![]() ![]() Welcome to Abenobashi Sword and Sorcery Shopping Arcade. Suddenly the people who are exercising in front of them turn into mushrooms! The panic kids make a run and realize the town flat! The town’s facade collapses to reveal a majestic castle linked by a rainbow with dragons flying all over it. ![]() She tells him Masa will be released in a week’s time and has given up on staying and will move with them to Hokkaido. That night Sasshi woke up and is shocked to see a dragon flying outside his window. Masa is hospitalizes after landing on his hip with his family beside him. Though Masa was hanging on the sign, the statue breaks when it hit the ground. When the kids arrive, it was too late as Masa falls. Masa is trying to shoo away a cat sleeping on the pelican statue when the old roof gives way. After realizing the locations of the sacred animals to some of the animal statues of the various locations in town, they realize the bird is Grill Pelican, supposed to be the last one left standing. Aki brings them to Abeno Seimei shrine and tells them about the harmony of 4 gods from 4 directions: A turtle, bird, dragon and tiger. Sasshi ‘softens’ the question by asking if she knows if their houses are related like as in their positions. A hideous neighbourhood cross-dresser, Aki, happen to pass by so Arumi asks her straight about if there’s any shady relationship between Masa and Sasshi’s grandma. Next day, they continue on this and think Masa is staying because of his old crush. They think grandma liked someone else before they got married. On the rooftop, Sasshi and Arumi talk about their grandma and grandpa respectively. The kids go back to Grill Pelican to see Arumi’s grandpa Masayuki AKA Masa and his French-talking son Tetsu AKA Papa, the former arguing that he is bent on staying and not close down. They’re not the only occupants evacuating as many of the other inhabitants have also closed down and moved out due to some redevelopment thingy. Well, at least for most of the episodes.Īs introduced in episode 1, Sasshi returns to Abenobashi and learns from Arumi that her family and their business are closing down and moving to Lake Akan in Hokkaido soon. Hold on to your seats because this is going to be one big (mis)adventure that will have you laughing so hard that your stomach hurts. Due to some magic twist of fate, they are transported to other magical (some may call it nonsensical) worlds parallel to Abenobashi and that’s where the comedy of making fun of some of the TV genre comes from. Our main protagonists are a couple of 12 year old childhood friends, Satoshi “Sasshi” Imamiya whose family once used to run a bath house and Arumi Asahina whose family is currently running a restaurant called Grill Pelican. What is this anime about? Set in the shopping arcade called Abenobashi in Osaka, at first the cramp locations of the shops and the narrow maze-like alleys may bring to mind that this is some sort of a slum. Might not seem very far but if you have been watching animes on a regular basis, you can tell the obvious difference and quality of it now and then. This is quite an old show (in my opinion) and is from the year 2002. But if you add adventure of its parallel worlds into that, then you’d get Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai (Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi). When you think of hilarious parodies of TV genres, you think of Excel Saga. ![]()
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