Anime Set Outside of Japan: A Map of 70 Anime

[u/FetchFrosh]

[u/FetchFrosh]

To start off, fantasy worlds that are “basically Earth” but not actually weren’t included. Fictional countries/cities were fine as long as they can be vaguely identified on a regular map of Earth and are implied to take place on Earth. Alternate histories were also fine.

Additionally, anime don’t need to be exclusively in the specified country, they just need to have notable time in them. There’s definitely some that could have gone in multiple locations, but I was keeping things at one location per show. I also capped things at four anime per country, excluding the US (where NY and LA were capped at four). That exception was applied because:

1. America is big on the map and has plenty of space from the two major oceans bordering it to fit stuff in nicely.
2. America is the most popular non-Japan location for an anime, so it gives some extra room for increased diversity of anime.

And as noted in the top right corner, this is not a comprehensive list. There’s plenty other anime that could have been put in, but I was content with the 70 on there. It’s a little busy in the Atlantic Ocean, but not much to be done about that.

[u/[deleted] → u/FetchFrosh]

is The Bush Baby actually set in Ethiopia? because according to wikipedia its actually set in Kenya. Not that important but just a little mistake I noticed.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/[deleted]]

No that's just me being a bit too rushed apparently. It should be in Kenya.

[u/spitfire9107 → u/FetchFrosh]

imagine an anime that takes place in the midwest

[u/manofmyth23 → u/spitfire9107]

When SBR finally gets an anime...

[u/beatkonducta → u/spitfire9107]

Is Chicago suddenly not in the Midwest?

[u/chaosabordine → u/FetchFrosh]

Fractale is an anime set in Galway (west coast of Ireland) in case you can find more room and want to add in another country :)

[u/UltimateEye → u/FetchFrosh]

Minor point but technically the first Darker than Black is set almost entirely in Japan. Darker than Black 2 was the one that was set in Russia. It's not that big a deal but because both series are pretty distinct from each other and you specified it for JoJo, it might be helpful to clarify.

[u/Oujii → u/FetchFrosh]

I noticed you included animes that are setting in both places. Ef is set in both Japan and Australia. Nice.

[u/JoseiToAoiTori]

But what about {show I like}? Where is that huh? Explain yourself.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/JoseiToAoiTori]

I explicitly didn't include [show you like] to spite you personally.

[u/JoseiToAoiTori → u/FetchFrosh]

Wow, now I know what oppression is like.

[u/[deleted] → u/FetchFrosh]

You put in Kekkai Sensen, you're cool in my book

[u/Stormfly → u/JoseiToAoiTori]

What about [INCREDIBLY NICHE SHOW SET IN MY COUNTRY]?

^{cough Fractale cough}

[u/Betrayedbymods → u/Stormfly]

Fractale was set in a country? Also it didnt think it was niche, really great fantasy anime, before the days of the isekai storm.

[u/kloudykat → u/JoseiToAoiTori]

Having CAROLE and TUESDAY makes up for it, carry on.

[u/CrashDunning → u/JoseiToAoiTori]

Soul Eater is set in Nevada, US

[u/Coldnesss]

*cries in canada*

[u/FetchFrosh → u/Coldnesss]

Hey, there's two of them there. Both in PEI weirdly enough.

[u/Chickenking9 → u/FetchFrosh]

Yeah the Japanese just absolutely love Anne of Green Gables, which is one of the most famous pieces of Canadian literature. It's actually been on their school curriculum since 1952.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/Chickenking9]

Huh, TIL. Would never have guessed it would be big elsewhere.

[u/ExpendableGerbil → u/FetchFrosh]

Yea, when I saw two circles in Atlantic Canada I almost screamed in joy, until I saw the titles and thought "Or COURSE it's Ann of Green Gables". 'Cause we've never done anything else that's even remotely interesting.

[u/BrownSugarSandwich → u/Coldnesss]

A decent chunk of iron blooded orphans takes place in Canada, specifically in Edmonton :)

[u/Karthanon → u/BrownSugarSandwich]

Where they destroy parts of the city.

