Anime fans are devoutly loyal and incredibly specific about their preferred art form, and it’s not difficult to see why: Japanese anime has a long history of being incredibly detailed and beautiful, so much so that it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish anime from reality — and the images below are certainly proof of that. Each pair of images below represents the slight and sometimes unnoticeable different between art and reality, and prove just how much attention to detail anime artist inject into their work. Some of these will definitely make you look twice: This is the literal definition of art imitating life.






