I've always been a little bothered/confused by lakeside depictions in comics and video games etc, specifically how it's a sheer cliff (see panel 3) into the water, because "it just doesn't look like that in nature".
Except, what occurred to me was, maybe it really does look like that - where the authors live.
See, I'm from Scandinavia, where the ancient glaciers ground all rocks into sand and smooth slopes, so even when you don't have an outright beach you usually have some moderately comfortable warm rocks to lie down on your towel on. But since Japan (and the Americas) never had any glaciers on it that would never have happened...
EDIT: I mean, of course I've seen this myself when travelling and on TV, but I wasn't really looking at the rock, then.
I've always been a little bothered/confused by lakeside depictions in comics and video games etc, specifically how it's a sheer cliff (see panel 3) into the water, because "it just doesn't look like that in nature".
Except, what occurred to me was, maybe it really does look like that - where the authors live.
See, I'm from Scandinavia, where the ancient glaciers ground all rocks into sand and smooth slopes, so even when you don't have an outright beach you usually have some moderately comfortable warm rocks to lie down on your towel on. But since Japan (and the Americas) never had any glaciers on it that would never have happened...
EDIT: I mean, of course I've seen this myself when travelling and on TV, but I wasn't really looking at the rock, then.
I live in America (east coast, for the record), and I've never seen sheer drops into bodies of water like that either. Typically, our lakes are surrounded by mud, rather than sand or rocks, but it's still a gradual incline into the water.