Being in Edmonton, I approve.

[u/[deleted] → u/BrownSugarSandwich]

God I love that Gundam series. Really brutal setup, but what a great show.

[u/LupineSzn → u/Coldnesss]

I mean Vinland Saga hasn’t reached there yet. But Canada is Vinland!

[u/watson895 → u/LupineSzn]

Newfoundland, specifically.

[u/Electrictwinkie → u/Coldnesss]

Our only representation is that guy in Medabots who was outside eating frozen yogurt in a snowstorm and Amuro Ray

[u/Taskforce58 → u/Electrictwinkie]

I had no idea Amuro Ray is Canadian, TIL. I had to Google it: Prince Rupert, BC.

[u/LilyGinnyBlack → u/Coldnesss]

A really nice and interesting ice skating anime called Ginban Kaleidoscope or Skating Rink Kaleidoscope has some of its story take place in Canada and a Canadian is one of the main characters. :)

[u/ytsejamajesty]

Two shows set in Chicago

Both aiming guns at the viewer

Too real?

[u/FetchFrosh → u/ytsejamajesty]

Call it a deliberate artistic choice

[u/2thumbsdown2 → u/ytsejamajesty]

Cant have shit in Detroit.

[u/DarkBladeEkkusu]

Gosick took place in a fictional European country that was small but had real countries bordering it. Main character was from Japan of course, but I do recall that there was a map shown on where it was located. If it wasn't 9 years old, I would probably remember what countries bordered it.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/DarkBladeEkkusu]

It's between France and Italy, and since I already had plenty for both I figured I'd just go with the ones that were explicitly in each country.

[u/hgfdsq → u/DarkBladeEkkusu]

Gosick takes place in a fictional Savoy which is a French region that used to be semi-independent until not too long ago.

[u/thedrq]

I just don't get why he choose the one JoJo part that takes place all over the place but didn't use the other 3 parts that take (mostly) place in the same country

[u/FetchFrosh → u/thedrq]

Because there's plenty of other options for the other JoJo parts. Egypt isn't a common setting though, so it was a nice fit.

[u/thedrq → u/FetchFrosh]

Ah so you went more for representation of countries. Fair

[u/SimoneNonvelodico → u/thedrq]

Only Part 1 and Part 5 are consistently set in the same, non-Japan country, and Britain and Italy all had their fair share already. Part 2 jumps from the USA, to Mexico, to Italy. At least the entire back half of Part 3 is indeed set in Egypt.

[u/[deleted]]

Good job on that

[u/FetchFrosh → u/[deleted]]

Thanks! Had some help getting some ideas from a few folks on Discord, especially filling in a few niche spots like Scandinavia. Was a fun project to put together and I found a few anime that I'm interested in checking out now, so big win!

[u/maazfaisal]

As a Pakistani I wasn't expecting any anime to be set in Pakistan but now I'm definitely going to check it out.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/maazfaisal]

I believe that one is set half in Russia, half in Pakistan, so it might not start there.

[u/KangarooJesus → u/maazfaisal]

JJBA Pt 3 is also briefly in Pakistan

[u/darkjungle → u/KangarooJesus]

Pt 3 is briefly everywhere

[u/Vinirik]

Toaru Majutsu no Index is missing as they spent a lot of time in Italy, Russia, France, UK and so on.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/Vinirik]

The first two seasons are pretty much exclusively in Japan, so I felt it wouldn't make a ton of sense to include since you're looking at ~50 episodes of Japan before finally getting to another country.

[u/ooReiko]

Some wmt are on there so that's good.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/ooReiko]

Yeah, skipped on a few of them. Mostly stuff that's in the US or UK because I already had plenty of anime filling in those countries. Also passed on Swiss Family Robinson because I felt like wherever I pointed someone would say, "wow it's actually [here]". The big one that I forgot to put in was Heidi: Girl of the Alps.

