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Anime's Obsession With Europe: A Brief History
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Have you ever wondered why so many anime are set in Europe or have European aesthetics? Well, I took a long journey to find out why.

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:45 The History of Japan & Anime
5:30 The 1960s & Early Anime
10:03 Heidi & The Rise of Studio Ghibli
17:45 The Modern Era of Anime
21:55 Conclusion

Footnotes:
1. Frederick Schodt, Manga! Manga!, p. 92
2. Hayao Miyazaki, Starting Point: 1979-1996 p.137
3. Hayao Miyazaki, Starting Point: 1979-1996 p.137-8
4. Dani Cavallaro | The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki p. 37

Bibliography:
- Oscar GarcĂ­a Aranda | Representations of Europe in Japanese anime: An overview of case studies and theoretical frameworks
- Jonathan Clements | Anime: A History
- Cobus van Staden | Heidi in Japan: What do anime dreams of Europe mean for non-Europeans? www.iias.asia/sites/iias/files/nwl_article/2019-05…
- Rebecca Suter | Orientalism, Self-Orientalism, and Occidentalism in the Visual-Verbal Medium of Japanese Girls’ Comics.
- Frederik L. Schodt | Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics
- Deborah Shamoon (2012) | Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls' Culture in Japan
- Marco Pellitteri | East of Oliver Twist: Japanese Culture and European Influences in Animated TV Series for Children and Adolescents www.academia.edu/11877294/East_of_Oliver_Twist_Jap…
- Patricia Pârvu | Norse Culture as a Source of Inspiration for the Vinland Saga Phenomenon www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2023-02-03/norse-…
- Dani Cavallaro | The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki
- Andrew Shaner | Defining Steampunk Through The Films of Hayao Miyazaki www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/98-233/docs/ThesisSP11_S…
- Clothilde Sabre, (2016) | French Anime and Manga Fans in Japan: Pop Culture Tourism, Media Pilgrimage | contents-tourism.press/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/…


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@TheSoak

1 month ago

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@Embassy_of_Jupiter

1 month ago

lmao growing up in Austria, I thought Heidi was a local production 😂

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@viktator4205

1 month ago

Be the European Japan thinks you are 🙏

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@thegrunbeld6876

1 month ago

The Japanese romanticized European culture and , in turn, Europeans romanticized the romanticized Japan made European aesthetics.

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@RiverdudeCovers

1 month ago

Fun Fact: When you enter Switzerland in the airport in Zurich, you're actually greeted by Heidi talking about the beauty of Switzerland. The show is absolutely adored there

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@thetaleteller4692

1 month ago

Funny enough "Heidi" was not even considered to be Anime in Germany and Switzerland back then. It was just seen as a cartoon for children, people did no even know it was from Japan.

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@etienne8110

1 month ago

Just like how japan is exotic to us, we are to them..

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@ollum1

1 month ago

Studio Ghibli films are really popular here in Finland and most children didn't even realise that the Moomins anime was an anime. The Japanese are huge fans of Moomin and even travel to Finland because of it. Excellent video btw!

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@666rsrs

1 month ago

when i was young i asked my dad if he had ever seen an anime and he said "yeah, heidi" which blew my mind because i've always thought it was a german or swiss cartoon. really speaks for the creators that they managed to capture the culture so accurately

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@BingleFlimp

1 month ago

As an Englishmen, I've often said that I'd love to live in the England and the rest of Britain that Japan thinks exists.

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@mnk9073

1 month ago

Miyazaki got Heidi so right that most of Switzerland thought it was a Swiss production FOR DECADES. The state news eventually did a whole documentary about him and his team scouting the locations and a behind the scenes.

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@EmelieWaldken

1 month ago

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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@blueboytube

1 month ago

As a German I also wish Germany was what Japan thinks it is

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@thehumus8688

1 month ago

European look at Kimono and say "How exotic !" Asian look at western frilly dress and say "How exotic !" like all stories and immagination start with "in land far far away..." its to invoke a sense of wonder, places that was not here and to took the reader/viewer away to an adventure~

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@DennisTrovato

1 month ago

I, for one, welcome my Asian Europeaboos. Violet Evergarden has some of the most beautiful depictions of European inspired culture I've ever seen.

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@alexanderchambord9850

1 month ago

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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@spaceman1501

1 month ago

I moved to Germany last year, during the vacations we went to visit the old city of Nördligen (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 😂

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@Nova_the_starcatcher

1 month ago

europe actually became very fascinated with Japanese art! Vincent van gogh and many other artists of the time have entire collections of japanese inspired artworks, just as Japans floating world paintings began to become heavily inspired by dutch landscape artwork

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@Shiirow

1 month ago

1) because Europe is essentially the blueprint for anything fantasy. 2) its "exotic" so it has wider appeal.

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@fujigoko007

3 weeks ago

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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