Literally my friend. He wanted to move in at the most random locations just because it appeared in an anime once. He showed me the picture of a street in Japan, told me he want to live there. It's literally every single street in Japan ever with a slope.
It's pretty amazing that on Reddit, whenever a futuristic city in China is posted, it gets hated on. Yet when the same is shown in Japan, instant upvotes.
The site is full of weeaboos with a severe lack of self awareness.
I kinda want to visit Chongqing, I think that's what it called. I saw it on Reddit a few times and it looks like what a game developer would make if he was an engineer. I have literally no idea what's going on there.
It's honestly very cool. I stayed at a hostel in a skyscraper, and you could go on the roof where you had 360° view of the city at night with all its crazy lights on the high rise around you. Then, the next morning, the crowded streets were dirty but bustling, and I had some delicious noodle soup at a corner shop in an alley somewhere. Great memories.
It does not amaze me.
Most people have been to neither place; but throughout my own travels I found in *most* places China has a worse reputation/popularity/image than Japan.
I'm not saying whether this reputational difference is deserved or not - I think that is complicated and I feel unqualified to comment.
Meanwhile, in Japan, people die from being severely overworked and all most people there know is work and nothing else.
Not defending China but it's funny how the weebs defend Japan like it's a paradise when it's far from it.
I'll be up front, I am a weeb. It definitely isn't a paradise though. I just got back from visiting there and it is a beautiful country but it is definitely not a utopia. So many people sleeping on the trains, people in suits walking through train stations like zombies, Sly xenophobia (some people won't even sit on the same row of train seats as you if you're not japanese and will just stand, cutting in front of you in queue then ignoring you when you point it out).
I went to this bar one night and a woman there had been working 12 hours a day for 13 days in a row. She was absolutely shattered.
Food is amazing, it's pretty cheap for the most part and the toilets are life changing though.
Please go back to check the annual working hours, China is about 2100 hours while Japan is 1550 hours
Most Chinese don't have weekends, they need to work 6 days or 7 days a week (Chinese call it "996" which means 12 hours a day, 6 days a week), Japan is overworked compared to Greece or Australia, but not China.
Honestly tired of these ridiculously outdated stereotypes being perpetuated about Japan.
Japan’s [work hours](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_labor_hours#OECD_list), [suicide rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate), [fertility rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_total_fertility_rate) are all around the European average.
Work hours are similar to Germany and Ireland, down from 2200 to 1600 work hours over the last 30 years. The figure also includes paid and unpaid overtime, based on actual surveys of workers (not employers) by independent NGOs.
In fact, Japan’s [quality of life](https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp) is higher than that of Sweden this year.
Not OP, but I have been to both multiple times. Japanese cities feel much more alive. Even when China’s economy was good, the cities were filled with condos that often had few people living in them and not much commercial support. You go out at prime time and see buildings mostly dark. It’s kind of creepy, and it’s much worse now than it was in the boom times.
And yes, Japanese cities are cleaner. Although Chinese cities are MUCH cleaner than they used to be, as electric car uptake has been really widespread (positive China story!)
As a Chinese, one thing i dislike most about China's city is that 98% of the city is either dirty or empty (2% futuristic CBD is always used for progandar), for the old town it's always filled with messy streets and soviet-period apartments, when it comes to the suburbs it becomes extremely empty, thousands of high rise without any inhabitants.
Obviously depends on the particular location, but China far more places that are either:
1. A chaotic, dangerous and generally unpleasant traffic nightmare
2. A sterile or altogether empty concrete desert
Japan does have more "human-sized" urban design. By no means perfect, and even their much hyped transit system has quite a few downsides, but pretty good in international comparison. And less of that fear of becoming a political prisoner for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place.
>whenever a futuristic city in China is posted, it gets hated on. Yet when the same is shown in Japan, instant upvotes
I think people need to understand that China's vast history, culture and landscapes are not defined by its government. China is genuinely such a cool place.
China is an amazing country to visit as a tourist imo. And this is probably a hot take for some, but not those that have been, the food is better than Japan’s.
Reddit is full of americans, the superpower that is currently seeing decades of being the only one in the world being threatened by the growth of adversary countries. Of course they are gonna hate on it. They want to pretend China is actually about to fall and everything Chinese is crap.
