Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi/Trivia
Trivia about Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi includes:
- Shout-Out: Many, though it'd be more appropriate to say they're parodying more than simply just referencing them.
- The most obvious being to Neon Genesis Evangelion -- music from the series is used for a mecha combat scene, and Sasshi's sister is a Rei Ayanami Expy. Throughout the Battlefield episode, Sasshi's facial features resembles Shinji.
- Sister Princess
- Episode 2 is a shout out to JRPG's in general, but Dragon Quest in particular. Slimes, dead characters being represented by coffins, and needing to go back to town and pay to have them revived are just the tip of the iceberg.
- Episode 3 follows Science Fiction in general, including shoutouts to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars and numerous Giant Mecha series.
- Episode 4 includes a Panda who puts Sasshi through a training montage, Sasshi getting extremely muscular with constellation-shaped scars on his chest, Sasshi going Super Saiyan, arcade fighting games, and Bruce Lee in general.
- Episode 6 is a general shout out to Film Noir style Hard-boiled Detective and Mobster movies.
- Episode 11 is a shout out to war movies in general, including All Quiet on the Western Front, Patton, and others.
- Episode 12 has dozens of references to American horror, science fiction, and adventure movies, including, but certainly not limited to: Terminator, North by Northwest, The Shining, Speed Racer, Knight Rider, Twister, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Back to The Future, RoboCop, Die Hard, The Exorcist, Barbarella, Titanic, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Escape from New York, Friday the 13 th, Air Force One, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- There's also a brief scene where Grandpa Masa says he always wanted to be a lumberjack... In the same episode, there's also references to war wounds.
- There's one for the American short cartoon The First Bad Man during the dinosaur episode, where Mune Mune's dinosaur is slowly chipped away and reduced in size from a dinosaur to a small lizard every time they duck behind a rock.
- Also in dino world: Sasshi briefly turns into an old man with white hair, white beard, and a cane after impressing Arumi with his knowledge of dinosaurs. No, it isn't Colonel Sanders.
- In the Fairy Tale episode, Sasshi creates a mini, teddy bear headed creature with little angel wings, entrusted to be guardian of a certain magical girl. At first he looks yellow. Cardcaptor Sakura, anybody?
- Don't forget about "the legendary sniper Regolgo."
- Arumi also apparently spends episode 9 and the start of episode 10 hanging out at the school from Drifting Classroom.
- Truth in Television: The redevelopment of the Abeno area of Osaka has caused many older commercial districts to be gutted or demolished completely. A case in point is Abeno Ginza shopping arcade, which was torn down at the Turn of the Millennium and replaced by a trendy shopping mall, complete with a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts shop and the Osaka branch of Shibuya 109. Poor Sasshi...