/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Excuse my shitty phone camera, but I thought this might interest the gentlemen here at /jp/.

>>18147053

>a whole thread full of dank photos
>chose the new year snapshot as OP

Lemme dig out some pics from when I was there about a decade ago.

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>>18147053

love to everyone that contributes
will be able to myself this year :)

>>18148470
I wanted something new year related taken by somebody in the thread, also I think that photo captures a scene nicely with a lot of personality and emotion of people celebrating

walking home drunk at 7am

>>18147746
Is that the emperor and empress?

>>18150079
nice shot

>>18150822
not him but yes thats the royal family

Sapporo.

>>18153507
ichiban

>>18149610
Where were all of these taken, anon?

>>18154989

Japan.

>>18155125
>being this much of a nigger

fuck off you godless retard

>>18156351
You could also use your brain and use information from the pictures and find it that way. But apparently that's too hard for retarded people.

>tfw will never own Meiji/Taisho era western inspired house/building or western/Japanese hybrid style house/building

>>18147083
That's Paris, moron

My biggest regret in all of Japan.

Can't wait to go back in 2018.

>>18157967
Have you ever been to Paris

>>18157967
I hope you're trolling

>>18157967
It's las vegas

>>18157967
The the background we have Mount Fujîé, on the left is the the Princé Pàrké Towerù Paris

>>18158065
kek

umai!
Lawson is the best

Lol I just noticed the lady making a large X with her hands in this picture, I wasn't aware I was not allowed to take pictures but it makes sense. I apologized a lot afterwards and ended up eating there.
Its a place where you can order food but you must cook it with your friends while an assistant guides you, its very fun in groups and REALLY affordable

>>18159497

I was under the impression it was more of actual cooking classes?

>>18160221
Yes you are right, but this one had a dine in area which is kind of cool

>>18159497
This would be my heaven

>>18135141
Reminds me of Clannad.

Guess where I found this little beaut.

>>18157428
>I can't respond to a simple question so I act like an uppity lebit fedora

Fuck off godless reddit retard.

>>18159438
western niggers are the worst

>>18162132
>godless

Why this accusation in particular?

>>18150079
is that osaka?

>>18162137
Nigga youre just mad that Im living the dream and your stuck in whatever unfortunate situation god put you in, best of luck anon

>>18163151
What a wholesome anon.
This is what a trip to Japan does to you, as opposed to what it does to you if you fester in the miserable and depressing slums in America.

Take me away from this hell.

>>18159438
Lawson sucks. Have yourself a Origin Bento onigiri. Those are the best.

At Tsuki Jinja in Urawa, Saitama.

>>18159526
How does one eat a grilled prawn on a stick that still has it's shell?

>>18157428
Nah, that was a pretty nigger-tier response.

>>18165844
The shell is usually soft enough that you can just chew and swallow it.

>>18163151
no, I'm just stating that you behave like the typical western nigger.

You probably can't even read hiragana, just sad, really. It's even worse that you believe you are ''living the dream'' when the average chinkjap thinks of you as a monkey.

>>18163151
>your stuck

>implying not a nigger

Nice. Learn 5th grade grammar then come back to me, subhuman.

original is 4,480px × 6,720px

h ttp://photohito.com/user/photo/94514/order/popular/

>>18162769
yes, near Daikokucho

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>>18170075
I live here...?? I speak Japanese, I took JLPT2.. how do you think I even got a job here? lol

Stop being lazy and teach yourself Japanese, stop finding excuses

>>18172834
I was complimenting your wholesome attitude Anon, don't jump down my throat.

>>18172852
I wasn't responding to you, my bad.
I still stand by what I said, study!

>>18172834

N2 is considered fluent?

I passed N2 and would only consider myself conversational.

>>18173023
yep, if you are a stinky gaijin.
Though to be fair it's better then most foreigners who stick around in gaijin bars, pretending like their Japanese is better than everyone else's.

>>18173023
Its close, requires around 2500 hours of self study but fluent doesn't require readings of technical papers but some STEM jobs like mine require it so takes a little bit longer. worth it though.
In my mind fluency will never happen, maybe when I am in my forties I'll be where most native Japanese speakers are at.
>https://youtu.be/wXco4P7jyWE?t=6m22s
He's my motivation for someone who was born in the states, got a job in Japan and taught himself the language, sounds very authentic, heavy on the Yamagatan dialect.

>>18159438
Is it good?

>>18174753
I believe it was salmon roe, so yes. This was taken about a year ago

>>18173023
No, N2 is not considered fluent.
N2 doesn't involve talking at all.

It doesn't literally matter what JLPT level you have when it comes to fluency. You need to actually use Japanese in daily life in relationships with Japanese people so that you can actually grasp speech patterns in regards to context and actually use them yourself.

You can go all the way through N1 learning all the vocabulary and grammar formations without learning why they would pick one sentence over another that has the same meaning and thus be able to pick the correct one during a conversation with a Japanese person.

And further, if you actually think about how you speak in English you can build a sentence as you go along. You don't have to start by thinking about what you want to say and then building the words around it to make the sentence. That's an important point in fluency, you don't have to think about what you want to say in English, and then how to build that in Japanese.

JLPT needs to be divorced from the idea of fluency in Japanese. Yes, it is almost always a requirement for getting a job in a Japanese business, but that requirement isn't there so that they know you can converse with them fluently. It's so they know you have a reasonably high understanding of Japanese, that you can read the information you are given, you can understand what they are telling you. Fluency is something you will gain from experience while living in Japan.

less bickering
more photo posting

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>>18174929
Stupid idiot.

>>18178817
What if he has taco neck?
I bet you'd feel like an asshole then.

5:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb4VFIoqAsI

>>18171084
sweet, recognized it since my apartment during my stay was about 500m away

>>18150079
Can you tell me your process for moving to japan so I can replicate it? Do you think it would be difficult if you didn’t speak Japanese or it doesn’t matter? I talked to a Japanese guy who said if you stay around Tokyo you can just speak English

>>18184742
Where is this?

>>18186130
Not the poster but it’s arakawa river and kofu city

>>18149597
this is fantastic, thank you

>>18185357
If you want to get a job at a Japanese company then you will need to be able to speak Japanese.
Getting a job at a non-Japanese company limits your possibilities but is still an option.

>>18170614
amazing

>>18164915
> tfw europoor but want to visit a midwestern or PNW american town just to soak in the comfy mundane feeling.

>>18159526
>NoLoveDeepWeb

This is possibly the worst thread in all of /jp/.

>>18187979
you can get these feelings in plenty of european places
like eastern germany or northern scandinavia

>>18187979
That is a very wonderful photo.
But I wanted to see a larger photo.

>>18186409
Thanks

>>18189520
It's probably an issue of mundane exocitness. I don't feel much walking around the part of American I'm from, but visiting Japan, or the Midwest, or Europe would stick me with the unique flavor of mundane of those places. At least, I noticed in Japan I got a feeling like that wandering the streets, and seeing pictures of Europe and the Midwest make me feel like that, too.

Do you have a yt mommy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eng1VVlvMes

>>18157967
It's tolentino

>>18157981
What's that

>>18150079
I love this photo with the text, make me breath Japan

>>18191946
i have a similar feeling when seeing some pictures of japan or russia so i guess i kind of know what you mean

Took this pic in Ikebukuro

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>>18162137

Woah, both you cunts are sad.

>>18178884
I want to believe

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>>18166040
^what this guy said
I ate most of the shell because it was nice and crispy but sometimes its not and in return I only eat the insides.
I always tell people to eat the last portion of the shrimp because its always the tastiest

>>18170614
This is beautiful. From where did you take this?

>>18147053
SH-60 from Skytree

>>18200957
You have the right to fly over the city in Tokyo ?

>>18200988
That's probably JSDF
I've seen helicopters flying over Tokyo a few times, so I guess it's allowed

>>18157981
I am still kicking myself for not buying a foot tall JoJo vinyl figure for like $80 US bucks.

>>18154989
I was visiting a friend staying in Machida.
Walking around was so comfy. A nice suburban area. Kinda reminded me of some of the comfy quaint semi-rural towns back home.

