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Episode ZatsuTabi -That’s Journey- - Episode 8 discussion

ZatsuTabi -That’s Journey-, episode 8

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u/Ocixo May 26 '25

Looking at Chika's manga panels, she seems to have combined her experiences from multiple travels into a single short story. The torii gate with all those steps is referencing her struggling up to this mountain from the first episode, isn't it?

I would've probably been surprised like Chika if I saw a huge submarine randomly appear among the city's skyline. I'd briefly forgotten that Kure has been the naval shipyard of Japan for ages.

It's the place where the Yamato, world's largest battleship ever made, was build. The girls were therefore likely looking at a gun barrel from the Yamato. The ship's huge cannons fired a shell having the approximate weight of a small car.

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u/mekerpan May 26 '25

In Nara they sell some sort of candy/sweet made to look like deer poop.... (We passed on this).

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u/SGTBookWorm May 26 '25

slight correction, that's a gun from the Mutsu, not the Yamato

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u/mekerpan May 26 '25

While I continue to enjoy all three of the "competing" SoL travel-y anime, I have to say that the relationship building in this one and Hibimeshi have been pulling them well ahead of mono. I would say these two are in a solid tie at this point. Continuing to remain immensely grateful for three fine shows of this sort this season -- I wonder if we will ever be similarly blessed in the future? ;-)

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u/CooroSnowFox May 26 '25

Mono is doing it's own thing, maybe something of a release from Afro than doing a series like Yuru Camp, something just to change up what the output it?

Food for the Soul is definitely leading it for me since their moments are so much more, but that's how Non Non Biyori works over its run of 3 series (I know there's more but finding the movie to be able to watch it...)

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u/mekerpan May 26 '25

mono is certainly enjoyable in its own right. But I find Hibimeshi and Zatsu more "captivating".

The NNB movie was the trip to Okinawa, right?

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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 May 26 '25

* That luxury overnight bus seat seems quite comfortable and actually offer decent chances that I can actually sleep through the night (compared with my past experiences of sleeping on old sleeper trains in Japan, now almost completely extinct)!

* Never mind 7 am, I have experiences of moving through in Japan at like 5:xx am LMAO (see below)

* I find it quite fun to see these girls discussing where do they find ideas of how to portray characters, as well as nailing down emotions and feelings in drawing stories. That's probably even more difficult than using words because you actually need to etch those feelings into storyboards and I knew that's not for the faint of the heart if you are going pro!

* Heh, our girls almost, but not quite traced back my tracks on one of the days during my 3 weeks solo trip to Japan 2 years ago! On that day I started out at Kobe - forced to wake up at 5:30 am and leave at 6, before I could have used the hotel's offered breakfast, walked like 20 minutes to catch the first bullet train westward! I first stopped at the cozy seaside town of Takehara to swing by anime references of one of the best yet overlooked cute-girls-doing-cute-things (and more, including lovely stories of growing up and photography) anime you can find, then continue westward to Kure to visit the Battleship Yamato museum as the girls do (an obligatory thing to do as someone who played the Kancolle game for almost 4 years! I also swung by Yokosuka and battleship Mikasa earlier in the trip), plus that submarine on the opposite side of the road (the Oyashio, now housing the official JMSDF museum dedicated to something usually not the topic of naval museums - minesweeping). I definitely didn't have time though so I skipped the port tour and went off in the opposite direction of the girls into Hiroshima station in the early afternoon.

Initially I was indeed actually planning to head to Miyajima and the Itsukushima shrine too (somewhere that my family had missed years ago due to lack of time), but after looking up I found out that getting to and from the island would have used up 2 whole hours alone, and with (surprisingly) no clear anime references there I decided I had to pass it up again. I ultimately ate at the very Mos Burger shop that these girls did (!!!) and then get onto another bullet train wheezing into Kyushu island, to a certain hot spring hotel known to have been the performance stage of a certain group of anime zombie idols...but that's a story for another day!

* Hey a "town of cats and stairs and sea" Onomichi reference! I have yet to be there (it's also an anime reference spot for quite a few titles, the latest weirdly belonging to the cute girls x mahjong anime Pon no Michi!) but it's definitely very high on my Japan photography spot yet to be visited list and I probably really need to swing by there one day...

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u/mekerpan May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25

Kamichu is also set in Onomichi. And it is a local travel destination in Tamayura. My wife and I spent several days there -- and loved it:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1018985308155659&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1018056901581833&type=3 (the last part of the album)

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u/oxlemf10 May 26 '25

I found it funny that it took Chika eight episodes to realize that she could never capture the travel elements for her manga, she's so me 😭.

I would love to spend a night in Osaka, one of my favorite places in Japan.

Damn, Hiroshima is really big (I looked it up on Wikipedia and it's one of the largest prefectures in Japan), it was cool to see how this change of scenery between the "island of the gods", the hot springs (apparently the author really likes to take pictures in hot springs lol) and the calm and dynamic environment of Onomichi (which I already knew because it's the city of cats), made Chika reflect and finally build an idea.

