Gekkan Mousou Kagaku

Delusional Monthly Magazine - "Mo~~~ Over Scientific!" Yeah, you've just knocked yourself off that one.

Created by Ichigo Umatani, Gekkan Mousou Kagaku a.k.a Delusional Monthly Magazine is like a nostalgic trip back to your usual 2000s Weekend Morning cartoons being made for kids who don't care about the plot, they just want to see adventure and justice being served to the evil party. That's it, that's the plot.

Think of this show like Dora the Explorer, or in game terms, one of my all-time favourite action-adventure game shows: Nickelodeon's Legends of the Hidden Temple. The show's plot about otherworldly people living normal lives on Earth, the only ... thing separating humans from people like them are of marking on their bodies, which once hit with a piece of the treasure, transforms then into their origin kind of whoever they were from their homeland. That home is now gone, and they're living mundane lives on Earth on the fictional Most City, waiting for the "chosen one" to engage with their supernatural flock and unlock hidden treasures that await him/her.

All the involved people have to do is to go on different adventures, which for the publishing company that handles the Monthly Moso Science magazine, is represented by its members of science researcher Goro Sato, editorial assistant Jiro Tanaka, and wannabe househusband editor Taro. J Suzuki. Every client request that they accept, leads them to part of the treasure, aptly named a MOPart: pieces that form "the lost Atlantic" fictional Mo Continent, of which once all the pieces are gathered, said continent will "rise from your grave". The only problem is their enemy counterpart: the White Pegasus Company, led by its head Edward Chi, as well as the boy-girl identical twin duo of Perch and noin, which the trio must stop them from getting the MOParts before they do.

For the most part, the show keeps to its nostalgic Weekend Morning cartoon themes, which is nice to see, and its form of entertainment holds up from start to finish, albeit even if that attention was the span of only single-digit people (like me). Even the OP/ED theme songs have the feel of fantasy and mystery to it, which are decent songs in and of themselves.

The show isn't bad by any means, it's great for kids (which makes it weird that this is a late-night anime), but as adults who now have grown out of our nostalgic habits, it's just plain flat-out boring. All I can say is that it's there, but a nice try from the people who convinced the big anime executives to greenlight an original show that aims at nostalgia.

With that said, however, are the people behind the show Delusional enough to make this a tri-Monthly anime Magazine release? That, I'll leave you to decide.