Except since in japan you can patent basically everything, the application is much stricter. See how nintendo has patents for “capturing a monster using a ball” and other general stuff.

IIRC, there was a japanese company (capcom, maybe?) that had a patent on showing shadows of the characters when they weren’t visible on screen due to a wall or tree covering them.

Not much. A series of tweets saying:

he loves hitler

he is a nazi

elon stole his nazi swag

(Yes, all three consecutive).

Then he went and said that he is autistic.

And I wish I was joking but it’s all true