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Arumi and Sasshi are two twelve-year-olds who have grown up together in the Abenobashi shopping arcade in Osaka. But the arcade and the neighborhood around it are now slated for redevelopment; one by one, the old familiar buildings are being torn down. Worse, Arumi and her family are moving to Hokkaido. What's poor Sasshi to do?
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Well, none of that really matters, after Arumi's grandfather is hospitalized in an accident that destroys the last of [[The Four Gods|four "guardian" figurines]] that bound the shopping district. Before their eyes, the neighborhood changes. Sasshi and Arumi find themselves trapped in a warped version of Abenobashi as if it were an RPG, with everyone they know recast as NPCs.
But once they fight their way through the game's plot in grand slapstick style, thinking they will then return home, they find themselves transported to an outer space version of Abenobashi... then a Hong Kong martial arts movie version... then a [[
A [[Deconstructive Parody]] of a dozen or more genres of film and anime, ''[[
There is also a two-volume [[Manga]] version, which is ''even weirder.'' The [[Broad Strokes|basic plot is pretty much the same,]] although different worlds are visited, the ones that ''are'' in the show are different, and there's a character not shown in the anime (with the exception of a "blink and you'll miss her" scene in the twelfth episode.)
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* [[Accent Adaptation]]: The official dub translates Osakan dialect as Texan and Kouhei's Tokyo dialect as Brooklyn.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Takeshi Aono, who voiced Grandpa Masa, also did [[
** [[Yui Horie]] plays Emiryun in the dating-sim episode, and that character takes on traits of other Horie roles such as [[Kanon
* [[Alternate Universe]]: A new one in almost every episode.
* [[Art Shift]]: Between a more realistic style for the mundane world and a more flat, colorful style for the alternate dimensions.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Sasshi to Mune-Mune
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'''Arumi:''' ...that ''really'' the issue? }}
* [[Aside Glance]]: Done by Sasshi a couple times through the series. Sometimes looking at the audience, and other times just looking away from Arumi so he doesn't have to make eye contact.
* [[Attack of the 50
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Averted
* [[Big No]]: Shown silently, however
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* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]: Used throughout various parts of the series, but part of the [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] listed below in particular.
* [[Breast Expansion]]: In the second episode, Sasshi had to defeat the final boss by using a magic talisman that Arumi bought, which turned out to be used for [[Breast Expansion]] -- the boss's chest swelled up so much it exploded.
* [[Broken Aesop]]: The message is clearly a set of stock aesops like Be Yourself, Live in the real world, accept reality as it is, You can't fight fate, Let the dead rest, and most specifically, You can't use magic to solve all your problems. If it wasn't clear enough, Sasshi's father even lampshades this, telling him that he should just drop the whole Onmyo business and grow out of it. All that is suddenly rendered null and void in the last few minutes of the final episode when
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Sasshi throughout most of the series. Anytime Sasshi and Arumi end up crashing or falling somewhere, Arumi lands on her feet while Sasshi crashes into the ground. In Episode 11 in particular, He becomes an [[Iron Butt Monkey]] as he is a lowly private of the army and is constantly ordered to do everything for everyone. He even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this by asking if he's even any use at all because the messages he's
** In the [[Dating Sim]] Episode however, Arumi is the [[Butt Monkey]], which is quite satisfying.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: As part of the Sci-Fi/[[Humongous Mecha|Mecha]] episode. Though since they don't know any of the pre-existing attack names, Sasshi and Arumi just make up new ones on the fly (and comment on how difficult it really is...)
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Arumi's "Being human, having your health. That's what matters", which she says three times in the first episode but rarely after that. Sasshi steals it for {{spoiler|the last line of the show.}}
* [[Cluster F
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* [[Cranial Eruption]]
* [[Crash Into Hello]]
* [[
* [[Cross
* [[Cultural Cross
* [[Dating Sim]]: An entire episode dedicated to it, and it doesn't take Sasshi very long to [[Genre Savvy|figure out that he's in one.]] The end of the episode resulted in him seeing an ending that would have made more sense to him if he had achieved the proper relationship flags to develop that character. Arumi was the Goblin of that world. Needless to say, she was angry.
* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Mune-Mune}}.
