A summer 2005 Quirky Work (Anime First) created by Satoru Akahori that flirts with the fourth wall, old hero tropes, good and evil and the mixup thereof, and explosions. Lots of explosions. Consists of two smaller shows, Zettai Seigi Love Pheromone and Soreyuke! Gedou Otome Tai.
Zettai Seigi Love Pheromone stars Aimi and Kaoruko, wannabe comedians and heroes of justice. As their manager, Tomokazu Seki (played by himself), attempts to find them a job so they can rise to superstardom, their hair trigger natures and motto of "Anything can be done in the name of justice!" frequently end in their would-be places of employment crashing to the ground.
The other half of the show, Soreyuke! Gedou Otome Tai tells the story of the five Hokke sisters, who are currently suffering from the double whammy of Parental Abandonment and Perpetual Poverty. The family consists of, from oldest to youngest, Otone, Maika, Yoku, Kanashi, and Utano. They happen to be the daughters of mooks from an evil organization. One day, they release the Sealed Evil in a Can Akumako, an imp who rested in a vase dad left behind. Akumako tells them that to carry on their parents' wishes, they must become "evil". To attempt this, they become the Gedou Otome Tai, a team of Magical Girls bent on carrying out evil. But they're just so darn nice...
Tropes:
- Beach Episode:
- Love Pheromone: The second part of Episode 7 has Aimi and Kaoruko trying a gig at a resort.
- Gedou Otome Tai: The first part of Episode 9 has the girls go to the beach where they meet three Kaiju.
- Big Eater: Gedou Otome Tai: Otone, capable of downing ten bowls of noodles in thirty minutes. And when all the guys at the shop are cheering for her great accomplishment, she's awkwardly thinking "actually, I'm still hungry".
- Affectionate Parody — Sekiman, Seki's alternate identity, is a spoof of Kamen Rider.
- Celebrity Is Overrated — The younger sisters refuse to go to Hollywood after their rise to voice-acting stardom. Why they don't simply continue in Japan is anyone's guess.
- Destructive Savior — So much property damage from these two that they're considered supervillains by the rest of the country. In the last episode they accidentally created a The End of the World as We Know It scenario when activating the self-destruct button that destroys the entire invasion force of the alien ant empire. Where did they all crash? In all of the major cities of the world and cementing the infamous reputation of Love Pheromone. Nice Job Breaking It, Aimi but all in all Status Quo Is God.
- Humongous Mecha — Provides transport, the transformation gear, and missiles.
- In the Name of the Moon — They've got it down, pose and everything.
- Knight Templar — Even the slightest slight leads to Stuff Blowing Up. So much stuff blowing up.
- Lawyer-Friendly Cameo — The Grand Finale features, in order, Gatchaman, Voltes V, Kamen Rider, Uchuu Senkan Yamato, and Macross cameos. The first three are destroyed by the invading alien ant empire before they get a chance to do anything. The last two make an appearance in Aimi's Previously on…, despite nothing like that happening in the previous episode.
- To the Batpole! — It's revealed that Love Pheromone's house is rigged to have slides to the mecha's docking bay in the closet and the bathroom — and it's the toilet's flusher that drops Aimi down to the slide. The cord in the middle of the room, however, flushes the toilet.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight — Sekiman. He apologizes to a clerk for using the washroom he used to transform in AND goes to the top of a building in a crowded elevator in his superhero outfit without getting any weird looks.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall — Akumako's statement of "This anime only has three episodes left!"
- Chekhov's Gun — Episode 4 opens with a flashback to Otone noticing a pendant in the window of a jewelry store. We don't know what it is until the near end, where it's revealed it is a Kaijin Revival Crystal, an item used to revive any dead Kaijin/underlings (like the Gedou Otometai's father), which is used by Otone to revive the cicada-themed Kaijin the Gedou Otometai met earlier in the episode that died close to the end.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience — Subverted. Despite the devil wings and the all-black color scheme, they're not evil in the slightest.
- Elemental Powers — Water, Fire, Earth, Wood and Light, from oldest to youngest.
- Go-to-Sleep Ending: Exaggerated in episode 11. The Zettai Seigi Love Pheromone part took a considerable amount of time; leaving less than a minute remaining for Soreyuke! Gedou Otome Tai. So what do the characters do in that part in the short amount of time, take a nap!
- Minion with an F in Evil — The sisters. Every single attempt at being "evil" ends up being good instead.
- Younger Than They Look — Kanashi is in elementary school, but she looks like a very well-endowed teenager.