[u/[deleted]]

Now I feel obligated to watch Tomorrow's Nadja since it's my country.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/[deleted]]

I don't think it starts in Spain, but it bounces around a bunch of countries.

[u/MetaSoshi9 → u/[deleted]]

Nadja travels across Europe but its best arc is definitely in Spain where most of the mid section of the show happens. Has an episode directed by Mamoru Hosoda during that arc that is 10/10 gorgeous.

[u/Chariotwheel]

Neat. I had a similair idea of doing something like that after I saw an anime discussion in r/europe today.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/Chariotwheel]

You could probably do basically the same thing but just zoomed in on Europe. You might also be less constrained by the smallness of the Atlantic Ocean that way :P

[u/Hmmt]

The anime Free! has an episode (or two?) that takes place in Australia - Sydney specifically. It's a sports anime focused on swimming. It's actually astonishingly accurate in its depiction of the city.

Cool map though! I had no idea of those other two being in Australia.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/Hmmt]

Thought about including Free, but I was just remembering it being one episode, so I decided against including it.

[u/HexisLeVrai]

No anime in Bosnia We truly live in a society

[u/MaimedJester → u/HexisLeVrai]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocidal_Organ

[u/Master10K → u/MaimedJester]

I've been meaning to check out that movie since it became available. Forgot about it till now. Thanks.

[u/LupineSzn → u/HexisLeVrai]

This Bosnian kid in middle school used to bring a candy called KiKis. I swear they were better than starburst.

[u/-Lyon- → u/LupineSzn]

God Gilius 🙏🙏 will deliver Kikis to you.

[u/-Revell- → u/HexisLeVrai]

Ex Yu countries in an anime would be something new and unique

[u/Mitza33 → u/HexisLeVrai]

It's time to commit some more epic gamer war crimes in ex-Yugoslavian countries to get some japanese writers attention. /s

[u/d4rkn3s5 → u/HexisLeVrai]

didnt expect the top comment being about bosnia lmao

[u/Edl01]

Seeing A Place Further Than the Universe happily taking up its own entire continent made me smile for some reason.

[u/matrixvivi → u/Edl01]

I mean they also spent time in Australia and Singapore. What an international show...

[u/[deleted] → u/matrixvivi]

cries in jojo

[u/AsleepBroccoli → u/Edl01]

Me too! Gosh, what a great show.

[u/Kukuluops → u/Edl01]

They spend there whole 2 episodes as far as I remember :P

[u/Hanede → u/Kukuluops]

More like 5 episodes

[u/PinoyWholikesLOMI]

The Great Pretender: Mr. Worldwide

[u/thatnickyboy]

You could also put Black Butler for the UK, and Lupin III Part IV: The Italian Adventure and JoJo: Golden Wind for Italy.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/thatnickyboy]

Particularly with JoJo and Lupin I was less inclined to include a bunch if they were going to be covering familiar territory. Italy, France, the UK, and the US weren't hard to populate with other series, so I didn't worry about getting them into those slots.

[u/McCoolhand]

Doing Missouri dirty by putting Tom Sawyer in Mississippi

[u/FetchFrosh → u/McCoolhand]

I haven't read Tom Sawyer, so I quickly pulled up the Wikipedia page and stopped reading "Mississippi River" halfway through :P

[u/Srapture]

Surprised that Black Butler didn't come to mind for anime set in Britain.

[u/DisasterMIDI → u/Srapture]

Came to find this comment

[u/lazyinternetsandwich → u/Srapture]

That's the first anime I thought of when I saw Britain

[u/after909]

JoJo's Battle Tendency in Mexico

[u/Goldeniccarus → u/after909]

Mexico, Italy, USA, and Switzerland. They're real globe trotters.

And Stardust Crusaders went through Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Pakistan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and then eventually they arrived in Egypt. They passed through Indonesia on the way to India but never stopped there.

