Akiba's Trip The Animation

Otaku siblings Tamotsu and Niwaka Denkigai are shopping in Akihabara when it is overrun by vampiric cosplaying monsters! These creatures, known as "Bugged Ones," can possess anyone they bite and soon they begin causing mayhem across the city. As Tamotsu finds himself at the mercy of one of these creatures, he is rescued by the mysterious baseball bat-wielding Matome Mayonaka. Together, they fight through several more encounters with the Bugged Ones, but before long, Tamotsu is fatally wounded protecting Matome. With no other choice, she revives him as a high level Bugged One—just like her!

Tamotsu and Matome, along with excitable otaku cosplayer Arisa Ahokainen, make up the group "The Electric Mayonnaise" and they begin dispatching the Bugged Ones in the only way they know how: by ripping off their clothes and exposing them to sunlight!

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Mayonaka, Matome Main

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Denkigai, Tamotsu Main

Ishiya, Haruki Japanese

Ahokainen, Arisa Main

Nagaku, Yuki Japanese

Denkigai, Niwaka Main

Kouno, Marika Japanese

Ratu, Tasujin Supporting

Kuno, Misaki Japanese

Mayonaka, Urame Supporting

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Kage-san Supporting

Nakata, Jouji Japanese

Matsuko Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Tenkawa, Taiyou Supporting

Hatano, Wataru Japanese

Mashiro, Kuga Supporting

Hashimoto, Chinami Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Naya, Ryousuke Producer

Kaneko, Hirotaka Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

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Dec 24, 2024

The_Blue_Lotus

Recommended

This anime thought me not to judge a book by its cover.

I let myself be swayed away by the negative reviews and the low user score and actually started watching this show with super low expectations of what I was going to see. Little did I know, Akiba's Trip The Animation would rapidly spiral into one of my favorites animes of all time (okay, maybe not, but it's still pretty great, none the less).

For starters, one must know that Akiba's Trip The Animation is, at is name implies, the anime adaptation of a mobile game who came out originally around 2012 or so. Rather to ... make this show a glorified commercial for the game it originally comes from, like many other animes would have chosen to do, Akiba's Trip The Animation delivers us with a unique (albeit chaotic, at times) story-line of eccentrically amazing characters who never get boring to watch. Making this series entertaining to watch even for someone who hasn't played the original IP this comes from, such as myself, in this case.

This show is also weirdly international, if you think about it. I don't even think I have seen so many black people as backround characters as in this series, I get the creators tried to go for the "famous and international" look for Akiba with a lot of foreigners present and so on, but still. One of the main members of the cast is a half-Finnish half-Japanese girl and there's even an Indian loli. Yep, you heard me right, there´s a loli character that's legit from India. Have you ever seen an Indian loli in anime before? I think not. You should watch the show just for that, lol.

The music on this show is pretty fire, all things considered. That aspect surprised me a lot the first time I encountered with it, since I didn't expect such dope music in a series like this one. The OP is pretty well done and you can feel who the person who composed it really has talent for what he does. But the glazing on the cake, as people would say, of this show, are the beautiful renditions of Chopin's Clair de Lune, Ode to Joy, and other well known classical masterpieces in a modern Japanese-idol-pop style who are just delightful to hear, in my opinion. They no doubt will be added to my anime soundtrack playlist as soon as I have the time to do so.

If, for some reason, everything I have said above haven´t convinced you this masterpiece of a show yet, take this a sign to do it now, you will not regret it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Apr 26, 2021

NoNameLegend

Mixed Feelings

Akiba's Trip The Animation:
was pretty fun to watch, Despite the fact that
I think the creators were drunk when creating this series
"Akiba's Trip The Animation" Is based on a game called "Akiba's Trip"
Its an Action-Adventure Video game
where the character must strip of their enemies clothes to defeat them
Its playable on PC, PSV, PS3, and PS4
but I just don't think the anime is just for me
other's will have a different opinion
The sounds was great
... the art style was fine
I didn't really Enjoy the story
But I enjoyed the strip of the clothes of their enemies
The characters was Fine but I think they could've make it better
I Can't really say anymore cause of spoilers so yeah

So for Overall I think its only fair to give it 6.3

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 26, 2023

RESOLVING_POWER

Not Recommended

I watched Akiba's Trip. Here are my thoughts:

The plot is mostly episodic monster-of-the-week stuff that is consistently boring and idiotic. Basically, there are bad guys in Akibahara, and the only way to fight them is to strip off their clothes (hence the title of the show). It's as moronic as it sounds, and it stops being funny after about 5 minutes, yet entire scenes are devoted to it, usually multiple times per episode. The fight scenes are boring as hell and drag on way too long. This show overall is frankly just completely retarded, and not in an endearing way either, at least not enough ... for 13 episodes. My average level of enjoyment while watching was quite low, but every so often there'd be some relatable nerd reference that I'd chuckle at, which is why I didn't drop it.

The art style is somewhat cartoonish and has a strongly saturated colour palette. The animation is simplistic with quality adequate at best. It feels pretty low budget overall. The character designs are also cartoonish; I don't like them aesthetically, but they do kinda fit the theme of the show. Their simplicity made them easy to animate as well, which I guess was beneficial for the action scenes. The characters' personalities are generic and simplistic, as well as annoying in some cases.

As for audio, the OP song is pretty good and has nice peppy vocals. However, the cartoonish OST itself sounds low budget and is sometimes abrasive. The voice acting is also consistently awful. In fact multiple voices in the cast made me want to shove toothpicks into my ears they were so annoying.

Akiba's Trip has quite an authentic otaku-culture theme. The only reason I stuck with this anime was for the truly genuine otaku-culture flavour. Literally nothing else about it was entertaining. These otaku-culture references are diverse too; for example, there are allusions to milsim hobbies, audiophile culture, idol fandom, amateur radio, and PC building. They even have a Yugioh/MTG parody episode, which contains some hilarious moments. I also got the feeling there were obscure references to Japanese Akiba-related pop culture that I probably didn't fully catch.

Aside from the authentic cultural flavour, this show is seriously awful. The only reason you should consider watching it is if a strong otaku-culture theme appeals to you. Even then, I wouldn't recommend wasting your time on this. What I'm writing here may sound appealing, but I really can't overstate how underwhelming this show is in reality. Also, the last couple episodes are filled with groan-inducing forced drama that was painful to sit through.


My overall rating: 3/10
This anime is exasperatingly retarded and often boring as hell (especially the fight scenes). However, it does have an authentic otaku-culture flavour and relatable nerdy references. Akiba's Trip feels like a passion project done poorly.

Seriously, this show is total brainrot material and to be honest I was only able to tolerate it whilst stoned out of my mind.

Lastly, apparently there is a game related to this – for the record, I have never played it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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	Does the anime follow the story of the games? ShadowMonkey - Feb 12, 2017	3 replies	by mechian »» Dec 25, 2023 11:10 PM
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