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There's no need to apologize. I didn't take your statements as criticism I simply assumed you were confused as to what I meant. "Fictionalized" often has a negative connotation, and I only wanted to clarify my usage of the term was in the strictest and most technical meaning.

Nevertheless, It's certainly a show worth gushing over. It's a well-done work of art.

> Acc to reddit, the show's characters are proxies for famous scientists of the era, like Kepler, Copernicus etc. Not their lives, but they seemed to be mapping their theories to characters in that way.

The relationships between some of the characters are reminiscent of the real-life relationship between Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler as noted in a biography called The Nobleman and the Housedog by Kitty Ferguson. You might find it interesting.

If you like this anime, you might enjoy Spice and Wolf. Although, since you're on Reddit, you might have already seen either adaptation.




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