The Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance Video

[@kennylauderdale_en]

Like the video to recommend other people this madness. I want to see this get a modern remake bad.

[@Colonel_RamRod]

We miss your anime weirdness Kenny ❤

[@kingatticus5371]

US shows in the 80s: family sitcoms focused on hijinks and catchphrases Japan shows in the 80s: school delinquents fighting super-powered gangsters

[@liulfrmcshane]

The "Fame" spin-off show would have been precisely 86% better if the school had been teaching martial arts instead of performing arts.

[@mccloaker]

@@liulfrmcshane Oh my God, what a wasted opportunity

[@liulfrmcshane]

@@mccloaker Right? Less improvisation, more incapacitation.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Johan always ahead of true times! 🤯🤯🤯😎😎😎

[@artfire28]

@@liulfrmcshane US shows probably couldn't afford to hire stuntmen and martial artists for lengthy TV made shows. They couldn't take that kind of financial and safety risks. Japan however had so many stunt people to hire from different agencies.

[@Confuseddalek]

I'm a school janitor and can confirm that we haunt the school after death.

[@Dong_Harvey]

Still cleaning up that mystery ectoplasm from when the kids summoned another demon out of their playing cards right?

[@jofujino]

Do you also have secret forbidden romances with the lunch lady, and need to deal with sabotage from your rival's school mascot?

[@southy98]

@@jofujino No. They get 10 sick days, three weeks vacation, and a sweet medical, vision, and dental plan.

[@SalehGfx]

Charlie?!

[@chrisfisher6529]

I'm oddly amused that this is my destiny.

[@allencrown]

I can't wait until Kenny accidentally revives the whole delinquent Highschool girl genre with these videos.

[@demilembias2527]

if only this could really happen...

[@snikrdoodls14]

@@demilembias2527 I think it could be possible. I mean, I believe holo came back thanks to simplynailogical. If he gets enough traffic from the right people who knows. The internet is definitely responsible for the international market becoming so massive for anime in the last decade.

[@marialuke2116]

_YESSSSSSSSSSSS_

[@Cyromantik]

Something similar happened with CityPop, so yeah, could happen! Funny thing though, people here in Japan have no idea that Westerners have been getting into old 70's and 80's idol music.

[@Bowblaxian_Tricknology]

@@Cyromantik I just want a DVD set so I can watch every single episode. This is so unusual it is as if it were tailor-made to my precise tastes.

[@BroudbrunMusicMerge]

"The blind man starts parrying the knives out of midair" "But nothing weird happens until later on" You know your standards for weirdness have changed when...

[@user-a5Bw9de]

Too much dose of Zatoichi.

[@ianfinrir8724]

Blind guys with superpowers are a dime a dozen

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

sensei: reflects knife midair student: すげぇ

[@juannunez5767]

I greatly respect this series total disregard for realism in favor of stylized awesomeness.

[@THICCTHICCTHICC]

Japan are the champions of that. All aesthetic all the time.

[@Baxter1999]

@@THICCTHICCTHICC no but this show specifically seems to have a very planned aesthetic, maybe to make a difference from the rival series? Well I'm sold!

[@cocoapixels]

You should check out old wuxia/kung fu movies for that kind of stuff too! Its my favorite!

[@jedcauffield1858]

What do you mean? All English teachers are secretly evil 😈

[@user-a5Bw9de]

I bet many Western shows used to do that too, but many people demanded "reality" over the absurdness for multitude of reasons. Now it is an rare occurrence mostly in movie theatre than whatnot.

[@sparrowthesissy2186]

I really wish people would make shows like this again. Also, cheating by writing test answers on the inside of a hospital mask might be the most 2020 thing to ever come out of the 1980s.

[@LeoMkII]

thought the exact same thing, that man is in another level

[@paleposter]

yeah its excellent

[@lunamooncat7926]

He was so ahead of his time 😂

[@Majin_Eric]

History repeats itself lets see

[@guyoninternet1599]

Me too.