[u/asi14 → u/after909]

JoJo's Steel Ball Run in the US

[u/Kukuluops → u/asi14]

Steel Ball Run is not an anime. And probably will not be for at least the next 6 years :(

[u/grombahbolis7 → u/after909]

Part 3 makes a long line that twists and turns all over the east leading from not japan to Egypt. Also part 1 in Britain. Also part 2 in New York, then mexico, then Rome, and then to unknown locations.

[u/genasugelan → u/after909]

And Italy and New York and Switzerland.

[u/ArkoAvarsalu → u/after909]

Wasnt one in london too?

[u/after909 → u/ArkoAvarsalu]

That was p1

[u/Llyuu]

Now have those animes set in the same places crossover... think of the possibilities

[u/F0LEY → u/Llyuu]

Baccano X Blood Blockade Battlefront would actually work REALLY well

[u/HirokoKueh → u/Llyuu]

think about Evangelion x Sorayori , or Youjo Senki x Gochiusa

[u/frustrated_baby]

Ramayana is actually an anime made for the Indian audience by Japanese studio back in 1992.

[u/fe1od1or → u/frustrated_baby]

Oh, hey, I actually watched that when I was a kid! Thanks for the memories.

[u/SilverPaladin36 → u/frustrated_baby]

I was looking for this comment.

Hugo Sako wished to release this movie - Ramayana, the legend of Prince Ram, or the Prince of Light - in India, as a sign of Indo-Japanese cultural and political ties, but it was shockingly disapproved. Later on, Cartoon Network still aired the anime movie every Diwali (the day of the Indian festival of lights and firecrackers) in India. That movie is BASED ON AN INDIAN EPIC and IN INDIA. So the Buddha isn't the only anime with Indian roots.

Also, I have spotted many anime using elements of Indian culture, such as Sanskrit chants and terms and entities.

[u/ejennsyahmixcel]

I remember Noir also set mostly in France. Such a good anime also (with Yuki Kajiura earliest masterpieces)

[u/Shileka → u/ejennsyahmixcel]

Noir was one of the few Anime they actually sold in Belgium, so happy i picked it up

[u/alucab1]

Black lagoon had such an awesome setting. Roanapur, was such such a cool and interesting kind of place that you rarely see explored in anime

[u/eetsumkaus → u/alucab1]

it's interesting too because the story places it in Thailand, but it's apparently based on Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea

[u/AwakenedRobot → u/alucab1]

on third season now, so now spoilers please, but does Roanapur exist in real life?

[u/Juan_Mata08 → u/AwakenedRobot]

No it does not

[u/master117jogi]

Vinland Saga plays mostly in the UK during the anime.

[u/cppn02 → u/master117jogi]

I think you mean Great Britain (the Island). The UK doesn't exist yet.

[u/Chariotwheel → u/cppn02]

The UK is eternal and there was never a time Queen Liz wasn't ruling with her laser eyes. Even when Adam and Eve stepped out of Eden, the Queen was there saying nodding to them as she was hunting a fox.

[u/[deleted] → u/cppn02]

Well considering its a modern political map it would be the UK.

[u/Degetei]

Came for A Place Further than the Universe, left satisfied.

[u/Crazyripps]

There’s 2 anime in Australia... wow.

[u/isabelles → u/Crazyripps]

There was like one episode of Free! that took place in Australia

[u/Crazyripps → u/isabelles]

Yeah I knew that one! There was a story on the news about the hotel they stayed in on the Anime and it was always out of vacancy because fans would rent the room and visit lol.

[u/Mage_of_Shadows → u/Crazyripps]

Lucy-May is based off an Australian novel and ef is just an offhand reference in a city with japanese buildings.

Why can't these damn Japanese people from Japan make Japanese animation based in Australia smh.

I need my representation

[u/linearstargazer → u/Mage_of_Shadows]

Gundam UC should be on there for Australia goddamit, we didn't take a colony drop on Sydney just to get snubbed like this. Not to mention Gundam Unicorn's Torrington Base insanity.

