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As a person from the german speaking part of Switzerland I always find it funny how old german names that barley anyone gives to their child today like: Brunhilde, Adalbert, Wolfgang etc. sound cool and mysterious to non-german speakers while the first thing that pops up in my head are people inside a retirement home

I think because Japan sees Germany as the "Japan of the West," if you will. Germans are often viewed as hardworking, tidy, clean, organized, timely, etc. Their society generally reflects this. For the Japanese, it is a foreign place that isn't too dissimilar from their home, a place that's far off but somewhat relatable.

Fun fact: The creator of One Piece, Eiichiro Oda, stated in an interview that the German kids show “Vicky the Viking” (“Wickie und die starken Männer”) was the inspiration for his anime which would become a world wide phenomenon. My mind was blown when I heard that

Fun fact: Some of the most influential children's animation shows on German childrens TV are actually japanese productions or japanese-european/german co-productions. Not modern ones but productions from the 70s. They were based on european stories and books and animated in Japan. A fact not many people are aware of. Some still get reruns or they have heavily influenced later interpretations and remakes: Heidi (Heidi, Girl of the Alps), Wicki und die starken Männer (Vicky the Viking), Die Biene Maja (Maya the Bee), Wunderbare Reise des kleinen Nils Holgersson mit den Wildgänsen (The wonderful adventure of Nils), Mumins (Moomins)

idk if anyone has noticed this, but when a traditional city appeares in anime 90% of the time it has german-bavarian architecture

As one of Japanese, the reason is simple : German pronunciation is the coolest in the world. When German words are written in Katakana(Japanese language), they look so cool and beautiful. This opinion seems personal, but most Japanese people agree that German pronunciation is cool.

I think that German and Japanese cultures are both very familiar and very exotic to each other at the same time. The similarity in discipline, ancient traditions, and of coarse what you said in your video, contribute to Japanese feeling closer to Germans, while them being a world apart, having a different history, and different looking people make it exotic.

Germans are not swayed by emotions and act calmly and rationally in everything they do. They are good at making things.

Now... If japanese trains could influence the germans, that would be great!

I think "Germany" has generally a very strong impact on modern culture, especially on Anime and Manga. Almost every middle age anime scene takes place in a romanticized version of the medieval "Germany".

Germany also was part of early development of anime. They made many german children tv series in japan as early as in the 70s. Those series are in the portfolio of many greats of the early anime scene like Hayao Miyazaki (known from spirited away and howls moving carstle) who started with the german swiss tv show heidi.

The German-Japenese fascination with each other's cultures is very much a two-way street. Yes, there is a certain solidarity over being the bad guys of WW2 (though the Japanese go about it very differently), but there's lots of other types of cultural exchange. Düsseldorf for example has an annual Japan Day, a celebration of Japanese culture showcasing Japanese art, traditional music and sports (and also anime and manga lol). Many of the bigger German cities have "Japanese Gardens" and stuff like that.

Diese Bild und Ton-Produktion wurde von den Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien als "sehr gut" und "pädagogisch wertvoll" eingestuft

Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

I live near a city that holds an annual "Japanday" with thousands of thousands of people attending that focuses on japanese culture, food and of course anime. So I feel like the interest in cultures is mutual

This video was very educational and interesting. Good job!’

I'm from germany, 70-90s Cartoons like "Heidi, Biene Maja, Alfred J. Kwak, Pinocchio" and many more were produced in Japan. They had some sort of cultural Art deal. I was hoping you'd start mentioning that, but I believe some Animators got fascinated with german culture then. And I was talking to a Japanese person once, they told me the Japanese just respect German work ethic. They can identify with that.

Small funfact: German culture had even a small influence on the japanese language since words like "arubaito" started to be used for part-time jobs, which is the japanese pronunciation of the german word "Arbeit", which literally means "work".

Facts were very well put, thanks for the video.

The Japanese are a bit obsessed when it comes to Germany, I'm German myself

"The germans built a bridge, and it's still there" another win for german engineering.

3:15 Japan originally hired French Army advisors to modernize its ground forces (see: Jules Brunet), but after the one-sided smackdown that was the Franco-Prussian War the French advisors were promptly sent home and German ones were hired. Say what you will about Japan, they were determined to learn from the best.

German here! I’ve recently read a manga about a Japanese photographer moving to Germany, and it was one of the best things I’ve read this year. Seeing the Berlin Skyline drawn in a manga truly gives it a different vibe. Also I love how in Anime everytime they use „German“ names, it’s some very old names no one gives their children anymore nowadays. Unfortunately I don’t really agree with your video. Yea, those things might have played a role but I think what really played a role is the general interest for Europe that started occurring during the 70s-90s in Japan. Similar as to European began developing a strong interested for American Culture aren’t the 80s. This wasn’t really because of any historical things, it rather happend due to the beginning of the globalisation, People started thinking more globally rather than only of their own country. Furthermore most of German Kids TV shows from the 70s-80s were produced by Japanese animation studios (shows every German knows like: Wiki, Heidi, Biene Maya etc.) Heidi was kinda the origin of Studio Ghibli. That has also played a massive role into it. A lot of Isekai nowadays are also set in a German/Europe-like world because the „traditional“ Europe is a very common setting for RPGs because well it’s just interesting? Similar as German RPGs are set in traditional Jspan or China

This was quite educational and cool well done!

The Germans built a bridge. That is one of the most German thing I have ever heard. Even as prisoners they can’t help but showcase their engineering prowess.

as a german before watching this video: - countries were friends for a long time, even during ww2 - there were a lot of Japanese people that stayed in Germany after ww2 and vice versa (at least for a few years until they could fly home) - german culture is pretty much what we see in western fantasy/mythology, something really popular in Japan for the last decade

It’s a nice idea, but probably only a minor reason. German public broadcasting stations commissioned a lot of animated children’s series to Japanese studios in the 70s and 80s. For example: Isao Takahata’s and Hayao Miyazaki’s (founders of studio ghibli) first big production was the anime „Heidi“ for German tv. They were brought to Germany to be able to correctly recreate the scenery in their animes. Since many of these animators who were working on these projects for German tv, became influential figures in Japanese animation, their experience in creating German landscapes, themes and stories spread in the industry.

It is not only and Anime and so on. I have studied law and we had a japanese professor visiting us and giving a lecture. He told us about japanese law (espacially on criminal law) and there were so many parallels between those two branches we didn't even know about. It is really fascinating, how many connections are between such different (or not so different) countries

Fun fact: The civil code of Japan, the "Minpo", is also heavily influenced by the German civil code, the "Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch (BGB)". They copied the structure and many rules from the drafts of the BGB. But with over a 100 years of development of both codes and different influences (Japan with Japanese and American influence, Germany with European influence), they developed apart.

As a German I can say the pronounciation was actually very good.

German Weeb here! Video approved LMAO And your pronunciation was fine :D I have noticed how long you practiced, haha

Very interesting story. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

I remember this one scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion where Asuka receives a phone call and speaks german with the other person. German is my native language so I was interested in Asukas pronunciation in the Japanese original. I had to watch the scene twice to understand what she said because her accent was so bad. 😂😂😂

There are also similarities in the mindset. Just think about how "Made in Germany" became a sign of quality. Craftsmanship was viewed in a similar way. Trying to produce a high quality product. Besides that "discipline" was also highly valued in both cultures. Being obedient to your superior was very important in both cultures. Even something so trivial like the love for physical money in form of bank notes is shared. I could go on with a lot more examples but I think it was just the similarities that made this relationship click. Also: After WW2 who do you look up for as an example? Japanese had a good experience with what they learned from German scientist. The British went down after WW2 with losing a lot of colonies and their empire and the US bombed them in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then as an underdog who needs to rebuild your own country and you see how Germany is doing well in rebuilding. There is a lot of reasons why this relationship continued.

Wow, never knew there was so much exchange during WW1, very interesting. Tbanks for the video!

Your pronunciation of Ausstellung für Bildkunst und Handfertigkeiten was very good.

Japan has also had its influence on german culture! The city of Düsseldorf has one of the biggest japanese-speaking communities in Europe and celebrates Japan day every year. Bonn has a street plastered with cherry blossom trees and (used to) celebrate their bloom. There's also a Hiroshima-Nagasaki-Park in Cologne.

Kinda late but this just showed up in my Feed. As a German I think also because our Fairy Tails and Medieval Landscapes with Castles and such are vastly different from Japanese culture that it fascinates them like the obsession with characters that wear full Metal Plate Armour. Because it's just so different from their own History. Most fantasy Shows have Medieval European architecture instead if Japanese because I think Fantasy for them is European

Im german so the fact so much anime pulls from our culture makes me happy, glad that it atleast somewhat removes from *that* part. And germany is a very nice and modern extremely history rich country

in one line: Germans are stylish and you american's are not!!!!

