I love this show! I'm on episode 3, but I don't quite understand the setting
there's no spoilers I'm just talking about the setting The plot appears to be in a timeline around the end of World War 2, but it doesn’t actually occur in a European country as I thought at first.
It appears to be an alternate universe of sorts. The City looks European but I was quite surprised when they celebrated a festival that pretty much had Japanese origins.(from
http://sekainomei.wordpress.com/)
So if this is a
Alternate universe, would the East have the same Asian landscape looks but with European traits? weird thought
The things that make the most sense would be the following in bold
"The main thing that stood out to me in Sora no Woto is the setting. Even by the end of the last episode, we still don’t get a thorough explanation of the world they live in besides the fact that a great war caused it to become the way it is in the story. The only clues we get are subtleties, like the Fire Maiden’s tale, the fact that organism don’t live in the oceans anymore, and that languages and country names are different (Seize resembles Spain, Helvetia is another name for Switzerland, and the Roman Empire’s language is German). Putting these and other hints about
the setting together gives the impression that Sora no Woto perhaps takes place many centuries in the future, after some kind of catastrophic war reduced our once flourishing world into what it is in the series. And even after seeing the whole show, I still have the same question about the setting: does Sora no Woto take place in a fictional world, or does it take place in a hypothetical future of reality? I would have liked to know more of the history of Sora no Woto’s setting, but I also think the ambiguity of how it’s presented is fascinating."
(blog quoted from Yumeka of http://animeyume.com) Lost tech and mixed cultures. " I continue to find myself enjoying how Sora no Woto mixes the tech from the
“lost world” with the much simpler tech of the everyday. It’s a jarring contrast to see all the futuristic goodies popping out of the tank like its holographic combat displays then we see that the current world has to communicate via landline rotary dial phones and bugle calls.
The current humans of Sora no Woto’s world know what they’ve lost, but they also know that if man once made it that knowledge maybe someday be reclaimed."by animewriter of
http://animewriter.wordpress.com)
good theory of the setting The Gentle Post-Apocalypse of “Sora no Woto”http://animediet.net/reviews/anime-reviews/the-gentle-post-apocalypse-of-sora-no-woto-------------------
(my ending thoughts)
All in all it makes me want to explore this place, I really want to learn more about this futuristic world?
but maybe this quote is true after-all?
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."Albert Einstein (1947)
He means because of the lethal power of nuclear weapons if anyone survives WW3, they will have been blown back to the stone age by the horrific might of our technology. So he is basically saying that the people involved in WW4 will be caveman, like This is consistent with a theory that has been developing regarding population and technology. It is clear from studies of human development that population growth is the greatest driver of technological progression. If the human population begins to decrease, and especially if a catastrophic event wipes out much of civilization, we will have lost the ability to use the technology we have accumulated to that point. people who knew how to make something might be might out with that knowledgeI think this is where the setting takes place, after a world war 3!what do you guys think?
