Gokudo-kun Manyuki

Drama : Low
Comedy : High
Action : Med
SciFi : Med
Ecchi : Med

Edit : All Episodes watched. Very funny! Very good! My only real problem, this whole thing is a series (with a few fillers) but there is this gap of missing info between each arc. They fill it with a little intro at each episode, but I KNOW they didn't explain that in the previous episode. Gokudo does something, needs something fixed, and poof they are on the quest to the mysterious island to fix it. But how did they get there, they were just talking about something else in the last episode. It's a good rent though, and defintely looks like something the writer of slayers did in his spare time.

It's good but The Slayers was better hence the Rent Rating

Gokudo is one very (chuckle) strange and (giggle) humorous series. It might be easy to compare this series to Slayers, but I think that it should better be compared to the humor of the series Sorcerer Hunters. The story is at the same silly and wild level, but the main character is really something else. Gokudo is about as lecherous, self-obsessed and self-serving as Dark Snyder (from Bastard,) but he would only measure up to Dark’s kneecap in terms of ability, not that Gokudo is smart enough to notice or be bothered enough to want to stop from pulling the stupid pranks and antics that he does.

If you enjoy anime with low-brow humor and cheesy dialogue, then you will enjoy this series. With an egomaniacal and traitorous main character, Gokudo is accompanied by a princess, more into adventure than palace-pomp and a transgender genie, in a land filed with magic, monsters, romance and treachery. Gokudo's adventures start when he is caught up in a marital dispute between a granny-goddess and her daemon husband, the 'Magic King' who is trying to take over the world of the humans. It appears that the evil king of the kingdom, who has made a dark pact with the daemons, has put his only son to death to avoid the prophecy that foretold his downfall. A resurrection spell went very wrong, and two princes were born from the dead heir’s spirit. While Gokudo’s brother got all of the great looks, dashing womanizing charm and high princely ambitions, Gokudo got stuck with what was left over (and it was not much). And even when Gokudo does manage to get what he wants, (girls and wealth,) he finds the restraints of being a prince to wealthy kingdom to be just too much and he runs away, only to be set up again by the granny-goddess on another of her strange quests.

This series is very silly and absurd, and should not be taken with any measure of seriousness, but I think that is why I enjoyed it so much. I still chuckle at the scene where Gokudo counters a sleep-gas by cutting the cheese in a most rancorous and toxic manner. One of his traveling companions, an obese male Djinn transforms into a voluptuous dancing girl, but since he a serious lush, he still messes up continiously and somehow manages to transform Gokudo into a girl. Arsaya, the princess travelling with Gokudo is probably too good for him, but she somehow puts up with all of his antics. Later on, Gokudo manages to pick up a small crowd of even stranger companions, but it works well to keep the story roaring along. And so Gokudo’s travels go, down a dark road filled with bad puns, cheap sex jokes, tawdry ambitions and strange creatures, but always with a lot of light hearted and entertaining fun.