The Ancient Dogoo Girl


The Ancient Dogoo Girl is a Japanese comedy tokusatsu series directed by Noboru Iguchi, director of The Machine Girl and RoboGeisha. The show airs on MBS every Wednesday night at 25:25 JST. The ending theme is Denki Groove's "Dareda!".
In October 2010, Dogoo Girl premiered its sequel The Ancient Dogoo Girls. The show adds five more Dogoo Girls portrayed by Misaki Momose, Rina Takeda, Manami Nomoto, Maria Yoshikawa, and Haruka Dan. The theme song for the sequel is "Bakuha Seyo! Dogoon V".

Plot

By chance, a hikikomori named Makoto Sugihara finds a strange breastplate buried in the woods. When he places his palm on the breast plate, its design gets burned into his palm while the action awakens a girl named Dogu-chan, a hyperactive yōkai hunter from the Jōmon period with large breasts. Because he had touched her breastplate, Makoto is now bound to Dogu-chan as she adapts to modern day life, fighting yōkai in magic armor formed by her dogū assistant Dokigoro while slowly prying Makoto out of his shell as he is dragged into her misadventures, whether he likes it or not.
In the sequel, a college student named Shouta Tsuikimiya moves into the house where his archaeologist father, Yuzo, had last been living when he disappeared. Shouta inadvertently awakens Doji-chan, a novice yōkai hunter, when he finds her breastplate half-buried in the garden of the house. As if juggling his classes with dealing with the clingy and doting Doji-chan were not enough, Shouta soon finds that Doji-chan's fellow apprentices, as well as their mentor, have taken up residence in his house as well.

Episodes

Each episode is named after the yōkai Dogu-chan fights. The literal translation of the yōkai's name is given in the episode titles below. The guest star who portrays the yōkai is also listed.
  1. Yōkai Koi Person Appears
  2. Yōkai Big Breasts Appears
  3. Yōkai Neglected Bicycle
  4. Yōkai Rude Odor
  5. Yōkai Crab Laser
  6. Yōkai Puppeteer
  7. Yōkai Beep
  8. Yōkai Some Kind of Koi
  9. Yōkai Meat-Eating Sisters
  10. Yōkai Mock Parent
  11. Yōkai Mother of Eyelids
  12. Yōkai Mother of Eyelids
;Dogoon V
  1. Yōkai Gorgon Appears
  2. Yōkai Muscle Girl Squad Appears
  3. Yōkai Skinship Appears
  4. Yōkai Free and Easy EX Appears
  5. Yōkai Forest Girl Appears
  6. Yōkai Future Memory Appears
  7. Yōkai Hello Ao-chan Appears
  8. Yōkai Doka-san Appears
  9. Space Girl Squad Shakos III Appears
  10. Yōkai Giant Apartment Wife Appears
  11. Yōkai Closing Shell Appears
  12. Yōkai Closing Shell Appears

    Cast

;Dogoon V
;Dogoon V
On February 9, 2010, Outcast Cinema announced the film adaption of the series. Several episodes of the show, helmed by various directors, were edited into a feature film which debuted theatrically in Japan on February 20, 2010.