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** At the halfway point, the series turns around and deconstructs ''itself''. Or to be more accurate, the second half is a [[Genre Deconstruction]] of the [[Trapped in Another World]] premise that it was following in the first half.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|Sasshi's finally ready to go back to the real world and face reality, when in the last few minutes he has a change of heart and suddenly gets enough power to rewrite reality.}}
* [[Expy]]: Young Grandpa Masa in not entirely unlike [[The Mask (
* [[Early
* [[Face Fault]]
* [[False Camera Effects]]
* [[Fan Service]]: [[Played for Laughs]] throughout the whole series with Mune-Mune and Sasshi's sister. And then there's...
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: People who are shot in the Film Noir world don't die. Instead they're [[Super
* [[Flash Back]]
* [[Flung Clothing]]
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* [[Gainaxing]]
* [[Gainax Ending]]: Of course. Could someone ''please'' explain the ending to me?
** Easy. Sasshi turned out to be
* [[Genre Savvy]]: A large part of each episode is Sasshi and Arumi trying to figure out "what kind" of world they're in and what the rules are. This starts from the very first episode, where Sasshi immediately takes to the ''[[
** That said, Sasshi understanding how each world "works" is probably a side effect of {{spoiler|each world being retrieved from his subconscious.}}
* [[Glamorous Wartime Singer]]: Hillariously subverted in the War episode when Ms. Aki shows up for a USO show. After getting a good look at her face, all the troops fall to the ground in a near-death state. After pulling a [[Marilyn Maneuver]] but before she can finish her introduction, she's quickly ''grabbed by [[Gas Mask Mooks]], shoved into a body bag, and [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|stuffed into a nuclear waste containment barrel]], which is then filled with cement, bolted shut, lowered into a larger air-tight container, sealed in cement, tested for radiation levels, boxed up into a cargo crate, put onto the helicopter she arrived in on, and immediately flown out.''
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: {{spoiler|Mune-Mune. Can you ''feel'' the [[Fan Disservice]] and/or [[Squick]]?}})
** The what? Sorry, too busy drooling to care.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Part of the opening theme is in English, but you just try to understand it without subtitles. (Or with them, for that matter.) There's also
* [[Gratuitous French]]: Arumi's father often uses this trope as he's a chef who specializes in French cuisine.
* [[Hammerspace]]: Arumi often pulls a [[Paper Fan of Doom]] out of hammerspace in order to punish Sasshi.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Hilariously subverted in the war episode. Sasshi's sister comments that when situations become this dire, that there's only one thing left to do. [[Love Bubbles|She then asks that he never forgets her, and says goodbye to him]] but then immediately spins the motorcycle around, forcing Sasshi's sidecar to break off and continue rushing right into the tanks ahead of him. He calls her out for it.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Abe no Seimei, who really was an ''Onmyouji'', and was additionally said to be a [[Half
* [[Humongous Mecha]]
* [[The Idiot From Osaka]]: Sasshi. Subverted by Arumi, who is anything but an idiot.
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: In the [[Film Noir]] version of the arcade, Sasshi has to compete with Arumi's father to prove which one is the real "legendary sniper [[Golgo 13|Regolgo]]" by shooting a can on the other side of the room. Sasshi manages to hit the can with a pistol ''by complete accident'', while Arumi's father empties an entire M16 clip and hits everything ''but'' the can. Then he walks right up to the can and blows it up with a bundle of TNT. [[What an Idiot!|Arumi's father is declared the winner.]]
* [[Incredibly Conspicuous Drag]]: Crossdresser "Ms." Aki. is never outed, but is rather obvious — so much so that it seems the rest of the cast is aware of it and just treats him/her as a lovable eccentric.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded by Sasshi]]
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'''Arumi''': ''"Aww shoot, you noticed already."''
'''Arumi's Dad''': ''"No-no-no, you still have not deciphered the meaning of this tank unit, ey mon ami?"''
'''Sasshi''': ''"You pad Arumi's boobs so now it's really a [[Patton|Pad-Ton]] tank unit? Heheheh Like it would really be something THAT stupid."''
'''Sasshi's Dad''': ''"Uhhh...."''
'''Sasshi''': ''"What, you went through all of this for something that lame?"''
'''Arumi's Dad''': ''"Ooooh! That's why I didn't want to say it! Sacre Bleu!"''
