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“Arcana Famiglia boys body-swap after drinking Jolly's potion, learning empathy while struggling to reverse it.”
La storia della Arcana Famiglia OVA
アルカナ・ファミリア Capriccio – stile Arcana Famiglia 奇想曲～アルカナ・ファミリア風
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6,168 rank · 23,872 viewers · 17 favorites
Fantasy
Romance
Reverse Harem
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Synopsis
Arcana Famiglia boys body-swap after drinking Jolly's potion, learning empathy while struggling to reverse it.
After toiling away in his lab, the alchemist Jolly has finally succeeded in making a personality-swapping potion that is guaranteed to bring him entertainment. The boys of the Arcana Famiglia are tricked into taking the potion and find themselves in bodies that are not their own. With this successful experiment, Jolly has paved the way for a plethora of uncomfortable scenarios. However, despite the boys' desperate struggle to switch themselves back, there is something to be learned from spending the day in someone else's shoes.
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
8.5
/10
What 2 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8.5
mode 7
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.50
Running avg · Jan 2014 → Feb 2014
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Gotta say that I was surprised of this OVA episode, being the anime not that good I expected this to be even worse. But, I was wrong. The story wasn't that original: people swapping their body by...”
- 7 “Those who watched the Arcana Famiglia series will remember what became of it. The show did not follow its first episode's interesting premise but got full of "filler" episodes instead. If not...”
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- Format 1 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 23m all episodes
- Aired Mar 2013 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-7236 catalog
Produced by
- Frontier Works Producer
- Movic Producer
- Warner Bros. Japan Producer
- Showgate Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor