TV series
Back Street Girls -GOKUDOLS-
Overview
A group of 3 yakuza failed their boss for the last time. After messing up an important job, the boss gave them 2 choices: honorably commit suicide, or go to Thailand to get a sex reassignment surgery in order to become "female" idols. After a gruesome year training to become idols, they successfully debut, with overwhelming popularity, much to their dismay. This is where their tragedy truly begins.
Details
- First air date
- 2018-07-03
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 10 episodes
- Genres
- Comedy, Animation
- Network
- BS11
- Production
- J.C.STAFF, Kodansha, Toei Video Company
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Daisuke Ono as Kentarō Yamamoto (voice)
- Satoshi Hino as Ryū Tachibana (voice)
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Kazuhiko Sugihara (voice)
- Keiji Fujiwara as Inugane (voice)
- Kaori Maeda as Mari Tachibana (voice)
- Yuka Nukui as Airi Yamamoto (voice)
- Junichi Suwabe as Mandarin Kinoshita (voice)
- Natsuki Hanae as Kimura (voice)
- Ayumi Mano as Yui (voice)
- Hikaru Akao as Chika Sugihara (voice)
- Shinji Kawada as George (voice)
- Yasuhiro Mamiya as Kōji Nagata (voice)
Creators and crew
- Chiaki Kon - Director
Episodes
Episode 1: We Became Idols / Boss! Sensei Producer! / Bittersweet Memories / He Understands / Down With The Yakuza
Forced to surgically alter their bodies into girls, three Yakuza brothers debut on the underground J-Pop idol scene after a year of intense training.
Episode 2: But... / Unthinkable / The Trick to Talk Shows / What's Girl Talk? / Do You Love Each Other?
Junior Yakuza member Kimura becomes the idol unit's personal assistant. Boss Inugane books a live radio interview to promote the Gokudols.
Episode 3: Girl Master / Star of the Silver Screen / Redoing / Fourth Man / Idol at the Trail
The Gokudols are sent to audition for a Yakuza movie. Mari and Chika visit their fathers for the first time since their transformations.
Episode 4: Secret of Gokudols / live legend / super love / soul food / scratch / grudge
Chika sees her former lover in the audience of one of their performances. The Gokudols visit a local old-fashioned café for a television appearance.
Episode 5: Glory free winner / Fall in love / Japanese dream / Don and boss / Family bond / Gokudolls victim meeting
After hearing of blood brother Inugane's lucrative idol business, the New York mafia boss Steve sends one of his own members to join the Gokudols.
Episode 6: Worker, unite! / Showdown Baba / Pigeon / Honesty / Couples Zenya / Five Devils
The overworked girls inform Boss Inugane that they're too tired to perform. An influential enka singer insults the Gokudols during a live radio show.
Episode 7: Nirvana / Something important / Parent's teachings / Big Rookie / High school girl / Senpai and Kouhai
The Gokudols must share the theater stage with an actual high school girl after Boss Inugane allows her to join the idol unit as their understudy.
Episode 8: Hidden Camera / Taking Courage / Shall We Dance or Revenge / Interview / Lower Body Exercise / Beard and Bust
With enka singer Natsuko's financial backing, the men and women whose lives were ruined by the Gokudols cast their own idol unit to take them head-on.
Episode 9: Change of Group / My Angel / It's Amazing!! / Miserable... / With a Musical Instrument / Amazingly Breathtaking / Coverage
While dejected that the fans are unresponsive to her efforts, understudy Yui informs Boss Inugane that another talent agency has recruited her.
Episode 10: Soul of Yakuza / Came to Nothing / Hell-p Me! / Graduation / Step-Up / The Last Time...
Tired of berating the Gokudols for their lack of showmanship, Boss Inugane gives them a surprising ultimatum that will alter the idol unit's future.
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