Ushi No Tane - Harvest Moon

I had an urge to identify different nationalities that inspired the different outfits.

Now of course I've found weird contradictory errors when it comes to connections with other characters but I suppose the concept artists didn't bother to re-check since all that matters is that it looks pretty anyway.

And then again, no one really pays attention to these things normally.




America ...or some place in Europe; These are like the most vaguest and recognizable outfits that you can see here that you KNOW will be from somewhere between the late 1700s to the 1800s era. Typical civilian to farmer/peasants. Okay to distinguish that particular pink dress from other dresses shown to be shown is that hat. Mainly, it's not a bonnet of some sort, and it actually reminiscent to that of a Victorian hat.



Germany/Austria; The girls are wearing a dirndl, which was typically worn by peasants. The mayor and the kid are wearing a lederhosen.



Norway; Bunads were usually worn by farmers. Dirka is wearing a tracht, which are commonly worn by young boys in various European countries. And then you just have your substantial generic overcoat...and yeah.



Ireland; Come on, look at that clover. Also his whole character design is like practically the basic stereotype look that you see for any Scottish/Irish old guy cartoon character.



Portugal; I don't know why the twins have richer clothes than their respective parents.



Persia or Turkey or....?; The turban is too vague as is, but Lloyd's wearing a very royal-looking kaftan which has been identified to be used by both Turkey and Persia (which is today, Iran). Then again, I could be completely wrong: his headdress looks more like a krama, which tends to be used a lot by Cambodian vendors.



Mexico; I shouldn't bother with this guy.



Arabia...I think; I believe Disney movies and therefore conclude that he goes into your house at night to take your STUFF. Yeah can't formally find anything, so no clue on his outfit.



Japan or China; Kagetsu is a self-explanatory Japanese name, but they made the mistake of making her outfit is of Han Chinese clothing design. It looks like one of those silk robe outfits. I don't recall anything in traditional Japanese attire looking like that.



I have no « Snuggly Bunny » clue; These people have outfits that are either mutant hybrid babies of various culture suits and costumes or, designs that were compiled when the artists just began going overboard to making « Cow Poopoo » as it goes along. Like I'd seriously appreciate info. My only guess is that Freya's outfit is some bizaroo, improvised German outfit in order compensate for the fact that she doesn't seem to be the type to prefer bloomers.

Yep you're right.

It's basically the partner to the Moon rabbit thing. And I just find out Kagetsu means moon and all... things make sense now.

Schmidt apparently is just the German variant of Smith. However it's interesting to note that it's the name of a lunar crater.

wtfmoonpplzinMYEUROPE

And also, hippies have more taste than that come on </3

Enju is just dressed in average Japanese street fashion, with Victorian influence. I wouldn't exactly call it lolita, though it is def. inspired by that too, judging by the skirt and socks. Navy blue is slowly becoming a more popular color, but there's something about the shirt that throws it off (usually shirts are solid colors!). The cut of her shirt kind of reminds me of Baby the Stars Shine Bright's spinoff line, Alice and the Pirates.

Wouldn't the artist guy be Italian?

Agi just looks like Bohemian crack to me. Or something...

Like

As little birds are pushed out of the nest so they learn how to fly, so do mothers stop dressing their little boys. And sometimes, the little birds don't make it, and they fall. Such is Agi.

*cough*

The female protagonist looks like "pop cawaii European-kei desu ^w^"
The Japanese pop fashion influence is pretty obvious, but it's still trying to go with the theme.

Boy just looks like a little boy dressing up as a pirate.

Nurse Fin wrote:

Enju is just dressed in average Japanese street fashion, with Victorian influence. I wouldn't exactly call it lolita, though it is def. inspired by that too, judging by the skirt and socks. Navy blue is slowly becoming a more popular color, but there's something about the shirt that throws it off (usually shirts are solid colors!). The cut of her shirt kind of reminds me of Baby the Stars Shine Bright's spinoff line, Alice and the Pirates.

I freakin' love that website. Whenever I go to it I'm always tempted to spend the ridiculous amount of cash they demand for their dresses... TT^TT They are always soooo pretty

I went out of my way to find their name origins.

Shelfa - I could not find anything on "Shelfer", but with Shelfa I got the reference to the chaffinch, which is a small finch bird that is the most common in Europe. Just to describe how it looks like, a typical chaffinch's color scheme is very much like Shelfa's dress.

Lloyd - "grey"; Welsh origins. Man...that matches somehow.

Anemone - From the flower and...sea thing. It derives from Greek meaning "wind".

Agi - A variant of "Agatha" (good) or "Agnes" (chaste). That's right, it's a FEMALE name. Saint Agnes was known for her innocence...which = virginity. Of course. Saint Agatha was known for blacking out on Roman officials.

Freya - If you retain "Freyja", the name specifically refers to a principal Norse goddess who "is portrayed as a goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. Blonde, blue-eyed, and beautiful Freyja is described as the fairest of all goddesses, and people prayed to her for happiness in love. She was also called on to assist childbirths and prayed to for good seasons. Freyja was also associated with war, battle, death, magic, prophecy, and wealth." Comment on that if you will.

Just Freya refers to "lady". (O FREYA YOU MARY SUE UUUU)

Juris - Juris is just a variant of "George". Just a pretty generic English name. Well, there's Saint George who owned and pwnted dragon in English Catholic tales so.

Enju - Well Anju (yeah I'm not sure which is the correct spelling of her name) is Indian for "blessings".

Enju, however, refers to a tree... I think. Just guessing this from Rozen Maiden perspectives.

Dirka - It means a race or competition. Apparently, it's also a racist slur against how Middle Eastern people speak their respective languages.

Kagetsu - "moon"; Someone pointed out her design is probably a reference to the Chinese goddess of the moon.

Schmidt - Variation of "Smith"...as in...blacksmith. Yeah I hoped for something special too.

Also, looking back at this list, all the rival pairings are amazingly perfect somehow. Shelfer x Lloyd seems kinda "d'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw ;3; <3" or "Man I'd feel like a horrible « Pumpkin Kisser » for breaking up something so kyoot like that but I'll marry him/her anyway </3".

RavensFire wrote:

Nurse Fin wrote:

Enju is just dressed in average Japanese street fashion, with Victorian influence. I wouldn't exactly call it lolita, though it is def. inspired by that too, judging by the skirt and socks. Navy blue is slowly becoming a more popular color, but there's something about the shirt that throws it off (usually shirts are solid colors!). The cut of her shirt kind of reminds me of Baby the Stars Shine Bright's spinoff line, Alice and the Pirates.

Yes, Enju is wairing Lolita. It is a lot like Anju from Chibi Vampire Karin.

No, I wouldn't exactly call it lolita. Not authentic lolita, anyway. Her skirt may be (that's leaning more punk lolita IMO). But her shirt. Her shirt is crazy.

Her top (which including her cuffs over there) is similar to a fetishistic waitress uniform of some sort. You know as in cafes? I've seen way too much of that ....here.

RavensFire wrote:

I see a lot of lolita at all the cons, I'm 90% sure she is wearing EGL.(like Anju) I wear a lot of stuff like this so I know a lot about it. I'm sure the artist cant copy anything exactly for obvious reasons, so I would say it is as close to lolita as they can get.

I don't want to start an argument or anything, but No... it's not lolita. Or EGL. I'm pretty confident I know my stuff too...

Just because something has frills, knee socks, and a full skirt, doesn't make it lolita. Still looks like something that might be seen in a Kera magazine, but not rori.