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cabbit
08-02-2006, 10:10 AM
Need some help with a freelance article.

Anyone remember any anime series that had pachinko machines somewhere in there?

I think GTO and I'm not positive but I think either Boogiepop or Lain had a reference?

Any help would be appreciated.
treatment
08-02-2006, 10:29 AM
Maison Ikkoku.

This thread should be in General-Anime.
TnAdct1
08-02-2006, 12:03 PM
In the second half of Witch Hunter Robin, one of the characters goes to a pachinko parlour regularly as a place to get some information.
Njr Scrawl
08-02-2006, 12:56 PM
Possibly Midori Days. Ebichu has Mah-Jong (Ebichu cleans up)
leongsh
08-02-2006, 01:11 PM
I'll throw in one title for you - Ashita no Joe: the titular character, Joe Yabuki, occasionally frequents a pachinko parlour to win some groceries, either for sale or for consumption.
itsuka
08-02-2006, 01:42 PM
Salaryman Kintaro has scenes that play at a Pachinko parlor.

I'm not entirely sure about GokuSen and Yu Yu Hakusho. GokuSen features at least a pachinko ball being thrown in the first episode... and I remember some students wanting to get into a parlor, but being under age. That could have been either anime, or maybe another one I can't remember right now.
Dave_Evans
08-02-2006, 02:07 PM
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cabbit said:
I think GTO and I'm not positive but I think either Boogiepop or Lain had a reference?


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GTO did indeed have a pachinko reference in episode 30 or 31 (I believe) when he attempts to swindle the parlor by using a magnet. He of course does this in an attempt to be able to pay for the trip to Okinawa.
Dave_Evans
08-02-2006, 02:09 PM
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Itsuka said:
I'm not entirely sure about GokuSen and Yu Yu Hakusho.

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Yu Yu Hakusho did (at least in the manga) as that is where Yusuke hangs out when he returns to his body while still dead around chapter 9 or so. This scene was cut out of the anime though.
meryl
08-02-2006, 04:10 PM
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Dave_Evans said:
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Itsuka said:
I'm not entirely sure about GokuSen and Yu Yu Hakusho.

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Yu Yu Hakusho did (at least in the manga) as that is where Yusuke hangs out when he returns to his body while still dead around chapter 9 or so. This scene was cut out of the anime though.

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I think there's a later episode during the Sensui arc when Yusuke gets mad at the others and goes off to a Pachinko parlor to unwind.
Kyhn 666
08-02-2006, 04:49 PM
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TnAdct1 said:
In the second half of Witch Hunter Robin, one of the characters goes to a pachinko parlour regularly as a place to get some information.

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I was about to mention WHR myself. It was Nagira (sp?) who went to the pachinko parlor. His secretary bugged him unmercifully about it, among other things.
Puppet Master
08-02-2006, 05:57 PM
Cromartie High School had pachino machines in one episode.
DocWatson
08-03-2006, 12:26 AM
Episode 1 of Invasion of the Booby Snatchers (a hentai series) featured a (non-sex) scene in a pachinko parlor, which did a good job at showing the general feel (how to win, the accumulation of balls, and the implied exchange of the prizes for money at a location separate from the pachinko parlor); see chapter 4, 0:13–1:16 (whole time: 11:18–12:23) of the Kitty Media release. Also, in episode 21 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (http://www.tv.com/ghost-in-the-shell-stand-alone-complex/c--left-behind-trace-eraser/episode/316680/recap.html) features a scene of "Pachinko Parlor Ishikawa". This also appears briefly in an earlier episode, though I do not recall which one.