plotbunny at crunchtime

[Valles]

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Taking a third look, I think it's likely that anime!konoha is the size of what's inside the first and second major street rings of manga!konoha out from the monument - my suggestion would be to have anime city and manga plateau, so there's a place for them to grow at least a portion of their own food on-site (sure looks like irrigation canals up there, going directly back from the monument) and so the monument doesn't have to suddenly mysteriously grow to have room for Tsunade's face. Seal tech and hand-crafted, steam-powered heavy equipment cover the things that don't otherwise fit in the corresponding RL timeframe - the engine on the ferry to Wave, the crane and massive bridge, the train and trucks from the movie - but there's no such thing as production line concepts and for the average person, actually seeing (let alone riding in/on) a machine is as rare as seeing a kinjutsu performed, if not more so.

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Sounds about right. I'd be inclined to use the larger city (and I'd reached the same conclusion about their relative sizes - the nearest radial 'quarter' seems to have about the same total area as the inner core, with another full quarter to the left of that and about a half a quarter on their outskirts...), but then, my imagination has latched onto Konohagakure as being more equivalent to Rome or Paris that, say, Washington D.C. - that is, that it's not just the administrative center, it's the heart of the country.
Observing that Konohagakure is in the middle of a huge fucking forest, and that our glimpses of Sunagakure have put it in the middle of a dune-covered desert (at the bottom of a major canyon, no less), leaves me thinking that Kirigakure gets London-esque fogs for most of its year, and that Kumogakure does too, just at a (much) higher elevation, like the Smoky Mountains or something. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that Iwagakure was built inside a major cavern system...
Ja, -n
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