The problem is that Arumi does but deep inside Sasshi doesn’t really want to. In MSAA the main characters, Sasshi and Arumi, are trapped in a succession of parallel worlds and the final condition is that both need to want to go back to their own world. It’s just like Pokemon: IF (Ash has caught them all) THEN end ELSE another episode. The thing about Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (MSAA from now on) is that each episode is like a computer flowchart: IF (final condition fulfilled) THEN end ELSE another episode. Then you can design a series that basically guarantees that it will be just the right length based on the fundamental premise of the series. Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne is another, although it’s also a shorty (six one hour episodes) and I have to suspect it’s easier to get a short one just right. I thought Kill la Kill and Kids on the Slope fell into that category, and I’ll talk more about them later. There are series that are just right because they were perfectly conceived in the first place. Note that FLCL: Progressive followed the same format but is much less interesting. Of course, you have to make FLCL to make this strategy work. Hmm…that seems like a good commercial decision. It requires multiple viewings to make sense of it. It’s so short…six episodes, not much more than 120 minutes of story once you leave off the intro and outro of each episode. A lot of my favorites – Samurai Champloo, Black Lagoon, Ergo Proxy, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya – have episodes that are clearly filler, that are there to fill the series to 24 or 25 or 26 or whatever number of episodes their contract called for. It’s easy to tell series that are too long, at least in one way. With this new trauma pressuring him in addition to his apprehension about the destruction of the shopping arcade and the Asahinas' moving away, Sasshi was no longer willing or able to cope with reality, and unbeknownst to even himself, he had caused their dimension to rewrite itself into worlds echoing his escapist obsessions.The Overage Otaku on The Antagonist: Desty Nov… While chasing the cat in the first episode, Arumi's grandfather fell off the roof and died. Sasshi does not want to go home, and in fact is the sole force propelling them between worlds. Their quest to return home is at core a bildungsroman because the Abenobashi dimensions are mostly hobby worlds of increasing sophistication. Each alternate Abenobashi is a surreal manifestation of Sasshi's otaku interests, populated by analogs of the protagonists relatives and acquaintances and a blue-haired stranger known as Eutus. Their attempt to get back to reality finds them traversing a series of nonsensical worlds built on science fiction, war, fantasy, dating sim games and American movies. After an accident, they find themselves transported to an alternate sword and sorcery world. The best episodes of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi!Ĭhildhood friends Arumi and Sasshi are residents of the Abenobashi commercial district in Osaka, Japan. The BEST episodes of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi Every episode of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show.
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