vampires in budapest! (trinity blood ep3)

[Gabor Farkas]

hi,

i've just watched the third episode of Trinity Blood...

it's happening in Budapest (capitol of Hungary (a country in Europe)).

i'm hungarian and was in budapest a lot of times, so it was really fun
to see budapest shown in an anime...btw. they call the city the City of
Istvan (Istvan is the hungarian version of..hmmm..Stephan?)..

but it is ok, because the anime is happening in a post-apocalyptic
future, so it's quite possible that Budapest (or it's remains) were
renamed to City of Istvan..

one famous bridge in Budapest (Lanchid..in english it would be
Chain-bridge i think) can be seen very detailed in the anime.

screencaptures of the bridge in the anime:

http://img256.echo.cx/img256/575/bridge13js.png
http://img256.echo.cx/img256/948/bridge26aa.png
http://img240.echo.cx/img240/3550/bridge35pw.png

photos of the real bridge in budapest:

http://img240.echo.cx/img240/2687/p1151pf.jpg
http://img240.echo.cx/img240/7484/flanchid9eb.jpg
http://img240.echo.cx/img240/3421/p1245df.jpg

the lions ( http://img140.echo.cx/img140/9194/oroszlan4ql.jpg )
btw have no tongues ;)

some historical photos of the bridge:

http://img140.echo.cx/img140/8071/klap165au.jpg
http://img140.echo.cx/img140/1149/hkep0798my.jpg
http://img140.echo.cx/img140/8817/hkep0712zu.jpg
http://img140.echo.cx/img140/698/hkep0706cz.jpg

the bridge was destroyed in the second world war (they detonated it with
explosives):

http://img73.echo.cx/img73/5435/hkep0981ik.jpg
http://img140.echo.cx/img140/5431/hkep0951rz.jpg
http://img140.echo.cx/img140/7841/hkep0977pq.jpg

they rebuilt it to it's current form after the war.

gabor

[D B Malmquist]

Gabor Farkas wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i've just watched the third episode of Trinity Blood...
>
> it's happening in Budapest (capitol of Hungary (a country in Europe)).
>
> i'm hungarian and was in budapest a lot of times, so it was really fun
> to see budapest shown in an anime...btw. they call the city the City of
> Istvan (Istvan is the hungarian version of..hmmm..Stephan?)..
>
> but it is ok, because the anime is happening in a post-apocalyptic
> future, so it's quite possible that Budapest (or it's remains) were
> renamed to City of Istvan..
>
> one famous bridge in Budapest (Lanchid..in english it would be
> Chain-bridge i think) can be seen very detailed in the anime.
>
> screencaptures of the bridge in the anime:

<<snip>>

That's pretty cool, thanks! One fun aspect of the "Magic Knight
Rayearth" OAVs is the destruction of many easily-recognizable Tokyo
landmark buildings. (IIRC Windham is buried under the playing field
of the Tokyo Dome.) I wonder whether you'll get to see your bridge
smashed in the next couple of episodes?

New York City has occasionally appeared in anime, sometimes in a
slightly fictionalized form ("Noir", "Patlabor" TV, "Hunter X Hunter",
"Kodomo no Omocha" apparently, though I haven't seen it) and I've
often wished to see Boston appear at least once. The closest I've
ever seen an anime come to my home town is in "Rozen Maiden": a
watch shown in the ED has a manufacturer's mark from the "Weltham
Watch Company" from "Weltham, Mess", a thinly disguised reference
to the Waltham Watch Company, which, until the late 1950s,
manufactured watches less than 5 miles from where I now live.

- dbm