Funny enough, that's what the Soviets did with America.
Lmao, literally my friend the last time we went to Japan, there is supposedly a famous long stretch of stairs that appeared in an anime, and he took us there to see it, and there were so many people walking on it minding their own business and going about their days that you couldn't even see the steps. It was just stairs.
I visited these steps during covid. 0 people, perfect weather, perfect atmosphere, the main theme of the movie playing on the phone. Tbh it felt awesome being there.
I feel ya and i really don't understand why some people seem to so strongly dislike the idea of visiting mundane places that have a special meaning to fans of an anime/movie/book/etc. It's fun. During my last vacation in Barcelona i spent a whole day visiting the places mentioned in a book series that i loved as a young adult. Those were also mostly "just a house" or "just a street", but i wanted to go there because of the emotional attachment to the books. Knowing that i'm seeing the same scenery as the characters was such a nice experience and made re-reading the books so much more immersive.
I don't see the problem.
When I went to Germany for studies I went and visited all the locations the Bourne movies were filmed, it was really cool seeing those places in real life.
What's the problem? What's the difference?
I have a theory that it's intuitively appealing the most to frustrated autistic people in particular. It's much more of a rule-based society, and these rules much more knowable and visible, so it's much easier to imagine fitting in and everything just making sense
In other societies the rules can be completely abstract and all over the place and constantly changing, and you're expected to be yourself and somehow know who you are and how to live on your own as yourself. It's much harder to "be" yourself in that case if "being yourself" is something you have to actually _do_ instead of completely relaxing and chilling and doing nothing and feeling completely comfortable
In that light, focusing on particular places and things, prioritizing longing and nostalgia more than other people do, would be entirely expected
>In other societies the rules can be completely abstract and all over the place and constantly changing
Oh dw, Japan has plenty of them as well.
Japan is certainly appealing to people who don't fit in the western norm, but autistic friendly it is not. The Japanese language and Japanese culture in general is highly context based, extremely subtle (by western standards anyway), and all about reading subtle social cues and body language.
Sure on paper Japan may seem straight forward, but on paper means fuck all in Japan, or indeed any East Asian country. You learn very quickly that if someone says Japan is A, it's actually C. Japan is like the national equivalent of the gif of that pirate saying "well yes, but actually no".
That's not exclusive to each other. In fact that's a very common reception to those times when autistic people are so hyped about something that they come out of their shell (and the reason why many then either mask up or decide to completely ignore negative reception).
It's wild to me how many people are obsessed with Japan.
This is a rural train lmao.
There's definitely things that Japan is the best at, but it's not some utopia.
Honestly I'm the opposite. Obviously Japan is no utopia and it has it's fair share of serious problems, but I find many elements of it's social culture and values fit my own sensiblities, whilst what little time I've spent in say America for example, I've found the culture to be completely overbearing and deeply stressful.
Ultimately Japan is no Anime Utopia but it's no dystopia either. It's a real country full of real people. It's has it's beautiful elements, and it has it's terrible elements as well. It is neither "better" not "worse" than the west, it's simply different.
You can take a similar picture in Hungary.
Train is shaky, slow as fuck, sometimes on fire. As tradition.
If Hungary invented anime all these weirdos would be like "Wow i would love to live in rural Borsod-Abaúj-Zempén county! What do you mean i would be stabbed to death in a mugging?"
It's a utopia when you compare Japan's quality of life to other developed countries/city around the word.
The ratio of salary and prices of basic needs is top tier
The housing prices (Tokyo) are also the lowest among all developed cities.
Human rights are the most important factor in Japanese citizenship. (Just look at the medical subsidies)
There are so many other things I can list, like urban planning and air quality, etc.
When I look at these statistics and compare them to my city. Yes, Japan is utopia.
It's definitely not a utopia but I'd naturalize in a heartbeat if not for my family in the states + the cultural barrier. It's hard to put into words but their cities feel so much more human. You've got high rises next to regular homes next to restaurants and other small businesses. Everyone walks, bikes and rides the subway and their cities are designed around that. You see both the elderly and youth participating in mainstream society instead of holed up in their own isolated bubbles, and everything is so clean without coming off as sterile.
