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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:abenobashi.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| ''All things extant in this world: Gods of Heaven, Gods of Earth, let everything be as it should be. Thus shall it be!''}} 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? Line 7: 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 [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs\|dinosaur-filled]], prehistoric one. And many more. Will Sasshi and Arumi ever get back to the ''real'' Abenobashi? ''Why'' are they "jumping" in the first place? ''Who'' is that blue haired sorcerer who appears to be going through a mid-life crisis? A [[Deconstructive Parody]] of a dozen or more genres of film and anime, ''[[~~Abenobashi~~Magical ~~Mahou~~Shopping ~~Shoutengai~~Arcade Abenobashi]]'' (''~~Magical~~Abenobashi ~~Shopping~~Mahou ~~Arcade Abenobashi~~Shoutengai'' in ~~North~~the original ~~America~~Japanese) generously trowels thick layers of off-the-wall comedy on top of a surprisingly serious storyline, one you're likely to forget about until it pops back up at the last minute to smack you in the face. Made by [[Studio Gainax\|Gainax]], the show makes both subtle and in-your-face [[Shout-Out\|references]] to [[Neon Genesis Evangelion\|various]] [[Sister Princess\|other]] [[Back to the Future (film)\|series.]] 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.) {{tropelist}} * [[Accent Adaptation]]: The official dub translates Osakan dialect as Texan and Kouhei's Tokyo dialect as Brooklyn. Line 19 ⟶ 20: * [[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 {{quote\| '''Sasshi:''' I ain't the only one being a little kid here! You're nothing but a kid who wants to... uh, you're just... you're just!... A little kid and... ''DON'T SMOKE!!''~~<br />~~ '''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 -Foot Whatever]] * [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Averted * [[Big No]]: Shown silently, however Line 34 ⟶ 35: * [[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-Bomb]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_tMD5bTbLM Mr. Kouhei] in episode 12. Also counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]. {{quote\| '''Mr. Kouhei''': ''"HEY '''''FUCKING''''' COWBOY, '''''FUCKING''''' COWGIRL! HOW THE <big>'''''FUCK'''''</big> ARE YOU DOIN'? So tell me, are you kids on your '''''FUCKING''''' way home from school or something like that? <big>'''''FUCK'''''</big>, why don't you two buy a '''''FUCKING''''' hotdog from me, Mr. Kouhei! Come on bebah, don't be cruel you '''''FUCKING''''' cowboy! Tell you what, I'll give you the King Special with a ton of '''''FUCKING''''' ketchup and '''''FUCKING''''' mustard to go with those '''''FUCKING''''' hotdogs, and sell you a pair of them for 500 '''''FUCKING''''' Yen! How do you like those bargains, bebah? <big>'''''A-FUCK-YOU-VERY-MUCH-AH!'''''</big> Hey, are you lonesome tonight you '''''FUCKING'''''-Cheer-'''''FUCKING'''''-Girls? '''''FUCKING''''' HOTDOGS FOR SALE, <big>'''FUCK YEAH!'''</big>''}} * [[Cranial Eruption]] * [[Crash Into Hello]] * [[~~Cross Dresser~~Crossdresser]]: "Ms." Aki. * [[Cross-Popping Veins]] * [[Cultural Cross-Reference]]: Owing to the show's premise, being [[Reference Overdosed]] is unavoidable. However, it isn't terribly discriminating about from which parts of the globe it lifts its references. Anything that fits the topic of the episode is fair game. Line 50 ⟶ 51: * [[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-Deformed\|chibified]] and turned into comic relief characters that nobody can take seriously. * [[Flash Back]] Line 72 ⟶ 73: * [[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]] {{quote\| '''Sasshi''': ''"Woah, Arumi. Since when did you have boobs?"''~~<br />~~ '''Arumi''': ''"Aww shoot, you noticed already."''~~<br />~~ '''Arumi's Dad''': ''"No-no-no, you still have not deciphered the meaning of this tank unit, ey mon ami?"'' ~~<br />~~ '''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."''~~<br />~~ '''Sasshi's Dad''': ''"Uhhh...."''~~<br />~~ '''Sasshi''': ''"What, you went through all of this for something that lame?"''~~<br />~~ '''Arumi's Dad''': ''"Ooooh! That's why I didn't want to say it! Sacre Bleu!"''~~<br />~~ '''Sasshi''': ''"If you didn't wanna, you shouldn't have done it to begin with."''~~<br />~~ '''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?"''~~<br />~~ '''Sasshi''': ''"Not pad, POT of gold!"''~~<br />~~ '''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 ~~2nd~~second time, they cut the scene and say "The rest has been abridged" then shows him firing at his opponent. * [[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!"'' Line 95 ⟶ 96: * [[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]]}} {{quote\| '''Sasshi:''' AAAH! I DON'T WHETHER TO BE SCARED OR HAPPY! I'M SO CONFUSED!!}} * [[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. Line 113 ⟶ 114: * [[The Reveal]] * [[Role Playing Game Verse]]: The first world they jump to. * [[Running Gag]]: {{quote\| '''Sasshi's Mother:''' ''"You're 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."''~~<br />~~ '''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!?"''~~<br />~~ '''Sasshi:''' ''"That's right..."'' }} * [[Schizo-Tech]] Line 122 ⟶ 123: * [[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 * [[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 [[Eastern RPG\|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 [[Ranma One Half\|Panda who puts Sasshi through a training montage]], [[Fist of the North Star\|Sasshi getting extremely muscular with constellation-shaped scars on his chest]], [[Dragonball Z\|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 (film)\|Speed Racer]]'', ''[[Knight Rider]]'', ''[[Twister]]'', ''[[Jaws (film)\|Jaws]]'', ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', ''[[Back to the Future (film)\|Back to The Future]]'', ''[[RoboCop]]'', ''[[Die Hard]]'', ''[[The Exorcist]]'', ''[[Barbarella]]'', ''[[Titanic]]'', ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'', ''[[Escape from New York]]'', ''[[Friday the 13th (film)\|Friday the 13 th]]'', ''[[Air Force One]]'', and ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. There's also a brief scene where Grandpa Masa says [[Monty Python\|he always wanted to be a lumberjack...]] In the same episode, there's also references to [[Monty Python\|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 [[Golgo 13\|Regolgo.]]" Arumi also apparently spends episode 9 and the start of episode 10 hanging out at the school from ''[[The Drifting Classroom]]''. * [[Shrines and Temples]]: The Abeno shrine is an important location to the plot. * [[Snot Bubble]] Line 150 ⟶ 136: * [[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. * [[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 [http://qs-mall.jp/ trendy shopping mall], complete with a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts shop and the Osaka branch of Shibuya 109. Poor Sasshi... * [[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"''. Line 158 ⟶ 143: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Anime Network~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Seinen]]▼ [[Category:Madhouse]]▼ [[Category:Anime]] [[Category:Anime of the 2000s]] [[Category:Fantasy Anime and Manga]] [[Category:~~Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai~~Seinen]] ▲[[Category:Madhouse (company)]] ▲[[Category:~~Seinen~~Gainax]]