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INTEREST: Girls und Panzer Awarded Grand Prize for Improving Ibaraki's Image




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DmonHiro





PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:09 pm Reply with quote
Well, it IS a very good anime. One of the most engaging I've seen in a long time.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:29 pm Reply with quote
The influence of anime in Japan is amazing. It's great to hear that Girls und Panzer is getting so much recognition.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:42 am Reply with quote
They're doing this kind of thing in New York too:

TV tourism on the rise in New York

  • NEW YORK — Fancy a cosmopolitan a la Carrie Bradshaw or titillation down the strip club favored by Tony Soprano? TV tourism is whipping up a storm in New York, where fans can live as their heroes.

    In recent years there has been a spectacular growth in specialised cinema and television tourism, particularly in New York, which has been a backdrop for countless shows and flicks.

    Georgette Blau, 39, is the director and president of On Location Tours, which offers seven bus tours in New York devoted to cinema or television, including the “Sex in the City” itinerary.

    Some offer guides speaking French or German. There are also versions of the tour by private limousine, and one tour in Boston.

    One of the company’s other popular draws is a five-hour bus tour through New Jersey for cult TV show the “Sopranos” that starred the late James Gandolfini as the depressed mobster.

    Among the fans are more couples than on the “Sex in the City” tour, and on one recent Saturday a noticeable contingent from Britain.

    But they are just as passionate about the award-winning series, considered by some the greatest TV show of all time.

    Highlights of the tour are Holsten’s restaurant where Gandolfini’s character Tony Soprano ate during the last episode and the “Bada Bing” strip club which in real life is called “Satin Dolls”.

    Blau says that around 90,000 people go on her tours each year, half of them from overseas—most often Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

    When she started in 1999, she says three companies in the world offered such tours. “Now there are over 100.”
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