Astro Fighter Sunred – Episodes 1 & 2

For what I think it is, Astro Fighter Sunred is pretty good. That being a late night comedy Flash (or equivalent) cartoon. It’s certainly stronger than the terrible Flash version of Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar that is somehow getting a motion picture. But it’s nowhere near the genius that is Gag Manga Biyori.

The central joke is that it’s a sentai show, where the hero and all his enemies are deadbeats living a pitiful existance. The supposed hero Sunred is a jerk who sponges of his girlfriend and wastes his days playing pachinko. General Vamp, leader of the Florsheim armies, tries to live out his side of he war between good and evil, but is thwarted by both Sunred’s reluctance to fight them and his own forces’ patheticness.

It’s fairly amusing. I didn’t find it rip roaringly funny, but it was a pleasant enough way to while away 15 minutes. It’s perhaps not quite madcap or crazed enough for my tastes, but it has promise.

A couple of notes:

In a bit of celebrity casting, Vamp and No.1 (the main one of the two generic soldiers in Florsheim’s armies) are played by Louis Yamada the 53rd and Tobiguchi-kun of the comedy duo “Renaissance”.

Secondly, the show has been available on niconico. From what I’ve seen, it appears to be following the BBC model of being available for 7 days after broadcast.