The Real Places in VNs

[Noumi Kudryavka]

I know they use real places in VNs, especially those set in Japan. But some of them are quite far away. As I was playing ef. The First Tale. I suddenly recognized the place they were in, because I've been there countless times myself.

The anime has a lot of German in it. Makes sense as this background is the main square in Rothenburg, Germany!

 

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Does anyone else have any remarkable places to note that they've noticed?

[Silvz]

If I'm not wrong, every 07th Expansion game, or at least the ones that matter, use real place pictures for background, so Umineko, Higurashi, Rose Guns Days are all in the real Japan.

I even recall seeing a post, I think it was on mangagamer, about the real mansion where Umineko takes place

[Chuee]

7 minutes ago, Zenophilious said:

I know the town in Hoshimemo, Hibarigasaki, is fictional, but is based off of a real town called Otaru.  Steve (RIP in pepperoni) found a bunch of pics that are almost exactly the same when compared to background CGs from Hoshimemo.

Their other two games are too. I think AstralAir mainly uses locations in Sapporo.

 

 

I remembered seeing a website that had all of the places on it, along with locations from other games, but I couldn't find it. 

[Buddha Senpai]

You could probably do a real life Steins;Gate tour around Akiba.

[Deep Blue]

in ef they are not in Germany maybe they copied the astetic just for the looks because they are pretty but they not there, actually the place where they are is part of the plot

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those are 2 cities, one is in japan Otowa I think it was.. and the other one in Australia, they are like a mirror cities created by Yuu which was the architect. It was like a cultural program created to give a little gratitud for Australia after that big earthquake, the one where Yuu lost his family and then went to the orphanage  and met Yuuko.

By the way some characters live in australia and some others in japan, like Miyako is from australia and goes to visit Renji to japan, 

 

[Silvz]

1 minute ago, Zenophilious said:

This it?

I think Steve mentioned that also, I was just too lazy to try and track that down  : P

I believe it is, yeah.

[Monmon]

Yamato and Momoyo went to Yokohama's China town in Momoyo's route.

And all Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ places are real in Japan.

[Yuuko]

Yuzusoft new game, Senren Banka

 

 

 

I think I should have the Iroseka pics somewhere too >.>

[Tenkuru]

Higurashi is based on a village of Shirakawa-go

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I know that Key also tend to base their stuff off real life locations.

Rewrite:

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Kanon:

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InvertMouse also made a post a while back showing the landmarks of Narcissu.

[AaronIsCrunchy]

I know that the backgrounds of KS were all real locations. If my memory serves me right, it was a mixture of pictures from Brown University and one or two from Japanese locations. All the school backgrounds were Brown, at any rate.

[Vorathiel]

3 hours ago, Tenkuru said:

Higurashi is based on a village of Shirakawa-go

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Wasn't there a village in Kara no Shoujo 2 that looked exactly the same? Can't find the image.

But I found those:
http://www.kohakusan.net/stage/kara2.html

[Darklord13]

Katawa Shoujo's school is set  in the location of the ruins of Sendai Castle.

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The school is set in the location of the ruins of Sendai Castle. I caught a bus up the hill to the castle site and then walked back from there to Sendai City (a long distance). After that trip I returned and wrote the detailed description of the school’s environment, and apart from a few changes to match the photos, they pretty much stayed. In 2015 Suriko actually went to Sendai and got a photo of him “being Lilly” in the exact same spot as one of the scenes from the game.

https://cplcrud.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/the-easter-egg-edition/

[Noumi Kudryavka]

14 hours ago, Deep Blue said:

in ef they are not in Germany maybe they copied the astetic just for the looks because they are pretty but they not there, actually the place where they are is part of the plot

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those are 2 cities, one is in japan Otowa I think it was.. and the other one in Australia, they are like a mirror cities created by Yuu which was the architect. It was like a cultural program created to give a little gratitud for Australia after that big earthquake, the one where Yuu lost his family and then went to the orphanage  and met Yuuko.

By the way some characters live in australia and some others in japan, like Miyako is from australia and goes to visit Renji to japan, 

 

Well, yes. I know it doesn't take place in Germany and that they rebuilt the city to European standards. But the fact that they used very well known towns and classic places from Germany ties in with the amount of German text they use in the anime itself. Other than that it has no ties at all and I kinda wonder why they went with the German text in the anime.

[Funyarinpa]

17 hours ago, Silvz said:

If I'm not wrong, every 07th Expansion game, or at least the ones that matter, use real place pictures for background, so Umineko, Higurashi, Rose Guns Days are all in the real Japan.

I even recall seeing a post, I think it was on mangagamer, about the real mansion where Umineko takes place

 

17 hours ago, Zenophilious said:

This it?

I think Steve mentioned that also, I was just too lazy to try and track that down  : P

HOLY SHIT

I knew Higurashi was modeled after a real village (same place was also used for Kara no Shoujo 2), but that mansion holy shit.

[Vorathiel]

4 hours ago, Funyarinpa said:

I knew Higurashi was modeled after a real village (same place was also used for Kara no Shoujo 2), but that mansion holy shit.

Yup, found it:

[Yuuko]

Hoshimemo places in winter if anyone is interested~ Fresh new, taken 1 week ago.

  

[littleshogun]

So Hitogata based on Shirakawa too, eh ? Interesting, although the shrine was different from Higurashi shrine though (By the way, in both of the games, the shrine was the place when the story advance). In any case, guess any people who come to Shirakawa and did something bad there could choose how they would be cursed lol (Either by having your stomach filled by creepy baby like clay doll or having you scratch your neck until it's bleeding. Although both of them was terrible of course).

[Okarin]

This is a typical trend. Like in the original anime, Sora no Woto whose home town is based on Cuenca (Spain).

[DarkZedge]

3 hours ago, Okarin said:

This is a typical trend. Like in the original anime, Sora no Woto whose home town is based on Cuenca (Spain).

Indeed, it happens a lot..

Although sometimes is more noticeable than others