Yeah I was going to go to the one in Sendai, but I meant if the town in the manga is real and if the shrine there is real. If it is and it's between the shinkansen line from Osaka to Akita or anywhere in East Hokkaido I might pull up and visit
If the tourist hadn't mentioned AI, I would have forgotten that this story was set in the present. I'd have thought it was set in the 2000s or 2010s, given the serene atmosphere and pristine rural setting. There might have been beetles or fireflies, too.
I mean, the countryside doesn't exactly change much with the times lol
It's pretty much always going to be peaceful and pristine. Until the decreasing birth rate and people moving to bigger cities inevitably turns it into a ghost town, at least...
Everybody taking about how dumb An is, and how is creepy that she would hang out with this foreign adult, is failing to consider that this American dude is actually super cool!