Back Street Girls: Gokudolls (Back Street Girls: Gokudols)

After failing their boss for the last time, yakuza members Kentarou, Ryou, and Kazuhiko are faced with one of two choices: have their organs harvested and sold or take a trip to Thailand for sex reassignment surgery and become pop idols. Now, after a year of excruciating training, the three thugs have been reborn as Airi, Chika, and Mari. Debuting as the amateur idol group The Goku Dolls, the three strive towards becoming top idols.

However, despite the hours of feminizing brainwashing they were forced to endure, the three idols have managed to keep the yakuza spirit alive in their hearts. In order to fix this, their yakuza boss hires Mandarin Kinoshita, a legendary manager who has never had an idol group fail under his management. With their lives now on the line, the reluctant yakuza must work with their new manager to unleash their inner cuteness and become the successful idols that their tyrannical boss can truly be proud of.

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Tachibana, Mari

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Maeda, Kaori
Japanese

Yamamoto, Airi

Main

Nukui, Yuka
Japanese

Sugihara, Chika

Main

Akao, Hikaru
Japanese

Inugane, Kimanjirou

Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji
Japanese

Rina

Supporting

Takahashi, Minami
Japanese

Kinoshita, Mandarin

Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi
Japanese

Yamakoshi, Oil Shock

Supporting

Takagi, Wataru
Japanese

Mizoguchi, Karin

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Kayano, Ai
Japanese

Nakamura, Yui

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Oguroda, Tooru

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Aoyama, Yutaka
Japanese

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Matsuo, Kousuke

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Kon, Chiaki

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Aketagawa, Jin

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Yamakawa, Susumu

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	1: "Gokudoll Music (ゴクドルミュージック)" by Gokudolls Niji Gumi (ゴクドルズ虹組) [Airi (Yuka Nukui), Mari (Kaori Maeda), Rika (Hika Akao)] (eps 1-6, 8-10)
	2: "Gokudoll Music (ゴクドルミュージック)" by Gokudolls Kan Gumi (ゴクドルズ漢組) [ Kentarou Yamamoto (Daisuke Ono), Ryou Tachibana (Satoshi Hino), Kazuhiko Sugiwara (Kazuyuki Okitsu)] (eps 7)

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	1: "Hoshi no Katachi (星のかたち)" by Gokudolls Niji Gumi (ゴクドルズ虹組) [Airi (Yuka Nukui), Mari (Kaori Maeda), Rika (Hika Akao)] (eps 1-6, 8-10)
	2: "Hoshi no Katachi (星のかたち)" by Gokudolls Kan Gumi (ゴクドルズ漢組) [ Kentarou Yamamoto (Daisuke Ono), Ryou Tachibana (Satoshi Hino), Kazuhiko Sugiwara (Kazuyuki Okitsu)] (eps 7)

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Oct 6, 2018

Injenss

Recommended

This anime is critically underrated. Perhaps it's just my twisted sense of humor, but this was a classic for me. It goes right along in the same vein as anime like Prison School, Detroit Metal City and Magical With Punie Chan. It's hilarious torture comedy. I do understand that the weirdness of it will turn off many, since the plot surrounds manly Yakuza being turned into idols under threat of death, but people should really give it a chance, because it is hilarious.

Another thing that probably turns people off is the poor animation style, which even I didn't think ...

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Sep 15, 2018

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Remember Mahou Shoujo Ore from last season? Back Street Girls: Gokudolls is pretty much the same formula, only that if it ever existed in the face of the Yakuza.

The story starts with the main Gokudolls Kan, the 3 men (Ryu, Kazu, Big Bro) who have disobeyed their boss, Inugane-sensei, and from his mouth he demands that the Kan are forced go to Thailand for a sex change, transform their lives to be Gokudolls Niji! Oh dear God, that one hell of a chance taken to be idols-cum-yakuza in disguise taken well. As a certain someone phrased it that if this method exists in the East, ... but things are different in the West, it's true.

