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A Silent Voice - The Shape of Location (Part 1 of 3)

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The time was 9:30am on July 29, 2017. Yet another blazing hot summer's day in Japan but today was no ordinary day. I'm in the waiting room at Taiyou joshi gakuen mae Gifu station to meet up with a man, whose employment information is completely inaccessible from Japan. A man shrouded in mystery, from an organization that has no shape or form. But one thing I did hear from outside his company's Great Firewall of Japan is that he had something to do with selling crunchy cookies, and that a collegue of his liked getting stepped on... The clock turns 9:35 and out comes a pleasant looking man, around 10 years my junior I reckon. The man is no other than Wilhelm Donko ( @Surwill on Twitter), the good man responsible for writing his excellent Anime vs Real Life articles on Crunchyroll. P.s. Dear Crunchyroll, please, please unblock your articles from Japan so venerable members of Japan's Butaitanbou Community (i.e. anime location enthusiasts) can form links with English-