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Story
Background During the Heian Era, Abe no Seimei was a close childhood friend of a noble named Masayuki, and his wife, Mune. While he was away from the palace, Masayuki often asked Seimei to stay by his wife's side, guarding her and keeping her company. However, during the time they spent together, Mune and Seimei fell in love and became increasingly romantically involved. Unbeknownst to them, Masayuki soon learned of the affair, and became overcome with grief and jealousy. One day while Seimei was on a trip to Kyoto, Masayuki snapped, murdered Mune and committed suicide. Guided by a premonition, Seimei rushed back to his hometown only to find that he was too late. Overcome with guilt, he decided to perform a forbidden Onmyo ritual that would allow him to resurrect the dead by transferring himself into a completely different world where they were still alive. In doing so, Seimei soon found himself as "Mr. Abe" in mid-20th-century Osaka, where Mune Imamiya and Masayuki Asahina were pre-existing residents of this alternate world. Now, Masayuki was an ambitious, but largely unsuccessful young man who had enlisted Mr. Abe's permission to build the Abenobashi Shopping Arcade. He was also madly in love with Mune, a local girl whom he tried to woo (with little success) at every possible occasion. It was not long, however, before Mune fell in love with Abe, constantly pursuing him and offering him home-made lunch. Abe tried for a time to resist her advances, but eventually he was no longer able to contain his feelings, and made love with Mune in his apartment. Unbeknownst to them, an instantly-jealous Masayuki accidentally discovered the truth. The next night he became staggeringly drunk and invited Abe to meet him at the Abeno Shrine, planning to murder him with a hidden butcher knife when he arrived. At first unsuspecting, Abe arrived on the scene, but once he saw the decrepitly drunk Masa he knew what was underfoot. He promptly bid Masayuki farewell, then disappeared, going back to his job in the Heian Era, leaving a pregnant Mune behind him; her child is Sasshi's father. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
Abe no Seimei ) (921?-1005?) was an onmyoji, a leading specialist of onmyodo during the middle of the Heian Period in Japan. ...
Kyoto ) is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. ...
Plot Childhood friends Arumi and Sasshi are residents of the Abenobashi commercial district in Osaka, Japan. After an accident, they find themselves transported to an alternate sword and sorcery world. 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. 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. Musashi Koyama ShÅtengai in Tokyo A shÅtengai (商店街) is a style of Japanese commercial district running along a certain street. ...
Osaka ) is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū. The city is the capital of Osaka Prefecture. ...
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Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
For other uses, see War (disambiguation). ...
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Dating simulations (dating sims) are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements. ...
Otaku ) is a derisive Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests in manga, anime or hentai. ...
Their quest to return home is at core a bildungsroman because the Abenobashi dimensions are mostly hobby worlds of increasing sophistication.[citation needed] Sasshi does not want to go home, and in fact is the sole force propelling them between worlds. While chasing the cat in the first episode, Arumi's grandfather fell off the roof and died. 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. A bildungsroman (IPA: /, German: novel of personal development) is a novelistic form which concentrates on the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the protagonist usually from childhood to maturity. ...
Characters
Main characters Satoshi "Sasshi" Imamiya (今宮聖志, Imamiya Satoshi?) is a precocious, hyperactive 12-year-old typical Osakan boy. He has a huge passion for collecting, Role-playing games, sci-fi, dinosaurs, guns and visual novels. Sasshi's family used to run the local bathhouse, the Turtle Bath, but was forced to give it up and move out due to redevelopment plans for the Abenobashi shopping arcade area. Sasshi spends his lazy days hanging out with his best friend Arumi. // The hobby of collecting consists of acquiring specific items based on a particular interest of the collector. ...
This article is about games in which one plays the role of a character. ...
Sci-fi is an abbreviation for science fiction. ...
A visual novel is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art. ...
Voiced by: Tomo Saeki (Japanese), Luci Christian (English) Tomo Saeki is a Japanese seiyu. ...
Louisa Michelle Luci Christian (born March 18, 1973 in Hico, Texas) is an American voice actress working with ADV Films and FUNimation, who has provided English voices for leading and supporting characters in dozens of imported anime television shows since the 1990s. ...
