ITT: Best and most accurate depictions of history in popular culture and media

Yeah basically.
Cats are vietnamese, rabbits are americans, monkeys are japanese, russians are bears, chinese are pandas.

Im pretty sure central asia isnt that peaceful

Otoyemagatari isn't exactly showing it as peaceful either.
There's the various inter tribal rivalries, and the Russians were talked about in the manga.

Buddhist farming manga, my favourite

It's 19th Century Central Asia. It wasn't as bad as prior centuries anymore what with the Qing Dynasty and the Tsarist Russians BTFO major Steppe Nomad Powers between the 1600s and 1800s.

There's a reason why the Dzungars were considered the last of the great Steppe Nomad powers. Their genocide by Qing China was the end of a whole way of life.

Oops I meant

oh damn i've read this before
iirc there are some nice boobs

The artist is fantastic.
youtube.com/watch?v=yjQxINUAVms

She is, she also has some pretty neat and well researched victorian era mangas if you're interested.

>French are pigs
>Japanese are monkeys

Damn, this is pretty brutal compared to Maus.

>rabbits are Americans

Someone is ripping off of someone.

You idiot, same author.

Except author has lived long enough to watch America fuck up again so he thought it timely to set one during the War on Terror.

It is amazing indeed.

Otoyomegatari doesn't show it as peaceful at all. It's just not about wars or warriors but more or less ordinary people, a lot of them women (and Mr. Smith). The attack on the town was not explicitly very bloody, that's right.

What Central Asian country does it take place in?

I think Uzebkistan and Kazakhstan. But the story moves around, I think one story was in Persia and one of the characters is traveling to Ankara.

I think it's leaved out on purpose. Anyways modern central asian countries didn't exist back then, but I suppose it would be modern Kazakhstan since they're always talking about the Russians being kind of near.

I think the town would be in Kazakhstan and then it's only Mr. Smith who visits Uzbekistan and Persia.

Legend of Galactic Heroes is a good Veeky Forums show.
It isn't based in real history, but it's characters are all amalgamations of important historical figures and most of the show is spent in dialectics about governmental ethics.

It would have to be more to the north because there is friction between a british adventurer and some russian occupants.

I'm not very well versed in the great game is though so I don't know the russian sphere of influence ends and the british one begins.

Afghanistan and Iran are buffer states and basically everything else is russian or british.

But in Otoyomegatari this expansion has mostly not happened yet. The brit is in theory just a scholar, he has nothing to do with brittish intelligence. And if he was, it's obvious that russians and brits sent spies to the other's controled territory.