>>18201470
Though the apartment was tiny as shit.

>>18200988
I have seen photos of light planes flying over Tokyo, even below the level off the Skytree.

niigata　train stuck for 15 hours.

>>18201477

No offense but, with an apartment that small, all that crap piled up everywhere really doesn't help...

>>18147053
This count?
https://youtu.be/kv3TOZOMMFE
or photographs only?

>>18157981
https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/602919537001

>>18184968
Apple House?

>>18153507
No impoliteness intended, but your original photo wasn’t level. Here’s an evened-out version.

Nara Prefecture from plane while descending to Osaka-Itami

Osaka>Tokyo

>>18195030
is that still water or flowing?

>>18206269
I agree.

>>18206269
what makes you say so

>>18207031
>less stressful
>nicer locals
>better nightlife (at least most is concentrated around Minami or Kita)
>Kyoto and Nara a 30 min train ride away
>cuter and nicer girls (just my opinion)
>cozier
>less snobby locals and foreigners
>annoying Nigerians close to non-existent (there are some "massaji"-thais tho)
i have generally a good feeling while walking around town. Whenever i am in Tokyo i feel a more dense and stressful atmosphere, sort of not beeing welcome or so. Maybe its just me, no idea.

>>18207335
It becomes more like that the smaller cities get. Visit one of Japan's many 100k cities some time and you'll see how cozy they can be, specially those on the Western coast in Winter. The problem is the smaller cities get, the less things there are to do. Specially in regards to otaku culture. You'll not find things like the Pizza Hut and Lawson collabs with brands like im@s and KanColle anywhere but in Tokyo. Besides, if you're serious about your hobbies, who gives a damn if the locals are less friendly, if you won't ever bother talking to strangers to begin with. That's why you might be right, but Tokyo is a better place for most otaku.

>>18207335
what's your impression of Kyoto, please I need to know.

Also, have you been to Hokkaido or Tohoku?

As always we need more night time city pictures in this thread.

>>18170694
This is really nice.

>>18205731
Well, to be fair, he had two to three others people staying with him that month. Most of it was the otaku crap we bought.

>>18206269

>Kyoto>Osaka>Tokyo

FTFY.

>>18149929
also, I think that the girl's handbag is supreme

>>18209797
Thing about Osaka is that you can easily daytrip to Kyoto cheaply while having more of the modern conveniences nearer at hand.

>>18212085
>while having more of the modern conveniences nearer at hand.

What modern conveniences does Kyoto lack that Osaka has?

It is only 30-45 minutes to get to Osaka anyway.

>>18212215
It's not so much of a lack as it is higher quantity.

Also, I think that Osaka is better positioned for visiting other centers.

>>18206269
Generally, I agree, but the schoolgirls wear shorter skirts in Tokyo.

>>18212364

Kansai girls dress so much more stylishly.

>>18212283

Maybe more, but Kyoto certainly isn’t lacking. And it is even LESS crowded than Osaka. Lived there the last six years and I don’t want to ever move (Though I most likely will have two in a 2 or 3).

>>18206176
Nah, some airbnb a bit further south

Always adore these threads

>>18213298
Beautiful. Think about the individual lifes and experiences happening inside each of these building. Despite the smog this is very comfy photo.

>>18209797
#ThisGuyGetsIt

>>18213319
I like to think the opposite way. Pictures like that are a reminder that all humans are just cells of a larger organism.

>>18213403
This is the same way of thinking. We are dust.

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>>18217199
>You will never live in economic miracle 70s and 80s Japan

>>18221393
Who are you quoting?

>>18221744
Us.

Thoughts on Kamakura? Seems like a very cosy place to call home.

>>18208633
Got a few

>>18150079
Walking home in the rain at 3-4am

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>>18157596
I'm genuinely curious as to how much it would cost to actually live in one of these houses. Even though most of them are now museums.

>>18213298
>>18213319

Haha I took this picture and posted it quite a while ago. Glad you guys like it.
I'm going to Japan once again this spring, and with better gear too. I'll make sure to post some shots again.

