I think the point where I gave up on enjoying the show was a shout-heavy martial arts tournament filled with goofy expressions meant to mimic Fist of the North Star, before transitioning into a straight-faced Dragon Ball Z gag.īetween all the screaming and obvious parodies, the show is also vulgar. Its comedy is as obvious as it comes and goes accompanied by frantic animation and lots, and lots of yelling. It could be too on the nose with its jokes and it could be too loud, but it comes nowhere close to how incessantly annoying Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi is. And, you know, Excel Saga wasn’t exactly perfect. There is so much fucking screaming in this anime.Ībenobashi is a parody of various popular media, much like Excel Saga was some years prior. Aki, a male cross-dresser whose only significant contribution in episode 1 entails creeping on the underage Satoshi. The only character that stands out is Ms. Arumi’s father is a chef who speaks in gratuitous French, her grandfather is an obstinate old man who gets angry all the time, they aren’t exactly top tier archetypes. The characters that are familiar really aren’t worth the spotlight. If they did, I completely forgot about him. Likewise, I don’t even really know if they had the recurring salesman appear in episode 1 at all. It took me until episode 4 to register that a recurring villainess was meant to be Satoshi’s sister, for example. An idea that would have been effective if we had an understanding of how these characters are meant to be before witnessing their comedic transformations.Īrumi and Satoshi are on a quest to return home and constantly have to deal with alternate-world versions of their family members and friends, but many of these made only brief appearances without any meaningful dialogue at all. Each time, familiar characters from the shopping arcade are recast to play a variety of different roles. Each new episode sees Arumi and Satoshi arrive in a new world that parodies some genre of popular media, like a sci-fi setting where they get to pilot mechs or a mafia town complete with noir-style film grain. Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi is a very episodic show. However, as the Asahina family prepares to move out, a bizarre accident sends Arumi and Satoshi to a different version of the shopping center: a medieval fantasy one that runs on video game logic. A move that would separate Arumi from her childhood friend Satoshi Imamiya. Arumi Asahina’s family runs a French restaurant there and they have their sights set on moving across the country to a more lively location. An antiquated shopping arcade is slowly falling apart as businesses move out and customers stay away.
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