I'm not sure what parameters a narrative might need to meet to qualify for inclusion here, but thought I'd point out that:
a. there's quite a bit of urban fantasy anime / manga out there - Vampire Princess Miyu and Death Note are the two I've most recently run across.
b. Are you talking about urban fantasy as a genre that specifically draws on folkloric elements? Because there's a great deal of stuff that gets shelved under "literature" - all the magical realist stuff - that has fantastical elements and a localized setting, though I'm not sure how localized the magical elements are. Frex, Murakami is pretty non-specific and non-folkloric, but certainly fantastic.
c. I mentioned your issue with Lukyanenko's stuff to D, and she started trying to think about Russian folkloric / fantasy elements that could have been incorporated. The short answer she came up with is that Baba Yaga sort of kind of appears in Twilight Watch (but how specific is the witch in the woods, anyway?) and more to the point - it would be hard to write an urban fantasy in Russia because so much of the folklore is based on rural spaces and nature spirits.
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Date: 2007-11-07 02:02 pm (UTC)a. there's quite a bit of urban fantasy anime / manga out there - Vampire Princess Miyu and Death Note are the two I've most recently run across.
b. Are you talking about urban fantasy as a genre that specifically draws on folkloric elements? Because there's a great deal of stuff that gets shelved under "literature" - all the magical realist stuff - that has fantastical elements and a localized setting, though I'm not sure how localized the magical elements are. Frex, Murakami is pretty non-specific and non-folkloric, but certainly fantastic.
c. I mentioned your issue with Lukyanenko's stuff to D, and she started trying to think about Russian folkloric / fantasy elements that could have been incorporated. The short answer she came up with is that Baba Yaga sort of kind of appears in Twilight Watch (but how specific is the witch in the woods, anyway?) and more to the point - it would be hard to write an urban fantasy in Russia because so much of the folklore is based on rural spaces and nature spirits.