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Seeing a lot of people kinda write off this genre in the wake of E33 sweeping the game awards. Sayin...
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What Japanese rpg is not a jrpg?
Easiest answer is like dark souls or elden ring
They technically are JRPGs, just not what we normally associate as a JRPG because it isn't turn based combat
See when you have to use the word "technically" you probably have a better genre than jrpg for those games
The confusion lies in what the actual definition of JRPG is. It's easy to call Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest JRPGs, but Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3 is more difficult, because the former isn't turn based and the latter wasn't made in Japan. I prefer to just use the simplest definition. It is an RPG made in Japan. The most common JRPG is a turn based kind but it doesn't have to be. It's similar to tokusatsu, which is a specific genre of film/TV in Japan that is just live action special effects, so things like Godzilla, Super Sentai, and Kamen Rider are tokusatsu because they are made in Japan using practical special effects, but Marvel movies are not because they aren't made in Japan. Then you have the oddities like Power Rangers, which adapts tokusatsu footage but also films its own material to supplement it thereby creating a new story, and the most recent Godzilla films, which use a tokusatsu character but are wholly made outside of Japan.