[@markhalm9889]

Suddenly so much 90's anime makes sense

[@maymay5600]

Especially with sailor moon, people forget sailor moon didn't start this shit at all, people forget magical girls and boys genre was in the 50's and 60's

[@ramondelgado4927]

@@maymay5600 Exactly , Sailor Moon might be the peak magic girl series , but it piggy back from magic girl shit from 80s and 70s........BUT it did renew the Magic Girl genre , which by then was dying due to over production and mix it , magic girl + school drama + girl power , kicking the second golden age of magic girls (Clamp + Utena + Shamanic Princess + Slayers ??? )

[@NeostormXLMAX]

And now kill la kill’s satsuki vs ryukos dynamic makes so much more sense now. A tribute To sailor suit and sukeban deka having a rivalry,

[@CornishCreamtea07]

@@maymay5600 To be fair since a lot of this never came over, most people who watched Sailor Moon had no idea about this or older Magical Girl titles.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

@@maymay5600 And the genre started off with Sally the Witch which the anime was inspired by the US 60s sitcom called _Bewitched._ I think USA deserves the credit for that.

[@Choatemister]

“Football player with a knife on his head” could have easily ended up as an enemy in Kamen Rider or Super Sentai. Some Japanese dude knew exactly what he wanted and pulled it off amazingly.

[@nicodalusong149]

Just look at how the football players jumped. That's some tokusatsu level jumping.

[@jjjsalang]

@@nicodalusong149 my thoughts exactly

[@MrSonny6155]

I was just thinking that the description of the school sounded a lot like a regular day in Kamen Rider Fourze.

[@Mabaws-ju9wp]

@@jjjsalang The stunts were JAC guys, the usual Sentai & KR stunts team.

[@mist1858]

out of all of Japans different aesthetics for badassery, the Sukeban just might be my favorite. like how can one not think this is cool?

[@fattiger6957]

It's a hilarious contradiction that actually works. The sailor uniform is so cutesy, but somehow still looks okay when worn by an action badass.

[@kayEnt3rtainm3nt]

@@fattiger6957 Well said. It's the same juxtaposition that makes Baby Metal and Ladybeard work so well also IMHO.

[@theminakins815]

I totally want to be a sukeban!

[@otakumangastudios3617]

Oh my gosh why is the so freaking reminding me Harry potter!? He said there's a guy who is part of the administration or something who really never got to graduate in the school, and then now is part of the administration now he's an adult (hagrid), the kids get into all kinds of dangerous antics, there's now a ghost from the past of somebody who lived / work there hunting the place (peeves or nearly headless Nick) they keep having the consistency of one particular kind of teacher that teaches a subject that is kind of strange and weird but somewhat important (in this show it's the English teachers, in Harry potter, it's the teachers of the dark arts) Like seriously! How is this not the Yakuza version of Harry Potter before Harry Potter ever came out?

[@Nadia1989]

US: bad girls wearing really short skirts. Japan: bad girls wearing really long skirts.

[@LorenHelgeson]

"Yumi has gloves for punching forgiveness and understanding into people's faces..." Never change, Kevin!

[@Afrimusican]

Never, ever.

[@harbl99]

"...gloves for punching love and understanding into people..." I need these. For reasons.

[@chaosvii]

Same, probably for different reasons tho

[@docdeth904]

Love is painful... understanding is hard. Sometimes, it takes patience and an 8 ounce metal studded glove to spread them to others.

[@danielalorbi]

@@docdeth904 This reads like a fighting game battle opener. Something like "Love is pain, understanding is hard, Let me teach you forgiveness... through violence"

[@RbDaP]

i just noticed that's how one could describe the entire Lyrical Nanoha universe

[@juancarloscuaocastellanos8813]

3:45

[@ihavenoson3384]

There are quite a lot of these Japanese tough girl archetypes. bokukko - a tomboy yankii - a delinquent student sukeban - a female gang leader bouzouzoku - a motorcycle gang

[@kn2549]

Bokukko is definitely not a “tough girl” lol. Its more of a thing within some female otakus that started in the 90s.

[@scottpickering2382]

Football-playing Loan Sharks are the worst type of evil that’s ever existed.

[@domingosjunior6805]

I remember watching a cartoon that a Loan Shark is literally a Shark

[@futureskeleton112]

It reminds me a lot of the ending to Battle Royale 2. (Yes, there's a sequel to Battle Royale, and no, it's not good.) At the end, the teacher who signed them all up for the titular battle royale comes out in a rugby uniform, explains that he really just wanted to play rugby with them, and then jumps into an explosion.

[@domingosjunior6805]

@@futureskeleton112 i love battle royale 2

[@InternetTAB]

yoda said it

[@ronk2307]

@@futureskeleton112 god that movie was fucking awful, probably one of if not the worst sequels I have ever seen

[@GangstaMojo]

The prop guy: so how long do you want the chain to be. The director: whatever surprise me

[@khhnator]

hey, it worked in Saint Seiya

[@PetrusButu-sh1uc]

​@@khhnatornow I need saint seiya as a delinquent series lol

[@khhnator]

@@PetrusButu-sh1uc Shun as a girl delinquent? sure why not! lol

[@PetrusButu-sh1uc]

​@@khhnator The twelve temples arc with delinquents would be interesting to see. Also, thanks for the doodle idea!

[@KRDecade2009]

“They force the janitor to deliver a package of money that gets stolen, so grief stricken he offs himself.” W H A T ?! “The blind teacher wasn’t blind, who wouldn’t thought? So they hang him on a cross” oh my fucking god xD

[@05bastille]

Can we even argue with that at all? I mean, this shows logic speaks for itself, I don't even try to guess what comes next as i will 98.9% be wrong about it XD

[@erikmartinez7277]

Sukeban Deka: *Pop Idol music* Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance: *Nice bass line with a random flute flourish, signifying action is about to happen*

[@Soufriere84]

It almost sounds like something from Yuji Ono, although it's obviously not his work.

[@AlestaSTG]

18:20 That one is Thunder Ceptor, released in 1986 by Namco. It was a rail shooter, similar to Space Harrier, where it used really high-speed sprite scaling.

[@allencrown]

That was less than 4 hours. I love the collective power of the autism hive mind.

[@FromTheRoomOfLittleEase]

Great job, great name.

[@Virjunior01]

Nice pull. I thought it was some kinda prototype S.T.U.N. Runner.

[@FromTheRoomOfLittleEase]

@@Virjunior01 Turns out, I have it on a USB for my Sega mini but forgot. It's kinda like Hyperzone meets Space Harrier but a little rougher. It's pretty neat. Every time I see a new game that looks good it ends up being something I already researched and downloaded but forgot about at this point. Heh.

[@Virjunior01]

@@FromTheRoomOfLittleEase I frikkin LOVED Hyperzone. F-Zero never caught me. I also loved Space Harrier... I remember being at a baseball camp for a week and making sure I had enough change to play it twice a day at the motel.

[@Lori_P89]

I'm still thoroughly convinced Naoko Takeuchi was watching these shows in the 80's and thought "Man this shit is cool". Especially since you see earlier Sailor Moon concept art where Usagi Tsukino is sporting a long flowing skirt and a pistol. Hell even the "Make UP!" thing helping the characters with their disguise (even if it doesn't really show up on the page) is probably inspired by this too. Mostly just speculation on my part BUT if these Delinquent Girl shows really DID have an influence on Sailor Moon, that would mean that the Pretty Cure franchise shares a lineage with these Sukeban as well.

[@ElEscolta]

Kinda sad there isn't some Avengers like crossover with all these "school-girls being badass" shows. Even if it campy as hell, that be fun to see.

[@cormano64]

"Even if it campy as hell, that be fun to see." Just like the Avengers franchise, actually.

[@SammEater]

The closest we got was the Sukeban Deka II movie that had the protagonists of part 2 and 3 team up to fight a badguy with a robot arm.

[@heggy_69]

Especially if its campy as hell lol

[@Lunk42]

Chances are it would be on the cw and that just means it would be hot garbage.

[@Belgand]

It would be awesome, but considering that most of them were trying to knock off the success of Sukeban Deka, it's unlikely that the studios would have been willing to cooperate to make it.

[@chuy3162]

"punching forgiveness and understanding into people's faces". Best quote right there.

[@Virjunior01]

"Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance" might be the dopest title I've ever heard

[@kryptomanik]

I watched this series in full and the Miho Nakayama situation was so insane to me. She's CLEARLY advertised as the main character, and the opening makes her look like she's the central character, then BAM actually the main character is Yumi, and Miho only ever shows up at the end of every episode. In fact, you even begin to notice that Miho never actually interacts directly with Ruri and Kei in any scene until the last quarter of the series. She only ever really talks to Yumi directly. They tried their best to patch up the fact that Miho was barely in the show.

