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Saw a Totoro sticker on a street sign in Seattle and it made me think about how anime shows up in real places
I was walking through the University District in Seattle last weekend and spotted a little Totoro sticker slapped on a stop sign. It got me thinking about how anime has quietly become part of everyday city life, not just something on a screen. I've seen Sailor Moon graffiti in Portland and a One Piece mural in San Francisco too. Where have you guys stumbled across anime references out in the real world?
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hugog431d ago
There's a Ghibli thing that pops up all over the place near me too. Last month I counted three separate Calcifer stickers on the newspaper boxes outside the light rail station in Capitol Hill, plus somebody had painted a tiny No-Face on a utility box two blocks away. I read somewhere that sticker trading and wheatpasting became a huge thing with anime fans in the 2010s, like people treat street corners as their own little galleries now. It makes sense too, because most of us grew up watching this stuff, so leaving a piece of it somewhere feels like marking your spot. The murals you saw in San Francisco and Portland are the big stuff, but honestly the small stuff hits harder for me, a single sticker on a sign that thousands of people walk past without even noticing. It's this weird mix of public and private at the same time, you know? Like the city is covered in inside jokes that only some of us get.
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