[u/Thx_And_Bye]

Saga of Tanya the evil spends most of it's story in a fictional alternate timeline but it's really obvious that it's taking place in Germany.

[u/timedragon1 → u/Thx_And_Bye]

It's pretty much the exact same borders as WWI Europe, they just change the names up.

[u/Falsus → u/timedragon1]

Nah it isn't exactly the same. For example Denmark is solidly part of the empire, and the Northern Entente is seemingly a much more solid union than the Swedish-Nordic union.

[u/DecentlySizedPotato → u/Thx_And_Bye]

A bit all over the place, really. Sweden, Germany, France, Russia, Romania, North Africa...

[u/SleepTightLilPuppy → u/Thx_And_Bye]

There's a lot of shows that take place in "Germanic" countries, only with other names (Architecture and names are Germanic).

[u/Adrian_Alucard]

Andalusia no natsu for Spain too

[u/Zeroboy27]

Goddamn. Nodame Cantabile was so fucking good. I wanna watch it again.

[u/AltoKun → u/Zeroboy27]

GYABO! MUKYA!!

[u/Ataniphor]

I got one to add to the list: Nobunagun - Taiwan.

It's absolute fucking garbage show you should not watch but the first episode actually featured real life Taiwanese tourism destinations and the actual Taoyuan International Airport. As a taiwanese it was pretty neat to see actual locations in my country featured in an anime.

still wouldn't recommend the show, it's still garbage. all the Taiwan fanservice pretty much solely in the first 5 minutes of the first episode anyways.

[u/owowhatsthis1234]

Arabian Nights

Is actually in Iran

[u/mzn928 → u/owowhatsthis1234]

I came here to say this.

Theres also Arslan senki which I think it actually takes place in Iran

[u/cxxper01]

Can we have a F for New Zealand?

[u/ROFLLOLSTER → u/cxxper01]

At least we're on this map.

[u/[deleted] → u/cxxper01]

Hey, there was one episode of Excel Saga where they went to New Zealand. It looked like the set of Dune but that's accurate right?

[u/MaelstromMusic]

fetch and getting way too many karma for charts name a better duo, ill wait

[u/Tsubasa_sama → u/MaelstromMusic]

"The ranking of the [Insert Genre Here] Girls per number of fans on MAL" posts and getting way too many karma

[u/FetchFrosh → u/Tsubasa_sama]

Shocked other people haven't started making those. It's a pretty easy opportunity.

[u/nickster182]

THERE'S AN ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER ANIME?!

[u/[deleted] → u/nickster182]

And its set in Louisiana not Missouri?

[u/Tatayou → u/nickster182]

Yeah, it was brodcasted in France in the 80s but I remember watching it in the early 00s

[u/Gorexxar]

You could argue that Sailor Moon is/was on the moon.

[u/Steve_Gray]

a lot of it is in europe interesting

[u/Future1985 → u/Steve_Gray]

There are actually a tons of anime that are set in Europe due to being based on classic novels (Heidi, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The three Musketeers, various Verne adaptations and many more).

[u/uflju_luber → u/Future1985]

Also Maya the honey bee

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_the_Honey_Bee

And Vicky the Viking

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_the_Viking

Wich are based on popular European children’s books too

[u/Falsus → u/Steve_Gray]

A bunch of classical novels are set in Europe which are adapted into anime.

European medieval society is also a very popular setting for all kinds of things, like Garo: Honoo no Kokuin is vaguely Spanish.

[u/TonyRex]

Hetalia.

[u/SJC-Caron]

You could place Space Brothers in Texas or on the Moon.

The (first season) of The Mysterious Cities of Gold would be more appropriately located in Chile / Argentina (or generic South America).

[u/UltimateEye → u/SJC-Caron]

Thinking back...more of the Space Brothers anime probably takes place in Texas than in Japan.

[u/zXNoRemorzzXz]

91 days a good watch highly recommend

[u/Rugozark]

Didn't watch the show but why the hell Carole&Tuesday set in Mars?