[@wareforcoin5780]

So this school has an evil teacher post like Hogwarts. And a trio of protagonists solving mysteries.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

A Girl Detective Club if you will.

[@FishMcFish420]

Your school house is based off of which weapon you use. - Coin - Yoyo - Missile launcher

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Harry Potter vibes.

[@Rexodiak]

"you're a japanese delinquent schoolgirl, Harry"

[@ryangreen6255]

@@Rexodiak 😂🤣😂🤣 😂

[@edrice2621]

"You are part of the Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance and a traitor. Take her away!"

[@mccloaker]

*football players drag her away*

[@bananian]

This has to be what inspired the tv version sailormoon lol. The whole putting on makeup hides their identity is so sailormoon. 😹 This even explains the whole tuxedo mask briefly showing up to throw a rose then leaving, trope. 😂

[@anxiousoptimism5517]

Wow.

[@persomiissleepy]

It's been 3,000 years Kenny!

[@CCootauco]

Empires rose and fell!

[@atoth62]

Time to conquer Earth?

[@spaghetti_dm]

I appreciate that the Japanese must have thought this was all very exciting and extreme, but all they really accomplished was accurately depicting every day life for an American highschooler. The prison built into the school, the gym teacher who was grandfathered in because he never graduated, and the principle regularly reminding everyone they're all failures is just too true to form for the american public education system.

[@skeletonking2501]

Now if only there were badass weirdos instead of just regular weirdos

[@UltraGalaxyify]

Don't forget about the psychopathic teachers with weird, effed up gimmicks. I still remember my old high school history teacher...

[@skeletonking2501]

@@UltraGalaxyify What did he do?

[@UltraGalaxyify]

@@skeletonking2501 He was a pedophile. Like a legit pedophile: cp was found on an external hard drive he owned and everything. Plus he was...kind of a creep.

[@skeletonking2501]

@@UltraGalaxyify Holy shit

[@theprincipalofficer_1]

Sings fighting evil by moonlight, wearing sailor suits by day light, It’s the one name rebel alliii-ance, They never turn the back on crimes, Coming to the aid in the name of friendship, It’s the one named rebel alliii-ance. Peacefully punching injustice, Kicking super Stars to curb side, It’s the one named rebel alliii-ance.

[@Xx1SailorScoutxX]

This is what the live action version of Sailor Moon should have been.

[@theprincipalofficer_1]

@@Xx1SailorScoutxX I finished my master piece the sailor alliance combo 😂 This has as to hit number one Better than what’s in the charts that’s for sure.

[@SEELE-ONE]

6:38 Has mind control poetry that turns them into violent criminals! Me: Oh no!... Wait... What were they before!?

[@GideonMadu]

So in a nutshell: This is basically Girl Detective Club had a baby with Fist of the North Star and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure simultaneously Gotcha

[@Morfeusm]

Sounds like I am missing on some fun shows 🤔

[@IntrovertedOreo]

...I'd actually watch it 👉🏾👈🏾

[@UndyingZombie]

Back when she was still alive.. My mom was obsessed with this show. I kind of forgotten all about it till I seen this. ( I think it semi stood out in my memory is mostly due to the fact that it was one of the few non horror based things she loved watching. )

[@Tomensnaben]

I love that a blind teacher can perfectly deflect a knife thrown at him in class, "but nothing really weird happens until later."

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Note that Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure is an anime that properly utilized boys in wearing sailor uniforms. Basically, the boys are given the same collar and tie design as the girls' uniform shirts, and wear long pants or short pants. We would love to see sailor seifuku boys *and* sailor seifuku girls fighting to defeat bad guys or something. That would be great, and fun.

[@Nadia1989]

CLAMP's uniform designs for Card Captor Sakura are also sailor themed, both for girls and boys.

[@poisonbang2178]

With all the 80s nostalgia being popular and all, why aren't any bit time sukeban shows coming out today as well, eh? That's what the world needs.

[@fattiger6957]

Is 80s nostalgia as popular in Japan as America? At least we got Kill La Kill out of anime creators being nostalgic about these weird shows, probably from when they were teenagers.

[@jerrell1169]

80s nostalgia isn’t really that big of a thing in Japan, at least nowhere near as big as it is in the US or the west in general.

