#berlint

I'll eat my hat if the tiny thing in the background isn't the Brandenburger Tor/Brandenburg Gate. (It's very small and they changed the quadriga, but apart from that it's pretty much the same.)

Which makes the Lindon Street the equivalent of Unter den Linden (literally "under the linden trees", the street that leads to the Brandenburger Tor).

But it really looks as if the Berlint version was a pedestrian area. I'm so jealous. (I mean the middle part in Berlin is pedestrian area too, but it's still a big street with wayyyy too many cars. I'm really really jealous. Berlin government? Maybe you could take a leaf out of Endo-sensei's book? Make Unter den Linden car-free?)

https://darkcloudxero.com/2023/12/18/yor-vs-chun-li/

I guess at this point I should just expect that any collaboration is possible. I mean Night Tempo has made collaborations with Sayumi Michishige and Airi Suzuki. It's crazy how a lot of the things I like are coming together from time to time. We truly are living in the future now.

I wonder what special attacks Yor will have. Wait are these collaboration events only temporary or are they going to be left in the game forever?

In this fight I'm team Yor by the way. Who do you guys think would win?

Hasta la proxima,

That argument is hilarious to me because, if you REALLY want to watch a culturally accurate “Spy x Family”, you’d watch it in the German dub. The show is based on Cold War-era East and West Germany and the capital city is literally called Berlint. Also, even without the German background, the English dub would be more culturally accurate since all the characters and setting are obviously European-based.

I was impressed with how much like the actual Berlin U-Bahn the subway station the Forger family goes through in episode 12 is, down to the green tile kiosk where he buys his drinks. (Excuse the player controls.)

I'm 1000% ready to believe that they're in the Berlin subway right now, even if the white tile strips aren't quite right. (They're for blind people to use as guides for their canes, and they're at a lot of road crossings, too.)

Also, Berlin subway trains are yellow.

I don't have any photos of any stations that look like this one, but it's possibly modeled on Alexanderplatz.

If you don't believe me, this entire twitter account is pictures of the U-Bahn stations on every line, start to finish. Here's one of Alex:

valentina and her friends are on tour again! this time they’re probably going to play in a fancy concert hall.

benjamin texted valentina a few days before asking if she needed help packing (because he thinks she’s terrible at this kind of thing). and she said she was fine and he decided he had to accept that because she’s older than him.

benjamin thinks valentina is unreasonably excited. she’s happy about everything, like seeing the airport and being on the aeroplane with all her friends, even though they’ve done all those things before. but also they had to report at like 630am which he thought was too early. and then valentina and berlint go racing on the brown and black tiles in the airport and benjamin is terrified that they’re going to crash into someone and then he’ll feel like he has to apologise on their behalf. and berlint thinks it’s funny to watch them not-really-bicker.

And wtf?? I guess it's nowhere explicitely stated that every building there belongs to Eden academy, but it's called huge and considering it has several dormitories and halls, at least two cafeterias, its own garden and its own farm, I think it's safe to assume that all the buildings in this panel belong to Eden.

Including the one on the hill with the dome.

Meaning in Sxf universe, the FUCKING REICHSTAG IS A PART OF EDEN.

You can't tell me this isn't the exact same building…

In the anime you can even see that even the glass dome is the same.

Which I find especially interesting for several reasons.

For one, the modern glass dome of the real life Reichstag building wasn't built until the 1990s while sxf takes place in the 50s or 60s.

As you can see, the original dome looked quite different from the modern dome.

Plus all the historical implications.

The Reichstag building (commonly referred to simply as Reichstag) was build during the imperial era, back in the 19th century. As we learn in Ch115 there has been an imperial era in sxf verse as well, so I'm just going to assume that sxf Reichstag was build during that time, too.

The real life Reichstag was the place where the German parliament met. Obviously that can't be the case in sxf universe where it's part of a school. Which makes me wonder where that would be in sxf universe (plus a lot of questions about the political system in general).

The dome though… in real life Germany the original dome burnt in 1933 (arson, still not clear who did it but the nazis accused communists and used it as an excuse to suspend fundamental rights). The remains were further demolished during the war and then dismantled in the 1950s.

And like… if it's no political building, I don't see why sxf Reichstag building should fall victim to arson? Could be normal wartime destruction tho, maybe it was damaged by a bomb. Maybe if we learn some more about Ostanian history in the future, I can make more specific guesses.

If it's just a normal school building though and its destruction was just "normal" war damage, it would make sense they reconstructed the dome so quickly instead of waiting til the 90s. After all, it has none of the political implications of the real life Reichstag—being a symbol of a pre-democratic form of government, then a weak democracy and the nazi-regime. However in this case, I wonder why they settled for this design of the dome. When they decided to rebuild the dome in a modern style, that was a conscious decision to make a clear break with the past—why would Eden Academy do that? As I said, the political implications of real life Reichstag aren't there and Eden seems to value its history.

Anyway, many questions, few answers.

Or maybe I'm reading to much into it when reflecting so much on its history and architecture and Endo-sensei just wanted to use a famous Berlin landmark without including all of its history…