วีดีโอ

remembering that Anime series where the capital of the world government was in Dakar Senegal and their biggest military base was in south america and the main characters had middle eastern sounding names in 1979.

昔の日本に戻りますように

From 22:00 I feel you are right. I hope the studios keep in mind that, at the end of the day your movie/series has to be well written and must contain multiple layers to stay in a lasting interest of the people.

so this anime is the origin of isekai worlds looking like European countries

Same reason all the kids think Jap cartoons are "kewl". Grass/greener for both Teaboos and Weaboos.

because it was a mono culture, like Japan

I got into anime I think about 2 years ago now. I definitely noticed the heavy European inserting and it is a bit baffling. It’s hard not to notice the blonde haired blue eyed mass of characters if you start as an outsider. Outside of howl’s moving castle the anime that tell Japanese stories are typically a thousand times more interesting to me. Like mushi shi, or Natsume yuujin cho

just clicked on the video so let me guess before i watch: western imperialism

Amazing research and pleasant structure/presentation! I love your Overwatch-related content, but this channel is a gem; Svb, I hope it grows so that you can keep delighting us with simple questions and elaborated answers ❤

As a Japanese who happened to stumble upon this video unexpectedly, I'd like to say, Please return to the Europe we dream of. What is happening there?

Actually kiki delicery. Is very much same the city of stockholm and the island of sweden call gotland! ( iam from sweden) BUT again it is very northen europen look too it!

Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever heard of any Anime based in or has Poland as a key focus.

So heidi made the company bankrupt? I thought it was a good anime

Holy fuck someone knows about this show

I am from Austria

I don’t know if this is covered and I can't wait. Why does the Rose of Versailles look SO much like Voltron?

For the same reason we like Japan as a setting so much, an appriciation for the aethstetic.

You should really clarify that this is idealized WESTERN Europe :D These are just as whimsical and fantastical for Eastern Europeans as for sb in Japan. Now I have to imagine a Ghibli movie in Eastern Europe - the protagonist is fighting in a revolution/rebellion for independence from a big Empire or something like it; maybe through in some impressive nature and mountain shots :D

Marie-Antoinette was not the last queen of France. Even from a republican, only-if-the-husband-actually-rules, point of view.

Summary: Miyazaki hates America, and loves Europe.

Europe is a place with varying art styles, languages, cultures, and hair colors; and some of them eventually learned how to get along.

I hate to be that person but didn’t steampunk always have that vague fantasy timeline look to it? It’s always been a mishmash of European garb (specifically Victorian era) and futuristic steam powered gizmos.

Bro started to yap about sodomy out of nowhere

Dog of Flanders, Princess Sara etc. These are Japanese anime shows based on European literature that shaped a generation. 😍

I completely forgot Heidi is an anime. Watched it as kid in germany and never knew the difference of course. Now I see this again and think to myself "Damm I watched Anime this early".

Wow great video and explanation ❤

*And now the perspective of the drawer* If i can criticise one thing about Heidi then it's the childs camera perspective and that you often see the girl from a low set point of view, i guess it was unintentional by him but in my humble opinion it has been abused, and i guess it is exactly what i have read what he regret about Heidi, that he introduced something not quite good but it's not his fault that this has been abused later (i assume). In other terms: Why do i always have to see the underwear of little girls?