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

Delinquent stuff isnt that Big nowadays. I think for a while they also were trying to hide delinquent based entertaiment for some political bs or something.

[@Soufriere84]

@@davidgusquiloor2665 Yeah that sounds like something the ruling LDP & NKP would do -- "If we don't _teach_ the history, they can't _repeat_ the history!"

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@fattiger6957 now that i think about this and the white school uniforms and sukebandeka with the black uniforms being satsuki and ryuko’s costume makes a lot of sense now, a tribute to the rivalry between these two shows.

[@arch3223]

Since discovering your channel, I've been falling down my own rabbit hole of sukeban and biker gang animes, both are genres that aren't really seen anymore. You mentioned Sukeban Chainsaw on an earlier video so I binge read the manga and saw the movies. The story gets out there but makes sense that if you have a character fighting with a chainsaw, they'd be fighting zombies. Thank you for introducing me to this genre and helping me discover one of my favorite shows, Shounan Bakusouzoku.

[@brendanb2982]

5:39 Funky Student from Persona 4 became a Funky Teacher. Proud of him

[@parkertalbot6866]

"You killed my vibe." "Now I shall kill you."

[@TupocalypseShakur]

@@parkertalbot6866 that's wackity wack yo

[@mist1858]

Hey Kenny, just want to say that, in regards to your commentary and performance, I think this was your best video yet. You're sounding more comfortable behind the mic, your passion on the subject really shines through, and I can tell your research paid off because all of your tangents were interesting. Keep up the good work!

[@retroanimemike]

Thank you Kenny for schooling us on the forgotten depths of japanese popular culture! You sure know what you are about and I can only envy you for having so much fun with shows most people would never seriously consider watching!

[@ThePorpoisepower]

"Eventually there would be a HS girl from outer space, breathes fire, has all the powers of Ultraman, and fights people with a missile launcher..." You mean Lum and her freinds from Urusai Yatsura?

[@angelbasiliorodriguezbusto2065]

Crazy theory: Kid Kool inspired the character of Emporio Alniño

[@ironmaster6496]

Thats what i was thinking XD it is way too specific to not beint a reference

[@angelbasiliorodriguezbusto2065]

@@ironmaster6496 ¿Por qué no hablamos en español? XD

[@fableagain]

Exactly what I thought tbh

[@overlookers]

Shigechi's flesh knobs for hair seem to be a reference to Bart Simpson. Maybe. Some colorings of DIU portray Shigechi as blonde. But in the anime, it's flesh. This character was introduced in 1993; so it's possible.

[@brawnhilda7203]

This whole genre really just gives some of the stranger elements of Sailor Moon some context

[@Germania9]

That actress playing the English substitute teacher looks like she's have shit tons of fun. Are there are more of her filmography?

[@maymay5600]

i wanted to know that too, i'm sure the google search must be blowing

[@Jumpoable]

She must've have the most sickening time in 80s Tokyo!

[@無教会内村]

A search of a Japanese review of the show turns up the name エブリン ベニュー (Evelyn Venue? Evelyn Benue?) But there doesn't seem to be anything else she acted in...

[@CubedSausagefromScarparius]

@@無教会内村 might just be a random expat they got

[@KironVB]

Evelyn bouix, she is an actual french actress.

[@jeremiahclark3084]

Kenny, come back.... We miss you.

[@manofcultura]

He got demonitized

[@jeremiahclark3084]

@@manofcultura oh, that sucks. I really like his stuff. Hope he can find a solution. That really sucks.

[@manofcultura]

@@jeremiahclark3084 actually, I just checked his community tab to be sure. And he is now remonitized, hopefully he gets to producing videos soon!

[@jeremiahclark3084]

@@manofcultura 👍 KZbin is hard on their moneymakers these days. Glad to hear it.

[@lasagnagamer8254]

Now i start to wonder what my weapon would be, if i was a japanese delinquent schoolgirl... Edit: you guys are so creative holy hecc

[@igcometa]

Braces with a bite power of 10 milion joules

[@wolfiewoo3371]

A razor tipped frisbee

[@lsd2162]

A ping pong racket for me cause I played ping pong in high school and got hit by one once so they do work as weapons

[@danmorgan3685]

A computer keyboard that can direct asteroid strikes.

