The Shinesmen are actually a secret project of the Right Trading Co., as hapless salaryman Hiroya Matsumoto discovers when his first day on the job involves being fitted for a mecha suit. Invaders from the planet Voice have entered the corporate world in order to launch a hostile takeover of Earth, and Right Trading is obliviously co-sponsoring the aliens' new theme park exhibit. Hiroya finds himself serving double duty as both a gung-ho salesman networking with the aliens and a costumed superhero fighting them off. But are his corporate-themed weapons, such as the Business Card Cutter and the Tie Clip Bomb, up to the task at hand? And do the chosen colors of his team members "Shinesman Sepia" and "Shinesman Moss-Green" really have cross-demographic appeal? This looks like a job for the Marketing Department!
As if juggling a full-time sales job and an unpredictable hero gig wasn't bad enough, Hiroya also has to deal with his kid brother Yoda's obsessive adoration of another five-member superhero team whose colors are simpler and cooler. And then there's the evil alien princess who's decided Hiroya has to be her boyfriend...
Laugh with them or at them?
AnimeWorks is billing Shinesman as a Power Rangers parody, but its scope is far broader than that. This video's eye-rolling ironic mockery is aimed at everything from Japanese corporate culture and cartoon fanboys to mecha-team anime. Virtually every character is a ridiculously stiff stereotype who speaks entirely in exposition and clichés, as if to continuously display the worst possible extremes of science fiction, adventure, romance and business dramas alike. Pop-culture references abound, including a quick homage to South Park thrown into the translation.