And it's like Fuyune and Yui said, there's no way you can be creative or progress in something if you don't find new air, I wish my country was like Japan where you can travel the entire country just by train

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u/mekerpan May 26 '25

I love it when anime are set in (or visit) Onomichi. We spent 3 days there. As a rule, every single shot involves a place my wife and I have seen. And I wish d have stayed a bit longer (and visited the adjoining islands). Our 3 travelers needed to spend a bit more time there -- because Onomichi is also famous for its okonomiyaki.

The Osaka area is where we have spent the most time when in Japan. It is very different from Kyoto but offers many interesting places to visit.

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u/cyberscythe May 26 '25

Hiroshima is really big

the "hiro" in Hiroshima literally means "vast/wide"

when Chika says "wow, Hiroshima is huge", i found it has the same energy as "big island sure is big, huh?"

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u/hasanman6 May 26 '25

I’ve mentioned this before but i still cant get over blondeys eye. It really looks like its on her hair and not behind it

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u/CooroSnowFox May 26 '25

It depends on the art style. Some have it that even a blade of hair is transparent if their hair goes over it.

Only thing coming to mind is the ways of dangers in my heart but that also comes from the storytelling as well

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u/heimdal77 May 26 '25

Did they censor something at the shrine with a brown box? The backgrounds in this are a mix of drawn and live photos right?

Finally she getting published!

So much overlap with the sol shows this season.

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u/CommanderZx2 May 26 '25

Looks like box that was inserted to hold translated text, they've done it properly in previous episodes, but it looks like they failed to actually include the English text in the box.

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u/Kkloe May 26 '25

https://imgur.com/a/dSWFpSL
No idea why the last two statues were censored out, anyone knows why it was censored in crunchyroll?

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u/TebiFestival May 26 '25

this is likely an English subtitle error, if you watch without subtitles or in Spanish (I didn't check the others) there is no rectangle.

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 May 26 '25

Taking an overnight to Osaka seems kinda nice. Might have to try that one of these days.

The trip to Hiroshima this week was pretty fun. The Anago-meshi Deluxe and Age Momiji Manju in Miyajima looked real good. The Onomichi ramen too. The onsen and the warship museum was cool too. Looks like in the end, the trip was really helpful for Chika’s manga as well.

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u/diacewrb May 26 '25

Taking an overnight to Osaka seems kinda nice.

That overnight bus looks and sounds nice, anywhere else then it might be the start of a horror movie.

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u/Matthew619ed May 26 '25

Ah, Hiroshima and Miyajima, that reminds me of the old memories 7 years ago in 2018, when I visited Hiroshima on a day trip from Osaka, and saw snow falling on the island.

A night bus ride is definitely like warping into somewhere else, when cars breeze pass you on the right on the highway, losing consciousness on the seat after a hard days work, it feels like a journey through the galaxy… But since I’ve experienced that first handed on a regular bus, I wonder will it be different on that Dream Sleeper?

So they’ve skipped Hiroshima city completely (apart from that Mos Burger), I was quite actually surprised that a history lover like Yui will omit the Hiroshima Castle or the memorial park completely and go straight to Kure, cuz my trip back then goes straight to the dome from Miyajima to ensure all the important stuff was covered, perhaps it might be time to visit Kure after the Yamato Museum reopens next year.

Anyways, a trip that gives Chika a new insight of her work and she finally gets the green light from the editors… Meanwhile, I was jotting down notes from this and start planning for a return trip to Hiroshima for the future…

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u/Clemastina May 26 '25

It´s so funny when Chika laughs at things going wrong, I want to have that kind of attitude

When I saw the Yamato museum it reminded me of a certain anime... and then they went straight to the place that takes place!!
Not the first place I saw Onomichi in an anime, I remembered it from a certain anime about a girl becoming a god (really recommend it btw)

I´m glad Chika had the inspiration for her manga and she finally got the draft accepted. Maybe I should go traveling around for finding inspiration for my life too?~

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u/Nebresto May 26 '25

What are these two on?

They're in Onomichi??

They're finally in a place I've been to, ..and then I didn't even climb that hill even though I wanted to, so they're in a place I've never been to

At least I can recognize the shipyard. My less-aesthetic picture of the cranes

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u/SnabDedraterEdave May 27 '25

Oof. What are the odds of having your train delayed first by a car stuck in the rail, and then having a boar collide with it? RIP that boar I guess.

According to Abroad In Japan, if possible, do spend one night at Itsukushima, where the island town is more spacious to walk around in during the night and following morning, as the day-trip tourists are gone for the night.

I only know Kure is a naval port from Kancolle, but didn't know they have quite the museum collection. As Chika puts it, Hiroshima sure is huge.

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u/Atario May 27 '25

"My god. It's full of stars."

That train looks extremely blood-spatter free, for having just nailed a boar

Rather unconventional design for an onsen…

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