[@orchishmamukherjee5250]

Ummmm....poison pens, maybe hairpins? Idk

[@TDownit_Strider]

It's hard to describe, but I really like how raw these live-action shows you've been reviewing feel. Like, modern American equivalents feel so processed and routine-not that they're bad, but a change of pace is always nice. The best way I can describe this feeling is that it's like a b movie, but with a budget.

[@Xylospring]

Kenny of the House of Lauderdale Strikes again with more Sukeban Deka.

[@Eric-ut5ld]

"Mind control poetry powers" I figured out what superpower I want.

[@SteveBrandon]

So Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance is set in a school full of guys with greaser hairdos, American-style football players that suddenly appear out of nowhere, and blowing curtains (because of that one teacher with wind powers)? All it needs is a choir full of vampire kids with glowing eyes and it would be like a Japanese co-ed version of the boys' boarding school from the "Total Eclipse of the Heart" music video.

[@ramari1600]

Thank you for covering these shows in the sukeban genre. I don't know how to explain it but the sort of unique flavor to drama-action stories within this time period is something I feel like has been missing from the modern manga and anime. We have alot of delinquent stories or characters based on the setting but not really a lot of stories wholly focused on delivering the entire package. So it's really cool to see and learn about these shows that I would have no way of knowing about letting alone watching.

[@Hex.Decimal]

Never stop uploading Kenny.

[@rabenfedersonnenhut]

I must admit that the screen format alone gives me the nostalgia goosebumps. Even if this was half a decade before my time. Love it, though.

[@jerryjantola]

*"CRUCIFY HIM."* -Marcus Licinius Crassus and also Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance

[@DivyeshVartha]

9:21 That shot with the roses and matching uniform is beautiful

[@kaiseryuuki4098]

"There is always room for more sukeban shows!" - Mongolian Proverb

[@starshiranui33]

Wait. This child actor being around delinquent girls and that outfit. Hey, does that... remind anyone else of goddamned Emporio in JoJo's?

[@ironmaster6496]

Yes yes yes Not to mention that the setting is like a prison

[@Dong_Harvey]

Father Pucci should've done his research

[@ryangreen6255]

I love hearing him talking about 80's Japanese schoolgirls I'm sailor suits.

[@reasonableonions5442]

He's back! Thanks Kenny!

[@ШайнингФингер]

Kurobe-san can't even catch a break in non-ultra shows. First his car gets possessed in Gridman, now a bunch of sukeban beat him up like it's nothing

[@FlikTheBlueLightning]

I think he also get killed in Kamen Rider Black

[@theshellderinslowbrostail5422]

So you just did this for ppl to cosplay more as this characters?

[@nikytamayo]

A worthy goal.

[@alexarnold7468]

The world need more sukeban cosplayeŕ so I wouldn't mind

[@Soufriere84]

@@alexarnold7468 Hey, if I was a girl (and a fair bit younger & less fat), I'd cosplay as Saki without hesitation! And I usually hate cosplay.

[@cyberpunkcomplex629]

just back tracked through all your vids I just watched to ensure they have all been like as all have been watched multiple times. your the best content creator on KZbin. now to watch them all again :)

[@tsarstepan]

Some studio really needs to reboot this batpoop crazy series as an anime.

[@PhantasmPhoton]

I read this as "batpop crazy series" and now I really want to check out some Batpop

[@nicodalusong149]

Probably an anime of the manga of this show.

[@Lightspeeds]

Trigger?

[@JohnVmc2]

As a kid that grew up watching tokusatsu, i would love if they had brought some of this madness to Brazil back in the day.

[@vustvaleo8068]

I guess Sailor Moon was more hardcore back in the 80's, they don't even need magic powers to fight.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

That’s actually just a few years before Sailor Moon came along, when she first appeared in 1991.

[@bluedeath911]

@@SlapstickGenius23 It's clear the writers of the Sailor Moon anime where inspired by these shows. The whole throwing roses is a dead give away. That wasn't in the Sailor Moon manga.

[@Linkonpark100]

There’s a scrapped concept that one of Sailor Moon’s weapons is a gun.

[@pokeoh1831]

@@Linkonpark100 for her neutral special she weilds a *gun*

[@Linkonpark100]

@@pokeoh1831 I feel like the author of Sailor Moon took inspiration from her husband’s Spirit Gun.

