While its story certainly has some serious elements, especially towards the later episodes, Magical☆Shopping Arcade Abenobashi is at its heart a comedy series writhe with the style of humour you would expect from many of the folks who had worked on FLCL the year before like Hiroyuki Yamaga and Hideaki Anno and would later found Studio Trigger such as Masahiko Otsuka and Hiroyuki Imaishi. Arumi and Sasshi hunt down tiny, magical goblins to try and send themselves back to the real Abenobashi as the mystery of their predicament begins to reveal itself in each passing world. Each world offers a new, comedic spin on their hometown with a similar cast of characters. The two soon find themselves faced with even greater changes when they unexpectedly get sent into a series of alternate universe Abenobashis. After losing his card collection, Sasshi’s woes continue when he finds out Arumi is going to move away to Hokkaido. The story follows Arumi Asahina and Sasshi Imamiya, two 12-year-old childhood friends who live in the titular Abenobashi commercial district in Osaka, an aging area that soon will be demolished for new development.
Framing its ridiculous, theme-of-the-day parodies around a central storyline that intertwines historical Japanese mysticism with a timeless coming-of-age story, Abenobashi remains one of the most entertaining works from the legendary studio Gainax.
Sashi and Arumi are a comical pair lost in a bizarre and wacky alternate world. One summer day the two kids are transported to the parallel universe, Maho Shotengai (Magical Shopping District), where common sense is far from being common. **Summary 2**: Sashi Imamiya and Arumi Asahina live in the Abenobashi shopping district in Osaka. Strange things are afoot, and Sasshi must find out their meaning, in order to reach a goal that he barely understands. It's still Abenobashi, but not their Abenobashi. In the midst of all this, something happens to the framework of reality, and Sasshi and Arumi slip into a weird parallel world. His family's bath house has closed and been torn down, and Arumi's family is moving to Hokkaido - and taking her with them. Now, all that was stable in his life is in ruins. **Summary 1**: Imamiya Satoshi, "Sasshi" to his friends, has grown up in the Abenobashi Shopping Arcade in Osaka, along with his childhood friend, Asahina Arumi. \ Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi - Dual Audio
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