With a name like Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gautaman, it HAS to be good! Artwork and Animation: 8 For a low budget early 90s title, this one has really polished and fluid animation. Flashy colors, smooth frames, and plenty of action kept it interesting to watch, and wasn't bogged down by garbage stillframes. Sound and Voice Acting: 7Everyone in this sounds like they're hopped up on too much caffeine and barely containing themselves. It's very energetic, funny, and entertaining.

Characters and Story: 7

Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gautaman (Gautaman from here on out) is about a young devout Christian girl, Mary (haha name puns), who meets Buddha, gets superpowers, defeats Scary Newspaper Brainwashing Demon, Sumo Darth Vader, and the dopey perv Principal to bring justice to Perfect Religion Academy.

After her friend Saori is captured by the Black Buddha gang, Mary is gifted the powers of Gautaman, which consist of wearing a sumo belt and magical visor that stops anyone from recognizing you, except your butt, that is. Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha himself, appears in person to explain what's going on (and smash through the 4th wall!). Buddha also makes up the powers as he goes along, which lead to hilarious results.

Mary leads a double life, as does any good magical girl. By day, she's a repressed, overly pure and innocent student- by... crisis, she becomes GAUTAMAN! Stripperifically clad and with ridiculous powers to match, she's out to whoop some ass _with_ her ass. The evil Black Buddha gang, antagonists to... world religion? try to stop her in the name of all that's unholy. Borderline irreverence, ridiculousness, and over the top WTF ensue. Their only lead? A butt print left by Gautaman in her first scrap with the forces of stupid. But whose butt matches the cast?

The aforementioned Scary Newspaper wielding Brainwashing Demon is the first villain, wielding newspapers like shuriken, and if you're exposed to the print, it shortens your life by 100 days!!! For the love of all that's holy, not the fine print!
Second up is SUMO DARK VADER- I'm not even kidding. I've never seen such an original and obviously non parodical villain in my life. This has to be seen to believed.

Enjoyment: 9

I laughed my butt off, pun intended. Gautaman is full of ancient history (read: 70s Japanese pop culture references), Star Wars references and puns, butts, name puns, butts, and general mild religious mockery. The WTF force is strong with this one.

Overall: 7

When I saw the title, this one went straight on the watchlist. I'm a fan of so-bad-it's-good movies from watching too many Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. I was not disappointed. Butt Attack Punisher Girl is a buttload of laughs, "what?'s", and "this is the dumbest, best thing I've ever seen's".

Recommend?

Oh. Yeah. 45m of nonstop so-bad-it's-good stupidity, you'll wish you got buttslammed by Gautaman.