Took this in Oarai.

>>18227286
Osaka, near the big blue river lock?

>>18233126
Nope, Yoroihashi Chuo-ku Tokyo
>>18227414
I just processed my hyperlapse of this

>>18233734
nice

Old shop in my old neighborhood, south of Shakujii Koen in Tokyo

Nanase firecut best Nanase.

>>18236537
Sorry, wrong tab.

>>18227326
Tokyo?

>>18243177
Not him, but yes it's Tokyo. This is the area near nakagin capsule tower.

I really wanna go to Japanese Taco Bell.

Can’t be assed to go to Dotonbori though.

>>18243389
do you live there?

>>18243530
Not anymore.

>>18243562
where do you live?
or are you not in Japan anymore?
Why'd you move?
Tell me anything about Japan, please...

>>18212441
I would kidnap her

>>18244050

She is not even 18 you pervert.

>>18244056
I wasn't going to sexually attack her before but now that you mention it.

>>18245221
Yokohama by any chance?

>>18250900

Sasebo
coordinates in the filename

>>18251147
Apologies. What did you find interesting to do there? I'm thinking of going around Nagasaki in a few months and would like ideas.

>>18251147
Pretty. I want to go back to Kyushu since all I've seen of it is Fukuoka from the air, and 2 nights of Nagasaki with a sidetrip to Huis-ten Bosch. My next two trips are to Tohoku and Tokyo/Kansai though.

In my old neighborhood

>>18260828
why are there no many of these クリーニング stores in Japan?

Has anyone been to a traditional coastal/fishing village?

>>18265723
There are many of those stores in Japan. What are you talking about?

>>18227286
more pictures of shutoko please.

JAPANESE SAMURAI

>>18265892
>There are many of those stores in Japan. What are you talking about?

Are you mentally ill?
Read what I said you fucking mongoloid.

>>18265892
>>18267158
>why are there so many of these

>>18265723

I assume you meant so and not no?

It is because they are useful. Everyone wears suits and dress shirts to work, so they can survive pretty much anywhere. Hard to oversaturate.

>>18267198
Precisely this. The business culture here is still generally very conservative in terms of dress code, so shirts and suits are major clothing items for most people. And even things like coats, sweaters, etc get taken to the cleaner a lot more often than other places. People tend to keep their clothing neat and in very good condition. I never felt like such a slob as when I first moved to Tokyo. Even if it's just a t-shirt and jeans, people tend to have good quality garments that are clean, well-fitted, and well-styled.

Have another one, this time Ueno.

Might be going to Japan in November, December, or next January. Last time I was there - 2012 - I was interested in hobbist things - but not 2 new hobbies I have since picked up - and a week felt like too much. If I want to just do the 'walk the streets and get lost' style of tourism in Tokyo, how long should I plan for? 7 or 10 days, or perhaps longer?

>>18267291

Nice shot, same about the terrible pp though.

>>18267429
Shame I'm not here to please you. Your opinion on my processing counts for shit.

>>18260972

o7

There is a clean version of the Type-0 at the Kyoto Railway Museum. Such a cool train, wish I had had a chance to ride one. The N700 just isn’t as cool.

>>18267358

Depends on how long you would be happy wandering aimlessly. I’d be fed up with it in a day or two.

That said 1-2 weeks is a decent amount of time. I normally recommend two weeks to friends who come to visit.

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>>18267751
I still need to ride an N500 before they retire them. I got to see one on the Sanyo shinkansen line, and sat in the driver seat of the one in the Kyoto Rail Museum. I love it so much, its the embodiment of 1990s "gotta go fast" rail engineering.

>>18267874

Yea I rode an N500 when I went to Hiroshima for a conference, it was pretty neat. Has a sense of....I dunno, style? that the N700 lacks.

I really wanna go hit up the Nagoya Railway Museum, I think it is closed now, but for awhile you could ride their new Linear LX0 trains.

>>18268267
The Maglev Park? I thought it was still open. Or do you mean the testing center for the new maglev shinkansen line?

>>18268288

The test track is what I was talking about. I heard it was closed while they expanded the line to Tokyo.

