Miko was fascinated by how similar Los Santos is to Los Angeles during her vacation there 

And you will see people following her and they stand somewhere together, pointing at the distance.

Lol

Even more-so for tokusatsu fans. I visited Smart Brain's headquarters from Kamen Rider Faiz when I was there, it was pretty cool.

@@Tiavals Wait what? Where is that located? I only went to the Kamen Rider store.

@@OhKeh Sorry, I may have been confusing in what I said so I'll rephrase it: The real life building that they used when filming the Smart Brain segments in Faiz. It's called Tokyo Opera City(Tower). It's a pretty fascinating building with a few sub-sections and a bunch of weird stuff inside, as well as a slew of restaurants and stores at the bottom, and high tech companies at the top. The view from the top is pretty spectacular and you can get there for free, although the elevator system is quite confusing. It's just a regular building, nothing Kamen Rider related inside at the moment, but a great place to visit if you want to see where certain scenes in the show took place, etc.

@@Tiavals try go to mount Iwafune. The site of many famous kamen rider & power rangers scene took place. They even have kamen rider explosion service for rent.

Same, but Osaka!

yep, strange feeling!

​@@ChozotheBozo I want to visit the castle Godzilla and Kong keep tearing down. 🦖🏯🦍

@@dubuyajay9964 Ah! Yes. The Osaka Castle. Beautiful place and a must see when one goes to Osaka.

@@LuckyBird551 Ty Mr. (?) Bird.

"Did you just say the Freedom Lady??? Where on Earth is that???" The taxi driver probably

well that was very much what the developers wanted, and from everyone else I've ever seen talk about it, they succeeded in making Los Santos feel like LA, right down to the sunsets.

While screaming "JAMA!!!" at him.

The pandemic lockdown existed so Miko can't come to america to do her "stay home" during that period

Or better yet, have an Elite moment

In Californian perspective about a 25 minute drive from the heart of LA to Santa Monica Pier is not seen as far. lol

@@jenniferhamels1176 Keep in mind Tokyo is a massive metro sprawl too, too. :)

@@jenniferhamels1176 Also in US, 30 min to 1 hours ride is consider "short ride"

​@@jenniferhamels1176As a Californian, I don't make 25 minute drives if I don't have to, so I do consider it far.

@@jenniferhamels1176 In LA, a trip to the nearest Starbucks can take 30 min, depending on traffic.

its not just the landmarks that are similar...

Yes. Except Los Santos is cleaner and safer. Also, LA Noire is what Los Angeles looked back in the 40s, so to see it now fills me with disgust.

@@dragonknightleader1 That's what decades of free market economics modified by systemic racism will do to a place.

Kamurocho is almost a one for one with Kabukicho. The landmarks and their surrounding areas are all in the exact position as in the games: The iconic red gate, the plaza, the center building (what's supposed to be Millennium Tower), the parking lot in the NE side, and the love hotels. If you know Kamurocho well enough, you'll know your way around because that's what happened to me! The only difference is the scale. SEGA made Kamurocho feel vast but Kabukicho feels very compact.

@@francisayala9310So the game version is even bigger than IRL? I always thought it minimize version of Kabukijou like NY-Liberty City or something like that.

@@bakacdaz Yeah, it was never meant to represent all of Tokyo, just the Shinjuku red-light district. Ijincho in Yakuza 7 is closer to what you're talking about, it's basically one entire half of Yokohama but compressed down a bit to make it more walkable.

yeah ikr same haha

Mine would be "Hey, TWEWY trained me for these streets!"

@@CourierDanmine is both of them, but mostly TWEWY.

Rockstar's Devs have stated that it was one of the main goals, GTA5 was like a Modern version of the Hunchback of Nontre Dame where the real star of the show is the setting, except instead of a Cathedral it's the whole city of LA.

The English dub of the original Universal Studio in Japan.

curious if it's anything new or just what you hear usually coming out of LA?

​@@BamfIamonethe "usual" has been expanding into more blocks as the years go by. Still a decent place to visit if you have your locations planned out, just don't wander.

Downside of being local is you always see the ugliest side of your city. Like how I always see my city as Gotham of SEA but for foreigners it’s one of most best city for tourists.

​@@bakacdazsame😂

​@@Plainsburnerthe usual meaning what? homelessness?

is that affable man Dave from Japan?

@@sac7404 nope

As long as you don't actually go to Florida. God have mercy on anyone who's stuck there and can't leave.

​@@firstnamelastname8439Especially with GTA 6 sets in the same place in GTA Vice City aka Miami.

​@@firstnamelastname8439 in this case, would be safe warning Mikochi after she play GTA 6

*Or before...

It's actually a Japanese otaku slang for visiting a place which is the model for one's favorite artwork (manga, drama, game, etc). It's so overused that it lost the nuance of any sacredness.

Totally unrelated, but in Japanese tradition, there is a very famous semi-religious pilgrimage course. It is something like "88 temples in Shikoku" - you walk along the whole coastline of Shikoku and visit 88 Buddhist temples on the way. It is so famous that the phrases like 'The Journey ("o-henro お遍路")', 'Mr. Traveler ("o-henro-san お遍路さん")' unambiguously refer to this particular pilgrimage. In the past, like many pilgrimages in other countries, because of harsh condition of the course and the journey, this pilgrimage was regarded risking one's life. All pilgrims carry a name tag which would be a makeshift tombstone in case of lone death, and also bear some other death-related objects.

Over 110 some days...

Well, we have people visiting Akiba as part of a pilgrimage, so.

Funny enough, if you followed the El Camino Real in California, it takes you to every Mission. @@kwj_nekko_6320

"Hey what's going on, my dude?" -that one random civilian shouting every few minutes

It’s pretty amazing how accurate Rockstar gets with GTA - especially with the trailer out for GTA6 and how every Floridan who saw it noted it was pretty much accurate.

That infamous scene which dragged a lot of people into the rabbit hole lol

Californians are actively invested in making it worse through their electoral choices and policy positions.

Well, the USA doesn't have only ONE Disneyland in California. There's also Walt Disney World in Florida, which is operated by the same company as Disneyland California.

She can say where she went now, because she's already back in Japan. She couldn't say where she was before or during her trip for security reasons.

@@UltramanMebiusBraveshe narrowed it down with california, but this seems less like it was cover rules and more a joke

She meant she couldn't say before and during the trip, but can say so now that she's back.