Author Topic: Magical Shopping District Abenobashi (Read 32014 times)

The D · « **on:** Feb 08, 2005, 03:28:02 PM »

This is playing right now on G4TechTv, 1am. It started last night, or rather this morning.

It's from Gainax and is like FLCL meets Alice in Wonderland. Two 12 year old kids are best friends and have lived at this old shopping arcade since they were born. But now some deveopers are demolishing it to put a huge mall there, and in demolishing it, destroy 4 magical seals. With the seals gone, it opens up a gateway to multiple parallel universes that are totally screwed up, and now the two kids have to save the universes and get back to their own.

The dub is annoying though. Since the show's set in Osaka, they give the main characters southern accents. <_<

TM2 Rampage · « **Reply #1 on:** Feb 09, 2005, 02:32:52 AM »

Ah, I've been thinking of buying the manga for that...

MegatronYES · « **Reply #2 on:** Feb 09, 2005, 06:14:38 AM »

D has the best avatar I have ever fucking seen.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #3 on:** Feb 09, 2005, 11:32:24 AM »

no! mine is better B)

B E C K · « **Reply #4 on:** Feb 09, 2005, 06:30:46 PM »

I've seen one episode but in order to see the rest, I'd have to buy it and there's other stuff I'd rather get first.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #5 on:** Feb 10, 2005, 09:08:45 AM »

I just started getting Full Metal Panic! through Netflix, but Abenobashi is the next series. So I'll start watching it in about two weeks.

Extra Zero · « **Reply #6 on:** Feb 10, 2005, 02:18:07 PM »

Am I the only person that hated FLCL with a passion?

MegatronYES · « **Reply #7 on:** Feb 10, 2005, 02:53:41 PM »

Alls I know, is that Van Helsing was terrible.

B E C K · « **Reply #8 on:** Feb 10, 2005, 11:23:58 PM »

I liked FLCL at first but then after repeated viewings it got annoying.

I've seen one volume of Van Helsing. I didn't think what I saw was terrible but maybe it gets worse later. At least Crispy Coat Fryman avoided an English accent in the dub.

I've seen one episode of Full Metal Panic as well as read that manga insert in Newtype and it didn't grab my interest in the least. Another annoying school girl... bleh.

Extra Zero · « **Reply #9 on:** Feb 10, 2005, 11:57:55 PM »

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I liked FLCL at first but then after repeated viewings it got annoying.

THANK YOU.

blanktoe · « **Reply #10 on:** Feb 11, 2005, 03:41:50 AM »

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Am I the only person that hated FLCL with a passion?

you alway hate the wrong things.

Extra Zero · « **Reply #11 on:** Feb 11, 2005, 06:39:37 AM »

Tell me one redeeming thing about the show?

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #12 on:** Feb 11, 2005, 08:23:05 AM »

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Alls I know, is that Van Helsing was terrible.

The Hugh Jackman movie? Agreed.

The anime Hellsing? I hated it when I tried to watch it in order. The 1st 3 episodes are nothing but Seras whining & angsting. Bleh.

blanktoe · « **Reply #13 on:** Feb 11, 2005, 11:41:37 AM »

Robots that grow out of children's foreheads and shit them out after a fight scene.

MegatronYES · « **Reply #14 on:** Feb 11, 2005, 02:13:24 PM »

The serial Japanese show Helsing is pretty cool, if not a little annoying at times,

I was refering to the Hollywood expriment in audience insulting, Van Helsing. That guy is the absolute worst Dracula ever. Ever.

B E C K · « **Reply #15 on:** Feb 11, 2005, 09:46:32 PM »

Ha ha, duh. Okay, I mixed them up. I remember this goofy kid at work who thought Helsing = Van Helsing. Now I'm just like him. Fuck.

Extra Zero · « **Reply #16 on:** Feb 12, 2005, 02:13:15 PM »

Haha!

B E C K · « **Reply #17 on:** Feb 13, 2005, 12:25:28 AM »

He was this wacky tiny Asian guy who was basically homeless and needed to practically beg for loans and food, yet would regularly go to the mall and buy games and manga.

Extra Zero · « **Reply #18 on:** Feb 13, 2005, 12:44:28 AM »

Where the fuck did he store that stuff?

MegatronYES · « **Reply #19 on:** Feb 13, 2005, 12:52:09 AM »

Asian people have pouches in thier bellies.

Wait, is that Asians, or kangaroos?

Extra Zero · « **Reply #20 on:** Feb 13, 2005, 12:59:20 AM »

Probably both.

MegatronYES · « **Reply #21 on:** Feb 13, 2005, 01:05:48 AM »

That movie had so much fucking swinging in it.

B E C K · « **Reply #22 on:** Feb 13, 2005, 01:14:58 AM »

He carried bags around. He also crashed with people, so I can imagine he'd store crap there, too. Kinda like a squirrel.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #23 on:** Feb 14, 2005, 12:00:31 PM »

If his face looked fat, his cheek pouches were probably full.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #24 on:** Feb 14, 2005, 02:59:29 PM »

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He carried bags around. He also crashed with people, so I can imagine he'd store crap there, too. Kinda like a squirrel.

I know I do.

Hellsing wasn't that great, but the manga is cool. There's actually something going on there, although it is the tired old "South American Nazis" schtick. Dunno if it's ever been used with vampires, though. Never saw the Van Helsing train wreck, though. I figure if I stay away from that, Punisher, Catwoman, and Hulk, I'll be doing well for myself.

Getting back to Full Metal Panic, it has the schoolgirl thing going, but it apparently has more to it after the first few episodes. I won't know for sure until I see the 2nd & 3rd DVD volumes, which came in this morning's mail.

B E C K · « **Reply #25 on:** Feb 14, 2005, 11:39:30 PM »

The school girl thing is the most annoying part. Those military peeps were kinda cool though.

joe · « **Reply #26 on:** Feb 14, 2005, 11:51:48 PM »

I prefer the second series of Full Metal Panic. Straight-up comedy and none of that save-the-world-with-generic-giant-robots crap. Although I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much without having watched that first series for context. Huh.

I hear there's going to be a third, that'll be more like the first. Boo.

B E C K · « **Reply #27 on:** Feb 14, 2005, 11:59:38 PM »

I remember tom posting pics from the second series. The first did look like a series that would be better served by being funny. And like actually being funny, not like trying and failing.

joe · « **Reply #28 on:** Feb 15, 2005, 01:05:03 AM »

The second one was certifiably funny. There were no German goldfish, none of that shit. I'm talking about genuine humor over here.

Back on topic, Abenobashi was a decent show with a handful of great moments, but for the most part its crap outweighed its merits. And the southern accent thing, when used in any series, bugs my ass to no end. Thank God David Lucas didn't apply it to Mugen in Samurai Champloo.

B E C K · « **Reply #29 on:** Feb 15, 2005, 01:07:49 AM »

But I wanted to hear Spike say "y'all"!