The Dorombo Gang bumbles their way across the world chasing a legend while their own incompetence is the real enemy. Every episode wrings comedy from the gap between their ambitions and their actual abilities, watching them scramble through faulty intel and half-baked schemes that somehow keep almost working. The Yatterman show up to stop them, but the real drama is watching three idiots believe they're closer to the Skull Stone than they actually are. This isn't about heroes versus villains. It's about people who want something badly enough to keep trying despite being terrible at it. The show gets funnier the longer you watch because you start rooting for their failures. Sixty episodes of watch-able, dumb-luck chaos that knows exactly what it's doing.
A remake of the 1970s classic, this retelling updates the original story for a modern audience. A legendary treasure promises unimaginable riches, and the Dorombo Gang wants it badly. