No longer merely a city of filthy old buildings and rampaging hordes of looters, finally London has been granted its own holy place, courtesy of none other than K-ON!
The spot comes from the first London-centric K-ON! movie promotional image – somehow 2ch managed to pinpoint it down the very bench the girls are seen sitting on, near a pub/restaurant known as “Eight Over Eight” (however, this being a Japanese production it seems unlikely the girls will be going inside for a booze up…).
If the experience of past anime holy places (“seichi,” a phenomenon which has created substantial local tourist industries in a number of Japanese localities) is anything to go by, London can expect at least a trickle of moeblob fans braving the mobs to make their pilgrimages to the sites set to feature in the anime.
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it always baffles me that these people find exact locations from shows/movies
Dedication for something you love.
Or they're just plain batshit insane.
More like unhealthily obsessed and have too much time on their hands. Some of the saddest things I read on this site. :(
I think you're sad not they, if you have time to read articles like this.
Hey, it's better than drinking, smoking, gambling and/or drugging yourself to death.
Not to mention, it's also better than committing crimes, hurting other people or fighting in gangs.
I'd rather drink, smoke, and do drugs then go there to see that stupid thing.
@22:18 Because you're a degenerate!
Theres nothing wrong with taking drugs in moderation. ;)
Actually better than joining the Riot and destroying thing and stealing them
Yeah I'm with the anon comment, drinking, smoking, drugs all better then this retarded shit.
@ Anon 22:18
I'd rather you do too. The faster you die the better. (^o^)
What are the chances that the author drew that image up without referencing any particular real world location?
Ok killing tiem, while you're unemployed helps a bunch.
...and what makes you think they are unemployed? It's not like you have zero free time when you have a job you know.
>It's not like you have zero free time when you have a job you know.
I've has a nine (9) to five (17) job once. What with travel time, household chores, eating and sleep, administration, &c. no free time was left at all, not even in the weekends.
No free time? Then how'd you get here? Lol
Travel: move closer
chores: weekend
eating: microwave - 5 minutes
sleep: 7 hours
admin: huh? once a year
= Plenty of free time.
In most countries that are not third world shitholes an employer must by law give paid vacation time.
Really any employer who has even the tiniest amount of gray matter would understand that giving vacation time helps the bottom end.
A happy worker is a productive worker and unhappy one is not.
Dedication? More like obsession if you ask me.
In this case I say it's not completely a bad thing as it gets people who may otherwise be shutins to leave their rooms and basements.
Well it gets people who'd otherwise be hikikomoris to go outside and do something.
Too much effort :p
The must of look it up on Google Maps?
Hikikomori's need to do "something" to pass the time, can only masturbate and watch anime so long.
Try to find a location in any American cartoon! You will get lost, or it is only found in another galaxy, for pure coincidence.
So much for realism.
Ah, Google Earth-ing is always fun. My current work consist of reconstructing updating the city map meant for tourists everytime new hotels or buildings are built somewhere in the area and i find doing 3D modelling works by observing Google Earth/Map and some reference photographs simply enjoyable.
ps: Mugi looks hawt with that cap :3
Tag on Google Earth:
Eight Over Eight: Holy
Bench near Eight Over Eight: Holier.
Right seats of bench near Eight Over Eight: Holiest.
Kings Road? So Mugi family has a mansion there as well I guess.
"Where very derishus cake shop?"
Peropero peropero, pero peroperoro.
AKA how hard can it be to find native speakers to voiceact in anime, the one and only exception I know of is Sora no Woto with its native or at least very convincing German.
Hey dude, 'peropero' is licking. You probably meant 'perapera' for fluent speaking. But since this is Sancocku who knows.
I am truely sorry. I will now commit seppuku for my failure as a weeaboo.
Did someone say "Perapera"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcs2m3H-3Y0
Don't forget samurai Champloo.
Uses native dutch speakers. Not only that, but Ootsuka Houchuu also speaks a few lines of dutch
It's to the left of them - no joke
I'm not surprised, since them Brits have had a soft spot for "exotic eastern culture" for the last 15 decades.
I would be surprised if there weren't any English perverts stalking them from the shadows in the cinematic release, as a homage to the naughtiness of English Lolicons.
15 decades? More like 50.
And as for "filthy old buildings", at least we had the sense to build them out of stone and brick, not wood and paper, so they lasted long enough to become filthy.
yeah pity the city of London sits in a flood plain silly southerners.
Don't worry, the Dutch will all have drowned long before the London cabbies will have switched to pedaloes.
I'm impressed as always. That is dedication.
Magician dedication.
inb4 a group of five goes to that same bench and snaps a picture of 'em in the same poses as the K-ON girls.
I'm so going there today!
Quote:"London can expect at least a trickle of moeblob fans braving the mobs to make their pilgrimages to the sites set to feature in the anime."
Well, more victims for the happy slappers, I guess...
Silly K-On fans. You know they went eight over eight behind the scenes. Why else would they pick such a plain area in London to sit on.
I took a photo as to why they visited there: http://puu.sh/4Rcx - this is the Tea Time Cake Store just to the left of them.
http://puu.sh/4RcH - Here's Mugi enjoying some treats~!
Finally proof that I was at the location the second I heard the news:http://puu.sh/4RdM
Nice find. So the holy place was actually the shop near the bar.
This is what sucks bout London they don't have enough greggs to make areas like that worth visiting.
Chelsea, Kings Road, I live like 10 minutes from that spot. Funny if you go down that road and take a left your eventually get to Chelsea Football ground.
Good work K-On!
London really needed some holy places at last. :3