Tentacle-Free Anime: "Butt Attack Punisher Girl" (1994) Review
Man, guys, anime is weird. Butt I’m sure I didn’t have to tell you all that. 90’s OVA’s though really take the cake for absurdity. Knowing this, and being the bad storytelling masochist that I am, I too once in a while like to watch an anime understanding full well that it is going to be downright awful. So what’s the difference between this and other bad anime I’ve seen? If I know it’s bad, can it at least entertain me? Today, I focus on an anime just like that.
Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gautaman has to be one of the most uniquely-titled anime I’ve seen in a good long while. It’s pretty bad, butt it did succeed in entertaining me with pop culture references and satirical bashing to magical girl and shonen anime of the 80s and 90s. And to be frank, it was just a lot of fun. At 2 episodes long, 45 minutes apiece, Gautaman isn’t a big investment to your time and can be experienced in an afternoon, or evening, or morning, or even late at night. Basically whenever you feel like watching it.
Mari too is a girl who one can sympathize with. She doesn’t want to be Gautaman and often claims she’ll never be Gautaman again, only to be pulled back into the realm of super-heroing. And she’s a very nice character, who just wants to see everyone happy and wants to become a new Mother Theresa.
The villains are generally shallow and, aside from
Dark Vader, don’t generally please when it comes to putting up a fight against
our heroine. Although there is at one point a “beauty” pageant put on by the
Black Buddha where girls are forced to see if their butts fit a butt print left
by Gautaman, to weed out her identity. That was pretty fun to watch.
The second episode, Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gautaman R is the more risqué of the two; featuring borderline tentacle-hentai and pro-lesbian scenes between some of our main cast. If you’re into that sort of stuff, there you go. The thing to remember when it comes to Gautaman is to never take it seriously, or you’ll find yourself way too infuriated for your own good. Just enjoy it for what it is, and realize that there are still hundreds of anime out there that are still better. I will say though, for its lack of any proper depth of a story, a lot does happen in each episode. At least 3 or 4 fights against different enemies to round out the time, so that you’re never actually bored; though the times I saw Buddha himself showing up to give exposition (though the show did poke fun at that detail) I did find myself groaning more than I should’ve. Butt Attack Punisher Girl is not a show for everyone. You watch it because of its title and because of what little you may’ve heard about it. Could a lot more story have been put into this than the shallow strip of a sumo belt unraveling that it was? Sure. You know I love complex, thought out, all-encompassing stories. Butt at the same time there are times when I just want to laugh; even if it’s stupid, even if it’s not meant to be taken seriously, especially if it’s not meant to be taken seriously. I want to be entertained just like everyone else does. Say what you will about the awful, the absurd, and the putrid way Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gautaman represents everything generally conceived as bad by the general public who can’t see past their pre-conceived notion that all anime is too kid-friendly or simple animated porn, butt at least it did what I hoped it would. It entertained me. And I already knew I was never going to get anymore out of it than that. Final Score: 1 Guataman Punch out of 5 Have you seen "Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gautaman"? How did you enjoy the movie and the review? |
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