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During the anime/manga, Kasuga & Sawa attempt to climb over the nearby
mountain and reach _the other side_.

The work is set in a small town in Kiryū, Gunma so I was looking at the area
on Google Maps, but it seems to be a very mountainous region:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/P1ST2l.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/P1ST2l.jpg)
[Google Maps
page](https://www.google.com/maps/@36.449439,139.3459959,26249m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en)

Is there any more precise information about where the show is set or the
mountain that they climbed? I would like to know what exactly was over that
mountain if they did manage to get over it


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Which mountain did they try to climb over?


Now that my schedule has freed up a little, I reran my search for `聖地巡礼 悪の華`.
(I don't really know Japanese, but the former seems to be a good search term
for `pilgrimage`.) Maps such as [this
one](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zZwztmn-Kbao.kWSBYf74tdD0) came
up, and I found [this blog
post](http://blog.livedoor.jp/seichijunrei/archives/51996451.html) for the
corresponding episode (i.e. episode 10). (I had "misplaced" this episode when
I commented on this question earlier, which was probably why I couldn't give a
quick answer.)

[Here's](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ts4FI.png) a screenshot of the map. The
markers for episode 10 locations are in green and are isolated from the main
"cluster"---I am reproducing the section in question below:

[![map
snippet](https://i.stack.imgur.com/94GAK.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/94GAK.png)

So it looks like Kasuga and Nakamura started on Prefectural Route 66 before
branching onto Prefectural Route 337. There are also some "real life v.s.
anime" comparisons on the blog I linked to, which verify the locations listed
here. It is not clear to me if Kasuga and Nakamura are climbing any specific
mountain; it looks more like they are travelling north via some mountainous
roads. Northwards, there seem to only be more mountains.

(I should note that it isn't entirely clear if the rotoscoped locations in the
anime are supposed to correspond to specific locations in the manga---it is
possible that some of the locations in the manga were intentionally ambiguous,
and that anime producers were forced to choose one location or the other.
However, it seems that the best we can do is use the information from the
anime; I don't recall any more specific information being released.)

Incidentally, Google maps suggests that it is _relatively_ easy to travel from
Kiryu to larger cities such as Tokyo through flat land---it's not even as if
the town is _completely_ surrounded by mountains. More likely, the mountains
take on some symbolic meaning for Kasuga.


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