Friday, May 1, 2009

Weird Tokusatsu: Super God Neiger

[All traces of Chojin/Super God Neiger have been wiped from YouTube completely. I can't say why. However, I now know where the Neiger homepage is! Of course, it's in Japanese. That's what Google Translate is for, though.]

I've never embedded a playlist before, but here we go.


That's pretty slick, actually.

Super God Neiger is probably the single weirdest tokusatsu series I've encountered. It does more blatant product placement than the live action Transformers movie. Yes, that's actually possible.

It's also very formulaic, cartoony, and... food-related.

The main character seems to ride a fish motorcycle. There's a fish villain. And there are something like half a dozen different unrelated fish guns.

Fishy.

Okay, that's bad. But the series is basically made of crack, so if you like watching cracky stuff, well, you'll probably enjoy it. (They also chose some very toned actors [and one toned actress], so if that appeals to you, there you go. We never see their faces, though.)

Be warned, though, one of the "grunt" henchmen, the one with the black and purple boxers, keeps losing them. The boxers, I mean.

Yeah.

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