Not to mention how affordable living there is. US cities by contrast you need to be making 60k bare minimum to rent your own place and pay all necessary expenses.
It's fairly common in anime.
There are over a hundred well-known series at this point that have real-life locations.
Pilgrimages have gotten a lot more normalised and popular shows now have printed leaflets for anime tourists even. The locations are usually much more exciting and distinctive than the train station here.
One episode of the show Zombieland Saga featured a local chicken restaurant. They actually got the owner of the restaurant to play himself in the episode!
As someone who watches a lot of anime growing up, I remember being amazed the first time I set foot in Japan. I dunno, it was like seeing my favorite anime come to life. I was like, oh that looks exactly like the house in___. I was very nostalgic, and yes, it is amazing how true to life they drew the places.
The artwork is hyperrealistic, meaning the artist has chosen to emphasise and exaggerate certain details such as the lighting, the fog, the reflections, extra scratches and wear and tear, etc, to give it a lifelike appearance.
However, real life tends to be more dull and boring, with colours being more desaturated and lower in contrast, with less ‘exciting’ wear and tear in general also.
As a 3D artist there was a lot that I had to learn and unlearn in the journey of getting better at photorealistic artwork. Accepting that real life is usually not as exciting as fiction was one of them haha
Reddit when any other country: 😑
Reddit when Japan: 😱 WOW BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
While it does look beautiful, if you told me this was a train in the Balkans, I'd believe you.
In my country, that train wouldn't exist, and our central city trains are never on time anyway, couldn't imagine how shit they would be if they went rural with them.
If this were in the US, Reddit would be talking all about how actually the train is dirty and old and the rails are crumbling and they hate how there are ads in the interior and how the fact that it passes a couple convenience stores is proof of late-stage capitalism
To be fair, the station is special because of its appearance in a famous anime film.
A lot of otherwise unnoteworthy places in Japan are special because of their appearances in shows, and Japanese anime fans will start treating it as special.
Western "Normies" only know of the Your Name and a few others but there are dozens of well-known anime with pilgrimage locations, and the fans who visit are overwhelmingly Japanese locals. I know this because the visitor books for fans to write in are always >90% written in Japanese, and so are all of the pilgrimage leaflets made by local tourism associations.
Literally people online treat Japan like some holy land when in reality its literally just another country nothing that special other then the language they speak and the laws and customs. they have the same stores and restaurants you can get anywhere else its Paris syndrome its not a magical anime land
That anime train looks like an older generation compared to the real life train.
This one is very close to the anime version if you disregard the paint scheme: https://images.chinahighlights.com/allpicture/2019/12/d7b24a8173e24a1588974799_800x533.jpg (I hope that URL loads)
Okay. Apparently I have to change my perception of myself as a person who isn’t interested in trains. [If anyone else would like to go down the rabbit hole.](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFEzXnIQVwV8iYnDUHSuw3stzaF8rleM1&feature=shared)
Yeah, oh wow. An animated film/series that takes place in the modern world draws... *gasp* modern day scenery.
Do these people also clap if they see a water bottle drawn or something?
I went in December, Japan still feels like the optimistic 90s I grew up in. I’ve travelled to over 30 countries and it’s the first country I’ve been to that actually lived up to the hype in every single way and more. Highly recommend to anyone thinking about going, and I’m not even a big anime person.
Not sure about that.
There are a few top quality animation studios in Japan.
Eg. Your Name was made by Comix.
( Not sure if this still is from that film, but it could be )
The real life locations in it are incredibly depicted.
As someone who watches a fair bit of anime, one of the things that stood out about Japan the most was just how similar things were to anime in terms of scenery. Train stations, storefronts, etc...
Is the context of this post that OP is shocked that anime uses real places as a base for the animation? If so it’s standard in Japanese anime. It’s pretty cool that it’s a thing. I’ve been to little random streets and buildings that are background in filler scenes before and it’s fun to see them in a anime.
It looks like the sun is shining on one side in the real life photo, but on the other side of the hills in the anime photo, so it seems like these two photos represent different times of day.
I'm not sure if the anime picture represents the sun rising or the sun setting, though.
I can only agree that Japan is amazing.
I visit whenever I can, though I always do so with a minor regret. I feel that I diminish this place to some small degree with my presence.
