| Uhhh.. dude, MAL uses BB Coding, not HTML. OT; Only one I remember is Kotoura-san. |
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| Higurashi's Hinamizawa Village was designed after a remote, mountain-side village. I don't feel like taking several screenshots, but all you have to do is watch the after-credits scene of the last episode of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kei to see the comparisons. The anime producers did it themselves for you. |
I'm also filled with pure-hearted ulterior motives. |
| I remembered another one. In episode 10B (second part of episode 10) of Cuticle Tantei Inaba, they referred to a forest well known in Japan for suicides. They even showed it in the episode, considering how the Episode 10B literally took place within it. Also, the school in Silver Spoon is apparently based on a real school as well. |
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| Aria has tons of landmark references based off of actual places in Venice Piazza San Marco, Bridge of Sighs, etc. |
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| Girls und Panzer and Hanasaku iroha are recent ones that come to mind. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| While I'm not sure about the locations, Strike Witches is based on real life pilots and their planes used in the WWII. |
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oxitran said: Higashi_no_Kaze said: Girls und Panzer and Hanasaku iroha are recent ones that come to mind. woah i never thought that girls und panzers would be based of real life locations :D At least that one town where they had their first match in was. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| Rinne no Lagrange was partly created to get more tourism for Kamogawa. |
     Short of the day: Monotonous Purgatory(MAL) ✰Public Domain Club | One Piece Club✰ |
| I actually like this thread and I would hate to see it be locked for being a "simple listing thread," so oxitran, I think it's best if you request the thread to be moved to the recommendation board if you don't want your thread locked. Hope it helps. |
| I'm also filled with pure-hearted ulterior motives. |
| I remember that the town in Air is based on a real town. Just can't remember which. Aria = Venezia. It really has lots of places that exist in real life venice. Chrno Crusade. It's supposed to be in New york, has the bridge. |
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| Eden of the east has many real life locations though I can only remember Washington :S. |
| Evangelion is set in Tokyo, which gets blown up a lot. |
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| Durarara!! takes place in Ikebukuro |
oxitran said: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=550683 the mangaka based it on that school because that's where she went.yhunata said: I remembered another one. In episode 10B (second part of episode 10) of Cuticle Tantei Inaba, they referred to a forest well known in Japan for suicides. They even showed it in the episode, considering how the Episode 10B literally took place within it. Also, the school in Silver Spoon is apparently based on a real school as well. well i will have to keep checking on silver spoon because i cannot find anything on it yet :( |
Short of the day: Monotonous Purgatory(MAL) ✰Public Domain Club | One Piece Club✰ |
| I see you mentioned Haruhi *big image* There's also AnoHana but I can't find the image. And also the school in K-On! |
| Elfen Lied: |
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| pointless thread to many animes take place in real life locations |
| "among monsters and humans, there are only two types. Those who undergo suffering and spread it to others. And those who undergo suffering and avoid giving it to others." -Alice “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.” David Hume “Evil is created when someone gives up on someone else. It appears when everyone gives up on someone as a lost cause and removes their path to salvation. Once they are cut off from everyone else, they become evil.” -Othinus  |
E_chan said: I remember that the town in Air is based on a real town. Just can't remember which. Don't worry, I'm all over that ^_~ Air is set entirely in Kami, the Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Here is a blog post about someone who went there: http://punynari.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/the-1000th-summer-an-air-anime-pilgrimage/ Edit: The person writing the articule refers to is as 'Kasumi' which was merged with Kami and another town in 2005. Edit 2: http://www.moetron.com/2005/06/19/air-tv-real-life-settings/ A life versus anime shot comparison. There are some very well-matched shots on that page. |
Kamio-chanMar 25, 2013 3:20 PM
| Chaos Head = Shibuya |
| "Currently playing the Game of of Life" Poppin Pills is All We Know - Antidote |
| Noein! They replicated Hakodate down to the last detail. Haven't got a picture but if you Google Hakodate and then Noein Hakodate you will see ^^ |
| A couple seasons of Major take place in the US. |
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| A lot of romance or drama based anime could fit here. But I'll just mention 1 anime, Michiko to Hatchin, which takes place in South America. |