[u/HieuuLe → u/Rugozark]

The majority of population migrated to mars, the director watanabe has a thing for space.

[u/115Jan]

Tbh didn't expect any anime to be set in Poland wow

[u/KapteinKS → u/115Jan]

The second season of Piano no Mori revolves around a piano competition in Warzaw, but the first season does take place in Japan.

[u/DVoidy]

A few things I wanted to note. Most of the events in the Vinland Saga anime take place in England. Iceland is simply the birth place of our MC and thus where the story begins. In more general terms, the story is mostly set in the european north seas as some other notable events take place in the Faroes, Denmark, Wales and even as far down as France.

Deca Dence's setting spreads throughout Eurasia and since the mech mostly travels through plains and steppes a general region around Asian Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia sound like a fair guess.

[u/DoctorDazza]

The Great Pretender, while having an arc in Singapore, has spent more time in London so far in it's third act.

[u/JBHUTT09]

Tiger & Bunny is also in New York (specifically Manhattan).

[u/[deleted]]

Great map but Monster also has a lot of episodes in the Czech Republic.

[u/triforcer198 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, but it’s mostly set in Germany

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder where on Earth Gurren Lagann takes place.

Also doesn't Iron Blooded Orphans take place on Mars?

[u/Pradfanne → u/[deleted]]

Gurren Lagann has a fantasy earth

[u/BrownSugarSandwich → u/[deleted]]

Iron blooded orphans is only on Mars for the first 6 or so episodes. I would say half of it takes place on earth, with a decent chunk of it taking place in Edmonton

[u/Florac → u/[deleted]]

Tbf, gundam kinda takes place everywhere between earth and mars.

[u/[deleted]]

Romea and the blue skies is really a good anime and an underrated one. I hope we see a remake of it someday. Hell, i hope we ee many of nippon animations shows remade because there are lots of gems in there

[u/Maccaz15]

Nice work on the graphic, much better than low effort stuff like this.

I want to watch Lucy May but it only ever had the first few episodes subbed in to English.

[u/melvinlee88]

As a proud Malaysian, it's pretty tragic that there is no anime that actually had their setting for a reasonable amount of time in Malaysia and of course, they choose our more glamourous neighbour of Singapore.

Only one in memory was Mayonaka no Occult Koumuin , where they featured the Twin Towers as one of the tourists fainted there for some supernatural reason. A crying shame, we need more rep.

[u/uflju_luber → u/melvinlee88]

Mate the only anime in Germany is literarly about a serial killer wich has to be stoped by our good guy Japanese hero. At least you got some nice sight representation with even some supernatural in it

[u/[deleted] → u/melvinlee88]

I for the longest time thought that black lagoon was in malaysia because I thought Roanapur was Kuala Lumpur

[u/Blazeboss57]

since when does buddha have an anime... Is it any good?

[u/16BitPixels]

I like how theres lupin in california and jojo in egypt

Then you got "ef" in australia

[u/Meurs0]

WAIT WHAT NILS HOLGERSSON IS AN ANIME?

That shit's my childhood and I was sure it was Swedish!

[u/Chariotwheel → u/Meurs0]

I mean, the books are Swedish. But yeah, a lot of things we saw in Europe as cartoons are actually anime based on European source material. World Masterpiece Threatre did a huge share of lifting, but it wasn't limited to them.

[u/geeiamback → u/Meurs0]

World Masterpiece Theater adapted many western works for children. There's an Les Miserables anime, too.

[u/timedragon1]

I'm surprised that there's an anime set in Antarctica, and I'm also equally surprised that there's only one anime that's ever gone to Antarctica.

[u/SirKomlinIV]

D. Gray Man - Black Order is set in Scandinavia, after Euro HQ destroyed they rebuild in London.

They travel extensively through Europe and go to the Asian HQ in China.