[@ivanugliarse]

Thanks to your channel i discovered and bought Sukeban Deka 1,2 and 3 , Hana no Asuka Gumi, Shoujo Commando Izumi AND this. :)

[@FriskyBrisket]

About Kid Kool, There's an old Gamecenter CX episode where Arino played said game, and he received a letter from the child actor with game tips. He also stated that he was no longer and actor and at the time, a manager at a convenience store.

[@faithtinywishes8232]

This entire genre is incredible I love all your videos, thanks for uploading this! The football loan shark KILLED ME

[@Galactus78]

1) This show looks amazing. 2) I have no other points.

[@monangagustian3564]

Naoko Takeuchi is a very lucky mangaka. Almost all of her successful idea came from this genre. Female students investigating; Combat with sailor suit/uniform; Unrecognizable alternate identity thanks to make up; Deus ex machina helper that only appear doing almost nothing but throwing roses. Kinda explain why she doesn't have any notable mangas before and after the sailor V and sailor moon series.

[@rareworldchannel5694]

I think the same

[@NaviciaAbbot]

And a few ideas borrowed from Shotaro Ishinomori, such as the color-coded sentai (Super Sentai), the mask Venus wears during her solo days (Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine), the adherence to secrecy, and the more... creature factory design of many of the MOTWs.

[@Bullet-ve2it]

I was just thinking "when is the weird anime guy doing another video, I saw he commented on Mandalore so he's still existing" and what do you know.... He's back!

[@fluffcake]

I love this! It’s so aesthetic to the 80s Japanese girl gang scene, and it seems pretty dramatic and fun!

[@dogetheboy6997]

I've never been this early or this excited for a video before!

[@jguerrero7033]

LMAO, I was watching this on Twitch recently - Had to look up more information - Thanks!

[@stanleyhercules]

LETS GO KENNY

[@dudstep]

I'd love to see these shows put out on blu-ray. I'd watch the hell out of them. I think it's time delinquent schoolgirls made a comeback.

[@freaknr1]

I just wanted to say that I'm so happy to see you again Ken. You didn't upload for only 3 months, but that made me realize how much I've appriciated your work this last year. Your videos about old anime and japanese schoolgirls doing crazy shit really does being joy to me and probably many other people. Keep it up! ♥️

[@Keshin4539]

This was absolutely beautiful. Appreciate all the work y'all do and yes plz continue LE CHAOS!

[@graefx]

This sounds amazing. I'm now trying to decide if Kazuya's gloves in Tekken are a reference to this 🤔

[@SquatsAndOats2plate]

I think it's this and the gloves of the star platinum stand in Jojo Pt. 3, considering Tekken came out in 1994, Jojo PT 3 ran from 1989 to 1992 and the Sukeban Genre was mid to late 80s.

[@graefx]

I had always assumed Jojo was the progenitor but hard to argue with the bright red.

[@ImmaLittlePip]

"They have a jail built right into the school" Satoko from higurashi would like to know your location

[@earlye5011]

Ahh how I missed kenney's videos on the insanity of Japanese TV

[@zackschilling4376]

Reminds me of our local "Career Center" back in the day. Thats where they sent you if they wanted you out, but had no reason to expel you. Its also where they sent the pregnant girls. Its also where we used to do the Survive Alive house back in the day, I think they stopped it when I was in elementary school. We went there when I was in like 1st and 2nd grade (1991-92) then never again. FYI: Survive Alive was a program where they showed school children how to escape a house fire. It was a full size house rigged with smoke machines and red flashing lights. It was kinda crazy. Im sure they wouldnt do it now for a litany of reasons.

[@Rellik165]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, KENNY, WHERE CAN I FIND THESE SHOWS AND WATCH THEM?!?!? Please share thine wisdom, O old-school Anime deity.

[@fattiger6957]

I've found a few old j-dramas on anime torrent sites, but they almost never have subtitles.

[@Soufriere84]

@@hoshi7772 Cool. But is it subtitled? These shows _deserve_ to have some legal streaming site buy the rights for pennies on the dollar and subtitle them for the lolz. It happens with K-dramas, so why not 35-year-old Japanese Girl Delinquent shows? :P

[@hoshi7772]

@@Soufriere84 it's subtitled ! :D

[@NewtrendsMe]

Maybe Retrocrush may be able to help?

