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From the screen writer of Cowboy Bebop and Escaflowne: The movie
and animation director of Sakura Wars TV series. Fubuki is a girl
whose only goal in life is to be the best at arcade games. She’s
not much good at sports, but when it comes to arcades, Fubuki’s a
whiz with her special super-powers. When an evil organization
steals her powers to gain world domination, Fubuki’s dream of
wining the World Championship is in danger. She and her friends
must battle the wackiest bunch of villains ever in a quest to make
playing games fun again.
 Fubuki
is a young girl with big ambitions, wanting to be the best at
gaming no matter what the platform. Her best friend, Hanako
Kokobunji support keeps practicing to be the best at gaming. Her
inspiration to be the best was born in sadness, when her virtual
pet passed away, the gaming legend Arashi, gave her a means to
focus the universes gaming passion. When Fubuki is entered into
the World Championship of gaming she has to battle the best of the
regional tournament, before moving onto the national and World
Championships.
In order, to beat out her first challenge she must utilize her
passion to move on, her passion panties……..You heard it right, her
passion panties, the universes gaming passion is in the focus of a
pair of panties. With victory in the Japanese regional tournaments
assured, Fubuki is warned by the mysterious man Mr. Mystery, that
she doesn’t stand a chance against the rest of the nation unless
she practices and focus her skills. He offers a further warning
about the Gulasic group, an even more mysterious organization out
for gaming and even world domination.
Arcade gamer Fubuki continues in the further episodes with the
same line of whacky, sometimes nonsensical humor, and even wackier
characters, with often crazy and almost pointless plot twists.
DVD contains the following Episodes.
Fubuki’s Explosive Debut
– Fubuki’s must battle to become the best in Japan, but who is Mr.
Mystery and what is the Gulasic group. With the introduction of
Fubuki’s enemies and what are their intensions?
The Stolen Passion Panties
– With Fubuki’s lost the Chizuru disqualified, she must practice
for the official rematch looming. Fubuki and Hanako travel to
Hell’s river, they meet another wacky character, but who is Honey?
Is she as sweet or as her name implies or is she bitter.
Final Battle!!!! Dad’s the Overlord
– With the world championships now underway, the Gulasic group has
made their intensions known. What of Fubuki’s suspicious, is Mr.
Mystery her father or his he just another player in the game?
A Reunion that transcends time
– The leader of the of the Gulasic group has now made his presence
known, in attempt to act on his vengeance of on the worlds
technology. Will Fubuki and Mr. Mystery be able to beat the Leader
in his world of X? Or will they be defeated and worlds gaming
networks will fall to the hands of evil.
The animation for the series was amazing crisp clean. Every
character seemed to have unique level of detail to them. The
animation itself reminded me of a combination between Sakura wars
and Love Hina. The audio as well is just plain amazing, offered in
doubly digital 5.1, with English and Japanese. Other features of
the disc include Japanese with English subtitles.
 What
can one expect from the special features from Arcade Gamer Fubuki?
The special features in with the disc include, right from the main
menu, when you pop the disc in and it finally loads up, you’ve
given 2 options –Play movie or Debug mode – the debug mode leads
to the features section of the disc. The screen for the features
menu holds to an idea of gaming, with a “P1 / P2 Insert Coin” on
the top of the screen, everything about this page makes it feel
like you’re standing at an arcade machine.
Special features include an Art Gallery, trailer, TV spots,
Festival Promotion trailer and even a bonus episode. The Art
Gallery consists of various stills from the series, showing the
characters in various poses, with several theme songs of the
series playing over top of the images. The trailer for the series
is a standard trailer just to give the idea of what the viewer can
expect. The TV spots, are promotional clips that aired in Japan to
hype up the series, with a synopsis of what can be expected
dictated by the Japanese voice actress for Fubuki – Sakura Nogawa.
In total there are a 7 of there promotional clips 4 for the first
episode and the 3 for the 2nd episode. The Promotional
video is from the 2002 Emotion film festival. The video features
the opening song with a character introduction, and displays the
main characters “special attacks”. Last but not least the Bonus
episode, is an Arcade Gamer Fubuki – Special Story ~ Paradise
beyond the wall~ I won’t spoil you with too many details but the
story takes place gaming island with stalker Sanpeita, but I won’t
go into too much, I’ll save it for those that chose to buy the
DVD.
Overall, I don’t know how to think about this series. With the
questionable idea of the Passion Panties and the constant passion
shots, taken by the stalker Sanpeita. With that a side, it has an
interesting story with a good blend of characters and the
interaction between them. A funny story that just about everyone
can enjoy without taking it too serious. As I was jokingly saying
to my girlfriend, every time Fubuki used her powers, Man I feel
like I should be in jail, there’s something just wrong about that.
All an all, I’m glad to add this disk to my collection, something
fun to watch and get a few good laughs out of. |
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