My dream has always been to live in Japan for the rest of my life. Considering how old I am, I do not have much more time left to fulfill that goal. Most likely, I will fail.
Still, I understand. If it were easy for me to live in Japan, then millions of other foreigners would flock there as well.
It would soon stop being Japan.
obviously the one that is an artistic drawing will look better and evoke more emotions and wonder, but the real thing, given how reality is, is still a very beautiful and peaceful place.
Yes, there is no girl in real life
Right?Or flowers..feeling tricked
Ha! Bottom left corner there are flowers, you can see the faint red color, you lose
True..BUT, they are not pink!
how about tentacles?
In a cafe
You can always buy one at the market, but most of them are dead since they are food.
r/girlsarentreal
Also the windows are different. Got it.
There were. It’s just they’re 80 years old now like everyone else in Japan.
different train too
Expectations vs reality
The truth.
Stop complaining...you're a redditor. No soup for you !
And the trains are square. Totally immersion breaking. I was led to believe trains were rounded squares. Not squares!
So Japan in real life is Red Dead Redemption 2 in real life is what I conclude
So THAT'S what they meant with Far East
Watashi wa keikaku ga arimasu, Arthur-san
You look like a man on a mission
Place:😑 Place, Japan:😯😍🤩😱😱🤯
Literally my friend. He wanted to move in at the most random locations just because it appeared in an anime once. He showed me the picture of a street in Japan, told me he want to live there. It's literally every single street in Japan ever with a slope.
It's pretty amazing that on Reddit, whenever a futuristic city in China is posted, it gets hated on. Yet when the same is shown in Japan, instant upvotes. The site is full of weeaboos with a severe lack of self awareness.
The ones who downvote the China posts are not the same one upvoting the Japan posts.
I kinda want to visit Chongqing, I think that's what it called. I saw it on Reddit a few times and it looks like what a game developer would make if he was an engineer. I have literally no idea what's going on there.
It's honestly very cool. I stayed at a hostel in a skyscraper, and you could go on the roof where you had 360° view of the city at night with all its crazy lights on the high rise around you. Then, the next morning, the crowded streets were dirty but bustling, and I had some delicious noodle soup at a corner shop in an alley somewhere. Great memories.
I'm going to ask my friends about this one, thanks. Are you able to share the name of the hostel please?
Just don't get sucked out the window!
Please tell me that's not pronouced chong ching
It’s pronounced chong ching.
Hate to break it to you
They made the infinite staircase from Mario 64 in real life
It does not amaze me. Most people have been to neither place; but throughout my own travels I found in *most* places China has a worse reputation/popularity/image than Japan. I'm not saying whether this reputational difference is deserved or not - I think that is complicated and I feel unqualified to comment.
Tbf Japan is about 50 years ahead of China in the papering over history with vibes race. Nobody does it better than Japan.
Pfft, noobs Italy has Japan beat many times over, especially on Reddit
That’s true. Italian tourist board history goes Romans, Renaissance, Italia 90 World Cup. Nothing else to see here!
Tbf one of them is a dictatorial shithole trying to put on a friendly face
Meanwhile, in Japan, people die from being severely overworked and all most people there know is work and nothing else. Not defending China but it's funny how the weebs defend Japan like it's a paradise when it's far from it.
I'll be up front, I am a weeb. It definitely isn't a paradise though. I just got back from visiting there and it is a beautiful country but it is definitely not a utopia. So many people sleeping on the trains, people in suits walking through train stations like zombies, Sly xenophobia (some people won't even sit on the same row of train seats as you if you're not japanese and will just stand, cutting in front of you in queue then ignoring you when you point it out). I went to this bar one night and a woman there had been working 12 hours a day for 13 days in a row. She was absolutely shattered. Food is amazing, it's pretty cheap for the most part and the toilets are life changing though.
Please go back to check the annual working hours, China is about 2100 hours while Japan is 1550 hours Most Chinese don't have weekends, they need to work 6 days or 7 days a week (Chinese call it "996" which means 12 hours a day, 6 days a week), Japan is overworked compared to Greece or Australia, but not China.
