Nobody remembers this one, and that's a crime. Goemon runs through absurdist scenarios with the deadpan confidence of someone who knows the joke is funnier if he doesn't break character, turning a giant robot and a threat to reality itself into pure setup for the next punchline. The show trusts you to laugh at the escalation itself, each episode finds new ways to pile chaos on top of chaos until the whole thing collapses into something ridiculous. Comedy this committed to its own nonsense, without winking, is rarer than it should be. A giant robot and a ninja saving two worlds becomes irrelevant; what matters is how stupidly sincere everything is.

Goemon is a brave, good-hearted ninja from Edo, a lost city in the Game World. When the evil god Makuamuge declares war and plots to conquer both the Game World and the real one, he sends his loyal soldiers into the Human World to warp it and secure victory for evil. Goemon, with his friends, his girlfriend and a giant robot, sets out to defeat the villain's henchmen, who resort to nastier tricks as the fight goes on. Armed with courage and a supply of sweet rice balls, he fights to protect both worlds in this comedy adventure.