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Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman

Alt titles: Tokumu Sentai Shinesman

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When Hiroya Matsumoto joined the Right Trading Company, he never thought he'd be anything more than a regular employee. But as it goes, he became the fifth member of a superhero team called the Shinesman. The Shinesman's mission is to defend the Earth against enemies from the Planet Voice. But amidst all this, Hiroya also has to look after his little brother, make a living, and do his superhero jobs clad in lame suits and equipped with equally lame weapons such as business cards! Can the Shinesman succeed in the face of utter comedy... I mean... terror?!

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Del Power X

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Hanegi Manami is a junior high school girl with unusual relatives, to say the least. Her grandfather's passion is building unusual things, and has just had his latest concoction delivered to their doorstep -- the mecha known as Del Power X! With a driver's seat specially designed for Manami, its powers are rivaled by no other. Unfortunately, her grandfather's rival Von Getsueru and a plethora of other people are determined to prove that fact wrong, regardless of who is in the pilot's seat! Manami must fight for love, pride, and above all else, the loss of her precious bento!

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There's plenty to poke fun of in the mecha and superhero genres of anime, so there's not too much competition between the office worker power team of Shinesman and the robot piloting school girl in Del Power. If you enjoy a little colourful silliness and a dash of referential humour, you should enjoy both.
Ajna

Low budget, low level script for some quick watch that bets (and imho fails miserably) everything on superpowered action with some comic relief.

Adventures of Mini-Goddess, The

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Whenever Keiichi is away, it's time for Belldandy, Skuld, and Urd to play. Follow the Adventures of the Goddesses as they shrink down and have fun with their Rat sidekick, Gan-chan. Be it battling Gan-zilla or kitchen appliance romance, the Mini-Goddesses are there to have a good time.

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Zadillo
A great yet underrated parody anime..... you should definitely like the humor in this short OVA, and the various parodies and anime-related jokes.

Z-mind

Alt titles: Shishunki Bishoujo Gattai Robo Z-MIND

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Ayame, Renge and Sumire have enough to worry about with their idiotfather always on their backs, but when a secret government agencytries to recruit them, life is about to become much more complicated! Withbizarre machines threatening the city, it seems they have little choicebut to pilot the Z Mind robot. Yet keepingtheir little sister Satsuki out of trouble, dealing with dad's nagging, uncovering the identity of Ayame's mysterious savior and contending with the freakyaliens might prove a littletoo much for anyone to cope with!

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Shinesman and Z-Mind both seem as much pastiche as parody, simultaneously mocking the genre conventions and at times sticking rather too close to them. However, while many of the cheaper shots fail to hit home, both have a few very clever jokes - the alter egos of the superheros in Shinesman are named after the seiyuu that play the roles, or Renge's attempt in Z-Mind to give her mecha a more exciting name. Though you may have to have watched quite a lot of old anime to get all the references here, if can appreciate one, the other should appeal too.

Moldiver

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  • OVA (6 eps x 30 min)
  • 1993

Hiroshi Ozora has always wanted to be a superhero, so he decided to do the only logical thing: create a transforming power suit called Moldiver! With it, he can fight the forces of the maniacal Professor Machinegal, who desires all of the rarities of the world for his private collection - but when his sister Mirai accidentally changes the suit's design to that of a beautiful girl, Hiroshi's plan goes terribly awry! Now, Hiroshi and Mirai must share the suit, alternating between manliness and beauty, to put a stop to Professor Machinegal!

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Ajna

Both OAVs tend to take quite lightly, not to say parodically, the peculiarly japanese themes of the masked superheroes.

While their comedy side is not always fully intelligibile (and laughable) by westners, both show are likable enough to deserve a watch.