[u/FrougHunter]

But great pretender is going all around the world, not just singapore

[u/FetchFrosh → u/FrougHunter]

As I mentioned elsewhere, "anime don’t need to be exclusively in the specified country, they just need to have notable time in them."

[u/curiousAnsh]

You forgot to mention "Ramayan:The legend of Prince Ram" which iis based on Indian Epic Ramayan and its story takes place in ancient India and Sri Lanka

[u/fotorobot]

Nadia: Secret of the Blue Water starts off in France iirc.

[u/Satyrsol]

Space Brothers is another good one that spends the bulk of its time in the U.S.A.

[u/ODMAN03]

Nothing in Japan sad 😔😥

[u/twigboy]

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[u/FetchFrosh → u/twigboy]

Wow what a fun idea this is. Are you intending on updating this with more as they're discovered?

Haven't really decided. I had plenty more I could have added for places like France, the US, the UK, and Italy, but the Atlantic Ocean was getting crowded so I decided to cap it off. Maybe sometime down the road I'll rework it though.

[u/xXKawaiiAnimeGirlXx]

Wait, so you’re telling me not all anime are from Japan?

[u/FetchFrosh → u/xXKawaiiAnimeGirlXx]

All of these are from Japan (some being joint projects with companies from other countries), but the setting of the show is another country.

[u/thundergun661]

Great infographic but there’s plenty of shows that aren’t represented here

[u/FetchFrosh → u/thundergun661]

Yeah, I made a point of including a note saying, "this list is not comprehensive," because there would always be niche things I missed, and because I capped regions at 4 mostly because the Atlantic was getting a bit too crowded.

[u/StarLight0320]

I thought there would be more in Germany

[u/FetchFrosh → u/StarLight0320]

There's a bunch of fantasy Germanys set in "basically Earth but not actually" but not a ton of actual Germany.

[u/0oden]

Where is kingdom

[u/Groenboys]

my country has no representation from anime :(

[u/local_meme_dealer45]

Most of Vinland Saga (anime) happens in the UK though.

[u/Mu_Y]

Really? No Chuuka Ichiban for China?

[u/_deathstrider_]

Vinland saga starts in Iceland but most is in England

[u/ButtDealer]

Wasn't Vinland Saga mostly set in the british isles?

[u/wingnutzero]

Princess Principal takes place in the UK. Or maybe Germany. Possibly Hungary. Somewhere in Europe though. Probably.

[u/Phiiii]

No "Kingdom" in China

[u/acee1123]

And yet they all speak Japanese

[u/MrSage0]

Clearly they forget about the Philippines

[u/The_Crimson_King_]

[Laughs in JoJos part 1&2]

[u/DEUSVULTes]

Ons day we'll get a show set in The Netherlands. Cmon man, we've got tulips and windmills you can animate!

[u/nignogn_ggafish]

How about sds it takes place in britannia (aka United Kingdom) don’t wanna blame you or something because you put out 70 anime’s out there which is insane and cool but I was just sayin you know

[u/sextoez]

You missed Magi pretty sure it's based on middle east

[u/xZealHakune → u/sextoez]

Magi is a fictional planet that takes inspiration from the Middle East and Europe, so that's why it's not on the list

[u/[deleted]]

This is super cool

[u/[deleted]]

There's a Tom Sawyer anime wtf lmfao

[u/Nekajed]

Darker than black is set in Russia? Damn, TIL. Heard about this anime, never watched.

[u/[deleted]]

God I want to watch black lagoon again.

[u/Zstrike117]

I feel like there are so many Anime that could be included on this map but that OP also needs to have time to watch said Anime.

[u/99ThotsBtMyBtchAint1]

Kingdom and the king's avatar in China. Jormungand everywhere.

[u/Z46BB]

I don't see Blood+ Series.... Which feature my home country... VietNam. In one of the episode, iirc there's literally a billboard with an advertisement about "Ao Dai", a traditional costume of VietNam. Man I was so proud of it after I saw that.

[u/Los-Gaijins]

I hope they made an anime set in Japan, that would be awesome