Each episode has our protagonist traveling back in time to discover that certain events in history happened in a different way than recorded. Like Cleopatra being a comedy duo Cleo Patra, Seaton’s Animal Chronicle being Seaton’s Donuts Chronicle, Galileo Galilei being a rapper working as a construction worker tilting the Tower of Pisa or Pythagora working on a restaurant menu instead of a theorem. Those are the puns. Where are the puns you might ask? Well, half of the time they get lost in translation (but believe me, they are still terrible) and other half of the time I have sincerely no idea what was going on in the creator’s head.
The whole plotline caused me headache. The substitution isn’t something plausible, something that could be explained how it was recorded wrongly, no, it’s literally completely random bullshit that makes no sense at all, nothing though out, just like if the script writers drew lots from hats to determine what replaced which historical event. And what’s worse, it’s not even entertaining. It’s just stupid. And it’s not even funny – the comedy ranges from non-existing to cringe. It’s all around awful.
But wait, you might say, this is for kids, just don’t think about it too hard. Wrong! This being for kids makes it even worse. You have to realize the context, that this is teaching kids that the history in textbooks is wrong and villains literally work for a textbook company to keep the real truth from us. This anime for kids tells kids to not trust textbooks and instead stuff like moon landing being stage and such. This is absolutely terrible morals to get from a show for kids. And I guarantee you some of the kids who watched this will actually believe that. Kids are stupid and this is going to confuse them.
So, Time Bokan 24 fails at being entertaining, fails at being funny, fails at making sense and fails at being a kids series. What it has is okay animation, alright mecha designs and villainess with tits. So yeah stay away from this unless you’re deliberately looking for bad anime.
