Japanese Release - 07/04/2009
Translated Rerelease - 02/27/2017
Japanese Placement - 17th
Translated Placement - 4th
Length - Medium
Genre - Adventure
How to (Not) become allies of justice!
How to (Not) become allies of justice!
Two men find themselves rising through a world of darkness, destined to save it from the demonic forces terrorizing their world. HERO and WARRIOR, two hopeful men aspring to become allies of justice are branded and turned into terrorists be both the police and the media. Having robbed a elderly store owner of her weapons and goods with good intentions use them in their fight against the demonic forces, they find themselves being unable to use them.
HERO finds their situation similar to what their fellow heroes had to go through before becoming allies of justice, WARRIOR is not having any of the bad press. But then a great idea springs out of HERO's head, in order for them to be seen as heroes in the eyes of the public, they must have a symbol of hope and something the public must idolize like Joan of Arc of France.
Their attempts of finding their symbol of hope is in utter disarray, their actions of obtaining such hope seen as an act of kidnapping and abduction. Further turning the public against them to the point everyone wants them gone. WARRIOR is not convinced one bit of HERO's planning one bit, one diaster after another.
But before they can redeem themselves in the eyes of the public, something horrible happens. The demonic forces stage a coup, usruping and killing their own leader in the process.
Then all of a sudden, the world pauses in time before WARIOR freaks out. The TV screen goes static as Keijirou is in utter disbelief of what he is witnessing with his own two eyes.
How to (Not) watch the screen!
How to (Not) watch the screen!
You are Keijirou Sakata the NEET, watching the adventures of two aspiring heroes ampty named HERO and WARRIOR becoming heroes. Watching their dreams to becoming heroes and allies of justice crumble before their very eyes for Keijirou has nothing better to do than be a prisoner at home.
With their story unraveling through the seams at every turn, can the aspiring heroes redeem themselves from their streak of villainy or will they forever be deemed terrorists?
Will Keijirou keep his eyes peeled on the TV screen or will he grab the remote?
Can he even stop himself from skipping parts of the movie?!
Features
Features
- The misadventures of would-be heroes with totally original names
- Exact justice and become allies of justice
- Become an instrument of justice
- Become heroes of the modern era by any means
- A show within a show
- Generic RPG Mechanics
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The story
Oh man, this story is a huge riot at the start but it can never top the first half of Sexy Panties Knight. Just typing out that name is just enough for me to both laugh and cringe internally, do not worry - the names will just get worse.
You have two men with Exactly What It Says on the Tin names of HERO and WARRIOR. They basically proceed to act the exact ooposite of what their names says, turning their names into Ironic Names. Robbing a store and their owner a stockpile of weapons as they proceed to prepare for their fight with the demon/s. Attracting the attention of the police and souring their reputation with the public in the process. They make it even worse when they attempt to kidnap a girl in their attempt to find someone to rally the masses to their cause.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome hits them hard like a truck hitting Minsu Kim, their actions instead cause fear and resentment. Even WARRIOR calls out HERO for his terrible plans of redeeming their reputation. Due to their actions getting them plastered on TV for all to see, the leader of the demons and is taken out by their people out of nowhere.
Can't blame WARRIOR's reaction. All their lolly-gagging caused the media to pour all their attention of them while the real heroes swoop in for the killing blow behind the scenes.
Then the TV goes static and Keijirou is watching Royal Lolicon Quest, jabbing the name and questioning its intended target audience. Two more tropes to work out here, Show With in A Show and Title Drop.
He is forced to watch the movie/show because a supernatural being is forcing him to stay at home as a hostage. Boy decides that the stuff he's watching is too boring and presses the skip button quite a number of times. Skipping entire chapters to see where the story even goes - but you know, it is never a good idea to skip a portion when viewing something for the first time.
Keijirou is way too uninterested to even watch the whole story unfold, pre-maturely finishing... Royal Lolicon Quest, and then the credits reveal who created it, cue Breaking the Fourth Wall.
With the movie finished and his interest in staying indoor diminished, Keijirou goes outside to face the supernatural being who is keeping him hostage. Then ANOTHER static TV thingy happen. It's... anothershow within a show... within a show with Madison and her mother watching it. Madison goes outside to rent the next bit of Keijirou's story since her mother wants to see where it goes next.
But before she even can go to the store, a witch appears and tells her that Keijirou's show was cancelled and that she should go to a ball. Despite her protest, Madison agrees to go and the witch does a Cinderella transformation on her. She goes to the ball, gets married, and the witch forces her to pay up for her services - except Madison is forced into labor her entire life.
Oof..
The characters
There isn't really a protagonist in the truest sense of the word. What you have going on in this entry is that we have an Ensemble Cast, everyone that is important to the actual story gets screentime. I'll list the characters I deem important from the order they appear in to make things easier.
You've got the duo HERO and WARRIOR, two aspiring would-be heroes that want to become allies of justice and heroes of the modern era. HERO is basically the leader of the duo, the one running the show, and the man with the plan. Then you have his friend, WARRIOR, and he is... brutish and loud and just kind of follows HERO's lead. Their actions are far from heroic because all they do is resort to petty crime - and that turns the public against them in no time.
Keijirou, the protagonist of Lifesucker Erocula - but as you know, it's not the one we know. He's basically the Audience Surrogate up until he starts skipping the entire thing he's watching. Too bad his show got cancelled, huh?
Madison, the girl that HERO and WARRIOR attempted to kidnap in the movie that Keijirou was watching, while she was watching his show with her mother. She basically gets the Cinderella treatment with no happy ending in sight.
Overall
I'm abit iffy on this entry for a couple of reasons - hopefully the Mad Genius of Kawagoe doesn't hold this against me.
The story is disjointed, unorganized, and unfocused but I think it is due to the narrative and its plot being highly experimental. HERO's and WARRIOR's story were probably the only thing that was engaging to me until the plot twist was thrown in. You do not see any other entry use an Ensemble Cast nor the storytelling showcased in it ever again.
Then you have the characters... and well, only HERO and WARRIOR were interesting to me. Every other character were just not as fun as they were. It does not help that the duo basically stay in the narrative for the entire first half. While I think it was unintentional, they stole most of the screentime.