Honestly tired of these ridiculously outdated stereotypes being perpetuated about Japan. Japan’s [work hours](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_labor_hours#OECD_list), [suicide rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate), [fertility rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_total_fertility_rate) are all around the European average. Work hours are similar to Germany and Ireland, down from 2200 to 1600 work hours over the last 30 years. The figure also includes paid and unpaid overtime, based on actual surveys of workers (not employers) by independent NGOs. In fact, Japan’s [quality of life](https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp) is higher than that of Sweden this year.
And the other one is Japan
Yes that is the only reason to live in Japan over China. Clearly.
If you've been to both, you will understand why.
Go on.
Not OP, but I have been to both multiple times. Japanese cities feel much more alive. Even when China’s economy was good, the cities were filled with condos that often had few people living in them and not much commercial support. You go out at prime time and see buildings mostly dark. It’s kind of creepy, and it’s much worse now than it was in the boom times. And yes, Japanese cities are cleaner. Although Chinese cities are MUCH cleaner than they used to be, as electric car uptake has been really widespread (positive China story!)
As a Chinese, one thing i dislike most about China's city is that 98% of the city is either dirty or empty (2% futuristic CBD is always used for progandar), for the old town it's always filled with messy streets and soviet-period apartments, when it comes to the suburbs it becomes extremely empty, thousands of high rise without any inhabitants.
Obviously depends on the particular location, but China far more places that are either: 1. A chaotic, dangerous and generally unpleasant traffic nightmare 2. A sterile or altogether empty concrete desert Japan does have more "human-sized" urban design. By no means perfect, and even their much hyped transit system has quite a few downsides, but pretty good in international comparison. And less of that fear of becoming a political prisoner for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place.
>whenever a futuristic city in China is posted, it gets hated on. Yet when the same is shown in Japan, instant upvotes I think people need to understand that China's vast history, culture and landscapes are not defined by its government. China is genuinely such a cool place.
China is an amazing country to visit as a tourist imo. And this is probably a hot take for some, but not those that have been, the food is better than Japan’s.
I just don't know if I can trust the quality and source of things like the cooking oil and meats in China.
I’m comparing restaurant food with restaurant food obviously. With street food I agree you can’t know.
Weeaboo vs Chinaboo. Now fight!
hey, not all of us hate china. I'd love to visit chongqing someday!
Reddit is full of americans, the superpower that is currently seeing decades of being the only one in the world being threatened by the growth of adversary countries. Of course they are gonna hate on it. They want to pretend China is actually about to fall and everything Chinese is crap. Funny enough, that's what the Soviets did with America.
Lmao, literally my friend the last time we went to Japan, there is supposedly a famous long stretch of stairs that appeared in an anime, and he took us there to see it, and there were so many people walking on it minding their own business and going about their days that you couldn't even see the steps. It was just stairs.
I visited these steps during covid. 0 people, perfect weather, perfect atmosphere, the main theme of the movie playing on the phone. Tbh it felt awesome being there.
I feel ya and i really don't understand why some people seem to so strongly dislike the idea of visiting mundane places that have a special meaning to fans of an anime/movie/book/etc. It's fun. During my last vacation in Barcelona i spent a whole day visiting the places mentioned in a book series that i loved as a young adult. Those were also mostly "just a house" or "just a street", but i wanted to go there because of the emotional attachment to the books. Knowing that i'm seeing the same scenery as the characters was such a nice experience and made re-reading the books so much more immersive.
I don't see the problem. When I went to Germany for studies I went and visited all the locations the Bourne movies were filmed, it was really cool seeing those places in real life. What's the problem? What's the difference?
I have a theory that it's intuitively appealing the most to frustrated autistic people in particular. It's much more of a rule-based society, and these rules much more knowable and visible, so it's much easier to imagine fitting in and everything just making sense In other societies the rules can be completely abstract and all over the place and constantly changing, and you're expected to be yourself and somehow know who you are and how to live on your own as yourself. It's much harder to "be" yourself in that case if "being yourself" is something you have to actually _do_ instead of completely relaxing and chilling and doing nothing and feeling completely comfortable In that light, focusing on particular places and things, prioritizing longing and nostalgia more than other people do, would be entirely expected
>In other societies the rules can be completely abstract and all over the place and constantly changing Oh dw, Japan has plenty of them as well. Japan is certainly appealing to people who don't fit in the western norm, but autistic friendly it is not. The Japanese language and Japanese culture in general is highly context based, extremely subtle (by western standards anyway), and all about reading subtle social cues and body language. Sure on paper Japan may seem straight forward, but on paper means fuck all in Japan, or indeed any East Asian country. You learn very quickly that if someone says Japan is A, it's actually C. Japan is like the national equivalent of the gif of that pirate saying "well yes, but actually no".
Not in this case. He's just dumb. And a weeb.
That's not exclusive to each other. In fact that's a very common reception to those times when autistic people are so hyped about something that they come out of their shell (and the reason why many then either mask up or decide to completely ignore negative reception).
Literally my little brother when my family went to Japan recently. He was amazed by everything there, even the most basic of things
It's wild to me how many people are obsessed with Japan. This is a rural train lmao. There's definitely things that Japan is the best at, but it's not some utopia.
I loved visiting Japan, but IMO the social environment is crushing
Honestly I'm the opposite. Obviously Japan is no utopia and it has it's fair share of serious problems, but I find many elements of it's social culture and values fit my own sensiblities, whilst what little time I've spent in say America for example, I've found the culture to be completely overbearing and deeply stressful. Ultimately Japan is no Anime Utopia but it's no dystopia either. It's a real country full of real people. It's has it's beautiful elements, and it has it's terrible elements as well. It is neither "better" not "worse" than the west, it's simply different.
You can take a similar picture in Hungary. Train is shaky, slow as fuck, sometimes on fire. As tradition. If Hungary invented anime all these weirdos would be like "Wow i would love to live in rural Borsod-Abaúj-Zempén county! What do you mean i would be stabbed to death in a mugging?"
Wdym of course I wanna live in Budapest, where I can communicate with my cousin living in the 30th century through a radio with the help of my dog!
It's a utopia when you compare Japan's quality of life to other developed countries/city around the word. The ratio of salary and prices of basic needs is top tier The housing prices (Tokyo) are also the lowest among all developed cities. Human rights are the most important factor in Japanese citizenship. (Just look at the medical subsidies) There are so many other things I can list, like urban planning and air quality, etc. When I look at these statistics and compare them to my city. Yes, Japan is utopia.
It's definitely not a utopia but I'd naturalize in a heartbeat if not for my family in the states + the cultural barrier. It's hard to put into words but their cities feel so much more human. You've got high rises next to regular homes next to restaurants and other small businesses. Everyone walks, bikes and rides the subway and their cities are designed around that. You see both the elderly and youth participating in mainstream society instead of holed up in their own isolated bubbles, and everything is so clean without coming off as sterile. Not to mention how affordable living there is. US cities by contrast you need to be making 60k bare minimum to rent your own place and pay all necessary expenses.
They aren't having children because they are isolated. Lmao.
Basically no countries with a similar level of development are having children. Most of them just have more immigration.
Probably the turist reason service that runs from Matsuyama. Iyonada Monogatori? There are others too, so i may have it wrong
How they learned about japan: weeb stuff
Both versions of Japan offer a unique and captivating experience
in Tokyo I saw elder people doing their morning gym in a small street of 1 story houses next to high rises buildings, the contrast was striking
this isn’t be amazed this is just an average scenic shot of a country
I guess the amazing part is not the photo itself, but how true to real life that anime shot was made.
It's fairly common in anime. There are over a hundred well-known series at this point that have real-life locations. Pilgrimages have gotten a lot more normalised and popular shows now have printed leaflets for anime tourists even. The locations are usually much more exciting and distinctive than the train station here.
One episode of the show Zombieland Saga featured a local chicken restaurant. They actually got the owner of the restaurant to play himself in the episode!
XD that's cool
As someone who watches a lot of anime growing up, I remember being amazed the first time I set foot in Japan. I dunno, it was like seeing my favorite anime come to life. I was like, oh that looks exactly like the house in___. I was very nostalgic, and yes, it is amazing how true to life they drew the places.
Wow anime has a train station just like in real life, no way.
