Thursday, February 7, 2008

Review of anime Abenobashi
Review Time. Today lets look at the anime: the magical shopping arcade Abenobashi.

Genre: Comedy/action

Value: 5/5

Rating: 13+

STORY.

Sasshi and Arumi live in Abenobashi. This shopping arcade was once thriving but has long sinds lost it's appeal. After her grandfather has had a accident Arumi's parents decide to leave for another city. Sasschi is devastated to hear this and would do anything to keep this from happening. Then strange things start to happen and the two find themselfs traveling to many different worlds. But no matter what sort of world they travel to they are always in Abenobashi. Each Abenobashi they visit is different, some are prehistoric while others are science fiction. They learn that in order to return to their own world they must defeat the goblin of that reality. But every time they do they get send to a different Abenobashi. During their travels they meet all the people they know, but who act differently from what they are used to. Can they manage to find their way home?

CHRACTERS.

Sasschi. A young boy who has grown up in Abenobashi. He is Arumi's best friend sinds he can remember. His main purpose seems to be to take all the psysical punishments that the differend Abenobashi's can dish out.

Arumi. A young girl who has grown up in Abenobashi. She is Sasshi's best friend sinds her early childhood. She is very driven to return to their Abenobashi and will do anything to get there.

Mune Mune. This woman is in every Abenobashi and she is constantly searching for a mysterious man called Eutus. She sometimes helps them but she is mostly in the way. But as she likes to press Sasshi into her very impressive bosom he doesn't seem to mind running into her.

Eutus. This mysterious man is also in every Abenobashi. He seems to know a lot about what is happening and tends to give some helpfull advice from time to time.

ART & MUSIC.

Both the art (5/5) and music (5/5) are excellent.

VOICE ACTING

The Japanese acting is as usual excellent (5/5). I didn't watch the English dub so i don't know how good or bad it was.

Personal note. I really loved this anime. The humor is excellent, some of it is pure slapstick but not all the humor is like that. Each world is very well worked out and often a parody of the genre. There is a rpg world, a chinese kung fu world, a sci fi world and many others. The only bad point i could discover was that it contained only 13 episodes. This is easely one of my favorite anime's

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