'''Sasshi''': ''"If you didn't wanna, you shouldn't have done it to begin with."''
'''Arumi's Dad''': ''"But there's more!'' *grabs into Arumi's chest takes out a gold orb while switching to an Irish accent* ''Dontyeknow, it's a real pad o' gold?"''
'''Sasshi''': ''"Not pad, POT of gold!"''
'''Arumi''': ''"He's stealing the punchline!" *Smacks her dad with her [[Paper Fan of Doom]]*'' }}
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: Sasshi tries to fire one off in the Hong Kong Shopping Arcade episode. He ends up burning his hands in the process and drops it. He tries it again, but it took so long to summon that during the
* [[Kansai Regional Accent]]
* [[Long Title]]: ''"Private E-1 Sasshi of Squad 7, Corps 6 of Division 5 General Headquarters, Auxiliary to the 4th Battalion, Under the command of the 3rd Regiment, Under the 2nd Division of the 1st Army, reporting for duty, Ma'am!"''
** Even sillier, as mentioned in the pop-up notes. The Japanese version goes just as long, but goes biggest to smallest unit (reverse order).
* [[Love Triangle]]
* [[Magical Girlfriend]]: Subverted. If you want to count Arumi for this role, she has no magical powers at all. In the [[Dating Sim]] episode, She's actually
* [[Magical Girl]]: Subverted. In one world, Sasshi tries to give Arumi everything she'd ever want in order to be happy. His own screw up antics eventually result in Arumi being forced to transform into a [[Magical Girl]] (complete with the poses being controlled by one of Sasshi's little oni servants). She was less than enthusiastic about it.
* [[Magic From Technology]]: or so a character claims...
* [[Marilyn Maneuver]]: Ms. Aki pulls this off during a USO show in the War episode. Refer to [[Glamorous Wartime Singer]] for further detail.
* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Mune-Mune to Sasshi. [[Running Gag|Oh so very much]], but turned into [[Squick]] when {{spoiler|Sasshi knows and confronts the truth that Mune-Mune [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|is Sasshi's Grandma]]}}
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Mune" is Japanese for "chest." {{spoiler|Sounds like a nickname at first, but no, that's her actual given name. She also adopts the pseudonym "Muneyama Muneko" (literally "Chestmountain Chestchild") in the last episode.}}
* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: Episode 2, and perhaps 10 too, considering it is based on fairy tales, which in turn have a generally MEF setting.
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* [[The Reveal]]
* [[Role Playing Game Verse]]: The first world they jump to.
* [[Running Gag]]:
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'''Mune-Mune:''' ''"WHAT'S THAT!? Are you Private E-1 Sasshi of Squad 7, Corps 6 of Division 5 General Headquarters, Auxiliary to the 4th Battalion, Under the command of the 3rd Regiment, Under the 2nd Division of the 1st Army!?"''
'''Sasshi:''' ''"That's right..."'' }}
* [[Schizo
* [[Screw Destiny]]: Sasshi's ultimate reaction to the revelation that {{spoiler|Grandpa Masa is dead in the real world.}} And, making for either a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] or a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], {{spoiler|he comes through with it and brings him back to life.}}
** Screw destiny, they reversed {{spoiler|''death''}}. That's even more awesome, and a wonderful ending for this immortalist troper.
* [[Shojo]]: In one world, Sasshi tries to give Arumi everything she would ever want to be happy. She doesn't want any of it.
* [[Shorttank]]: Arumi
* [[Shrines and Temples]]: The Abeno shrine is an important location to the plot.
* [[Snot Bubble]]
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* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]
* [[Speech Bubble Censoring]]
* [[Star
* [[Stock Footage]]: The world-transfer ritual, though there are some minor discrepancies between them each time.
* [[Super
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: Of the [[Star Wars]] theme in episodes 2 and 3.
* [[Swirling Dust]]
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* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: In episode 12 they enter the arcade proper and hear the show's ending theme playing as muzak.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Repeatedly.
▲* [[Twelve Episode Anime]]: Actually thirteen, but who's counting?
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: During a bombing run in episode 11, Sasshi looks through his scope at the target, then looks up and blinks in disbelief at the fact that the barber shop they're about to bomb is called ''"Pearl Barber"''.
* [[Visible Sigh]]
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