Summer 2023 Preview

[Sarah]

We subtitled Summer 2022’s Preview ‘The Rise of HIDIVE’ but perhaps 2023 Summer 2023’s Preview should be subtitled ‘The Rise of Netflix’? Our writers have some intriguing things to say about two of this season’s new series on Netflix as it’s heartening to see manga and light novel titles written for a shojo/josei audience adapted…

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[D1tchd1gger]

A relatively minor and definitely pedantic quibble

The series is set in an alternative fantasy version of 19th century Meiji era in Japan

The car he drives in episode 3 is definitely not 19th Century! I tried looking at (English) Wikipedia and it said the same as you. So I checked the official, Japanese, website for the anime which says

The setting is a fictitious era reminiscent of the Meiji and Taisho eras

Infact, using Google Lens, the car I found that it resembles most is from the 30s making it Showa era! So maybe poor research on their part.
It's definitely going for a period feel of the countryside being still quite traditional, but the city being very Western, somewhere before the depression era, rather than an exact period.

 

[Sarah]

A relatively minor and definitely pedantic quibble

The car he drives in episode 3 is definitely not 19th Century! I tried looking at (English) Wikipedia and it said the same as you. So I checked the official, Japanese, website for the anime which says

Infact, using Google Lens, the car I found that it resembles most is from the 30s making it Showa era! So maybe poor research on their part.
It's definitely going for a period feel of the countryside being still quite traditional, but the city being very Western, somewhere before the depression era, rather than an exact period.

I only just watched Episode 3 last night and like you, was surprised to see the car - that's fascinating that you traced the design/look to the 30s! (Great detective work.) I think you're absolutely right about the period feel being kept extremely vague!