Neon The Animation

Introduction

Promotional animated videos of Osaka's entertainment and shopping district, Nipponbashi (or colloquially known as Nippombashi) narrated by Nipponbashi's mascot Neon and her sister Hikari-chan. Nipponbashi is the equal of Tokyo's Akihabara.

Audience ratings

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SgtSalamander

Neon the Animation is a fascinating little set of quasi-commercials for Nipponbashi, Osaka's equivalent to Tokyo's Akihabara, a destination for electronics and hobby goods, which aired over the course of four years. there's not much to say of the story other than the episodes represent an interesting, engaging, and educational look into the city of Osaka, its culture, notable sites, and even how its culture is felt abroad. As for the art, it employs an interesting blend of animation and actual footage, resulting in a nostalgic and enjoyable project produced by the Osaka Animation College. Interesting divergences cover the city of Ximendeng in Taiwan, the Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, and the history of Nipponbashi itself as explored through historical archive photographs. The sound is unremark…

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Danmarnaque

Still no reviews for this so here I am ! So it's just basically a promotional anime for the nipponbashi district in Osaka, we follow Neon an anime girl mascot of this place who introduce the location to us while dealing with her sister's shenanigans. The story is just about promoting the district and doing commercials for a pc. And even with just that they fail to do it good, it would have been so much better if instead of 6 short episodes that present Nipponbashi in a very shallow way with things anyone could find by looking the wikipedia page, they made a long episode of like 30min with maybe more real footage where we would have the girls doing interviews of people working and living there. Now the animation... It's absolutely awful, it's very static and some shots seems to have been…