>>18267644
what a passive aggressive nigger, lmfao

>>18268305
>passive aggressive
Might want to look that up

Rural Japan is the best.

Sorry for the shitty image quality, but its snowing in Tokyo and I figured I'd take a shot on my way home. Its kinda tranquil right now.

Fucking wing tip shoes are absolutely no help when shit is all slippery.

>>18268924

It kinda snowed for like a minute or two here in Kyoto, but quickly went back to a rainy mess.

Here is my shitty cellphone snapshot.

inb4 rotation is fucked

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>>18268941
i hate both of you

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>>18268941
I thought Japan was crowded.

>>18270963
Oh, it is.

Let me join in with the snow pics too. Here's Ikebukuro.

Here is Kyoto last year.

>>18267644
Jesus Christ, what a hypersensitive twat.

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>>18272907
I hate all of you

>>18279576
Are you going to sit in your basement and be a massive degenerate about how they are in a place you're not when you can literally book a ticket at any time and travel yourself?

>>18280038
>Are you going to sit in your basement and be a massive degenerate about how they are in a place you're not

yes

>>18280038
>when you can literally book a ticket at any time and travel yourself?

not true, don't talk about shit you have no knowledge of, I'm doomed, kindly fuck off.

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>>18279576
i've always liked Japan but i dont get jealous of people for going there, because at the end of the day i know it wouldn't work out if i went there.

I wouldn't fit in or speak the language. Some things are better off in your head than they are IRL.

>>18227244
Wow, japanese people are a lot shorter than I thought. Maybe I would fit in there, if I spoke japanese and wasn't a dirty western pig

>>18280768
you keep telling yourself that.

I'd rather accept failure than live in fantasy trying to fool myself.

>>18280768
>at the end of the day i know it wouldn't work out if i went there.
>I wouldn't fit in or speak the language


How would you know if you don't go?

>>18280768
Dunno, I personally think I'd have moderate success as the hotblooded, genki, typical romantically passionatelatino. If I could somehow 180 my personality and pull off acting like it, of course.

>>18283069

Araki is best photographer.

I wish that was available somewhere in a better resolution.

h ttps://www.flickr.com/photos/ryoanna/28018314959/sizes/

>>18159497
>Already Been Chewed Cooking
gross

>>18272172
I think I finally understand why hikikimoris are afraid of going outside

>>18279576
Why?
I like these pictures.

>>18227244
dyed brown hair almost everywhere, literal cancer.

>>18288086
They're there, I'm not.

>>18289075
>japanese don't have brown hair

I can assure you they do though.
I have 2 friends from Kyushuu and they have (natural) brown hair, though of a dark/medium shade.

>>18289274
He's probably right about it being dyed though.
While definitely are Japanese with naturally brown hair it isn't common, certainly not common enough to have that many in one place and it's fucking Harajuku.

http://cocokashi-co.tumblr.com/post/169511978832

>>18290418
The majority of the people in that pic seem to have natural hair though.

Also, so what if they dye their hair?
You guys say that as if it wasn't a fucking cancer in the west, which, actually, it's probably way more common here.

>>18292176
Yeah, I dunno what you're talking about.
The majority of them are definitely dyed.

I personally don't have a problem with it, I just like to correct people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txDR1y1drl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRt4Duf7GoI

>>18296982
Where was this aesthetic photo taken?

>>18294103
>I just like to correct people.

but you're retarded.
Most of those really don't seem dyed.

Odaiba has a lot of nice parks and greenery.

Anybody have pretty stuff from Ishikawa/Toyama?

>>18297335
It's from google maps, specifically:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/33°04'14.8"N+132°28'21.8"E/

>>18302319
Tsumago?

>>18287109
Where is this pic taken from? East from Tokyo is all I can guess.

Shinjuku

>>18305671
Yoshino

>>18309460
Oh right, the upper part. Went there almost at full bloom time two years ago. Great place.

Pretty sure I took this in Hakodate. Electronic bus sign is messed up because I forgot I had a polarizer on my lens.