Arumi Asahina (朝比奈あるみ, Asahina Arumi?) is Sasshi’s best friend and classmate, having practically grown up together with him in the Abenobashi Shopping Arcade. A sensible and pragmatic girl who is a foil to Sasshi. Arumi’s eccentric father and stubborn grandfather run a French restaurant in the Shopping Arcade known as the Grill Pelican. It appears, however, that the Asahina family will be closing up shop in the near future as part of redevelopment in the area and moving to Hokkaido, forcing Arumi to leave Sasshi behind. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka (Japanese), Jessica Boone (English) Yuki Matsuoka (æ¾å²¡ç”±è²´ Matsuoka Yuki, born September 13, 1970) is a seiyÅ« from the Hirano-ku ward of Osaka. ...
Jessica Boone (born May 14, 1984 in Houston, Texas) is a well-known and well-established voice-over actress with ADV Films, working out of Texas. ...
Other characters Masayuki Asahina "Grandpa Masa" (雅ジイ, Masayuki Asahina "Grandpa Masa"?) is Arumi’s grandfather and the founder of the Grill Pelican restaurant. A stubborn and grumpy old man, Grandpa Masa is dead set against the idea of leaving Abenobashi, despite his son’s urging to join the family in moving to Hokkaido to work in a high quality French restaurant at a resort hotel there. Having put his life’s work into the Grill Pelican, and his livelihood in Abenobashi, Grandpa Masa remains defiant to the end.
Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (Japanese), Andy McAvin (English) Takeshi Aono Takeshi Aono (é’野 æ¦ Aono Takeshi, born June 19, 1936) is a veteran seiyÅ« who was born in Asahikawa, HokkaidÅ and is currently affiliated with Aoni Production. ...
Andy McAvin is an American actor and voice over actor with nearly 50 credits to his resume. ...
Mune-Mune (ムネムネ, Mune-Mune?) is a voluptuous redhead in the assorted Abenobashi dimensions. Her numerous attempts to "kill" or "help" the children, which are always undertaken with great flair, stand out against even the surreal background of the hobby worlds. Mune-Mune is nearly always searching for Eutus.
Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Kaytha Coker (English) Aya Hisakawa ) is a seiyū and J-pop singer born November 12, 1968 in Kaizuka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. ...
Kaytha Coker is an American voice actress. ...
Ms. Aki (アキ姉, Ms. Aki?) the neighborhood cross-dresser. A long-life resident of the Abenobashi Shopping Arcade, he is quite knowledgeable about the history of the area and its people.
Voiced by: Kouji Ishii (Japanese), Jason Douglas (English) Kouji Ishii ), is a seiyÅ« born Kouzou Ishii (石井 浩三 Ishii KÅzÅ) on July 1, 1960 at Wakayama, Japan. ...
Jason Douglas is an American stage actor who is gaining increasing visibility of late by breaking into mainstream film and television work. ...
Sayaka Imamiya (今宮沙也香･小鬼, Imamiya Sayaka?) is Sasshi’s older sister. A stereotypical teenage girl, she is quite intent on being cool by shying away from the family’s Osaka influences. She diets and has an interest in fortune telling. Sayaka shows up within the Abenobashi dimensions accompanying Mune-mune and Ms. Aki.
Voiced by: Akemi Okamura (Japanese), Monica Rial (English) Akemi Okamura (å²¡æ‘ æ˜Žç¾Ž Okamura Akemi, born on March 12, 1969) is a seiyu who works for Mausu Promotion. ...
Monica Rial is a voice actress for ADV Films and Funimation Entertainment. ...
Eutus (ユータス, Eutus?) is another recurring element of the Abenobashi dimensions who sahres a bond with Sasshi. Eutus is connected to the Abenobashi Shopping Arcade: he is doomed to wander the various dimensions until the cause of this misfortune is rectified. His real identity is the legendary onmyoji Abe no Seimei. Yuan (缘) or Yuanfen (缘份; pinyin: yuan2 fen4) is a Buddhist-related Chinese concept that means the predetermined principle that dictates a persons relationships and encounters, usually positive, such as the affinity among friends or lovers. ...
The Onmyōji (陰陽師, lit. ...
Abe no Seimei ) (921?-1005?) was an onmyoji, a leading specialist of onmyodo during the middle of the Heian Period in Japan. ...
Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (Japanese), Chris Patton (English) Rikiya Koyama Birthdate: December 18 1963 Birthplace: Kyoto Height: 1. ...
Christopher David Patton (born March 15, 1971 in Houston, Texas) has been acting since early childhood, and voice acting for FUNimation Entertainment and ADV Films for eight years. ...
Kouhei (幸平さん, Kouhei?) is a shady businessman who runs a stall selling food as well as many different trinkets that may or may not be as helpful as he claims. Kouhei always seems to have a friendly aside for Sasshi and Arumi - especially when he perceives the opportunity to wring them for money.
Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), John Gremillion (English) Katsuyuki Konishi ) is a Japanese voice actor (seiyū) who was born on April 21, 1973 in Wakayama. ...
Actor and voice actor for ADV Films. ...
Design The series is replete with cultural allusions to Japanese media, pop culture, dialects, stereotypes, businesses, games, anime, and even puns and train routes, so much so that the American DVD release includes a special feature which enables pop-up glosses: AD Vid-Notes. The distinctive Osaka dialect is put to good comic use throughout the series.[citation needed] This does not cite its references or sources. ...
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The English dub for the series equates the Osaka dialect with Southern American English. A pamphlet included in the first DVD volume of the series states that a Texan accent was determined to be the English equivalent of Kansai-ben because of the similarities shared by both districts in terms of cultural significance and portrayal in the media. Further supporting this decision is the "cowboy"-style appearance of Sasshi's hat, as well as the frequent use of banjo music in the soundtrack - all things that Western viewers would, incidentally, associate with the Texas region. Southern American English as defined by the monophthongization of to before obstruents (Labov, Ash, and Boberg 2006:126). ...
For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a stringed instrument of African American origin adapted from several African instruments. ...
Adaptations The manga of the same name was created after the anime was developed, and while the major characters and plot elements remain the same, the overall story arc was (according to the production notes in the first volume) changed to fit the medium better, and a few new characters and subplots are added (i.e Sasshi is shown to have feelings for Arumi and confesses them in the last half of the second volume; in the anime, Sasshi is not shown to care for Arumi any more than as his best friend). Furthermore, the manga features more frontal nudity than the anime.
Episodes Every Abenobashi episode after the first, takes place in an alternate Shopping Arcade: Parallel universe or alternate reality in science fiction and fantasy is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. ...
- "Mystery! Abenobashi Shopping Arcade"
- "Adventure! Abenobashi Sword and Sorcery Shopping Arcade" (RPG world)
- "Hook Up! Abenobashi Great Milky Way Shopping Arcade" (Science fiction world)
- "Fire It Up! Abenobashi Hong Kong Combat Shopping Arcade" (Martial arts world)
- "Extinction! Abenobashi Ancient Dinosaur Shopping Arcade" (Prehistoric world)
- "In the Night Fog! Abenobashi Hard Boiled Shopping Arcade" (Hardboiled world)
- "Flashback! Magical Shopping Arcade" (Abenobashi during the late 1950s)
- "Set Your Heart Aflutter! Abenobashi Campus Shopping Arcade" (Visual novel world)
- "It Cries! The Bush Warbler Heiankyo" (Abenobashi during the Heian period)
- "Fluffy, Bubbly! Abenobashi Fairy Tale Shopping Arcade" (Fairy tale world)
- "Resolution!! Abenobashi Battlefield Shopping Arcade" (War world)
- "Huge Reversal?! Abenobashi Hollywood Shopping Arcade" (Hollywood world)
- "Return To Life! The Legendary Onmyou Mystic"
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Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Martial arts film is a film genre that originated in the Pacific Rim. ...
Prehistory (Greek words προ = before and ιστορία = history) is the period of human history prior to the advent of writing (which marks the beginning of recorded history). ...
Hardboiled crime fiction is a uniquely American style pioneered by Dashiell Hammett, refined by Raymond Chandler, and endlessly imitated since by writers such as Mickey Spillane. ...
The 1950s decade refers to the years 1950 to 1959 inclusive. ...
A visual novel is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art. ...
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A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ...
The war film is a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. ...
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Reception Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi received an Excellence Award for animation at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival. The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held by Japans Agency for Cultural Affairs since 1997. ...
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