Remolay Reviews Random Shit/Shougeki

Before I begin I should state how I do TV Shows. I watch at least the first three episodes before before I make my judgement, Sometimes more if the introduction takes a bit longer. I have seen 5 episodes of Shougeki Gouraigan, as that's how long it took to introduce all of the protagonists

Shougeki Gouraigan is what can be best described as "A television program". It is a comedic Tokusatsu program for adults, so it can be assumed that things are going to be action packed and weirder than all hell. If you go in expecting this, you will not be disappointed.

The show begins by breaking the fourth wall, as the heroine of the story announces that this is exactly what she is. She has the ability to see monsters that are disguised as regular human beings. she then promptly gets run over by someone riding a regular bicycle as a motorbike, showing that this program isn't even going to ease in to the random

Meanwhile in space a monstrous alien named Gou plays some sort of chess game with his perpetually topless female holographic navigation computer. No, I'm not kidding. Yes, she's hot. No, it doesn't stop being weird. In fact, the amount of weird in her perpetual toplessness probably has something to do with the fact that out of 5 episodes she has not appeared in 3. I do not yet know how many more she appears in

Suddenly, something actually happens and Gou has to fight a bad guy who apparently used to be his friend or something? It wasn't incredibly clear. They both end up crashing to earth and taking on the forms of humans. Gou as a guy from a gym advertisement, and the bad guy as a suicidal business man.

This is where our heroine's power actually starts to be important, even though at the same time it's totally unimportant. She can see Gou for what he really is... unless she's on her period, which she happens to be on their first meeting. She's really just there to be the sane person. Can't be a zany gag TV show without the straight-woman. She's cute, but dull as toast to be honest. The protagonists don't even need her help to find anything as they can see right through disguises as well.

I suppose I should introduce the heroes, shouldn't I...

Hold your breath for this one...

their names are Shou Geki Gou Rai and Gan

Shougeki Gouraigan

Yep.

Gou is basically the incorruptible hero. His goal in the first five episodes is to find the other four so they can save the earth. They too are on earth because the bad guy, Jin, broke pretty much everyone out of prison or something like that

Rai is a womanizer and a drunk. And that's pretty much all there is to his character. He works with Gou after being defeated by him

Geki is a genius and apparently an incredible dancer. He kind of went bad by tinkering with machines to commit crimes for the hell of it. He joins Gou after his defeat.

Shou is a woman obsessed with beauty, and will take the beauty of anyone more beautiful than her and turn them into butterflies. She becomes Gou's mistress after her defeat, Which makes sense only if you watch the show.

finally, there is Gan who is set on "Absolute justice" believing all of the monster characters to be evil, even though most of them are simply harmless. He joins Gou after defeating him, making his case a very strange one

The special effects of Shougeki Gouraigan are top notch during battles, and the suits for the heroes are very well made. The monsters, however, have a very thrown together look to them. Judging by how much they clash with the hero costumes, this was most likely intentional.

There are two types of random humour in this world. Good random and bad random. Shougeki Gouraigan falls under the good random category. It's not random in that everything is a non-sequitur. You know, the haha I'm so random, bananas sort of way that we're all guilty of doing at some point. It seems random but it makes sense. If anything the heroine could stand to break the fourth wall less. A lot of the humour comes from the heroine's ability to see monsters and the teams inability to understand how humans actually work.

With all of this said, I give Shougeki Gouraigan a 4 out of 5.