Long-time readers of this blog know of my obsession with Yokohama Business Park. I first noticed it in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon in the scene where the Senshi meet up with Dark Sailor Moon, then when the same waterfront wall with the cutout circle appeared in Tsuki No Koibito, I leapt up and said Hey, that's the circle Usagi was sitting in!!
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon:
Lin Chi Ling and Kimura Takuya in Tsuki No Koibito
At the time I had no IDEA where this place was until fellow blogger runpup sent me a link to information on the park as well as maps and pictures of the whole place...the mystery was solved! From then on, I would see the waterfront from time to time, and every time it did, I was always sure to mention it here!
Fukatsu Eri and Tsumabuku Satoshi in Slow Dance
Kuroki Meisa and Karasawa Toshiaki in Take Five
Tamayama Tetsuji and Mokomichi Hayami in Brother Beat
Ouroboros: Toma Ikuta
Funny, I know this Waterfront Park so well that even before the structure itself showed up, in an earlier part of the show, Ikou (Toma Ikuta) is talking to Hibino (Ueno Juri) and I said to myself, “Those buildings in the background look like the ones behind Yokohama Business Park!”
I wondered if it was…and then, sure enough, the group meets up right at the shores of the famed waterworks and corridors!
One really cool thing about this appearance is that a significant portion of the scene takes place BEHIND the structure, so we get to see Oguri Shun running through the corridors and exiting out through the side, into the lobby area! Ah, it's like taking a tour!!! LOL
I even saw Yokohama Business Park in, of ALL THINGS, the PV for the rock group B'z song "Negai"!!!
New 2024 Sighting in Maruhi no Mitsuko
Yokohama Business Park…where will it turn up NEXT?!!!
