This is Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire in the 14th century BC. This is the story of a girl who rides the sultry winds across the vast stretches of Anatolia.
I miss Hat tu sa...
The evilest.
O, my Anatolian dogeza.
>seething
>holy fuck I love being evil
My evil woman can't possibly be this cute.
So are we going to Troy? Seeing how Wilusa was under the Hittite control and the very Trojan War could very likely have been a conflict between the Mycenaeans and the Hittites.
>>292047539Troy wouldn't be that interesting at this time. The 14th century BC is removed from when the Trojan War is believed to have happened, somewhere in the 12th century BC, or perhaps the 13th at the earliest. We do know there was a treaty between Troy and the Hittite Empire in the 13th century, though, but even that is still pretty far removed from the current time.
>>292047539This show is set in a time so ancient that even whatever events inspired the Iliad haven't taken place yet.
studying hittite and I was suprised how many similarities there are to latin, even a lot of shared cognates. I always imagined hittite was further removed from the other IE languages
>even 3400 years ago, women were still falling for bad boy musicianssigh
>>292047792>>292047831Sure, but this isn't a documentary and the manga is bending the history to suit its narrative already. Just going to Troy to namedrop it would be a great event/arc. I mean it's Troy. How do you set your story in the bronze age Anatolia and miss on such an opportunity.
>>292047831weird to think that the origins of cuneiform culture were already as old to the hittites as the hittites are to us
>>292047868Wonder what effect bronze age trade had on linguistic exchange of the era. Hittites were part of the trade network that spanned from Babylon to North Africa, and specifically had a lot of exchange culturally with the Mycenaeans that in turn had settled as far west as Italy.
>>292047539Apparently scholars have started to find Hittite influences in the Homeric Epics, the old Alexandrine opinion that Homer plagiarized earlier Near Eastern novels may have new legitimacy
>>292047947If that's true, we might be able to guess more at the missing parts of the cycles that didn't survive to the present day. The great Homeric epics are only fragments of larger collected works, which we know because other ancient sources reference them by name, even though no copies exist of them today.
>>292047539>latest studies reveal that Helen was described as a "malnourished black-haired tomboy"
>>292048037The twig that launched a thousand ships...
These Babylonians seem real uppity. I bet somebody is going to take exception to that eventually and burn their city down.
>>292048080𒊩𒌆 𒇽𒀲𒊮𒂵
>>292048050At the hanging, the final words were: "Kairu ouji..."
>>292048080Was the queen just in her revenge?
>>292048308
>>292048340tanked that btw
>>292048451It only cost them one irreplaceable dynasty and all their diplomatic clout.
>>292048649Somebody pull up her dress and check her underwear, because it seems like Yuri got some balls all of a sudden.
>>292048649>an army is on their way to kill me? well then I'll just leave!
man, I wish the Sumerians had been able to withstand the onslaught of Chamito-semitic and Indoiranian anons encroaching on their territory
>>292048797That's always an option. Look, I even added it to the list.
>>292048895Weren't the Babylonians Akkadians rather than proper Sumerians?
>>292048962Properly, Babylonians are the mutted outcome of Akkadians merging with Chalcolithic Sumerians, Babylon was always a melting pot, not a monogenetic ethnicity/culture
>>292046935Its called having a lot of personality.
>>292049308*evil personality
>>292047031Traditional Anatolian bushido, folded 1000 times.
>>292047356The first rule of being an evil woman is to have fun.
>>292047876some things never change
>>292048080BABYLON SISTERSSHAKE IT
>>292048037She has an elegantly low BMI.
>>292050280
What about your original boyfriend, Yuri?
>>292051451anatolian harlot
6 episodes left.
>>292052386still a lot, hopefully we get to some good stuff
>>292052386Three volumes and a half to go. It's doable
>>292052885To go to what?
>>292052935The ending. I'm 100% sure the anime will end more or less halfway through volume 14 for reasons that would be a spoiler to explain. The latest episode covered the last part of volume 10, so six episodes left for three and a half volumes
>>292053012Season 2 announcement right away.
>>292047539I thought the same thing, in the sense that basically there is the setting for a war within the hittite civilization for the twiggly nipponese female kid
>>292053106I'm not sure I'm that hopeful, but it would be nice. Another 24 episodes season would adapt the manga in its entirety, and I'm honestly so sick of incomplete adaptations
>>292047539You're going to get just Egypt, and you're going to like it
>>292053156It's more likely than not actually. The studio got nothing better to do and this wasn't a very expensive production, plus it wasn't doing too bad in Japan.
>>292053242>The studio got nothing better to dothey've actually got two anime airing next season
>>292053440Which is fine since season 2 won't be around for at least 6 months to a year. But overall Tatsunoko got nothing to do, they release just 3-4 anime a year.
>>292053189I will.
>>292046259Gesundheit.
>>292047031How is she so fat?
The real question is why would you let any woman to get any sort of position of power, just look at our current society, I thought people from the past knew better...
>>292054903History is littered with failed civilizations, only a few really have much staying power, and some only manage to propagate their ideas, if not their actual government and culture. The Hitties were one of many that didn't survive the shit test that was the late bronze age collapse, they only exist in fragmented records of the past, now. They were once one of the great powers of the bronze age in the near east, and in the span of a century they were utterly destroyed, their cities in ruins, their people scattered.
>>292047876You know that dude Homer got tons of pussy.