How this series of events turned into the next...I have absolutely no idea, credits to mangaka Jasmine Gyuh that this series stands out due to things that Japan is still considering every idea that the West would throw out in a jiffy. The story afterwards is a faithful adaptation of the manga: over-the-top and overboard characters in relation to the 3 sex-changed men. Aside from all this, the other characters are an eyesore, especially the fans of the Gokudolls, drooling and spitting their faces all over the idols, of which the girls (ahem, sorry, Yakuza men) try to scrutinize their situations to impress everyone around. And get this, even Inugane-sensei is NOT spared from his divorced wife's Natsuko's ideals, trying all sorts of ways to bring down the Gokudolls...and he immediately becomes a pet in front of her (while claiming he still loves her and whatnot). My impressions? A lot of wackiness and the usual chuckles of vulgarities hurled, but nothing more.

The art and animation...oh good God are they awful: Still shots and lots of shouting commentaries and such everywhere, but that's what the manga did with the aesthetics and I'm still glad that J.C.Staff has director Chiaki Kon aboard to sorta test-bench this series around, and indeed it is controversial. Not her best directed series, but it's passable, I guess? Nonetheless, both aesthetics here are really an acquired taste, so it's either you love or hate it to the grave.

The OST is the only good thing about this series, as it sounds appropriate for the series. I'm not just talking about the stellar presentation of the OP and the idolish feel of the ED, but the songs made by the Gokudolls, courtesy of Inugane-sensei, as is strange as it comes, but it's meh. Whether that sounds good or bad to you is up to your tastes.

One thing to clarify though: Do you realize MAL's tags of Ecchi, comedy and Seinen? The fanservice is over-the-top too, not giving a care about the surroundings, and that might be the only thing I do like about this series. The comedy is a mixed bag though, like it is there for filler.

So, this thirst-inducing series that features idols, transgenders with the Yakuza twist, as unique as it is (I applaud for the producers' experimental trying), it is chock-full of clichés that exists as the main selling point of the show, so if clichés are your thing, try this show out.

To everyone else, please skip this atrocity of a show. This is one of those polarizing shows where the "there will be lovers, there will be haters" argument will forever last. To end this, I'll gladly send off my soul for a sex-change and come back different.

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Apr 6, 2021

Winterwolf0839

Not Recommended

Ah yes the idol anime genre. For years it's given us many enjoyable shows such as all three entires of the Love Live franchise, Bang Dream, D4DJ, Revue Starlight and Zombieland Saga. So what happens when three members of the yazuka become idols? Well you wouldn't want to know, because Backstreet Girls: Gokudolls is complete and utter transphobic garbage!

The premise has already been stated, but I'll restate it since so it's fresh in your mind: three yazuka get surgery to become idols because they let down their boss. Throughout this show there are only two jokes, the first one being that all of the ... girls in this anime are actually men because isn't transphobia just the funniest thing in the world? There's one scene where one of the girls is with someone who she knew before transitioning and he tells her that she'll always be a man to him and she THANKS him for it in earnest. Then in another scene later on in the show one of the executives drops a girl off when he realizes he can use teenagers instead. He says, and I shit you not, "Though they made you look pretty through surgery you'll never be as pretty as a real girl." I shouldn't have to explain why that's a disgusting statement to make, and what's worse is that is played for comedy. This show attacks a marlizinated group for the sake of a punchline and it's not even remotely funny. Hell in the opening the faces of the men who the girls used to be are plastered on their new bodies. Again, very funny. Hating on trans people is SO funny isn't it? Laugh please!

But wait this show has another joke, and that's the fact that these cutesy idols are saying such crude things. At first, yeah seeing these girls say super inappropriate things was kinda funny but it got old fast. This show has a problem with repeating it's humor and using it to much to the point where it just ends up falling flat on its face. Instead of using it's comedy sparingly this show beats it's two jokes down to the ground with no room to breathe. Say whatever you want about something like Konosuba, at least that didn't only have two jokes and one of said jokes wasn't incredibly transphobic.

The "animation" if you can even call it that is as ugly as the show. There isn't even any animation, it's just a slideshow with some lip flaps moving, which is made worse by the fact that the art in said slides isn't even pleasant to look at. If this is the quality that Gokushufudou fans are getting for the upcoming anime I feel terrible for them. The voice acting (dubbed) is really good but that's to be expected from all three of the main actresses who all have very impressive resumes. The music is very forgettable and bland, and nothing to write home about.

All in all Back Street Girls: Gokudolls is a disgusting anime that fails both as a comedy and as an idol anime. If you want an idol anime that does things differently please go watch Zombieland Saga or Revue Starlight instead. Just watch anything but this.

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