Rising (3+)
People you follow
The book of Haruhi says we must all make a trip once in our lives to Mecca, err, I mean Nishinomiya high school. Our god commands it!
First of all, it's on the list of places I MUST visit list already.
Having said that, I can't imagine people wandering INTO the school without permission. That'd be a problem I guess.
Having said that, I can't imagine people wandering INTO the school without permission. That'd be a problem I guess.
@chronomitch:
The book I follow requires me to inform you that you are fundamentally wrong beyond remedy.
Exactly what do those people expect to find at this school other than high school stuff? The only thing I can imagine worth anything to them would be the Tanigawa's desk. In that case, the school should have sold it or something.
The book I follow requires me to inform you that you are fundamentally wrong beyond remedy.
Exactly what do those people expect to find at this school other than high school stuff? The only thing I can imagine worth anything to them would be the Tanigawa's desk. In that case, the school should have sold it or something.
@The-Excel : The reason most would go is because it's something to see the imagery, architecture, and to all appearances the PLACE where one of your favorite stories take place. I mean, it'd be one of the few places on earth you could actually look around, let your mind wander and pretend you're in a another world. It's the same reason there is appeal for visiting movie sets, or Theme Parks.
And personally seeing the school is second to just walking the hill up too it. Which I would love to do, make the Kyon-Haruhi trek up that road.
-By the way: Here's a great link to locations from Haruhi, other than the school:
http://www.cuso4.org/photos/kix20060928/20060928-kix-haruhi.htm
And personally seeing the school is second to just walking the hill up too it. Which I would love to do, make the Kyon-Haruhi trek up that road.
-By the way: Here's a great link to locations from Haruhi, other than the school:
http://www.cuso4.org/photos/kix20060928/20060928-kix-haruhi.htm
@EpcotServo:
It's just a school. There is nothing structurally significant about it. Culturally it might be a big deal, but there are other schools much more ornate and worth looking at for aesthetics alone if that's the case.
It's just a school. There is nothing structurally significant about it. Culturally it might be a big deal, but there are other schools much more ornate and worth looking at for aesthetics alone if that's the case.
Yeah...I find all this desire to visit a high school kinda creepy. I mean, you people like the school because of what occured in a fictional story, not for what happened in real life, which just don't make sense to me. Now, if God actually went to this highschool...
LUCKY STAR SHRINE CURSE
Still, just because you're a hardcore fan of Haruhi doesn't mean you can just waltz into their school like you own it.
But if you actually find some girl who is god, an Alien or two, several espers and a time traveler and some sarcastic guy there, I don't see why not.
Still, just because you're a hardcore fan of Haruhi doesn't mean you can just waltz into their school like you own it.
But if you actually find some girl who is god, an Alien or two, several espers and a time traveler and some sarcastic guy there, I don't see why not.
Hmm. Surprised that the High School in question hasn't turned the situation into a nice little money earner, by allowing trips to the place out of school term time. But yeah, people taking photos of the place on school property while kids are there? That's kinda bad.
Hahaha. This reminds me of how my high school had to kick out Japanese (and other) tourists who started wandering onto our campus after Obama's election. (He graduated from my high school, and his family's apartment complex is across the street.)
I completely sympathize. Schools are a place to learn. It is seriously freaky when strangers start snapping pictures of your younger brother and his friends. They get so wrapped up in their internal gratification that they forget that that the school is a place where people actually live. You know, no matter what the premise of Haruhi, there are other people in the universe and your compulsion to "connect" with a location doesn't privilege you to impede on their routines.
I completely sympathize. Schools are a place to learn. It is seriously freaky when strangers start snapping pictures of your younger brother and his friends. They get so wrapped up in their internal gratification that they forget that that the school is a place where people actually live. You know, no matter what the premise of Haruhi, there are other people in the universe and your compulsion to "connect" with a location doesn't privilege you to impede on their routines.
If I ever become famous and use my high school as a template for something, I would be heartbroken to learn that people would actually come to look at it. That is, if it hasn't sunk into the swamp it's built over by then. I would much rather they instead do something more productive and directly profitable to me in their spare time.
^Seriously, that's stupid. Yeah, wandering into the school is wrong, but someone isn't insane for at least wanting to see it. Movie fans love to visit places seen in movies, like Mount Rushmore from North by Northwest, the house from "A Christmas Story", The Psycho house at Universal, and many others. Fans of the TV show "Spaced" flock to the flat they shot the exteriors for. Why is it so crazy to want to see a location featured in an Anime, too?
Yeah, They won't see a car chase, TV stars, or even aliens or Espers in these places, but that's not why you go. You go to see where-in our world-is the places that inspired and/or replicate a story that means something to them. It's why kids find the Castle at Disneyland magical-or why Harry Potter fans would go crazy to visit the sets from the movie.
Pop Culture is largely our collective fantasy-an escape from the real world, for all places, for all ages. The two worlds largely never meet-But we still try and capture that fantasy in any way we can-Collecting, Memorizing, Memorializing. Trying to get a piece of that fantasy in our real world. And when that fantasy includes places you can visit in the real world-it's only natural people would want to at least see it once in their lifetimes.
Like I said-There is a line when it comes to places that are off-limits such as this. That said, there's no good reason to question WHY they would want to see it. It all comes down to imagination, and what people find special.
Yeesh.
Yeah, They won't see a car chase, TV stars, or even aliens or Espers in these places, but that's not why you go. You go to see where-in our world-is the places that inspired and/or replicate a story that means something to them. It's why kids find the Castle at Disneyland magical-or why Harry Potter fans would go crazy to visit the sets from the movie.
Pop Culture is largely our collective fantasy-an escape from the real world, for all places, for all ages. The two worlds largely never meet-But we still try and capture that fantasy in any way we can-Collecting, Memorizing, Memorializing. Trying to get a piece of that fantasy in our real world. And when that fantasy includes places you can visit in the real world-it's only natural people would want to at least see it once in their lifetimes.
Like I said-There is a line when it comes to places that are off-limits such as this. That said, there's no good reason to question WHY they would want to see it. It all comes down to imagination, and what people find special.
Yeesh.
follow