I see some other connections that should be mentioned: 1. the german mystizism. German culture has a special way of appraising nature. Dark woods and mountains are very often topic in art and literature, beginning with the age of romantic around 1800. And german philosophers thinking about the „nature“ of mankind. I presumes that this fits to the japanese culture. I personally see it in the work of the ghibli-studio: a elevating of a (lost) nature. Can someone from Japan can fix this suggestion? 2. It‘s about Design. The drawers of Mangs does study art and design and that automatically leads to to german theories of Design and Architecture. Especially Bauhaus was enormous influental, and especially one Bauhaus-teacher: Kandinsky (russian-born). His theories of geometry are basis for the way modern advertising is working. German expressionism and the use for in film and theater hcould also had some impact. 3. The invention of a new typus of villain: the „Nazi“. In the real world the „thousand-years-Reich“ did last only a few years, but in Hollywood and in the american culture it will last forever. It’s simply so that a movie or a comic needs a perfect villain, someone who is so cruel that the hero can act brutal without having a bad conscience. So the „nazi“ became an icon of the modern pop-culture. 4. Germany and Japan has to reinvent their culture after WWII. Both countries shared the faith that the old traditions were shattered and the young people were fascinated by the „cool“ american culture. Both nation than found their new pride in the successful economy. That is a complete different narrativ than that of countries like USA, France and GB , still being proud of their history, their military and their imperial greatness. That makes Japan and Germany looking at each other.

As a German speaking Austrian I can only say that I LOVE it when German culture is used in anime (especially German uniforms) because they manage to make something look German and at the same time it does NOT come off as negative!:D

very nice vid :) many ppl love anime and mangas in germany and are interested in japanese culture, me too. But that only started at the end of the 1990s when animes like sailor moon, kickers and digimon conquered German television in the afternoon programs and at that time there were many young children in Germany who were born in the late 80s or early 90s.

Thanks lol I've been wondering about thisbtoo😊

As a german: I am always happy about stories that appreciate german culture and the german language because so many (especially american media) make fun of us or think that our language is scary and agressive or only reduces us to the Nazis. I don't have a lot national pride (didn't end well for us lol) but there are good things we have, not just cars, and I do love our language there are fabulous things we can do with it there are reasons we had so many amazing writers.

The Doitsu (German) cultures, such as punctuality, are very well respected in Japan.

Jooo!!! Crazy that I found this video. I was always wondering why there are so many German references in Japanese pop culture. Thanks man!

ドイツは言葉とか色々な物のデザインセンスが固くかっこいいんだよね。

As a German myself it feels like Japanese Media is just really good at grabbing on to stereotypes and aesthetics from different cultures and using them to fit with character archetypes The arrogant, overconfident, ocd discipline German stereotype just makes for a good generic character archetype in aninme

Wow, that Video was very informational. Great work! As a German, I really enjoyed listening to your pronunciation of German words xD It was way better than the pronunciations we normally hear. And thank you for naming it football/Fußball instead of soccer, that made me happy ;D

German culture has a dominating presence as a whole. I have no idea why, but it just does. Whenever you think of a medieval society or think about making your own fantasy set in medieval times, there's a good chance you're thinking of something approximating German culture from those times, from the castles to the fashion to the weapons to the look of the land itself. Hell even German names are somehow inherently mysterious and cool. Then you throw in the militarism of more modern times and the footage we've all seen of soldiers in their pointy helms or stormtroopers with flamethrowers and the submachine guns. Then comes the iconic goose steps in the parades and big heavy tiger tanks and the immaculate and stylish uniforms of the officers and the SS. There's just something so cool about all of that. I don't know why or how but even as a kid I was fascinated with all these sorts of things, it just so easily captures the imagination. I suppose its almost like the Italian Mafia or the Texas Cowboy/Ranger or the Japanese Samurai but you scale those up to be the entire culture and you have something similar. Its really unique and I honestly have no idea why it has this huge shadow over world culture and why so many people are enthralled by it. If I had to take a guess it would be because people associate Germany and German culture with with military might, authority and power. There's something about the language and those old pictures of kings and officers and even the soldiers that is just so stoic, powerful and proud.