>>18304300
>https://www.google.com/maps/place/33°04'14.8"N+132°28'21.8"E/
Neat. Thanks.

>>18302386
That is the best time, when it's still not fully dark but the lights are just turning on

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>>18319640
So comfy. Add a cup of tea and a wind chime and it's perfect.

>>18320494
>大雪
>not even 3 inches of snow

hm...

>>18320706
Is this what they call a 'wide angle lens'? When I was in China last yea I tried one out and it was very enjoyable to use taking photos of Shanghai at night, but I was just using a friend's camera, and I don't have my own wide angle lens. Is it worth purchasing if I want to get better at taking photos of scenery?

>>18321320
That's more of a fish eye lense I think.

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>>18320506
these photos would probably be 10x better without that filter.

>>18321320

Yes and no.

It is a wide angle, but has so much distortion it is often referred to as a fisheye.

To put it simply, the wider the lens (the lower the mm number) the wider to field of view.

Attached is an example of the more common wide angle and ultra wide angle fields of view.

Note that this example is with a FF camera. On a crop, it doesn't come out as wide.

Snowed here in Kyoto a few days ago.

Will probably do it again today too.

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>>18322915
Go to Uji and take pics!

>>18323198

I would love to, but I am too busy with work for the next week or so.

>>18320706
>center-right pic
concerned.jpg

>>18322696
Color grading is not the same as using a filter

>>18327379
mind posting the one up top pls.
it looks way better that way.

>>18327725
No

>>18327777
sorry to tell you the truth, but the more natural photography looks the better it is.
I know it upsets you hearing it.
I KNOW YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING ARTISTIC.
You're not. You're actually taking amazing photos but making them unsaveable because they're in an offputting hue.

>>18327798
I think the building in the background looks a bit washed out compared to the default version, but the first one isn't necessarily more or less natural. The colors will depend on the camera sensor and the white balance set in the camera or applied by default by the raw processing software. Case in point, if Ioad DNGs from my phone in a raw editor, they look nearly completely desaturated. Only by cranking the saturation way up do I get a result that somewhat matches reality. No, I'm not oversaturating them. Implying that the default processing parameters are always closest to how the scene was perceived by the photographer is frankly ridiculous.

>>18327856
i just think the original looks better. It looks more natural to me.

>>18327798
I agree with the guy who took the pic. Original looks worse.

>>18328626
thats just bad taste.

>>18328826
Or maybe you're wrong.

I'm guessing you're the kind of guy who proudly posts unremarkable pictures in SOOC groups on flickr.

>>18328826
There's compositional justification too. The lights help direct the eye to the center point and funnels down the street. The original is sparser and darker and has less of that effect. The 2nd one is too bright to create those guidelines.

>>18329556
Also the triangle created by the human figures is highlighted. You can hardly see the humans at the forefront in the original.

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>>18329556
i just prefer the atmosphere of the original. I dont necessarily want humans as the focal point.
I like it because the lighting feels more natural.
I know it would resemble the original more than it would the other 2.

>>18329612
Sorry I’m posting from Japan. All our photos are upside down on your websites because we are on other side of world.

>>18327798
I'm sorry you feel that way. Please don't get mad though, it's just a bunch of photos after all.

I do think I'm being artistic and so are many other photographers who like to paint their pictures with more vivid colors. I do understand that this is not a documentation of reality and of course I do also save the raw picture for private archival purposes.

>>18329570
I can understand that but having been there when I took the photo I do not agree in that it necessarily looks more natural. The lights on the very corners and the color of the buildings are too dark in the original and the orange glow in the distance (due to the snow and rain) is much better replicated in the 3rd variant. That being said, it's more washed out than reality (despite me not wearing my glasses) and the colors are of course a bit too muted and vibrant to really be called realistic. I'll post a more realistic version of that photo later.

>>18329619
Japan is in the Northern hemisphere, like USA so they must be in the same orientation

>>18331024
Gave me a nice chuckle, thanks anon.

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>>18329764
There you go, even the resolution is higher now.

>>18331024
君の四股名は。

高山市

>>18334822
豊島区

>>18334829
大町市

New thread

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