American School Bus

>American School Bus
>In a modernized German cold war setting
I get modernizing the setting and all but this is just offensively Americanized for no good reason. Just because we're occupied to this day doesn't mean we're America lite

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Not to mention the jap dishes but of course the japs inject their own tastes everywhere, I can hardly blame them for that.

It's probably a case of Japan just not realizing School Buses are an American thing.

More rural areas of Japan used to import American school buses, which is why the Japanese are familiar with them as a foreign thing.

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I don't know why people call it a German setting.
They even had a score board for the students that had passed the entry test.

It's like calling isekai medieval just because there's swords. It's dumb.

>Westalis = Western Germany
>Ostania = Eastern Germany (Ost= East in German)
>city called BERLINt in Ostania
>expy Stasi
>expy cold war
are you disabled?

You are missing my point, and quite badly.

They are calling it Germany, but they are not expending any effort to make a German setting.

Ah, the nips recognize it because they know them from their own country as well. So I guess it was not meant as pandering or anything but more a matter of the Japenese "all westerners are the same" baseline. That I can at least live with

>So I guess it was not meant as pandering or anything
Did you seriously think the Japs were trying to pander to Americans by putting a school bus in their anime? What kind of pandering would that even be?

They are calling it Germany because the entire setting is lifted from real life and then embellished. To compare a setting THIS specific to something as generic as "medieval fantasy setting" is pretty fucking retarded.

>the entire setting is lifted from real life
But it hasn't.
Nothing of it looks German.

based bluebird with the run-in

This is the good timeline where America and Germany decide to fuse.

Yeah, pandering is probably the wrong way to put it. My point is more that I did not expect this to be a shorthand understood by general nip audiences, so I was hoping to god this was not some attempt at internationalization, because 1) that would be a very weird place for that and 2) it would be an almost insultingly absurd thing to single out. That's why I made this thread, any option seemed almost insultingly inane since my initial premise was wrong.

But you are. Even the names of German patriots who died for their people are removed from military bases. You Westerners have happily allowed yourselves to be bamboozled by American imperialism. I mean you even continue to allow American military occupation. Don't interpret my words as hostile, just a fair observation.

You don't quite appreciate how much money Germany has been saving by leaving military matters to the Americans.

It's german geopolitics and vaguely german geography. The entire premise works without any need for explanation since it can tap into the viewer's historical knowledge. These alt-history stories always try to find a compromise between parallels to real history and diversions from it to forge an identity. To refer to things by their historical analogues is hence completely natural.

> Even the names of German patriots who died for their people are removed from military bases.
Patriotism in Germany is a meaningless construct. People are patriotic for maybe the state they live in, or maybe even the city. Germany is wayy to fragmented a country for anyone to really give a shit about the whole nation. Which does not help at all with things on a national scale, such as the occupation

>It's german geopolitics and vaguely german geography.
Okay, so a German meta to accompany a Japan with blond Japanese people.
You still don't have a German setting.
>These alt-history stories always try to find a compromise between parallels to real history and diversions from it to forge an identity.
Is it though?
Do you really watch this and think any of in feels like historic Germany?

>any of in feels like historic Germany?
yes and no. But as a viewer I gotta fill in the gaps for the story to make sense. The worldbuilding kinda hinges on the viewer to make, essentially, baseless assumptions because of meta knowledge. It is absolutely obvious what the conflict is in principle, what is up with the budget-stasi, what the stakes are, and so on. None of this needs explaining even if it matters a whole lot to the story unless it significantly differs from history. This is in contrast to stories with no clear influence at all which have to do a lot more to establish their rules and workings to get close to the same result. You could think of it as a top-down approach to storytelling: you first put the idea of historical Germany into the viewers head and then add and subtract finer details as you go. Meanwhile, other settings have more of a tabula rasa approach and build up your notions of the world from "zero".

>The worldbuilding kinda hinges on the viewer to make, essentially, baseless assumptions
In other words, the Germanness is all in your mind.

>you first put the idea of historical Germany into the viewers
Which 99% of the viewers don't even have. So that's no basis to start from.
And consequently, the setting doesn't actually deviate objectively from settings in a nondescript japan. Other than inside your mind because you Germanify everything.

>Which 99% of the viewers don't even have.
Anyone over the age of 16 who does not recognize an iron curtain scenario when he sees is is beyond uneducated. You're hopeless.

>iron curtain
If that's your standard for "German", that's quite sad.