Friday July 28, 2023 9:30 pm to 10:30 pm

Whether they’re packing onto a crowded subway in Tokyo, cutting through the idyllic Japanese countryside, or whisking past Mount Fuji on a bullet train, we see our anime protagonists on trains all the time—but what makes them such a common anime fixture? And what does their romanticized depiction tell us about how people in Japan get around? Hop aboard as we unpack the ubiquity of trains in anime, and what they tell us about life in Japan.

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