HK: Forbidden Super Hero
Why this pick
Like The Virgin Psychics, it treats adolescent libido and superpowers as fuel for gleefully deadpan, live-action manga absurdity, with an earnest hero at the center of escalating nonsense.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
Like The Virgin Psychics, it treats adolescent libido and superpowers as fuel for gleefully deadpan, live-action manga absurdity, with an earnest hero at the center of escalating nonsense.
Why this pick
Its futuristic Japan, body-mutating villains, candy-colored gore, and outrageous comic invention match Sion Sono’s taste for pushing genre premises into delirious excess.
Why this pick
For the same knowingly ridiculous commitment, this turns an absurd premise into energetic action-comedy, mixing gross-out effects, playful genre parody, and total sincerity.
Why this pick
Another Sion Sono fantasy-comedy, it pairs an awkward outsider with wildly surreal escalation and colorful pop spectacle, while retaining more sweetness beneath the bizarre premise.
Why this pick
Its aggressively stylized visuals, eccentric youth culture, cartoonish digressions, and odd-couple momentum offer a similarly exuberant Japanese pop-surrealist rush.
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01 / THE STORY
After receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the world from evil psychics.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Kamogawa Yoshiro

Miyuki Hirano

Nagano Terumitsu

Enomoto Yosuke

Asami Takahiro

Aiko Polnareff

Yasu