[@AvengerII]

@@Soufriere84 YOu have to remind the companies that own these shows that THEY OWN THEM...! If the companies still exist and anybody knows where the footage is. They lost the negative to the original Project A-Ko for over 30 years and just found it recently. That tends to happen a lot in Japan. They lose stuff forever or for decades because it gets catalogued and nobody bothers to look!

[@Gossamer24]

Once again I can tell you (and toku_gami) put a ton of work into research for this. I noticed the idol connection in my own tokusatsu research (although mostly indie stuff), and it's really interesting how they worked around the 'main girl' problem to not ruin that idol's image (or at least they think 'ruin'). Thanks for doing these deep dives!

[@ryanleatigaga7596]

I thought the rival to Sukeban Deka would have been about good Japanese students that do all their work on time, but it's shot like a fight scene from an anime. "I must pass this test to make my father proud! I WILL NOT FAIL!"

[@fattiger6957]

You'd think there would be with how obsessed with school Japan is. I can just imagine the villain as the perfect A student transferring from school to school, looking for a rival worthy of his mighty brain.

[@ironmaster6496]

So baka to test? Kinda

[@رزيئة]

Not really. Japan -like any other country- use fiction to run away from their reality. In reality, studying and school is terrible, and too strict. They feel smothered. So when creating fiction, they make it the opposite of their reality for escapism purposes. The more unrealistic and wild it is, the better and more entertaining.

[@ryanleatigaga7596]

@@رزيئة I know about. I'm just thinking about what the complete opposite of "delinquent schoolgirl" would be.

[@nicodalusong149]

Assassination Classroom exists and is practically that.

[@mintjaan]

I love hearing about how quickly games were pushed to be made in the early 80s. I think we're finally coming full circle.

[@GleeChan]

It's funny how the original Sukeban Deka was more or less believable, but once it spun off sequels and spin-offs the whole genre lost it's mind. I think Yuki Saito is still my favorite out of all of them since she does treat it like it's real, but I won't lie and say I didn't get enjoyment out of the whole lot. It's like acknowledging Godzilla is a metaphor for the atom bomb, but still enjoying watching him jump on King Ghidorah's face. There's a place for both.

[@eclipseeffigy]

20:00 hey, it's me! Can't believe I got a shoutout in this video that just randomly showed up on my feed. You must be clairvoyant. 😂😂😂

[@kevinclark8356]

The gym teacher is the Japanese version of Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

[@IntrovertedOreo]

I can agree with that 😂

[@Soufriere84]

Great. Now I want to hear him say: "Okay! Which one of you wrote, 'Da Moon Rulez #1!', on my car, with a key?"

[@KonZhighcl3ric]

RIP Miho

[@spaderttv]

Kenny’s back with that HEAT!

[@Nightwalker1105]

I was actually re-watching your videos this Friday night while imagining what you were working on this whole time. thank you so much!

[@misterkentury]

KENNY You're BACK!

[@fran7947]

"Yumi has gloves, for punching forgiveness and understanding into people's faces." I'm dead

[@adolhein]

Watching at 4 am I don't need sleep, I need Kenny content.

[@scotttrammell3913]

This reminds me of something that you'd see on Cinemax on Fridays after 12:00.

[@_monstercam]

I appreciate the effort and quality that has gone into these sukeban videos. I first found out about sukeban deka from a Japanese idol encyclopedia website many years ago(which sadly doesn't exist anymore), where a person posted all of their Japanese Idol memorabilia. Ever since then I had tried to find out more, then I found your channel.

[@Packy21]

Unanswered AVGN questions have finally been concluded. This is what the world needed most.

[@cecilyerker]

These are the baddies this world needs right now

[@atiredfloridian777]

Kenny's like that uncle you rarely see, but when he does show up every now and again he's got some awesome story to tell you.

[@Doomroar]

Kenny it is time we talk about your crime fighting Sukeban obsession. One video about crime fighting Sukebans? sure it is the novelty. Two videos? well is just a sequel. Three videos? everybody loves trilogies, why not. But come one man, at this point you can make a series out of this, and call it Sukeban Saturdays.

[@Soufriere84]

I don't think _any_ of us would complain if he did that.

[@dpepinmarquette]

I would tune in