| Beck does this a lot during their tour of America. And seems to have Shown Their Work. The series Durarara!! recreates much of the city in which it is set — sometimes disturbingly so. (That vending machine Shizuo uprooted and tossed around in Ep. 3 actually exists.) People have even made montages of the many suspiciously familiar places they've found in the anime. Kamichu! does this with Onomichi in the Hiroshima prefecture. See here. Of course, everything looks a little newer in the anime—it's set in the period between spring 1983 and spring 1984. Eden of the East for Washington, D.C. Sora No Woto's Seize is based off Cuenca, Spain. Fans have even gone there to take photos of locales shown on the anime. Naoki Urasawa's Monster takes you mostly through the scenery of the former Communist bloc, like Germany and Czechoslovakia, as it tries to unravel the mystery of Johan's creation and his past, though some other settings occur as well, such as Southern France. You can find his references for some of the streets and buildingshere. Most iterations of Digimon do this, at least before the places in question get torn apart by kaiju. Some of the best examples are the Fuji TV station in Digimon Adventure and the extensive scouting of Shinjuku's surrounds in Digimon Tamers. This is more noticeable in Digimon Tamers, because took place mostly in the real world, it contained many Real places. Some examples: Guilmon's hideout◊, Henry's apartment building◊, Takato and Henry's school◊, The street Takato lives◊, and the park Takato, Kazu and Kenta played in◊. Tentai Senshi Sunred takes place in Kawasaki, Japan, and matches it shot for shot. The art style of Sunred might not be the one usually associated with this trope, but the locations are all too real. Hinamizawa in Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni is based on Shirakawa-Go. Not even the real world is safe now. There's a possible justification here: The original self-published Visual Novel had backgrounds that were simply Photoshop-filtered photos. Umineko follows this with at least the Mansion (and probably also the garden) which is based upon a mansion in the Kyū Furukawa Gardens. Mahou Sensei Negima!: Mahora obviously has no real world counterpart, but as a whole it's a composite of many real-world places. For instance, the Mahora Bell Tower, pretty much is the bell tower of the Florence Cathedral. There's also a flashback that takes place in Istanbul (not Constantinople), Turkey, and the background is a very close reproduction of the Istanbul skyline◊. Also note that the only way to tell that this takes place in Istanbul is to recognize the background, because it isn't actually mentioned. The town of Kamakura, in the Kanagawa prefecture in Japan, is popular as a setting for various anime and manga series, due to its extensive seaside beaches and numerous historic sites with lots of Shrines and Temples. Some notable series taking place there are: Elfen Lied. Lucy winds up on Yuigahama beach. The stairs of the Gokuraku-ji shrine get a lot of screen time, up to and including the emotional ending. Enoshima island and the Benten bridge leading up to it are used for the ultimate battle in the anime, with lots of screen time for the Enoshima Light House Observatory. Uta Kata. Most of the attention is on the shrines, parks and temples within Kamakura itself. Enoshima island and its tower form the backdrop of one of the more dramatic episodes. And then there are the two episodes in which the main characters head for Yuigahama beach. Aoi Hana features Kamakura's local train service, Enoden, since the characters use it to travel around. Enoshima island and the Benten bridge are shown as well, but the show gains bonus points for having a scene in the Iwaya cave. The "Milk Hall", the show's main hangout spot, is a real location and the famous Elfen Lied stairs are also shown, this time in a more romantic setting. Twin Spica takes a more stylistic approach, although the shorelines and the Yuigahama boulevard where Asumi goes jogging are clearly recognizable. In Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Alpha takes a trip to Kamakura, with a very prominent view of Enoshima. Shinryaku! Ika Musume is set on Kamakura's Yuigahama Beach. A Channel has the obligatory Beach Episode, in which the girls take the very recognizable Enoden train ride to their destination. Tsuritama is explicitly set at Enoshima. The events within Tari Tari are also set in Kamakura, particularly around Enoshima. Mahou Tsukai Ni Taisetsu Na Koto Natsu No Sora takes place against photo-realistic real-life backgrounds. Of special note are Biei in Hokkaido, hometown of the main character Sora, and the hip Tokyo neighborhood of Shimokitazawa. In one episode Sora and Kohta also go on a date in Kamakura. Amanchu! largely takes place in the town of Ito on the Japanese Izu peninsula, which is known for its abundant hot springs. The big building at the shore where the cast gets together a few times is a well-known local landmark. Umi Monogatari is set on one of the subtropical Japanese Amami-Oshima islands. It doesn't get any explicit mention though until the DVD special. Darker than Black is big on this. All three major localities the TV show takes place in, Tokyo, Sapporo and Vladivostok, were painstakingly researched to the point where indeed it was possible to pinpoint the time the references were taken by the state of specific buildings alone. To the point that it explicitly binds the action to January 2008. The large-scale redevelopment that begun in Summer 2008 in preparation to 2012 APEC summit, has changed the downtown Vladivostok to the extent that it would be impossible to miss, had the action happened any later. Asobi ni Iku yo!! is set in Okinawa. The credits reveal that the staff worked with the Okinawa tourism board, and does it ever show. There is almost no part of the show that's not showing off the island, its wildlife and its attractions at one point or another. Tamayura takes place in Takehara, a small seaside town of in the Hiroshima prefecture of Japan, not far from Kamichu!'s Onomichi. The town is rendered with painstaking detail, up to and including touristic signs. Fractale contains detailed shots of the west of Ireland, and the town in episode 2 is a lot like Galway. Grave of the Fireflies featured locations that were accurately based on real locations. Only Yesterday used actual railway stations. Hanasaku Iroha is set in a town modelled after Yukawa. Comparison pictures can be found here The girls from Ichigo Mashimaro live in the town of Hamamatsu, in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture. The artist loves to sneak in references, like maps and local landmarks, and sometimes even mentions them by name. Many of the locations in Yubisaki Milk Tea are real places in Tokyo, often surprising detailed drawn. A collection of pictures of the real places can be seen here. Yuritetsu is about four girls which form a railway club and naturally goes by real trains to real stations and sights all over Japan. Their local station Yurigasaki-Joshikoumae is a renamed Hino Station on the Chūō Main Line in Tokyo, but the other places goes by their real names, be it the big Ueno Station in Tokyo or the secluded Koboro on Hokkaido. And since one of the girls, Hakutsuru Tsurumi, is a fan of a series which is obvious K-on they are also visiting the above mentioned Toyosato Elementary School, which certainly look like Yui & Co could come in any other minute. Natsuiro Kiseki takes place in Shimoda, a seaside town on Japan's Izu peninsula. The show is rife with shots of the town's eye-catching surroundings. Sailor Moon is largely set in the Azabu Juuban district of the Minato ward of Tokyo. There is ever a fan produced book on the topic of how heavily the show draws from the area Warriors of Legend: Reflections of Japan in Sailor Moon. Joshiraku the second short have the girls visiting various places in Japan while providing some trivia about the location. 3-gatsu no Lion uses places in the Tsukishima Area in the Chuo-ward of Tokyo as a reference for the setting, particularly the Tsukishima and Tsukuda districts. The author even marks the locations she used in the omake. Girls und Panzer is set in and around the port city of Oarai, including one episode where a battle took place in its streets. In a case of The Red Stapler, it has caused a three-fold increase in tourism to the town. |
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| It was so cool when i found out that Higurashi's Hinamizawa was actually based on a real life mountain village in Japan, that was so cool to me. |
The forums are dark, and full of ego. |
Jovoo said: It was so cool when i found out that Higurashi's Hinamizawa was actually based on a real life mountain village in Japan, that was so cool to me. I know right? Now I want to know what the villagers think of the anime, especially with all the mindfuck it happens there. |
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| From what I can remember Accel World is based on a bunch of real life locations like Shinjuku, Osaka (i think, correct me if I'm wrong). |
 "Only one with the courage to shoulder the burden of their own fate can be called a hero.." |
012yArthur0 said: Jovoo said: It was so cool when i found out that Higurashi's Hinamizawa was actually based on a real life mountain village in Japan, that was so cool to me. I know right? Now I want to know what the villagers think of the anime, especially with all the mindfuck it happens there. you haven't even seen it...... |
| The forums are dark, and full of ego. |
| Robotics;Notes is set in Tanegashima, and later, they went to Odaiba to participate in The Robot Exposition (<-sorry, don't remember the exact title). If I am not mistaken, the characters in Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 were at a similar sort of event in Odaiba. Tsuritama deserves a lot of credit for bringing up the setting of Enoshima in recognizable and pleasant manner. Even more, Four Seasons are web-released CMs of different locations in Saitama - with very cute stories attached, and, actually, excellent examples of producing specific, creative, and informative content at once. | (Niina plays baseball in Okinawa) V |
zellamiApr 21, 2013 8:58 AM
| Joshiraku has a lot of real places in Japan. |
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hazerddex said: pointless thread to many animes take place in real life locations |
| The most important things in life is the people that you care about |
| Is the OP still monitoring this thread? |
Kamio-chan said: Yea you should add Noir, for once they did a good job on Paris' architecture, and the streets scenes look real. I think they used genuine pictures as models for the drawings.Is the OP still monitoring this thread? |
| My list - "Let's share our lame sides" (Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou) |
| I haven't watched that much of Uchuu Kyoudai/Space Brothers, but the space center is a real space center in Tsukuba. And i lived in Tsukuba when i was younger :'D Have seen the space center too! |
| Hinamizawa from Higurashi is based off of a real location in Japan. http://punynari.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/shirakawa-go-japan-the-real-hinamizawa/ But thanks this post, really cool seeing anime come to life! |
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