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[โ€“] [email protected] 107 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The main difference is that there isn't someone walking onto the train in the real photo. This proves, as we already assumed, no one actually lives in japan. It's just a bunch of automated trains driving around for fun

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The more I learn about Japan the more awesome it sounds

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Your name in Portuguese literally means God, and it makes this reply even better

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Isn't that just ancient Portuguese with a weird accent?

[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

If anyone is wondering: yes, people use real photos as a reference for their background art. In anime/ manga, they'll often trace and then use watercolor/ digital art/ ink.

Berserk has a whole host of real-world inspirations that are really neat. Here's an example:

One Punch Man has a lot of IRL tracing aswell.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Some of the lower budget studios will just straight up Rotoscope an image and then draw their characters in afterwards. Food is the biggest offender. Which is fair for producing an artwork of quality with limited resources, I suppose.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The thing about food looking hyper-realistic is an artifact of a studio that got ridiculed for animating it particularly badly. Ever since then, it has been a meme to make food overly detailed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Often not traced, just reproduced.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just want my food to look like anime food

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just want my food to blow my clothes off like in anime.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah food wars. No one is prepared for their first dish.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

โ€ฆ Shokugeki. epic music starts blaring

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I love how much tension they can create out of nothing. Isshiki "revealing his true power" is such a needlesly awesome moment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

RL train looks more cartoonish.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The model might have changed over the years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I got to visit Japan for vacation and there were so many moments where I felt like I was just in a familiar place because I had seen it so many times before in media.

I assume people feel the same way when they visit places like Los Angeles, Toronto, etc. Places we're all familiar with in some capacity even though we haven't been there. It's really fun to go out and explore the mundanity of places in person.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] starman2112 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, my name is Josh

Haha just joshing you, it is Your Name

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

If my name was Jack, would I be jacking you?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Still as beautiful though

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

"Art imitates life."