Devoted otaku have yet again set out on another anime-centric pilgimage to the latest seichi of note, this time to bear witness to and compare the similarities between the new PV of impending glass artisan anime Glasslip and its real world equivalent – with the town likely to end up as a prosperous (or merely crowded) tourist attraction.
The 2nd PV of Glasslip from which the comparison photos were based upon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgTaBm7ts0k
While the comparison shots below quite resemble the PV, they also conveniently serve as a respectable collage of the town’s rather quaint scenery:
All this of course may have a point beyond merely saving a pittance on animators: the propensity of anime to spawn “seichi” in otherwise unremarkable backwaters which are then easily turned into lucrative tourist traps is now well understand even by local governments, with some doling out incentives in the hopes of attracting the next blockbuster – or at the very least a small horde of loose-walleted fans.
How do they reproduce backgrounds image for anime? Does they take photoand alter them? Or draw each leaves from scratch? Some background are almost too beautiful to be true. Im intrigued by the technique.
Mangaka loses his job when he traces, yet the same does not happen with anime; double standards
I don’t think it is really traced, there are differences but it is obviously that it was drawn with a photo of the location as reference.
Anyway if any jobs would be lost would be from Korean animators, since no one cares about them…
I wonder these animators can make some of China’s “real world” locales more attractive.
Sure! They have done it before. Just look at anime scenes in China.
I was thinking more a long the lines of this.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/02/20/32000-if-you-can-last-20-minutes-in-this/
I think it would be an interesting challenge.
world looks better in anime!
So what is the name of this town/city this show based on?
That’s what I want to know too. Very nice article showing us all these pictures but you don’t tell us the name of the damn town. WTF??