Kurobe

You have various places around town are modeled after Nanto City.

Furthermore, three surnames are used in the series, Isurugi, Kurobe, and Takaoka.

These are all place names in the Toyama Prefecture.

And True Tears would start, like I said, some of the defining traits of anime associated with PA works.

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Kurobe, Japan.

Um, and so absolutely, I mean, they're, uh, they have had a huge and major impact on our community.

And with any relationship, you gotta, you gotta check in on each other from time to time, and so it was a great opportunity to go spend time with, uh, our sister city being Kurobe, but also, uh, the YKK Corporation.

Yeah.

If we could take a little bit of a, a rollback, you did s- talk about going on field trips to YKK.