AniWorthKekkou Kamen
Introduction
At the academy Miami Takashi attends, higher education has sunk to the lowest levels of depravity, with armed hall monitors, teachers who wear masks to hide their identities and special detention sessions in a torture chamber beneath the gym! It's a curriculum designed to chew up sweet young things, and poor Miami's been voted "Least Likely to Survive" in her class! Is there no hope? Can no one save her? Enter Kekko Kamen, the most outrageous superheroine ever! Clad in a red mask, red boots and nothing else, she is the supreme protector of innocents like Miami. Armed with her trusty nunchaku and a body that just won't quit, she'll make chopped pork out of the swine who run this school from hell! But who is she really? The only one who knows for sure is creator Go Nagai and he's not giving anything away... except lots of free peeks at Kekko Kamen's magnificent physique!
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.68/10 · 2472
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Audience reviews
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What It's About
Like its manga counterpart, the OVA centers on the Spartan Institute of Higher Education, a school run by a bizarre and sadistic faculty who dole out ludicrously humiliating and often sexually suggestive punishments to their students. Their primary target? The beautiful female students who fail to meet their academic standards. Hope arrives in the form of Kekko Kamen, a mysterious heroine who fights for justice (and modesty). Her costume, or lack thereof, is her most iconic feature: a red mask, red boots, and nothing else. She uses her martial arts skills, quick wit, and a healthy dose of nunchaku-based action to put the perverse teachers in their place.
Why It Stands Out
Faithful Adaptation: The 1991 OVA is renowned for its loyalty to Nagai's original vision. It perfect…
Read at the sourcegiffica
I gotta say, this is a serious improvement over Nagai's 70's work of the same name. While reusing almost every major detail and plot point from the original, the anime decides to turn it up to eleven by including overt references to Nazis, which heightens the satirization of Spartan institute, and the old Japanese hierarchy structures which are essentially nazi (fascist) in nature/origin. The addition of the S&M nazi chick is fairly great, as well as giving teachers more "character" to them, making them their own 'anime characters' in a sense. Mr Shuwarutsu has more personality than any villain in the manga, and actually provides a sort of combat foil to Kekkou Kamen, being his own "physically attractive" powers. In the manga, the teachers are intentionally left sort of generic, to play up…
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"Nobody knows my face, but everybody knows my body. I am the messenger of justice, sent by God to this school of perversion! My name is Kekko... Kekko Kamen! I hide my face but expose all else."
While this wasn't the women-empowering, albeit perverted, superhero romp I'd hoped it'd be, it was still a perverted superhero romp with lots of female characters to enjoy (and not just for their bodies), and that's good enough for me!
I'm not going into a full-blown feminist critique of this show because hell, I'm not getting paid to do it, and few would probably read it. Suffice to say, you can view 'Kekko Kamen' as a satire of oversexualised female superheroes set in a trashy universe, or you can see it as yet another text making a woman's body her main character trait (Kekko Kamen is identifi…
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