“Tennen Shojo Man” was a strangely successful TV product of 1999 that served as the inspiration for a TV movie follow-up “Tennen shojo Man next: Yokohama hyaku-ya hen“, released in the same year. The latter differs strongly from the original story as a completely fresh chapter of Man’s fight against a different type of evil. Both the series and the film are adaptations of a popular manga by Tetsuya Koshiba.
The very format of the TV series is unusual – it’s not episodic and it works as a three-and-a-half-hour long film intersected by short comedy sequences played by the show’s “moderator” Mijayi. Surrounded by plush toys and with neon letters pulsating across the screen, she’s either acting as “the cheerleader” motivating the main protagonists to some mean a**-kicking or demonstrating trivial knowledge related to the story itself. At one point, she’ll give a tutorial on how...
The very format of the TV series is unusual – it’s not episodic and it works as a three-and-a-half-hour long film intersected by short comedy sequences played by the show’s “moderator” Mijayi. Surrounded by plush toys and with neon letters pulsating across the screen, she’s either acting as “the cheerleader” motivating the main protagonists to some mean a**-kicking or demonstrating trivial knowledge related to the story itself. At one point, she’ll give a tutorial on how...
- 10/19/2020
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
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