Your pronounciation at 7:39 was really good

You may also look up early works of "Zuiyo Eizo", now known as "Nippon Animation". They would collaborate with Germany and Austria in the 1970's and produce anime shows based on German, Swiss and other European stories like "Maya the Honey Bee", "Heidi, Girl of the Alps", "Vicky the Viking" and more

I think other reason is the Holy Roman Empire= Europe during its existence. Or at least for the Japanese, and I dont fault them, it was a pretty big and long-lived empire, defining Europe history. Whenever they need a feudalistic empire in anime, especially in Sci-fi, its always modeled after the Holy Roman Empire

Great video.

Hi, German here! Thank you very much for your pronounciation of Ausstellung für Bildkunst und Handfertigkeit! It was very much understandable and I appreciate your care in saying it right.

"Because German culture is the best in the world!" - Rudol Von Stroheim

A Trend right now in japanese fantasy Anime and Manga, is to use German as magic language, which is quite funny to read sometimes, and other time just being streight up descriptions as names. It is similar to the Harry Potter Trend of Using Latin.

As a German I always chuckle when I hear the "German" names like "Wilhelmina Braunschweig Ingenohl Friedeburg". Nobody would name their child like that (even in the past).

ja sehr nice video you have verdient you a Daumen nach up

i guess this channel is not big enough yet to have its commentary section invaded by us xD

I'm Tunisian and I've Litterly chose German to learn at high school because of aot's German OSTs.... Cool af.. And the youth in here who are sick of the French culture influence (because of colonization) are more interested in German culture.... My uncle who learned German by himself and was once married to a German woman always praises their society til today

Thank you for the very interesting history lesson. I am still wondering why the culture of the netherlands for example is not way more present in japanese culture, since the netherlands were one of the few countries japan traded with before the middle of the 18th century. And by the way your german pronouciation was really good

I hadn't even realize this vid has almost 1 mil views until you said it in your British culture video damn

The backstory in the beginning is probably the most important reason. During the modernization of Japan, sometimes even called the German modernization, many German scholars taught at the University of Tokyo and Japanese scholars also studied in Germany. My guess is that Germany kind of became the go-to country when it came to modernizing any part of Japanese society. I think there are mostly 2 reasons why Germany became their role model for a modern society. The first one would be that having an efficient, well-working society is extremely important to the Japanese, and Germany was known for efficiency and also quite far ahead in science at the time. These stereotypes still exist to this day. And in the west, German or rather Prussian culture was generally closest to Japanese culture, being highly militarized and based on discipline, respect and order. Therefore, it was probably also easiest to adopt parts of it in Japan. It would also explain why Anime is mostly obsessed with Prussian culture rather than modern German culture. This is just a very wild guess, but it may also have something to do with the Dutch, since with their colonies in Asia, they were one of the most important nations to trade with Japan, after it opened up to the west. They are also the reason why Japan is one of very few countries in the world to use the German name for Germany. They adopted the word ドイツ (Doitsu) from them.

As a German sometimes that can be very funny. Spoiler for SAO: There is a character in SAO who kills people inside an online game tournament, but the protagionists only knew the nicknames of the participants and not who of them the murderer was. Well, for me, a German, it was quite obvious who the murderer was as there was one guy that was named "Sterben", which means "to die" in German. Yeah finding out who the murderer was was half the season xD. And they only got it right because they went to a hospital and one nurse told them the meaning of "sterben" as, apparently, Japan uses German vocabulary in their medicine and some other sciences.

Nice video and alot of work. Maybe you want to look into "Grimms' Fairy Tales" in german "Grimms Märchen". It is a collation of german bonfire storys appeared 1812-1850. Sadly translated into Japanese bevore alot of there bonfire storys where documented. So this 200 storys (animes) replaced most of the of Japanese for ever, and sure the german POWs brought them along too.

I think there is a simpler answer than any of this. Germans are cool. Their names are cool. Their language is cool. Their uniforms are(or were) cool. Their architecture is cool(and Gothic). If you take out the small portion of German history during world War 2. The Germans were some of the most technologically and scientifically innovative and Militarily powerful people in Europe. And even during WW2. While the Germans absolutely were the bad guys. Their shit just looked so much cooler. They had better looking uniforms, better looking guns, better looking tanks etc.

During the Meiji expansion, another aspect of Germany that was adopted by the Japanese was medicine. Some Japanese Medicin words originate from the german terms, even nowadays. Like Plaster cast (in German: Gips, in Japanese: Gipusu) or allergies (German: Allergien, Japanese: arerugie). Just wanted to add that random piece of information that's been floating in my head haha

It's always fascinating that many in the Anglophone world regard the omnipresence of Anglophone (especially US) cultural references in other societies' media as a natural state of being, while any other cultural references are strange and something unusual to be pointed out and analysed... Anyways, great video!

