Kekkou Kamen

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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Kamen, Kekkou Main

Shinohara, Emi Japanese

Satan, Principal Toenail of Main

Yanami, Jouji Japanese

Takahashi, Mayumi Main

Andou, Arisa Japanese

Chigusa, Yuka Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Gestapoko Supporting

Komiya, Kazue Japanese

Shuwarutsu, Negatarou Supporting

Genda, Tesshou Japanese

Tanaka, Hanako Supporting

Kanai, Mika Japanese

Kyoshi, Ben Supporting

Hoshino, Mitsuaki Japanese

Mizutamari, Tsuyokarou Supporting

Yanada, Kiyoyuki Japanese

Yoshimoto, Kinji Director

Kondou, Nobuhiro Director

Iwanami, Yoshikazu Sound Director

Nagai, Go Executive Producer, Original Creator

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May 27, 2015

BirdBird

Recommended

"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 identified by her body and not her face, after all), as well as exclusively sexually exploiting female characters and not male ones (equality means I get to see some men sexually exploited, too!) -- although this is because the perverted principal is "not interested in the male students", in my opinion, the biggest perverts care not for gender and relish all bodies!

So while no men are punished, we do have a male character in episode 2 who IS sexualised, and this has to be the strongest moment of the anime -- when he uses his muscular body as a weapon to weaken/distract Kekko Kamen. The whole thing is bloody hilarious, and I recommend the show based on this episode alone! I also appreciated the character Yuka Chigusa not depending on Kekko Kamen to help her friend, Mayumi Takahashi, who's the main victim of the principal's punishments. Girl power, yeah!

My reaction to this show was very similar to the enjoyment the principal gets from punishing Mayumi Takahashi -- laughing gleefully at the absurdist humour and oggling at the big tits. If you find females being sexually compromised offensive, even in a humourous context, give this a pass (and maybe give all ecchi/hentai anime a pass, too).

"The crisis at the school is over for now. However, if the sales of this video are really good, she will return! For now, goodbye, Kekko Kamen. Thank you Kekko Kamen!"

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 7, 2022

giffica

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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 the satire, but obviously the medium of anime shifted overtime to enable a change in the presentation of the villains enabling them to take them more serious despite being far more outrageous. The android girl is also a soft spot for me as a Ghost in the Shell fan, and the striking resemblance to Masamune Shirow's other work, Black Magic's android is pretty clear. Even the nudity would seemingly match Shirow. It's honestly a shame these are one off characters, but this is par for the course with Japan in the late 80s, their talent and ideas were next level. The overall story direction is a lot more focused, doing a better job of telling the narrative than the manga, with better writing, cause sadly Nagai is a fairly weak writer, I feel. The actual "sexualization" tends to be the plot, unlike in the manga.

The music also adds to the overall vision that Nagai had for this manga, and it truly heightens the experience. Especailly if you are a fan of that late 80's/early 90's anime soundtrack, this anime is peak for that sound and it's as solid as it could get when it comes to sound design. The actual Kekkou Kamen anthem that was part of the plot in the manga is just seamlessly woven in, which doesn't stunt the story by forcing it to be more comedic, enabling it to stay serious. Not just the music either, but the voice actors are fantastic, especailly principal toenail, whose character truly begins to shine in the anime. If you like early 90's anime, then you will feel intense nostalgia listening to the sound design in this anime. I haven't looked into it, but I'm sure certain voice actors are even in some other major works. I really have to compliment whoever voiced Principal Toenail cause he's incredible. (Looked it up, it's Dragonball's Narrator LOLOL)

As an aside, weird as this sounds, feels like Food Wars got a significant amount from the climax scenes of this anime. The way battles are "won" is eerily similar, and it feels more so here than in the manga. It's possible, and likely, that the manga artist for Food Wars was exposed to Kekkou, and general Go Nagai at some point, as he is a hentai artist originally.

One thing of note is the attempt to actually play up the "battles" here, and give them more tension and style. In the manga, it's just bing bang kekkou hits em hard, but here there is a sort of played up interaction between parties that makes the pay off more interesting. The comedy is far superior, but could be due to the fact this is a team of staff who made this, ones that might be more comedy inclined than Nagai. The samurai taking hundreds of pictures is absurd and fairly hilarious. They actually clearly have a strong grasp on telling stories, and if not for the crude nature of the manga, this might actually be a seriously good anime, and something I would recommend to friends. This is close to a hidden gem.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 17, 2007

FireReaverX

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (2/4 eps)

Rampant nudity? Superheroes? Nazis? The Big Toenail of Satan? If any of this sounds exciting, then Kekko Kamen is likely the series you've been waiting your whole life to see.

Story

Absurd is the first thing that comes to mind. Don't be fooled into thinking of this as a bad thing though. Kekko Kamen is the type of series that works because of its absurdity. The humor is very well executed and makes the show into something worth watching. It is a bit of a one trick pony with each episode revolving around a different "Punishment Director" finding a way to strip students naked as punishment. ... However, the short length of the series doesn't allow for things to truly become tiresome and repetitive.

Art

If you've ever seen a Go Nagai show, you know what to expect in this department. Characters are attractively designed and backgrounds are sufficiently detailed. Great attention is paid to the abundance of naked bodies and nothing ever seems out of proportion. The animation quality may be a little below par, but it's nothing that makes you take notice of it as being particularly poor.

Sound

The background music is pretty generic and forgettable. Kekko Kamen's theme song is also rather bland musically, but the over-the-top hilarious lyrics make up for that. The same must also be said about the ending theme "Morodashi Heroine Kekko Kamen (Naked Heroine Kekko Kamen)." Brilliant writing. Sound effects are put to good use in battle as well as for comedic effect. As far as voice acting goes, the Japanese cast does a great job. Jokes are delivered well and in the case of certain characters, every sound made is side splitting. The dub actors change around a few too many lines, but overall they created a solid track as well.

Characters

Mayumi is the star here, but really doesn't have much personality aside from being a below-average student. Kekko Kamen is well done as the mysterious heroine. A naked superhero who delivers lines such as "nobody knows my face, but everybody knows my body" is hard to erase from your memories. The Principal Toenail of Satan. This guy is a master of perversion. The show is worth viewing for his involvement alone. Each episode's "Punishment Director" is also unique and I enjoyed watching them demonstrate their special techniques. There obviously isn't much character development to be found here, and if that is honestly what you're expecting from something like this...I don't know what to tell you.

Enjoyment

I found myself laughing out at loud at countless scenes especially when characters were using one of their ridiculous techniques (OPEN THIGHS JUMP!). The rewatch value on something like this probably isn't very high though.

Overall

While this OVA is by no means a masterpiece, it is definitely worth a look. Its short length of four 22-minute episodes will surely provide a fun and memorable diversion from your standard anime.

6.5 out of 10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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