English isn't the only language the Japanese think is cool. Quite a few anime series include German words and phrases instead of, or in addition to, English words to add an exotic flair. Like English, the quality of German in an anime series can be quite good or very bad. In many cases, the German sounds angry to most English listeners (and plain annoying/stupid to others), regardless of what is being said; this is rather different from how it is spoken in Germany, where it is more nuanced and even quite pleasant to listen to. Ja! That movie of Hitler getting angry and speaking in German might have something to do with it. The fact that he's speaking with an Austrian accent never dawned upon us, and neither did the fact that Hitler's speaking style is quite unique and hard to comprehend fo
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| - English isn't the only language the Japanese think is cool. Quite a few anime series include German words and phrases instead of, or in addition to, English words to add an exotic flair. Like English, the quality of German in an anime series can be quite good or very bad. In many cases, the German sounds angry to most English listeners (and plain annoying/stupid to others), regardless of what is being said; this is rather different from how it is spoken in Germany, where it is more nuanced and even quite pleasant to listen to. Ja! That movie of Hitler getting angry and speaking in German might have something to do with it. The fact that he's speaking with an Austrian accent never dawned upon us, and neither did the fact that Hitler's speaking style is quite unique and hard to comprehend fo
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| - English isn't the only language the Japanese think is cool. Quite a few anime series include German words and phrases instead of, or in addition to, English words to add an exotic flair. Like English, the quality of German in an anime series can be quite good or very bad. In many cases, the German sounds angry to most English listeners (and plain annoying/stupid to others), regardless of what is being said; this is rather different from how it is spoken in Germany, where it is more nuanced and even quite pleasant to listen to. Ja! That movie of Hitler getting angry and speaking in German might have something to do with it. The fact that he's speaking with an Austrian accent never dawned upon us, and neither did the fact that Hitler's speaking style is quite unique and hard to comprehend for the average German OR Austrian to begin with. A variation on this trope is that when an anime character is mixed Japanese and something else, the "something else" often turns out to be German. This may result in the character speaking some garbled German at some point. The popularity of German is possibly related to good relations between Japan and Germany during the 20th century. Or because when Japan was modernizing in the late 19th century, it borrowed heavily from Germany, which was also a newly forming nation-state at the time, and world class in technology and science (e.g., the Japanese legislature is called the Diet in some countries as it was partially patterned on the 19th-century Prussian Diet. In Japanese, it is apparently called the "Kokkai", literal translation is National Assembly which makes a lot more sense.).
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