Great intro

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Your missing link to connect modern Anime of today with "Germanism" is the Japanese/Anime version of the Steampunk genre or style. As you will see, the moment you dive into Steampunk themed pop culture in Japan you will suddenly be surrounded by german sounding names, locations, characters and german looking machines, buildings and environments. Steampunk in the West is simply a cosmetic flair, in Japan it's an entire sub-genre for all sorts of media. And in my opinion the modern Steampunk primarily is stemming from german engineering and technology being used to this day in Japan, from literally german Steam Engines back in the day, over clockworks made in Germany all up to the "Maglev" technology developed by the massive german transport company "Die Deutsche Bahn" and used in modern Bullet-Trains in Japan and China today. Another very important, but rarely discussed, link between Germany and Japan through Anime is the Japanese Anime series "Heidi" from 1972. That series became super popular in germany for many decades and introduced a lot of now relatively old Germans to Anime for the very first time. That happened way before Weeaboos were a thing, most of us didn't even know that this interesting style of animation was called Anime, for us it was just another kind of "Zeichentrickserie" (word for word translation: "Series of drawn tickery"; or translated in context: "Animated Series"). Look it up: Heidi (アルプスの少女ハイジ, Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji, „Alpenmädchen Heidi“)

Hope you guys don't mind this one off non Toaru video! Will be back to normal content now. But if this video does well I would love to do weird and interesting videos like this one! Lemme know what you think :)

When one thinks of the relationship between Japan and Germany, the first thing that comes to mind is medicine. Gauze, x-ray, allergy, Willis, scalpel, neurosis, cast, part-time job, medical record, crank, surgery, and so on. I hear that many of the words used in Japanese medical practice are German. The new government in the early Meiji period (1868-1912) wanted to make British medicine the norm for Japanese medicine in the future. However, some people strongly insisted that German medicine was of the highest standard in the world and that Japan should adopt German medicine, and eventually German medicine was adopted.

Man this vide just popped up in my recommendation field just after playind the dies irae visual novel..🗿

A little bit late to the video, but here‘s a fun fact. Germans introduced school uniforms to Japan. A friend of mine (in Germany) even had to wear a sailor uniform in elementary school. It‘s not common anymore nowadays, his school was still very conservative, but it‘s funny that those school uniforms are mostly known because of animes

There was and still is also a lot of similarity in Japanese and German culture. They both tend to be hierarchical, reserved, respect order and discipline, are concerned with precision and doing things "correctly," punctual, extraordinarily well-mannered, and a bit hard to get to know on an intimate level. I suspect that to some degree this helped Japanese who interacted with Germans feel a kinship with German culture just a little more so than other European cultures.

Best second collab

thanks man, I'm a german trying to understand how the heck two countries on opposite sides of the globe could develop a connection like we had/have with the Japanese, and it was pretty difficult to find a good video sheding some light on the history without falling into the axis power pit.

I live in Hiroshima and know how my hometown interacted with Germany. The German confectionery Baumkuchen was first made in Japan in 1919 at the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Center. Baumkuchen is currently eaten by Japan the most in the world. By the way, the building is now called the Atomic Bomb Dome.

I like this theory, but honestly, I tend to believe in more mundain explanations when it comes to ambiguous questions. Similar to western media portraying Japanese culture as mostly stereotypical generic ninja samurai land with Sengoku period clothing/architecture with Meiji government, so too does the Japanese portray the "west" as just a blob of various gothic churches, nobles, and modern j-rpg tropes mix together. I wouldn't specifically say that there was a fascination towards the German culture other than the notability during the second WW and military might, but overall "fantasy" as a category in japan usually just split into traditional Japanese/some Chinese, Europe, America, and some middle east just for stylistic consistency and convenience.

omg I love Tanya the evil. so good. edit: bit of brat with a bit of mustard hits the spot.

7:33 ok, i learned the americans play egg ball - i will just stick to it - and your pronounciation is quite good for a starter. Was it even unintentionally / intentionally putting the die before Bildkunst? It was easy to understand.

Many manga artists are military otaku. They are known for their love of the old German army. Although they do not share the same ideology, they seem to like tanks and other weapons. If you go to Japanese comic markets, you will find many military-related comics and goods, but the most popular ones are related to Germany.

short answer: they were allies in WW2 Long answer:

I am german and had to look what you meant to say bc I couldn't have told by just listening lol. Good effort 🎉

I'm both German and Japanese and it's pretty simple. It's a "friendship" that started during WW and has continued to this day. There are many partnership programs between Germany and Japan that were started during the war times and are still respected and continued to this day. And Japan especially embraced German culture during that time. Germans were seen as their equals at the time. This mindset is still present in many elderly people in Japan and while the younger generation doesn't carry those terrible believes anymore, the culture just stuck. It just became part of everyday life.

What a great video! Good job with pronounciation, you did surpisingly well. I am still cringing whenever I hear someone in anime try to speak german. It is not really how they pronounce it but the ACTUAL GOD DAMN WORDS THEY CHOOSE. I have no problems, if an anime chooses to have a character with a german name. BUT WHY is it some weird fuckin 20th century name in a SCI-FI SETTING? In addition to that are incantations (like Fate series), weapon names and similar stuff often in german, which in itself wouldn't be a problem, IF THEY WOULD CHOOSE LIKE AN ACTUAL GOOD NAME but no, it must be something that a 14yo edgelord would even find dumb. When I suddenly hear "Hans- Heinrich get ze Schwarzes Loch- Kanone mit Weltuntergangsstrahl" ( good luck with translating that lol), it really breakes my immersion. Greetings from Germany.

Ausstellung für Bildkunst und Handfertigkeit. Your spelling was very good for someone who doesn't speak the hard German, while English allways seems to be spoken smoothly. 😂

7:38 as a German I have to say that your pronunciation was quite alright. Even if I wouldn’t have read the text I would have understood every single word - and that is already a remarkable thing, trust me. ☺️👍 I have heard worse pronunciations… even within Hollywood movies that had budgets going into the millions. 😅 Btw, thank you for this entertaining video and your interesting theory ❤️

EIN VOLK EIN REICH EIN KOMMENTARBEREICH!!! SCHLAAAAANND!!

As a Japanese person, if I were to say something... Firstly, when creating stories or animations with some kind of 'battle' or 'war' imagery, the phrase 'empire' is often portrayed as a symbol of warfare. Let's say, for example, that a story is created about a battle between a country with enormous power and a weak country. Then that 'enormously powerful country' would tend to have a high 'military power'. And high military power also means "high military expenditure". In that case, as a work of art, it is easier to create a story by portraying the country with that enormous power as an 'empire', and a certain percentage of the story will capture the hearts of empire and military fans like me. Then, when it comes to 'high military spending', 'empires' and 'countries with enormous power', there have been several countries in our global history that came close to that. Yes, there have been. The former German Empire, the Soviet Union, Italy and other 'near-imperialist countries'. It is therefore inevitable to refer to these countries. Secondly, this is not a difficult question, simply because "many people like imperial states" and "it seems kind of cool". How should I put it, there are few Japanese who think that 'empires are inappropriate' for anime. This is because they think that "anime is just a creation, and if it is a creation, it has nothing to do with reality", also because there are relatively many Japanese who think so. "It's just a story." I'm sorry, it's a long story. I mean, I love anime.

I think the time of the HRE gives many possible stories with an emperor and loads of kingdoms that get into some fight. These settings with swords beer, war and some mythical monsters gives an author a lot of possibilities to start a good story. Sure the prisoners that basically had this background made it perfect for the authors that also had an emperor as a background. This made it quite easy for them to feel themselves into these settings.

It certainly has sense, small seeds can grow with time, and as this was one of first of they expositions to other culture in centuries, its impact must have been considerable.

I was surprised that this video did not contain people like Mori Ogai who did a lot of work to bring German literature to Japan. What Soseki did for English (many japanese renditions of English words that a native speaker of many English dialects might find strange such as howaito for white come directly from work of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Soseki) Ogai did for German. He and many of his peers spent a lot of time in Germany - Ogai himself famously had a lover there that he abandoned which became a topic of some of his works... God, I need to read more meiji literature.

germany also had alot of influence on Hospitals ... not just because germany has a great health care system or fantastic doctors but because we defined and re-structured their entire system. so much so that even to this day most of the medical terms are german words, used and teached if u study medicine in japan. obviously those german doctors lived over there in japan and had alot of contact to japanese people, i mean ... alot of that medicine was from germans so it certainly had some influence on you right? especially back then when we brought medicine that helped ur family to survive

As a guy from Belgium who's frist launguage was german and I'm also an anime fan so this is the perfect combo for me

You call germany? I really like the Video. Schönen Tag noch