In advance: would you think an anime about the child labour in fabrics industry back then in Switzerland would be a good topic for children? Better let's stay with an imagination. Something we germans (i am, but raised in Switzerland) and the japanese have in common is that we both started with copying industrial goods and evolved beyond our paragons. My dad respected them much, he worked in switzerland in the machine industry and they cooperated with sumitomo. Netstal Maschinen was in the sixties and seventies groundbereaking, they made the first plastic injected clean looking glass (no bubbles), or a boomerang which works out of the machine. They also cooperated with LEGO to refine the bricks, i had countless rejects to play with. And a certain believe in dilligence, while i guess the roots for this differ, germans did this because of understatement and i guess japanese more because of cultural reasons (correct me if i'm wrong), a sort of dogma, the simple mans philosophy is no dogma but unfortunatly also got lost in the germans. On the other hand i guess it was neither meant as dogma. There are parallels as i.e. the love for crafting. I like the pre WWII japanese animated shorts very much, in all i like and respect their art much, and it is still alive and you can see that well in the exposeé for Heidi. It's switzerland nonetheless the mountains look japanese but no critics it suits, it's suits as well as northern Japan looks exactly like Glarus Switzerland in Winter (i.e. Braunwald), even the wooden snow topped houses look similar. Perhaps it's a bit to wide, the valleys in Switzerland are very tight. Originally the region it is set is the Rheintal, or upper Rhine south of Vaduz, it's a relatively broad valley but in opposite the mountains in Heidi look more like bernese Alps instead of eastern Alps, but never mind it suits nonetheless. *He really captured it good even the century, poorness and simplicity of the country* As a swiss i cannot agree to the critics about Heidi, not only because i liked it as a child an that i'm biased, he doesn't makes a Disneyland out of Switzerland else i wouldn't have liked it. Sure it all looks happy and it wasn't such a happy world around them. But to close with words of "Näppis" Ulrich Brägger (Der arme Mann aus dem Tockenburg -> archive org) *"I wish i could be the poor goatsherder again i was as a child, poor but free of all sorrows and pain of this world"* If you are raised in ths simplicity you don't mind it. The practical teacher or master i had (a drop out from pharma, pre ww2 gen), was still raised this poor, cars he never had seen as child and neither a five Swiss Franks coin, which was a lot of money back then indeed, money was a reserve and not for daily needs. He was a clever old dude and a goatsherder himself as a child, from the same valley as Ueli, Toggenburg. He still lived that simple when i was educated and said "i'm used to it's not stinginess". Ueli was Geissen Peter and not just in a story, he lived it, he was a poor son of a sulfur cook (for the fabrics industry) and his parents died early as well all of his siblings because of starvation or the poisoning of the work. He even was a soldier in the prussian army for a short while but left soon: "war Is no craft to me". He wrote i guess three books and his patreon was Orell Füssli himself but Ueli hated writing he thought it's a curse and there is only one book is worth to be read, the bible, but he could not stop to express himself after he was teached writing by his pastor. Sure his biography found apart from other a way into Johanna Spyri's novel. Switzerland stayed very poor until the founding of the federation in 1848 which broke the power of the patrician families who controlled the industry, stopped child work and granted common rights (but to be honest seen from my ward the situation is now again pretty the same, just that we have no industry anymore, but never ask a goatsherder, i mean fabrics technician). Just to say, i like Heidi. *We must look at it through a childs eye* Some quotes of Ueli the goatsherder: "There are countless wonders around us one has just take its time to notice them" "Who pretends to be a leader by promises is certainly not a good one"

There was already a popular Japanese folklore animation called 'Nihon Mukashi Banashi', which had a very high level of public awareness and was watched by almost all children. I think the need to differentiate from this was a major factor. In Japan, Grimm's Fairy Tales and Andersen's Fairy Tales have long been popular and well-known as picture books for children.

Cause america culture is shit xdd

最近は日本文化が好きだと言ってくれるヨーロッパの方がとても増えましたが、日本人は200年以上前からからヨーロッパの上品で美しい街並みや洗練された服装、高品質な道具、高い教育水準、礼儀正しい人々に憧れています。 日本人は韓国人や中国人があまり好きでは無いので1800年代には「脱亜論」といってアジアを捨ててヨーロッパの仲間になろうという運動も起こりました。 私たち日本人が憧れたヨーロッパに戻って欲しいです….

to add to the argument of chapter 3: ive heard some interesting analysing of japanese culture that emotional relationships and se.xual relationships are actually seperated. meaning woman could have close emotinoal relationships appart from their marriage- which are more like business relationships: to raise a family. its such a very forign idea as an american. this is coming 2nd hand though as i haven't researched it personally myself.

I say this as an Asian, please make Europe Europeans again.

ABUELITOOO DIMEEE TUUUU¡¡¡

Americans actually did become alot more fascinated with French culture as a result of ww1. This is where "flapper" culture of the 1920s comes from.

Omg I loved Heidi! I didn’t know it was anime! Also loved Kimba growing up

Less than a minute in and he is attacking my animes tiddies. like BRUH

Hi, I have a vid idea for u, no offence, you said you were born in India (me too), so can you give us a detailed research and make a vid on the Indian animation industry and what points it needs to surpass anime (basically think ahead of anime), like animation, storytelling, cgi, etc. I think you at your time in India may have seen some of the "classical shows" of Indian animation, ngl back then it was in the right track but now..... like you can suggest a right track for it

Backwards cultures are fascinated by other backwards cultures.

Real recognizes real

Imperialism

Vinland Saga was in Europe

May I ask what is the music in the introduction please it is extremely nostalgic and i could remebered it

May I ask what is the music in the introduction please it is extremely nostalgic and i could remebered it

May I ask what is the music in the introduction please it is extremely nostalgic and i could remebered it

May I ask what is the music in the introduction please it is extremely nostalgic and i could remebered it

May I ask what is the music in the introduction please it is extremely nostalgic and i could remebered it 😢

I need to say that even if japanese are concetrated on some aspects of Europe, Japan is still keeping its culture in anime. Anime and manga are one of the greatest arts of modern days - and it is not a childish thing, it is really BIG thing

I actually am from switzerland and saw it as a kid! my aunt's name is Heidi, so this was really fun to watch as a kid. funny enough we never called it anime. but all "comics" are called "Zeichentrick(-FIlm)" lit. drawing trick or sketching trick. which I think is such an adorable name

i always liked zuko most the entire time even before his redemption began