Piecing together Kiniro Mosaic

[steepholm]

In this entry a week or two back, which was mostly about something else entirely, I mentioned in passing that I’d run across Kiniro Mosaic, a charming slice-of-life anime about an English girl and her friends at high school in Japan. The first episode was largely set in England, and I commented: “They do seem to have done some pretty good research when it comes to the look of the Cotswolds, though: I felt I'd seen the town before, but I'm not quite familiar enough with the area to be sure.”

Well, thanks to some crowd-sourced research on Facebook (thanks adaese amongst others), I can confirm that the town near which Alice lives is in fact Cirencester – a place I’ve been to innumerable times, though not much recently – hence the tantalizing familiarity. I feel foolish for not recognizing it at once, but anyway, it was fun getting Google Streetview to line the shots up:


Two other location shots from the same montage are taken from the same town. The church is further back on the same street:


And this is apparently the entrance to nearby Home Park:


Of course, now I want to pop over to Cirencester (it’s only 40 minutes in the car) and pose like Alice and Shino. If only I knew someone who’d be willing to be my accomplice in so silly a mission.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Wow--that's an amazing resemblance.

[steepholm]

Cool, isn't it?

[ashkitty]

I would go for a road trip in a heartbeat, but I think it would be more than 40 minutes if you had to come get me first. ;)

[steepholm]

Then it becomes more like 16 hours and forty minutes, if we count dropping you off afterwards!

[ashkitty]

Yeeeeeah, I'm a bit out of the way. ;)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Wow, they did a lovely job.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Didn't they just? I assume they worked from photographs, but they've taken some licence too (in a good way). I was amused to see that there was still bunting up! Life in Cirencester is clearly one long celebration.

[adaese.livejournal.com]

It's a lovely town.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Now that's beautiful set design.

Nine

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

It is. My ex- used to do (actually still does) yoga there every week, and I often used to go with them and hang out. My only bad memory of Cirencester is of my son falling off a slide in the park behind the church and breaking his arm. That was quite a doozy, though.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Lovely, isn't it?

[owlfish]

If it's weren't so inconvenient, I would love to go pose with you for this; but it rather is.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I'll have to explore the possibilities of double exposure...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, Cirencester.

I love Cirencester.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Hear Alice expatiate on its beauty: