What's your opinion on anime copying real life locations 1 to 1?
I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
>>287386311It gives you a fine place to pilgrimage to if you're retarded like I am.
It's cool but I'm not Japanese so I can't recognize them anyway
>>287386311lazy
>>287386361This is what I'm doing right now
>>287386311If done correctly, it's not an issue.When it's Abused, it takes away from the show
this is like half of the appeal of Summertime Rendering
>>287386311I really want to see Studio Ghibli's take on a small Pennsylvania town in the summer of 1863
>>287386311Art is a time capsule.https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/john-constable-the-hay-wain
>>287386311>1 to 1wow I can't believe they plagiarized that red handrail, I'm literally going insane
>>287386311that's not 1 to 1 idiot
>>287388600Is that the Teibou island too?
>>287389893They're far more similar than that.
I think westerners are cursed by avoiding inspiration from real places, culture and history. There's no reason to think you must think up something completely novel or else it's plagiarization.
>>287386311It doesn't matter to me. Outside of famous locations like shibuya crossing that stand out, drawing a real location seems like a reliable shortcut to make it feel believable, which is fine. The trivia means nothing to me though, and pilgrimages make me think "fucking tourists", but that's probably because I'm a seething poorfag.
>>287386311At first I didn't take much of an interest, I was fine when it's a given lots of series are set in Tokyo, but when I unexpectedly found out one my favourites had mixed in real stuff with a fictional city I thought was pretty neat. By then though the map locations had gotten taken down from a pilgrimage site and I ended up spending the weekend tracking through a bunch of posts and trying to locate stuff. Then when I put up a location someone had linked for one of the picture, there was a mini-statue instead of the fountain in the anime/photo which was replaced just a year after the anime and was only there on the one oldest version in google maps. I found some of the other places mostly unchanged aside from a bakery which had been closed down around the same time but it's just the locations which people have managed to hunt down. Maybe there were other parts where the animators had drawn places they've seen but are too obscure or are gone now, it's a weird way to preserve in an anime format but if one day they redeveloped an area, there may just be a few people who watch back an old anime and recognize what it once looked like. It's an odd legacy but it gives a plan of places you can visit which may be lost in your lifetime.
