Caps and moustaches are what society needs more of

Despite how confusing the plot is, you can't deny it's an amazing movie with amazing architecture.

I wouldn't say Medieval Europe is overrated, it's just never done right. It's always either a grey and blue depressing filter with dilapidated huts. Or it's just generic fachwerks that might not even be from Medieval times, but 17th-19th century. I really like the aesthetics from films/series like "Spice and a Wolf," "Andrey Rublev," "The Hussite Trilogy" (an old Czech film trilogy from 1950s set in the begining of the Hussite revolution, includes some nice recreations of Medieval Bohemian architecture) and few others. The fairy tale like idealistic Paris from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was also nice.

Mind you, I agree that the general European "Belle Époque" aestethics are highly underappreciated in media.

Any Studio Ghibli movie, honestly. They’re all different but all beautiful. Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke are two of my favorites

Edit: sorry they don’t exactly have the same aesthetic, but might be a good place to look and find some others that do

Steam Boy by Katsuhiro Otomo has some pretty good mid 19th century English inspired backgrounds, it's not nearly as fantastical as a Ghibli film, but it's still fun none the less. It also has a lot of fantastic industrial animation if you're into watching gears turn.

Violet Evergarden and Arcane (not anime, but still animated) come to my mind. Both shows have incredibly beautiful scenery and ambiance, including character designs/fashion.

Ghibli studio has a few other films with the same aesthetic; 'Kiki's Delivery Service', 'Porco Rosso', 'Tales from Earthsea', and 'Castle In The Sky' jumps to mind.

It’s not a movie but a great anime I’m enjoying is Spy x Family. It’s a new anime so there’s only 2 episodes out so far but it’s great imo!

Legend of Korra. One of the best Anime’s and has the same vibe

Fullmetal Alchemist has to be it, the aesthetics are so engaging

Honestly I spent more time looking at the backgrounds than actually paying attention to what was going on

And ended in bloodshed and fire

I try to remember that one day, this will be the good old days.

The days when we all had cars with cheap petrol, that we could fix up ourselves and drive across the country.

The days where jobs were plentiful, before everything was robotised.

The days when you could jet off across Europe for a £50 Easyjet ticket. The days of pubs and clubs and chatting to real life strangers, the last days of real life dating.

The days before the war, the days when we had freedom.

I know we like to look back on the good old days in this sub (I think we all agree buildings were better at least) but we shouldn't forget to appreciate the present from time to time.

You’re welcome to go back to the skirts and petticoats. I’ve considered revamping my wardrobe. And the pockets. Omg don’t forget the huge pockets where you can keep snacks and and lots of money and kitchen scissors.

I was thinking the same. Attack in Titan and violet evergarden have the same setting too.

Nobody's stopping you from dressing like this... go ahead. I for one am grateful for the freedom to dress however I want.

Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's moving castle

Do yourself a favor and just watch all the Miyazaki you can. There are a couple of mediocre ones, but you'll never see them on streaming so it's not like you're going to be taking too many risks.

The places that didn't get bombed flat

There actually are cars, but in limited amount and with some goofy designs.

Me too, me too...

Merry go round by Joe Hisaishi

Big agree, Violet Evergarden seemed like one big European love letter from Japan.

Look up Howl's moving castle on YT, there's a short vid that shows all these parts without the actual story

Politics were starting to get radical in some places, but the general trend in this era was stability with the lower classes winning fights with the help of middle class reformers. Old age pensions, fairer dole conditions, trade unions, working men's clubs, company paternalism, building societies and benevolent funds all made life that little bit less of a grind and signalled the start of the era where the working man was finally starting to see real benefits from industrialisation. Some countries handled this better than others, Germany and the UK did this particularly well and class relations remained cordial for the most part.

Industrial cities were filled with soot, true, but there were still many cities that didn't rely on chimneys belching smoke. Market towns, administrative centres, and pretty much all Mediterranean cities had excellent air quality, a far cry from the grim blackness of 1880s Manchester.

Remember this is the age where people stopped throwing their shit in the street in favour of sewers, when electricity and gas were finding their way out of the major cities and into the towns. People had some serious pride in their properties and clothing as well, they may have been poor but their houses and gardens were spotless. The streets were beginning to be paved in the major cities, and manure was collected regularly. Although we no longer have to have the street swept by urchins we do still have mounds of packaging blowing around and food waste can start to honk in poorer cities, that certainly wasn't an issue in Victorian London. It was still absolutely honking, but in a different way.

And as for the people? They may have been grubby on work days, but all except the very poorest had "best" clothes for their days off that were kept spotless and scented. No one would ever have gone out straight from work covered in soot and horseshit except the standing bar at the pub.

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