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From my own (possibly limited) anime viewing experience, the US surprisingly doesn't feature as a setting in anime quite that often, in fact, I've seen more K-dramas set in the US than anime.

Instead it's countries like UK and Germany that I feel have far more of a presence in anime settings. Not sure why that is the case.

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Japan had close relationship with differnt European countries, before USA was having any official contact. So for historical settings, these countries are maybe more familiar.

For worlds timed to circa 1000 - 500 years, US was pretty different from Europe.

Also remember close ties between Japan and Germany during certain war.

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