7.024 minSeason 1 • Episode 13
LatestArumi and Sasshi have finally made there way home. But Arumi's grandfather will still be dead. Sasshi refuses to let that happen, so he jumps again into another world. But in the end he cannot dream away reality.
Two kids whose families own businesses in a shopping arcade that's scheduled to shut down are thrown into a series of dimensions, each one a parody of some form of anime or video game, and try to find their way home.
Direction
Yamaga weaponizes every anime genre in 22-minute grenades.
Writing
Parody so dense it accidentally becomes profound by episode 12.
Production
Gainax at peak unhinged — visually reinvented every single episode.
Tomo Saeki
Satoshi Imamiya (voice)
Yuki Matsuoka
Arumi Asahina (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Eutus (voice)
Takeshi Aono
Masayuki Asahina (voice)
Aya Hisakawa
Mune-Mune (voice)
Koji Ishii
Ms. Aki (voice)
Akemi Okamura
Sayaka Imamiya (voice)
Katsuyuki Konishi
Kouhei (voice)
Naoki Tatsuta
Arata Imamiya (voice)
Takeshi Watabe
Tarou Imamiya (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
Tetsu Asahina (voice)
Mami Kingetsu
Ayako Asahina (voice)
Junko Noda
Gin Yamamoto (voice)
Tomoko Naka
Mune's Mother (voice)
Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi
Banker Kashiwagi (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Episode directors included future legends like Hideaki Anno and Shinji Aramaki, each given free rein to parody their own specialties.
The shopping arcade itself was modeled on a real Osaka district being demolished for redevelopment; the entire series is essentially a love letter to dying community spaces disguised as nonsense.
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