fun and rewarding building my own world and creating an adventure for someone or some people in a world that I created.