You wil doubtless recall that none too convincingly animated psychological strangeness anime Chaos;Head is set exclusively in Shibuya; call it tracing, Photoshopping or otherwise, the resemblance has been carefully achieved (or perhaps just cheaply obtained) by way of reworking photographic scenes, which you can see in comparison below:
Clannad, Kannagi, Ga-rei Zero… there seems to be a multitude of anime employing this technique heavily of late. As long as they do not go to excess, as exemplified by Someday’s Dreamers, few seem inclined to complain.
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I loved how they just slightly changed the names of places in the anime from the real ones.
107 -> 109
Biggu Kamera -> Bikkuri Kamera
MacDonald -> MacDinald
Animate -> AnimEight
Gourmet Town -> Gaurment Town
Karaoke Kan ->Karaoke Kaikan
wait, didn’t they use that mc donald’s in GANTZ as well?
well, in C;H’s defense, the show WAS SUPPOSED to be set in Shibuya.
I COMPLAIN!!!
It will be hard keeping track of and visiting all these awesome places when I go to Japan. 🙂
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/11/03/anime-eroge-2d-vs-3d-mapped/
I forgive them for creating an original scenery from scratch is really hard