RTing my offhand comment (about the British government groups called SAGE, COBRA etc.) because really this makes as much sense as anything else these days https://twitter.com/RichPuchalsky/status/1253766476970033153

One of the things I've sometimes wondered is: let's say that mainstream UK culture was forgotten in the far future, but anime survived. What would far future academics conclude about the UK if they only knew about it from Japanese anime? @EdmundGriffiths

Like a mashup of: Hellsing, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Black Butler, and every vaguely noble foreign character that visits Japan inexplicably like the guy from The Case Files of Jeweler Richard

Come to think of it, @arrroberts should read this thread and then tell one of his students that it would be a great idea to do this as a project