It seems quite obvious we're in France, in the Middle Ages. Considering that Éléonore de Habsbourg was queen in 1530; that Catherine de Médicis was queen in 1547, and Marie in 1600 and that she had a son named Louis, and a daughter named Élisabeth: This anime is inspired by the 16th and 17th century in medieval France; I guess. I'll update this everytime a new episode releases and that I find new informations. |
EstebanODSep 18, 2022 5:48 AM
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| It even features a France/Navarra coat of arms in one of the episodes |
| wow thanks for the breakdown! I knew we were in the middle ages. |
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| Well mapped and broken down. France I surmised, yes because of explicit place names and people's names being French (or very French-inspired; there may have been a few where they rearranged a few letters around intentionally) and the fact that France, Germany, and Britain are culturally kind of the big three most well-known "representatives" of Western Europe and Western European history and culture, both in Japan and to a lot of people internationally, so I've noticed a lot of their fantasy series, including recently and including isekai, tend to draw the most on these for cultural marking points like architecture, cuisine, etc. Whether they just incorporate them into a more nondescript mishmash of several different nationalities, styles, and periods, or they actually try to make them cohesively represent an alternative version of one time and place as they seem to be doing here. Narrowing down the timeline is even more interesting, because that's the one I had more heavy doubts about. For some reason I assumed it to definitely be 18th century/1700s France (or an alternate world stand-in for and representing France) and thought it couldn't possibly be any earlier period like the 1500s or (at least early) 1600s. I think the fact that, apparently like a number of isekai protagonists, he's born into a wealthy, powerful, and influential aristocratic family right near the nerve center of power in the nation's royal capital with the fanciness of the estates and all that lovely city planning just evoked something closer to modernity - as in, still hundreds of years in the past but not extreme rustic hardcore medieval, but then, that's not really a valid line of thought since the Romans had superb city planning and urban spaces thousands of years prior. I guess it's just because we haven't spent any time seeing where and in the conditions in which the majority of the commoner population must live in the smaller cities, towns, and rural areas (and probably even slums of the capital, if there are any) that it didn't give me that period feel, almost like I'm expecting more grime and grit from "medieval". We're seeing a very insulated section of it with the aristocracy/nobility/royals, which I suppose the vast majority of people would rather reincarnate into or experience vicariously then as some milkmaid on a muddy dairy farm. |
WatchTillTandavaSep 1, 2022 11:48 PM
| Damn, we've got a French historian in the room here! |
JoseTremoJo said: It even features a France/Navarra coat of arms in one of the episodes I didn't even notice it, thank you I added it to the list And also thanks everyone :) |
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EstebanOD said: JoseTremoJo said: It even features a France/Navarra coat of arms in one of the episodes I didn't even notice it, thank you I added it to the list And also thanks everyone :) No problem! If I'm not mistaken, it appears on the Church's main buildind. It appeared again right at the beginning of last episode. |
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