Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi - DVD

Closed, opens at noonIndependent shop in University DistrictDirections

Available from HiFi LoFi when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Sasshi and Arumi are two twelve-year-old childhood friends growing up in Osaka's traditional Abenobashi commercial district. As urban re-development threatens to tear down the historic storefronts, Arumi's family prepares to move across the country to Hokkaido. Just as the two come to terms with their impending separation, a freak accident involving the district's sacred guardian statues shatters the boundaries of reality. Sasshi and Arumi are instantly catapulted into a mind-bending multiverse