Introduction
Rito Sudou, Kotoko Watatsumugi, and Mari Shirako share the same dream: they want their creations to be loved around the world. By combining their different skills, the girls run a small apparel shop named Park in Harajuku. As their fame starts to spread, their lives seem to be going in the right direction.
However, their business becomes endangered when aliens dubbed as Scoopers show up on Earth. Due to their lack of creativity, the Scoopers travel around the universe to harvest inventions from other civilizations. As the creatures descend on Harajuku, a young girl named Misa Maruno appears. Claiming she has escaped from the aliens, Misa gives each of the girls a strange device called Amatsumara, which allows its user to create anything they imagine. With the world's artistic future at stake, Rito, Kotoko, and Mari must now defeat the Scoopers with all their imaginative abilities.
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Audience reviews
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Rose_Rich
The art is beautiful and the story concept is intriguing but the execution/writing/voice acting is lackluster and boring. If I could describe this anime in one word it would be: Loud. There is everything and nothing going on in this anime- too slow and too fast at times, horrible pacing issues. I wonder if a better format would be 5-10min episodes or perhaps a 3 episode ova because this anime is way too long for its own good. If you want to zone out or have some nonsensical brain/background noise (which sometimes I do and can apricate). Art is unique but everything else is cliche as it can be.
Goodness how long does this review need to be I have no idea the word count
Read at the sourceYemi_Hikari
For a show which preached so much about creativity, expectations certainly weren’t met.
In fact, I think one of the major issues with the show lies with the messages the show attempts preaching. While I can’t blame the show for having such messages having dug into the actual back story regarding this particular series, the fact remains the messages the show puts forth regarding creativity are unrealistic. There is an attempt towards the end to lampshade the messages, yet this ends up falling flat because of issues regarding the characters not to mention the plot.
Would three girls in high school be able to start their own pop-up store? Fundamentally, if the girls put in a lot of hard work AND their high school didn’t forbid having a job the answer is a resounding yes. At the beginning of…
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I wanted a simple, colorful anime to mindlessly watch during quarantine. And while this anime gave me that, it had more story to it than what I expected. The pacing can be a bit wonky at bits but things add up to create a nice story, even though at first it seemed like it would be a "one new enemy per episode" type of anime. It lost me at some parts but I enjoyed watching it overall.
Story: 6.
Some aliens come to the Earth in order to steal culture, and three friends try to stop them with the help of a mysterious girl. It manages to keep a certain structure to the episode (new enemy appears, girls defeat it, they eat something together) while advancing the plot at the same time, even though by the end of the series they stop using that structure.
It had a few plot twist and, while they d…
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If really nice art and cute (but ultimately boring, empty, and forgettable) characters can outweigh a story that lacks a sense of pacing and tone or feeling even I'd highly recommend this show. The problem that I have personally is that I feel like it was not very well thought out, no aspect of it, like they were just making it up as they went, a lot of things like characters with personalities or a general mood seem to be secondary to putting out something that LOOKS cute and fun, and it does LOOK great but it feels not so awesome. The art was really good, just that was really what kept me watching through the entire show, but it just falls short in so many areas, the characters were all bland and flawed in really predictable ways, I suppose they were relatable but I didn't really like or…
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Well I started watching Urahara because of the art style and animation and I had high hopes for it so I kept watching it.
Well honestly the anime didn't reach my expectations and you need to be really patient for the plot twist that occur throughout the series. It follows the normal trend about magic girl's anime and I recommend you to watch it if you enjoy those types of anime with moe design. The art and animations is pretty good and I found it unique from the anime I have watch, but the characters and story seem typical and I personally couldn't like the characters that much. It has some good points with the story and art design but I couldn't enjoy it that well.
Watch it if you like moe magical girls' anime but be patient because the story is slow.
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Read at the sourceNotAnElk
Urahara is dreadful.
It tries to trick you into liking it by having a unique style and plot twists but don't be fooled, Urahara has very little to it in the end.
Story: 3
The story in this show is nothing. Aliens called Scoopers come to earth and steal culture, because that's what they do, they have no culture so they steal it. It's worth noting that, in episode 1 the humans decide to call them Scoopers because of how they "scoop" up culture and that turns out to just be the actual name of the species. Anyway it takes place in Harajuku where three girls with a barebones ability to simulate human emotion are running a store called "Park." A little girl and sentient fried shrimp show up and give them these little things that look like truffles and they get magical girl transformation seq…
Read at the sourcePatchowli
Expressing yourself can be difficult. There is the chance that nobody will notice your expressions or the chance that somebody might be irritated by them. Everybody has a different experience, but these moments of self-expression allow one's creativity to come through. Even if you are inspired by others, the end product is something that is unique to you. In Urahara, the idea of creativity is explored through three girls in Harajuku.
The anime starts off with an episodic format where the PARK girls encounter Scoopers and then proceed to take them out by using the amatsumara – items that are the physical embodiment of imagination. In the beginning half of the anime, there is a slow buildup of the plot. There is no set direction as to where the story will go from here, and the audience is s…
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Creativity is EVERYTHING
Urahara is probably one of the most ambitious and experimental anime for Fall 2017 for LA with varying results.
Urahara focuses on Mari Shirako voiced by Sumire Uesaka an amateur actress and the owner of PARK, Rito Sudou voiced by Luna Haruna, the illustrator of PARK and Kotoko Watatsumugi voiced by Manaka Iwami an eccentric inventor who helps around PARK. Harajuku soon faces an alien invasion where these aliens named Scoopers loves to steal the "creativity" and thus the members of PARK by gaining some supernatural powers to defeat these Scoopers so that they can keep their PARK and defend Harajuku.
Urahara as an anime obviously has a pretty focused theme around creativity, with our main characters essentially being creators themselves with Scoopers wanting to s…
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Creativity is a weird thing, but why do we even make art? Is it simply the strive to be original and make something that doesn't exist? Is it a showcase of our talents? Is it something we do to make others happy? Maybe it's just a way of expressing ourselves. But one thing many artists have in common is their emotional connection to their work; the anxiety and self-doubt that comes when that thing you made didn't come as good as you hoped or when you spend a long time on something only for nobody to notice it, but also the sense of accomplishment and fulfilment when you make something you're really proud of. Maybe you're too hard on yourself and are never happy with your work, or maybe you just love creating regardless of what the end product comes out looking like.
Urahara felt to me lik…
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Note: This review contains minor spoilers.
Urahara is a highly entertaining joyride rich in craze and color. However, its inexperienced staff fails to blend its creative concepts in a cohesive fashion.
Set in Harajuku, the show does a great job at adopting the district’s zany culture. It celebrates art and creativity, both of which are sought after by the Scoopers - the alien invaders threatening to steal all of Earth’s culture and creativity. What initially seems like trivial tale of weekly mahou shoujo-esque monster-of-the-week turns out to be a commentary on what constitutes creativity and the relation of artist and popularity. The transition between the two may have been aptly foreshadowed, but still ends up feeling rushed and jarring; the second half puts a nice bow on the show as a…
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In the writing of this review, I noticed one big problem, spoilers. As you can probably guess from my rating of this show there is a whole lot going on here and there is so much more of it than what one would expect at first glance. The issue is, it’s hard to convey all of that without going into what happens later on. And so what I can do is tell you what I think this show does well, while sometimes the why will be somewhat obscured, I will do my best to convey what I can. The main thing that you should know is that Urahara manages to do a whole lot of amazing things.
One of the unique things about fiction is it’s ability to connect to people. There is something powerful about stories that not just remind us of our own lives but those that can add even more meaning to them, or present so…
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