![]() ![]() I don't usually get anime in tins, but, if you can believe it, of the on sale options I was looking at, the one with the tin was the cheapest. I ended up dumping all four out and just leaving them out while I watched the show. The tin has four DVDs contained in four thinpak cases, which are kind of annoying to get out of the tin if you just want to get one case out at a time. It had more serious moments than I expected, it wasn't as consistently funny as I expected it to be, and the ending felt a bit like a cop out.įor your information, my copy of this is the complete collection available in a tin. Now that I've seen it all, I'm not quite sure what to think. ![]() Just feeling sorry for them doesn’t cut it in my book.I saw the first two episodes of this show on TV ages ago and wanted to see the rest of it ever since. I have to want to enter an anime world and stay with the characters, learn about them and adventure with them. I’m willing to give it one more shot, but if episode two doesn’t give me some magic, then no dice. I finally got interested when they discovered the new magical world nearby, which was literally in the last few seconds of the episode. The art was not my favourite, either: it was too cartoony on some counts, such as with Sasshi, and too grotesquely detailed on others, as with Grandpa Masa. I didn’t care for any of the characters, and their changing surroundings were empty and sad. The episode as a whole was kind of slow and depressing. That took some getting used to, though I never got used to the strange banjo music playing in the background throughout. (I say this being a Southerner myself.) On top of that, the kids kind of seemed like rednecks, particularly Sasshi, who at one point expressed a desire to “go eat yams and fart until I pass out.” I wasn’t aware that Japan had rednecks, quite frankly. For some reason everyone had Southern (as in the American South) accents, which I’d never heard in an anime before. I think that, despite the events at the close of the episode, the oddest thing that threw me off the most was the English dub. Much like the people who created this anime probably did. Sasshi makes a crack about, “That’s just what I need,” and the episode comes to a close. They look across and see that the rainbow leads to a castle with dragons flying all around it. Suddenly the two kids are stranded on an island cliff with nothing but the rainbow door in front of them. They pause in front of a giant door with a rainbow leading out from it, and that’s when all the other flat buildings fall over. The kids run away, but all of the buildings in their town have become flat, like stage scenery. However (and here’s where things get psychedelic) as they talk about Arumi’s family moving, the people doing aerobics nearby are suddenly giant hopping mushrooms. That night Sasshi wakes up and sees a dragon flying across the moon, but when he tells Arumi about it the next day, she tells him that he must have been dreaming. After he goes to the hospital Arumi tells Sasshi that he’s finally agreed to move with the rest of the family and shut down the restaurant. Grandpa Masa goes out on the roof of the Pelican Grill and tries to shoo a sleeping cat off of the pelican statue sitting up there, but ends up falling and getting hurt. The kids spend the rest of the episode walking around Abenobashi and learning about its history, such as the four spirit animals who guard the place and the fact that Sasshi’s deceased grandmother and Arumi’s grandfather used to have crushes on each other.
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