Thread:Luxartisan/@comment-5785681-20190508074812/@comment-5785681-20190510155642

I see you cleaned up my initial editing on Iwami, Yuji. Thanks a bunch!

I hope you all enjoy the images. I find them fascinating. How cool is it to see how closely the anime recreates the town? For me, it gives the characters new depth to see what their actual life growing up was like (minus mega-tourism). Iwatobi has always been described as an aging tourist town and Iwami must have looked quite different when the location scouts first saw it. It's nice to know that the anime brought new life/jobs to the area. I can imagine the scouts, way back, visiting different towns and deciding that Iwami had just the right "tone" in which the characters could grow. It makes Haruka and Makoto's lifelong friendship totally believeable, too. Lifelong friendships IRL are rare enough, but in a place like Iwatobi it's altogether possible since leaving the area or its environs is highly unlikely. And it gives the anime the original "feel" I took from it when I first watched it: sport. I'm a shipper, too, but I maintain two viewpoints with this wiki on the "sport" side.

I'm not done with the Iwami page, btw, as I'm trying to track down whoever did the comparison photos in order to give them credit. I kept the images in an on-page Gallery instead of a tabbed Gallery because the article doesn't go into depth on the town or the region, yet. I plan on adding that, in time, so a tabbed Gallery may be added.

Hm. I have gone on a bit, haven't I? Then again, we've been working together for a few weeks and getting comfortable with the group dynamics. That takes time. But if anyone wants to start a thread on the CF page (or in a message) to discuss something other than "shop," I'm up for it. I've made friends of all ages from around the world via various fandoms, but the Free! fandom has always felt somewhat closed off. Even cliquish. Maybe it's the old in-fighting which kept me away for a long time and which still rears its ugly head now and again. Or maybe it's me. IDK, but it would be nice to talk about the anime instead of just the wiki, eh?

Luxartisan ( Talk ) 15:56, May 10, 2019 (UTC)