Forum - View topicAnime with rural milieu?
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Phantasm
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Yo, first of all ill apologize for my bad english.
Im searching for animes that takes place rural area/rural village. For example the Higurashi series and H2O - Footprints in the sand. If you know any pleace tell me 
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Spastic Minnow
 Bargain HunterExempt from Grammar Rules  Posts: 4640 Location: Gainesville, FL |
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For a movie, look for Ghibli's Only Yesterday, although it has never been released in the U.S. Half of it is about a woman spending her vacation working a rice field and considering staying in the country, the other half is her childhood memories in Suburban Tokyo.
Easier to find is the king of all kawaii films, the masterpiece My Neighbor Totoro A good portion of Tenchi Muyo has Tenchi tending the fields, especially in the OVAs. Occasionally shooting off to space. Natsume Yūjin-Chō is set in a small town/rural village and is available to watch in the video section here and at Crunchyroll. |
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John Casey
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Well, that depends on the time and setting. Are you looking for more old school stuff, like samurai shows? Those are fairly abundant with them.
But, if you're looking for more modern day stuff, I'd say a good chunk of Ghibli movies got that. But, I guess some stuff that comes to mind right off the bat is...Afro Samurai (I guess?), Samurai Champloo, Kenshin, Basilisk, Berserk, Moribito, Fullmetal Alchemist, Record of Lodoss War... I dunno. Just take a pick. |
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Paploo
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Haibane Renmei takes place in an isolated village of uncertain origin, a central part of the stories plot.
Many World Masterpiece Theatre series are set in rural villages, in part of in full, such as Anne of Green Gables, Heidi and Remi. Fafner is set on a small japanese island village [which is also part of it's plot, given the island's secret... a fairly rural setting for modern japan]. Yokohoma Shopping Trip is set in a fairly isolated, rural future Earth. Neia_7 is another series whose rural setting plays a part in it's plot, focusing on a mostly abandoned town and the poor people and aliens who populate it. |
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HaruhiToy
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Take a look at Figure 17. It is pretty well aimed at the young teen to preteen girl demographic, but I thought it fairly enjoyable. Tsubasa learns how to herd cows and work a dairy farm.
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frentymon
Forums Superstar
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When I think "rural", Asatte no Houkou immediately comes to my mind. It's one of my favorite slice-of-life series, and besides one particular plot twist occuring in the very beginning, things progress very relaxedly. The setting is really nice, and the soundtrack is one of my favorites.
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LaFreccia
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Ghost Hound and Zettai Shonen both have modern rural settings.
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abunai
Old Regular
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Avoid listing, please. This is already painfully close to being a recommendation thread, which we categorically do not allow. Making it a list thread, with lots of listed anime without much in the way of discussion or exposition, violates yet another canonical rule of these forums. So, unless the content of this thread picks up immediately, it is going to Locksville.
- abunai |
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eyeresist
 Posts: 995 Location: a 320x240 resolution igloo (Sydney) |
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All series recommendations:
As mentioned, Figure 17 has a very rural setting, being set in a small farming community in Hokkaido. There are fields and fences and forests and home cooking. (This series is also notable for having double-length episodes.) Jubei-chan - Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch, and its less successful sequel J2. Another show about a girl living in a rural community, this one a comedy, with the heroine being accosted by various samurai. Mushi-shi is about a mystic travelling through rural Japan, in an historical setting (not sure which period). It's very episodic, but, in a number of episodes, the main character is in a small farming or fishing village. Kaze no Yojimbo is a series-length adaptation of the movie Yojimbo (adapted in the West as A Fistful of Dollars). It gets across the idea of small-town secrets and politics, but unfortunately is rather dull overall. It has less nature and farm setting than the previous shows. |
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Kimiko_0
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When I read 'rural', I thought of Mokke immediately. It's a very relaxed slice-of-life anime that takes place in a village that's even more rural than Higurashi's Hinamizawa.
Or if you prefer a forest setting, you can try Miyori No Mori, a very nice supernatural/fantasy movie that really deserves more exposure. |
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Penguin_Factory
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I second (or third, or fourth) Figure 17. The scenery was quite a change from what I was used to when I first saw it.
Parts of Kino's Journey could be considered rural, since they spend a lot of time travelling through a sort of pastoral no man's land. |
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