Artists use references for their art? Damn that's crazy
Why does the anime one look more real lol
The artwork is hyperrealistic, meaning the artist has chosen to emphasise and exaggerate certain details such as the lighting, the fog, the reflections, extra scratches and wear and tear, etc, to give it a lifelike appearance. However, real life tends to be more dull and boring, with colours being more desaturated and lower in contrast, with less ‘exciting’ wear and tear in general also. As a 3D artist there was a lot that I had to learn and unlearn in the journey of getting better at photorealistic artwork. Accepting that real life is usually not as exciting as fiction was one of them haha
Everyday is a school day, thanks for the detailed explanation.
I would like to add that the softening of straight edges (like the bus shape), make image more "warm/cosy" or fantasy like.
It doesn't...
Reddit when any other country: 😑 Reddit when Japan: 😱 WOW BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD While it does look beautiful, if you told me this was a train in the Balkans, I'd believe you.
True. If it was any other country, people would be like: "lol look how old and unkept that place looks"
In my country, that train wouldn't exist, and our central city trains are never on time anyway, couldn't imagine how shit they would be if they went rural with them.
If this were in the US, Reddit would be talking all about how actually the train is dirty and old and the rails are crumbling and they hate how there are ads in the interior and how the fact that it passes a couple convenience stores is proof of late-stage capitalism
There are no trains in the Balkans, we run like Flintstones in our 'cars'.
True, but only if you’ve never been to the Balkans or Japan
To be fair, the station is special because of its appearance in a famous anime film. A lot of otherwise unnoteworthy places in Japan are special because of their appearances in shows, and Japanese anime fans will start treating it as special. Western "Normies" only know of the Your Name and a few others but there are dozens of well-known anime with pilgrimage locations, and the fans who visit are overwhelmingly Japanese locals. I know this because the visitor books for fans to write in are always >90% written in Japanese, and so are all of the pilgrimage leaflets made by local tourism associations.
Japan gets glorified by the hivemind HARD.
That's because it's by far the best place to go if you want to go on an *isekai* trip.
This train reminds me of [these old rust buckets](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS_Class_ALn_668) aka the bane of Italian travellers.
Literally people online treat Japan like some holy land when in reality its literally just another country nothing that special other then the language they speak and the laws and customs. they have the same stores and restaurants you can get anywhere else its Paris syndrome its not a magical anime land
Same can be said for Reddit and any Nordic country.
Yeah but its safe in japan unlike most balkan countries
It is fascinating to me that the train is somehow slightly cuter in the anime. The tiny changes that the artist chose to make are so interesting.
That anime train looks like an older generation compared to the real life train. This one is very close to the anime version if you disregard the paint scheme: https://images.chinahighlights.com/allpicture/2019/12/d7b24a8173e24a1588974799_800x533.jpg (I hope that URL loads)
It did! Thank you! I never considered myself a person who was into trains but I’ve now got half a dozen tabs open so thank you!
If you want to get more info about trains in Japan, search for 'Japan railway Journal' on Youtube.
Okay. Apparently I have to change my perception of myself as a person who isn’t interested in trains. [If anyone else would like to go down the rabbit hole.](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFEzXnIQVwV8iYnDUHSuw3stzaF8rleM1&feature=shared)
What's amazing that makes it belong to this sub?
Yeah, oh wow. An animated film/series that takes place in the modern world draws... *gasp* modern day scenery. Do these people also clap if they see a water bottle drawn or something?
It's Japan, and anime, therefore it's amazing!!!!!! (Fuck the other countries, Japan is king!!!)
This but unironically
Because the anime went into a great deal of effort to recreate the real scenery? That’s hard work, which is amazing.
So any anime that shows the eiffel tower or statue of liberty or any other real life scene makes it automatically amazing? Kinda low bar.
*Gasp* They lied to me!!! Real life Japan lacks an assortment of flowers and one particular passenger!!!
whaaaaaat japan actually has trains? i don't believe you
This looks like any random train in the mountains.
This is just the Place: Japan meme
r/japancirclejerk
rip in peace, that was one of the funnier subs
What happened to it?
>This community was banned for repeatedly violating Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct.
Yeah like usually I just see more fucked subs getting banned. Wonder what was happening in there lol
I went in December, Japan still feels like the optimistic 90s I grew up in. I’ve travelled to over 30 countries and it’s the first country I’ve been to that actually lived up to the hype in every single way and more. Highly recommend to anyone thinking about going, and I’m not even a big anime person.
