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“The Superhero of Justice in Battle!”
What They Say:
Yoshida takes over as manager of an apartment complex on behalf of his father. Awaiting him there were the attacks of the housewives driven mad by the lewd outfit brand, “Libido Cloth.” While being tossed about by the rampage of residents like Watanabe and Ichinose, the threat of Rank A housewife, Kanzaki, and the shadow of police obstructing the case further deepens the darkness within the complex. Armed with the countermeasure “Boltack Claw,” Yoshida fights them, but lurking behind him was the grasp of an even greater despair: the “Banishing Exclusion Women’s Society.”
Review: (Please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Based on the manga by Kenkyujo Sakuseki and Yui Joyama, the spring 2026 anime adaptation is the latest short program to arrive in Japan. The anime adaptation brought on Toshikatsu Tokoro to direct it from the series composition by Eeyo Kurosaki. Rena Nasu handled the character designs, and Elias, which has worked on numerous projects in a mostly production assistance capacity, handled this at the time as well. The original manga is known as Hellish Apartment Complex and began in 2021 and has nine digital volumes out so far, with it ongoing.
While this series is certainly not complicated, it’s thin enough in some areas for it to not work as well as it should. But here, in the finale, we get the horny housewives coming to save Yoshida as Shoulda is such a threat to all of them. Of course, Shouda has some ideas on how to handle them, so it’s a fun back-and-forth with mildly pervy moments and anti-masturbation measures being put into play. The reality is that while the housewives help Yoshida, he has to step up in a big way himself. But it’s Gouda that gets in there at a pivotal time with a “wife-drop” move that’s pretty comical and seemingly does what it needs to. Of course, Shouda is able to take her libido cloth to a second level and become even more powerful.
This has her going hard against Yoshida as Super Justice-Man, and it’s comically over-the-top with how she attacks and how Yoshida just stands firm that he’s going to protect the complex while not doing anything. But his emotions ramp up well with what’s been done, the hurt that has happened, and it powers his Voltac Arm so he can actually fight back against her. It’s goofy as all get out, but it works in classic battle form with the two of them going at it until he can destroy her Libido Cloth. Even his thought of having avenged his father as he falls is pretty on-brand shonen stuff, putting him into a better place going forward to protect the complex.
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In Summary:
I had no idea what to expect going into this series, but it proved to be a comically absurd kind of project with plenty of saucy material to make it entertaining. It’s got a lot of familiar beats that aren’t a surprise for a short, structural repetition and all, but it delivers a lot of goofy fun and you kind of wanted to see each week what kind of housewife was going to go over the top in some pervy kind of way. Yoshida was kind of the weak link in it all, from design to execution, which is why it was fine that the show mostly focused on the wives and how they were being manipulated or enjoying doing the manipulating. It’s a weird and goofy little show, and I wish more shorts were like that.
Grade: B
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Chris Beveridge
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Chris has been writing about anime, manga, movies and comics for well on twenty years now. He began AnimeOnDVD.com back in 1998 and has covered nearly every anime release that’s come out in the US ever since.
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