Posted by arren18 on 11.08.2013, 12:35 PM: Honestly, that could even be now. Nothing seems particularly out-of-place; it's just that the soft colours make it seem like an old photograph.
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Posted by Saddletank on 11.08.2013, 01:57 PM: I'd say it was intended to be in the past. Tram is old style, postmen don't dress like that anymore, art-deco architecture and ladies in kimonos. There's not one modern thing in the scene and several that indicate several decades ago.
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Posted by husky51 on 11.08.2013, 03:27 PM: When I saw the picture on page 64 I didn't read any further, but went searching for the first picture (in my mind, I think of the two as connected) I finally found it on page 59. I agree that the mystery of the photograph is solved, but only partially. I don't think that is a postman, but a student. And possibly a soldier between the two middle girls.
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Posted by Saddletank on 11.08.2013, 03:42 PM: I agree, now that Roar has found a second picture its really fascinating. The artist has a story in mind. I want to find the artists name.
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Posted by husky51 on 11.08.2013, 03:48 PM: looking at the two pictures, I notice cherry blossoms in the background trees in pic #2. While looking at Pic #1, I never noticed it before, but it looks like the seated girl has a bandage around her neck. And the cherry trees seem to have aged a bit, not the first bloom, so maybe not much time has passed between the two. It would seem that maybe a common occurrence injured the two and killed the third. Just occurred to me that it might be war related??? Don't think so, but a possibility...
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Posted by Saddletank on 11.08.2013, 03:55 PM: Yes the bandages were something Roar was talking about before.
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Posted by husky51 on 11.08.2013, 03:57 PM: On the legs of the one gorl and now the neck of the other. I didn't see any reference to the neck bandage before.
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Posted by Saddletank on 11.08.2013, 04:30 PM: That could be a schoolboy and not a postman but the presence of a cap puts the picture well back in time for sure. I didn't see the figure in the middle of the girls and yes it could be a soldier.
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Posted by husky51 on 11.08.2013, 04:54 PM: I agree, she seems so bright and cheerful...
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Posted by Saddletank on 11.08.2013, 04:59 PM: Its not quite right due to the rear side window but it reminds me of a Citroen Dyane:
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Posted by Roarkiller on 11.09.2013, 03:14 AM: Wow, so glad you guys remembered. Truth be told, I found the picture by accident while searching for a light novel. It was used as a website's banner, so unfortunately there's no title.
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Posted by arren18 on 11.09.2013, 04:48 AM: Ah, I didn't know about the connection with an earlier picture... And actually, the guy in the hat struck me as probably being a student too.
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Posted by husky51 on 11.09.2013, 05:54 AM: arren and orphic... you guys being over there, maybe if you have some spare time could look online or something for a vehicle that matches the one shown. Remember, that would be the back of the vehicle. I have been trying over here, but if I put something in like, say, '1951 Daihatsu, I get a couple of pics and then cars from all over the world which doesn't help...
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Posted by Saddletank on 11.09.2013, 09:38 AM:
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Posted by Nausicaa_Cat on 11.09.2013, 11:24 AM:
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Posted by husky51 on 11.09.2013, 01:19 PM: I've tried to look at Japanese car models for the times that I think it is, but no luck so far (see posts above). I sketched out the details that I could see and filled in where apparent. Not much to go by. Mainly the body so close to the wheel and the window shapes.
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Posted by Saddletank on 11.09.2013, 01:56 PM: The car I would say is fiction or just not terribly skilfully drawn. No car would have its rear axle that close to the back end, certainly not one from the middle of the last century before the era of hatchbacks, almost every car had a trunk/boot space of some kind.
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Posted by Saddletank on 12.08.2013, 12:23 PM: Random images I found on a Japanese blog.
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