Fantasy Geography

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No spoilers unless Geography is a surprise to you....



For the second time I have encountered the *same* piece of fantasy geography in anime reference.

When I ran into it the first time, it was in the "man from uncle dream" sequence in Patlabor, so I thought it might have been intentional.

But I read all the Death Note manga I have this weekend (that's through vol.11) and in vol 8 when the missile is launched, we get this bit of Dialog:




followed by this map, showing the trajectory from the LA area to Hudson Bay:




This information shows us that *someone* thinks Hudson Bay is in NY - probably that big bay at the mouth of the Hudson River . We call that New York Harbor. See the red dot? That's approximately where Jim and I grew up.

See the Great Lakes way to the north, and the red arrow pointing up above them? Hudson Bay is up there a little further than I can get to on this map.


Since I have now encountered this twice, I wondered if NY Harbor is called by another name in other countries. But, the *translators* have no excuse....

Comments

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Granted, it was the same Hudson (mind, Hudson's Bay was whee his mutinous crew put him and his son overboard in a small boat. They're still there, somewhere.) but that's absolutely, um, dunderheaded.

Not to mention that whatever it was seems to have impacted slightly south of Grand Banks, a few hundred miles off the coast.