Childhood friends Arumi and Sasshi are residents of the failing Abenobashi commercial district in the Abeno Ward of Osaka. After an accident, they find themselves transported to an alternate sword and sorcery world. Their attempt to get back to reality finds them traversing a series of nonsensical worlds as they chase a variety of “goblins”. Each alternate Abenobashi is a surreal manifestation of Sasshi’s otaku interests, populated by analogs of the protagonist’s relatives and acquaintances and a blue-haired stranger known as Eutus.

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The easiest locations to identify were those found in the OP (Tsutenkaku, Tennokojiekimae Station) and the ED (Osaka Castle, Kuidaore Taro). The shrines visited by the cast were easy to identify since they stand out from other nearby shrines in terms of architecture, and Seimei Shrine is name-dropped directly. Yudokoro Abenobashi is the closest thing to a bathhouse you will find in the neighborhood in the modern day.

The pentacle motif all over the show was clearly inspired directly by the use of the symbol at Seimei Shrine. The shrine, which was constructed in honor of Abe no Seimei (from where the district gets its name) uses the pentacle because it served as the mystic’s familial emblem, based on the Wuxing (five agents) of ancient Chinese metaphysics.