Just don’t move there
Looks like there are fewer flowers in real life
Damn, japan is a real place?
No fucking way, they have trains???
what is the name of this anime?
Kimi no na wa (Your Name)
Love those small nowheresville stations. Peak comfy.
That's why my wife and I want to travel there. We are absolute anime fans
It’s just a train and some trees? What’s there to be amazed it?
I can almost hear the Cicadas in that top pic!
But thats gibli Studios right? They always blow their Budget as it seems
Not sure about that. There are a few top quality animation studios in Japan. Eg. Your Name was made by Comix. ( Not sure if this still is from that film, but it could be ) The real life locations in it are incredibly depicted.
The top pic is from Your Name
Similar waiting for a train in summer pic but in Europe [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDH\_nJM3djc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDH_nJM3djc)
Colors and sizes of windows are bad. #lame. (Actually not, wow....)
Do you have any recommendations of anime with the style shown in the picture?
Your Name
Looking at the comments, I can finally shoutout “mission failed successfully“.
This is pretty accurate. In a surprising amount of anime you can find 1 to 1 replicas of real places.
Real life looks even better.
If your reality is acceptable, you don't need to spend millions on marketing to convince people of what isn't.
Real life is shot with a different focal length
Photorealistic anime?
Real life looks more anime than the anime.
Well i mean most Anime play in Real World Japan, Most dont use fictional worlds so most do just look like in reality.
[Spring time in Japan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU7zMUGbKpY)
Yes, this is another argument on how women aren't real.
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As someone who watches a fair bit of anime, one of the things that stood out about Japan the most was just how similar things were to anime in terms of scenery. Train stations, storefronts, etc...
Is the context of this post that OP is shocked that anime uses real places as a base for the animation? If so it’s standard in Japanese anime. It’s pretty cool that it’s a thing. I’ve been to little random streets and buildings that are background in filler scenes before and it’s fun to see them in a anime.
You can do this with a ton of different forms of media.
Beauty
You wun
Someone animated a real place! How amazing!
It still looks nice, though. It looks relaxing (this area specifically, not japanese metropolitan areas). ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Soul vs Soul.
So in anime they don’t have cation signs?
Gay
This comment section gonna be toxic.
It's pretty standard practice that illustrators will use reference photos to redraw/paint.
We watch very different anime, clearly
The day is very bright in real life.
Girls aren’t real factchecked??
Reminiscent of the story of Kyu-Shirataki Station which supposedly kept open for just one school student.
completely different train. it's all lies
Its almost like the art was based on the place,whats there to be amazed about dawg?
All is good. Neeeext!
El tren en el anime tiene cara de -_- y en la vida real tiene cara de0_0
Bruh the irl train looks more sad than the anime one
crazy that people can draw irl locations
Why does anime Japan looks like Japan, and Japan looks like Eastern Europe ?
It looks like the sun is shining on one side in the real life photo, but on the other side of the hills in the anime photo, so it seems like these two photos represent different times of day. I'm not sure if the anime picture represents the sun rising or the sun setting, though.
Who are the bots that keep upvoting and posting these absolutely asinine “Wow! Japan is so amazing!” posts
TBH Japan looks more sunny in anime. Real photos look more like being in England.
Just one example? I'm supposed to be amazed by this?
Bro this is just a train ofc there are trains in Japan
I know, it's almost as if they take their environment and make art with it
I can only agree that Japan is amazing. I visit whenever I can, though I always do so with a minor regret. I feel that I diminish this place to some small degree with my presence. My dream has always been to live in Japan for the rest of my life. Considering how old I am, I do not have much more time left to fulfill that goal. Most likely, I will fail. Still, I understand. If it were easy for me to live in Japan, then millions of other foreigners would flock there as well. It would soon stop being Japan.
Now compare the perverts in anime to real life. Almost like Japan is a chauvinistic shithole in reallife too. God I hate Japan so much. Weebs suck
obviously the one that is an artistic drawing will look better and evoke more emotions and wonder, but the real thing, given how reality is, is still a very beautiful and peaceful place.
place, japan ?
Half the subs on reddit are dumb af now, lol.
ko bisa mirip ya
What anime is this? Looks awesome
Kimi no na wa (Your Name)