Episode 5 : Ingress The Animation Easter Eggs / Passcodes
Finally got around to watching the anime (got netflix to watch a documentry about orson welles)
I noticed there was a lot of easter eggs in it.
Most of the episode seemed to take place during the EXO5 anomaly on Nov 4, 2017 in Osaka, Japan.
I'm no expert of Ingress lore, so other easter eggs / discussion would be cool
Instead of doing a big mega post, going to break it down to replies with the Netflix timestamp for reference.
Passcode wise, I didn't find any other than the ones that were in the end credits which I didn't see them, I did use them so they still work:
Also, I'm not familiar uploading images to this forum, so might end up using imgur
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-22:46
This is Osaka Japan, this is the site of EXO5 Osaka anomaly map in 2017, same time
anime was in development
https://fevgames.net/exo5-day-1-anomaly-results/
-22:29
Makoto contacts "Zion", reveals his alias is "M510"
-22:25, -22:19
Zion says meet at 34.670205, 135.498017
This is at an American style cafe, notice the "America Wanna Be" store (joke?)
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6701748,135.4980557,3a,90y,278.04h,106.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxl3o1GsFmdZ-ZMdoQT9DFw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
there is a portal there:
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=34.669478,135.498041&z=17&pll=34.669478,135.498041
-21:40
This is in Osaka train station, the link is:
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=34.703657,135.49677&z=17&pll=34.703657,135.49677
The name of the port translates to Carillon clock
-21:25
This is where the camera is panning out and where I figured out where -21:40 was from.
There's also 2 interesting ingress portals in the area is
2017 NL PRIME( https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=34.705526,135.490546&z=17&pll=34.705526,135.490546)
XM Profiler OSAKA(https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=34.705434,135.490526&z=17&pll=34.705434,135.490526)
I'm guessing this is where the Osaka Registeration was at. It would also make sense if the
Animation crew was hanging around. Also confirming that this episode occurred in EXO5 Osaka
-23:06, -2:12
This is infont of CERN
The Globe of Science and Innovation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Globe_of_Science_and_Innovation
Portal link: https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=46.23416,6.056014&z=18&pll=46.233872,6.055733
The scultpure is a portal called Wandering the Immeasurable:
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=46.2333501,6.053534
There's a easter egg in the googlemap street view, notice the image was captured Aug 2013,
(around the launch of Ingress)
there's construction crews moving that sculpture,
whoever captured this actually walks around the building in streetview
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.2334712,6.0558335,3a,75y,7.09h,91.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqron8ny1TcUf3sLVC7A9rw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
From the bird view, you can see its being reconstructed for some reason:
-22:10
This is outside the manga cafe
At first, thought this was not a real place, looked at the previous episode and its revealed in a map
Searched manga cafes in Osaka, found it:
Place called Media Cafe Popeye Umeda DD House
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Media+Cafe+Popeye+Umeda+DD+House/@34.7070223,135.4966316,16.5z/data=!3m1!5s0x6000e6902c431ee7:0x9645a3559db3fb98!4m8!1m2!2m1!1smanga+cafe!3m4!1s0x0:0x38d8fa952a6241c4!8m2!3d34.7072574!4d135.497366
The street view does kinda match
-18:57, -18:51
Passports, I think the issue dates have some things in it, 2013/2015
"Marty Morris Jr" and "Atsushi Komiyagawa" might also mean something
I do believe the passport code was or was supposed to be a passcode
-18:40
Zion's agent name is "Zeon108", I checked the scanner, the agent does not exist.
The current portal image is stil the same
It is still the current portal image.
Portal link:
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=34.669478,135.498041&z=17&pll=34.669478,135.498041
-17:29
Zeon reveals his mission is to create a link star, this confirms more that this was during EXO5
The 'tower by the zoo' is called Tsutenkaku
https://goo.gl/maps/kaQZiV7E5oWRjNcJ6
Portal Link:
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=34.652522,135.506319&z=17&pll=34.652522,135.506319
-17:11
if you look at the fev games result, there was a link star around that location
https://fevgames.net/exo5-day-1-anomaly-results/
Shortly after, Zeon says his operator needs him in 10 min,
which confirms more that this was during EXO5
-15:12
This is at kansai internationl airport,
Reveals Zeon108 is lvl 16,
Uses the older catch phrase "this is not a game"
I think this is the portal they are sitting at:
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=34.436049,135.232385&z=17&pll=34.436049,135.232385
Their plane crashs into water going to Switzerland
In the next episode they meet hank johnson in the nomad temple
In the Ingress Origins Comic, that temple is somewhere by hindu kush mountains (Afghanistan)
Found a stock photo very similar, its part of the ruins of an ancient fort in Tajikistan.
So makes me think the airplane crashed in the lake / river between Afghanistan
and Tajikistan.
Also in road in that photo looks like the one they find in the next episode.
Not sure if it is a portal though.
That's really cool!
Nice job!