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Genre: Film & Animation
Date of upload: Mar 31, 2024 ^^
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RYD date created : 2024-05-22T15:16:21.720852Z
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Kiki's big city is based on Stockholm. Not every house nor every street is looking like Stockholm, but Miyazaki has openly stated it and it's evident when you know the real-life town. And Howl's moving castle roams in Czechia with a clear Welsh inspiration at times (a part of the original book is actually set in Wales).
Excellent video, reminding Europeans that one's mundane is always someone else's exotic !
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We all have that "Europe" in our hearts. Whether it is with our obsession with the landscapes, of knights and honour, of magic and witchcraft imaginary europe is just the perfect setting.
The closest of that imaginary europe today is switzerland and some parts of germany, The alps, the vast woodland of hungary and the quietness and stillness of fjords.
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I moved to Germany last year,
during the vacations we went to visit the old city of NĂśrdligen (one of the places that inspired Attack on Titan, but i didn't knew that until i looked it up after seeing so many references carved or written in the walls)
No wonder why it felt so familiar, now it's the best experience i got as an anime fan
Even on a general look, old cities here always look like those "generic Isekai towns" and when some random musician plays the accordion on the street, that nails the atmosphere đ
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Japan's compulsory education and high school education are strongly influenced by prewar elite culture.
In that culture, Western culture was collected and translated, and required reading for all students.
After the war, it was forbidden to use Japanese mythology as the background for stories, so Japanese writers often set their stories in Europe.
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