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

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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

Mashiro, Kuga

Supporting

Hashimoto, Chinami
Japanese

Tenkawa, Taiyou

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Hatano, Wataru
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Cook, Justin

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Naya, Ryousuke

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Kaneko, Hirotaka

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Isogai, Noritomo

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"Ikken Rakuchaku Goyoujin (一件落着ゴ用心)" by Earphones

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	1: "B Ambitious!" by YuiKaori (eps 1)
	2: "Rirai Mirai (リライミライ)" by MimimemeMimi (eps 2)
	3: "Sanki Tousen! (サンキトウセン!)" by Earphones (Rie Takahashi, Yuki Nagaku, Marika Kouno) (eps 3,11)
	4: "Sanki Tousen! (サンキトウセン!)" by Manias (Rie Takahashi, Yuki Nagaku, Marika Kouno) (eps 4)
	5: "Chou Hannou Girl (超反応ガール)" by AOP (eps 5)
	6: "Kokoro no Memory (心のメモリー)" by every♥ing! (eps 6)
	7: "Koi ni Shinzan! (恋に新参！)" by Shoko Nakagawa (eps 7)
	8: "Fighting☆Dramatic" by Milky Holmes (eps 8)
	9: "Sekai Jyuu no AKIHABARA de (セカイじゅうのAKIHABARAで)" by Momoi Haruko (eps 9)
	10: "Kuufuku Kara Yarinaose! (空腹からやりなおせ！)" by petit milady
	11: "DIVE TO LIVE" by i☆Ris

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Mar 29, 2017

13_Thieves

Recommended

Ah, Akihabara. Otaku center of the world. Filled to the brim with anime, manga, video games, computer goods, maid cafés, and vampires.

Akiba's Trip The Animation feels like a love letter to Akiba and every nerdy interest you can think of. Is it a masterful work of writing? No. Is it thought provoking? No. Is it enjoyable? I'd like to think so. Isn't that why we watch anime? To enjoy ourselves?

The premise is quite simple. Akiba has been overrun by vampires known as "Bugged Ones" and the only way to defeat them is to strip them of their clothes and expose them to sunlight. Depending ... on your tolerance for fan service there's your indication as to whether or not you should bother starting the show. However, for those coming in because they're thinking the show will have the same amount of fan service as Prison School for example, you'll be disappointed as the fan service is quite minimal considering the premise of the show.

The show's strongest asset in my eyes is how much heart it feels went into the show. As previously mentioned the show is a love letter to Akiba and every nerdy interest you can think of. Computers, card games, audiophiles, Street Fighter, wrestling, and more. Every episode is an affectionate parody of these subcultures and is both the show's biggest strength and weakness. If you're familiar with what they happen to be parodying that episode you will enjoy yourself immensely, but if not, you might feel like you're being left out of the joke. This results in each episode being quite hit or miss. Not every episode will be a hit, but when they are, my God do they hit.

This love and passion for these interests leads to a payoff when it comes to the show's comedy. The accuracy of the wrestling tropes. A person's descent into becoming an audiophile. How a card game looks for people who know what's going on vs people who don't know a thing about the game. They know what will make people who enjoy these interests laugh and they make good use of that knowledge. The show knows how stupid it is and revels in by going completely over the top whenever possible. It's not afraid to poke fun at itself either by occasionally referencing various characteristics of the show itself. It's all comedic gold.

The characters aren't particularly complex and developed, but would you expect anything different? That's not to say they’re walking tropes however. Tamotsu escapes being a bland nerd MC and Arisa shows off her loyalty when faced with an important decision. It's not much, but it's something. But frankly in a show like this the development and complexity of the characters isn't important. What is important however is how likable they are. The group is full of energy and enthusiasm when the times are good, and when push comes to shove they'll go out of their way to show how much they care about each other.

Could I talk about the art or the sound? Sure, probably. But frankly they're not remarkably good or bad enough to justifying writing about and I don't see a point in telling you something is completely average just for the sake of padding out the amount of words in this review.

For me Akiba's Trip has been the surprise of the season and was a complete joy to watch. The show knew what it wanted to achieve and passed with flying colours. It's goofy, it's fun, it's energetic, it's hilarious, it's Akiba's Trip.

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Mar 29, 2017

PyraXadon

Mixed Feelings

The beautiful thing about comedy is that it's subjective. It's an extremely wide topic where there're a multitude of ways to go about it, with the main goal being getting those watching or listening to laugh at the end. So, how does one go about making the ridiculous plot of stripping off peoples' clothes entertaining? Well, by shoving in references of course.

Story: Akihabara, the place of hopes and dreams is threatened by an unseen threat. Bugged ones, creatures who lurk in the dark, seek to take over the otaku capital and rule over it by their own laws and values. ...

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Feb 3, 2020

SamuraiOfStone

Not Recommended

Akiba's Trip is based "loosely" off of the video game series of the same name, as in it shares the same concept, but no characters, story, etc.

It's admittedly a train wreck. The characters are all extremely one note stereotypes, the story is messy and constantly throwing itself around in crazy places.

I don't understand who this was for. For the fans of the games, it was a letdown to have it bear hardly any resemblance at all.

For fresh viewers who hadn't heard of the game franchise prior, they should be disappointed by its shallow fanservice, constant misdirection, and mediocre characterization.

At least some of the visual ...

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