On 4th, I went photographing a rubber charm of Chika Takami, one of nine main characters from "Love Live! Sunshine!!" anime or smartphone game at Murayama Reservoir in Higashi-yamato City, the southwest of Tokyo, which functions to store water in the daily life of Tokyoites from Tama River. The north reservoir side is on the prefectural border with Saitama, where Seibuen Amusement Park and Seibu Dome stand.
The railway of Seibu Tamako Line and Seibu Yamaguchi Line spread along the south or southeast reservoir side.
Why I went shooting at the reservoir is a stamp collecting tied up with the anime held on Seibu Railway, collecting the stamps placed at nine stations (Ekoda, Inariyama-koen [Inariyama Park], Hanno, Toshimaen, Seibu-kyujo-mae [Seibu Dome], Hon-kawagoe, Seibu-yuenchi [Seibuen Amusement Park], Kokubunji, and Tamagawa-josui Stations).
The pictures of the nine characters from the anime watching autumn leaves are on the poster of the event, one of which is Chika visiting the reservoir. Inspired by this illustration, I shot the charm against an intake tower, which is called the most beautiful one in Japan. On that day, the trees around the reservoir didn't turn the colour of their leaves enough. However, I was excited at which appeared in the picture.
On that day, Seibu 101 Series 1241F set whose body livery looking similar to that of 1300 Series on Izu Hakone Railway Sunzu Line was in service. The body livery appeared in 2017 to mark the 100th anniversary of Izu Hakone Railway.
Though the body livery of 1241F set looks similar to that of Izu Hakone Railway 1300 Series, the destination display and the service name (conductorless) display on the front are different.
I imagine that Chika would be surprised at 1241F set because its body livery looks like that of Sunzu Line train, which appears in the anime.