When Anime Meets Real-Life Locations

PublishedOctober 21, 2016

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Some anime isn’t called “slice of life” for no reason, you know.

Twitter user Bassist Tom uploaded this image of Sound! Euphonium art compared with its real-world staircase location. Cool, huh?

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This past August, Twitter user Kuro Buta Piggy also uploaded images that obsessively compared still images from the anime Free! with real locations in the town of Iwami.

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