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I read a manga and one panel showed a swimming pool. Some readers commented
"didn't expect to see that pool here" and no one would tell me where the pool
was from. I presume it was from an anime or other manga

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GwRDQ.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GwRDQ.jpg)

just wonder which swimming pool is so famous that people refer it as 'that
pool'

From [Ya Boy Kongming!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya_Boy_Kongming!),
Chapter 63, page 6


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Where is this pool from?


This pool exists in real life in the [Hanazono
Room](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanazono_Room). Its internet fame comes
from a not-very-surprising origin, which is its prevalence in pornographic
material.

> With images of the swimming pool of the Hanazono Room got from pornographic
> films circulating in local Japanese internet community by late 2000's, it
> began being referred to as "That Pool" (あのプール ano puuru) and "The Pool"
> (例のプール rei no puuru) among Japanese internet circles, most especially in 2ch
> and NND.[6] Not long after, news outlets also began referring to the indoor
> pool as "That Pool".[7] As names of the indoor pool became popular on the
> local media, the P-Studio which operates it eventually adapted the name
> "Example Pool". At some time during the latter half of the 2000s, several
> segments from television drama Kamen Rider Fourze also featured the indoor
> pool, resulting to the pool garnering even more fame in media.[3] With the
> massive spread of Japanese pornographic films on the internet around early
> 2010's onward, including the swimming-themed poolside pornographic films
> that were shot on the pool, "That Room" finally earned a global following
> and eventually became a well-known internet meme and gag as segments of the
> global internet community gradually familiarized the unique design of its
> surroundings in relation to its cult-like status on the web specifically in
> regards to the Japanese pornography industry.[8]

So yeah, basically, this pool was featured in a lot of porn, got famous on the
internet as "The Pool", and now various other media, pornographic or not,
refer to it as a sort of inside joke of sorts.


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