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(For a number of reasons I will almost always choose a dub over a sub.) The cast is led by Luci Christian as Sasshi (she’s done a lot of work for Funimation you might know her as Kaname from Full Metal Panic or Nami from One Piece. It’s strong and dynamic, and it looks really good. They adopt different styles at appropriate times…one thing MSAA does have in common with FLCL…and it’s of high quality. The animation is strong, well done, and very active. There are literally scores of gags that made no sense to me without the pop-ups, but with them…Oh, yeah! The footnote says it’s a reference to a chain of eyeglass shops in Osaka!) I love that kind of stuff! A great deal of humor and story is tied to culture – I’ve mentioned that before – so an explanation clarifies the details. I just saw one…in the fairy tale episode Arumi sees a gaudy castle. The cool thing about the DVD is that it has a feature that explains the cultural references if you turn it on! (It’s like watching “Pop-Up Video” on MTV…the reference pops up at the key moment. It seems like there are a million of them.
Those are just of the few I caught, and I didn’t catch them all by any means. There are gags drawn from Neon Genesis, Rocky, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dragonball Z.
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I like meta to begin with…when I was learning computers we called it “recursion”…and there are about a thousand jokes that refer to other series or movies.
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Many of them are stereotypes of other movie or anime genres, but because the episode is only about 20 minutes long without the front and end material, they don’t get stale and they do have the ability to lovingly mock the genre at hand.īecause it’s an anime that draws settings from other genres, it’s totally meta (self-referential). The different worlds are wildly imaginative. Typical of anime child friendships, Sasshi gets whapped upside the head with a paper fan numerous times.
Sasshi and Arumi genuinely like each other. Yeah, it was silly at times, and yeah, there’s some annoying (to me) levels of fan service. (The granny glasses are a dead giveaway.) And if you go back before she and Sasshi’s grandfather were married, she was hot for Masa. In most of the worlds they also run into this strange fan service woman (few clothes, E cup bra) called Mune Mune (according to the notes, this translates roughly as “Booby Booby”) who it turns out is Sasshi’s grandmother. Aki, the transvestite Arumi’s father, the French-trained chef that speaks with an affected French accent Sasshi’s sister Sayaka, who is about as older sisterish as an older sister can be – but placed in new roles. Each of them is inhabited by the same characters from their original world – Ms. One’s a war story one’s a fairy tale one’s a noir one’s a dinosaur story, one’s an RPG, one’s a mecha. So, since Sasshi, deep down inside, doesn’t want to go home, they end up in different Abenobashis that are drawn from Sasshi’s imagination. Also, what he knows and she doesn’t is that her beloved grandfather Grandpa Masa will be dead (he died in an accident). Arumi really does…her Dad is going to Hokkaido to fulfill his dreams and she is Daddy’s little girl…but deep down inside Sasshi doesn’t want to go back. Little magical gremlins can send them home…If they really want to go home. (Insert sad face emoji here.)įrom left, Arumi, Sasshi, Mune-Mune (living up to her name)īy magical means they end up in alternative Abenobashis, parallel universes, if you like.
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(You can tell they are in Osaka from their distinct accents, which in the dub is Texan.) Sasshi’s a boy and Arumi’s a girl, so there’s one level of conflict there, plus Arumi is pretty level headed and Sasshi’s pretty air headed, so there’s that, too. The premise is that there are two grade school kids, Sasshi and Arumi, who are BFFs in Osaka. What that connection is I haven’t figured out. I ordered it because there was supposedly some relationship between it and the original FLCL, which I liked a lot even though it was a pain in the ass to figure out what the f*** was going on there. The consensus choice was Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi. Okay, back when I started this blog I said I would resist doing regular reviews, because there are about 800,000,000 blogs that review anime, so who needs another?īut then I ordered up some obscure anime from A Certain Retailer (like I said then, if they want a shout-out here, they can pay me for an ad) and asked the crowd what I should watch next. The Overage Otaku on The Antagonist: Desty Nov…
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