私を喰べたい、ひとでなし | 愛媛県立伊予農業高等学校 — The School the Anime Moved Beside the Sea

Hinako sits through the opening episode as summer happens around her. The model for 潮見高等学校 is Ehime Prefectural Iyo Agricultural High School, a real campus named in the anime’s cooperation credits. Its practical buildings and roadside entrance give Hinako’s days the weight of routine: lessons, shoes, friends, and the effort of appearing present when her thoughts keep drifting toward the water. The animation quietly rearranges Iyo. It places the fictional school much closer to the sea than this campus actually stands, joining classroom life to the shore where Shiori waits. Visiting the model makes that choice visible. The coast is not outside the gate; the series brought it there because Hinako cannot keep the sea separate from everyday life. Location reference: https://seichi-shioricho.com/watatabe-seichi/. Photograph by Asturio Cantabrio, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ehime_Prefectural_Iyo_Agricultural_High_School_2021-08_ac_(1).jpg. This is an operating school, so remain on public roads and do not photograph students. From outside the gate, the most revealing detail is the missing sea—the deliberate distance the anime erased.