magical shopping arcade abenobashi tropes

#Magical shopping arcade abenobashi tropes series#

I actually think Sasshi does overcome his internal conflict when he stops sulking long enough to want to help solve these other problems.

Sasshi didn't cause all the problems - Mune and Eutus's unhappiness is caused by their multiple-incarnation love triangle, and Masa-ji's accident is just horrible coincidence.

Instead of making Sasshi overcome his internal conflict, the ending just lets him run away again. He's afraid of losing people (death, moving away), even though that's part of life and happens all the time. All the problems are caused by Sasshi himself.

#Magical shopping arcade abenobashi tropes series#

'No matter how bad things seem, they can be changed.' That would be a great aesop for a series set in a Crapsack World, which this isn't.In these days, that seems like a much better Aesop to state things that were impossible last decade are increasingly becoming possible. They dropped an Aesop about having to accept reality as it is, in favor of one that says that no matter how bad things seem, they can be changed that even if time itself is against you, that's no reason to give up.And they missed a great chance to have Sasshi quote Shinji.

Still doesn't answer the question of why they decided to tack that on.The concluding world is an 'edit' of the first that he made to preserve the happiness he'd originally found there, the threatened loss of which prompted his unconscious flight across alternate realities with Arumi. Sasshi is an avatar of an even greater Onmyodo master than Eutus, and he is actually responsible for all the weirdness: the original 'real' world is in fact one he made for himself to dream another life in, and just as Arumi accuses, he's responsible for every change.

I was especially annoyed by how all dialogue between Sashi and Arumi in the 2nd half just kept degrading into Cannot Spit It Out. It's another failed attempt by Gainax to spit on logic and conventions.Why? Just who is Sasshi, anyway? Talk about a Gainax Ending. By the end, not only is Arumi apparently not moving and Masa-jii's alive, but Mune-Mune's still around and young. What the hell happened in the last episode? It seemed like it was on its way to a decent Bittersweet Ending and Aesop about not running from reality.