It’s always nice to hear something familiar in anime, and some series just love featuring real life people. It’s not even the people themselves sometimes, but their names, but it can still be quite interesting.
You’ll find the names of all types of writers among this series’ characters. Japanese (Osamu Dazai, Atsushi Nakajima, Doppo Kunikida), French (Paul Verlaine), American (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe), Russian (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin), and English (Agatha Christie) ones.
Basically, if there’s a world famous author, there’s a good chance you’ll find a character with that name in Bungou Stray Dogs.
Did you know that some of the Vinland Saga characters existed in real life? Moreover, the story of the manga and anime is highly inspired by their adventures, and if you want to know more about that, you can read this piece of ours.
But yes, Thorfinn was a real Icelandic explorer who also wanted to find Vinland and settle there. Gudrid and Canute were inspired by real-life people. The only hope is that the fictional characters won’t end up like their real-life inspirations.
Black Butler is set in Victorian England, so you’ll notice characters meeting or mentioning some real life people there, too. Ciel is known as "the Queen's Guard Dog,” so, you guessed it, Queen Victoria will make an appearance.
And if you’ve always loved stories about Jack the Ripper, Black Butler will surprise you with a different take on his identity.
4. Nobunaga the Fool
The leading cast of this anime consists of people with names that sound very familiar.
They are Oda Nobunaga who was a Japanese feudal lord and influential figure; Jeanne Kaguya d'Arc, which sounds like Joan of Arc, who is a patron saint of France and a world-famous feminism icon; and Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian, who could do it all ― he was a painter, an engineer, a scientist, an architect and much more.
This anime is based on the Genpei War (1180–1185), which is a real civil war between the Taira and Minamoto clans. Both clans keep their true names in the series.
Some characters were also real-life figures, and you might be surprised to learn that Taira no Tokuko, Taira no Shigemori, Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Fujiwara no Tadamichi were also real people.
Hm, we’ve heard these names before.
It’s always nice to hear something familiar in anime, and some series just love featuring real life people. It’s not even the people themselves sometimes, but their names, but it can still be quite interesting.
You’ll find the names of all types of writers among this series’ characters. Japanese (Osamu Dazai, Atsushi Nakajima, Doppo Kunikida), French (Paul Verlaine), American (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe), Russian (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin), and English (Agatha Christie) ones.
Basically, if there’s a world famous author, there’s a good chance you’ll find a character with that name in Bungou Stray Dogs.
Did you know that some of the Vinland Saga characters existed in real life? Moreover, the story of the manga and anime is highly inspired by their adventures, and if you want to know more about that, you can read this piece of ours.
But yes, Thorfinn was a real Icelandic explorer who also wanted to find Vinland and settle there. Gudrid and Canute were inspired by real-life people. The only hope is that the fictional characters won’t end up like their real-life inspirations.
Black Butler is set in Victorian England, so you’ll notice characters meeting or mentioning some real life people there, too. Ciel is known as "the Queen's Guard Dog,” so, you guessed it, Queen Victoria will make an appearance.
And if you’ve always loved stories about Jack the Ripper, Black Butler will surprise you with a different take on his identity.
4. Nobunaga the Fool
The leading cast of this anime consists of people with names that sound very familiar.
They are Oda Nobunaga who was a Japanese feudal lord and influential figure; Jeanne Kaguya d'Arc, which sounds like Joan of Arc, who is a patron saint of France and a world-famous feminism icon; and Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian, who could do it all ― he was a painter, an engineer, a scientist, an architect and much more.
This anime is based on the Genpei War (1180–1185), which is a real civil war between the Taira and Minamoto clans. Both clans keep their true names in the series.
Some characters were also real-life figures, and you might be surprised to learn that Taira no Tokuko, Taira no Shigemori, Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Fujiwara no Tadamichi were also real people.
