Back Street Girls: Gokudolls

This anime series is funny and interesting, it is certainly not for everyone and especially not for kids. Sometimes the jokes can be repetitive and boring, but what gets me is the reaction from the other characters. So watch the first few episodes if you like it then you gonna like the rest of the series, if not then you don't need to watch the rest.

This show is a hilarious satire of idol culture, but still gets you invested in its characters. I was rooting for the GOKUDOLS throughout watching, in addition to their rivals. The intersection of idols and yakuza was an entertaining and fun mix. Great timekiller, and a funny, quick series to watch.

Basically the story is about 3 mafia men being transformed into Barbie doll idols by their psycho boss and have to live through it. However that didn't help me be interested in watching it further. I like the Gender bending genre but this one unfortunately is part of the bad ones I've watched and it's really struggling to be funny so Imma gonna avoid watching the other 9 episodes for sure...

The premise is simple. Three Yakuza underlings failed once too often and are given a choice, have their organs harvested and sold OR get a sex change and become idols.

If the image of a tough gangster yakuza shaking his tosh and singing "love love bu-nny!" isn't funny to you then something is just wrong.

The jokes are fun and so over the top that you just can't help laughing at the character's suffering. As season one progresses it gets even more absurd and ridiculous.

The one issue with it is the ending. The season doesn't end so much as suddenly stops. I do recommend watching it in the original language (japanese) with subtitles as the dubbed voices don't always land the delivery.

Biggest problem with this show is the animation. A lot of anime tends to have more stilted animation, but every frame looks really good. This show however seems to take that to a bit of an extreme, where you rarely see any movement in any of the shots other than their mouths or with an effect put on the screen, effectively looking a bit more like a slide show rather than an anime. I think there are at most 5 shots throughout season 1 that didn't do this. However, for how relatively lackluster and uncanny the animation is, they didn't slack off on the writing. The characters all play off eachother really well, leading to some funny and genuine moments between them, and the premise is very interesting. For what it lacks in visual flair, it makes up for in good writing and still manages to be entertaining despite that flaw.