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Originally Posted by Kaioshin Sama
Well there's the feudal era (Tokugawa Shogunate), the Meiji Restoration and WWII. The feudal era gets used fairly often and I've seen WWII show up in shows like Zipang! but those seem to be the only other two. The Meiji Restoration I can never recall showing up as a setting.
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I thought that Rurouni Kenshin takes place during the Meiji Restoration?
That doesn't chance the fact that this is the fourth anime I've noticed in the last 2 years with the exact same idea: Sengoku period setting with ensemble cast consisting of famous warring leaders modified to simple moe archetypes. I don't know if Sengoku Basara started this trend or if it started further back (which is more likely). It's one thing to have an anime set in the Sengoku period, but to run off this same idea so many times is getting old. (This is what's interesting about Hyouge Mono, by the way. It operates on a radically different concept.)
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Originally Posted by Kaioshin Sama
They'd sooner go to France it seems before taking that era up.
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To see more foreign historical settings in anime would be great. I wouldn't count on it though.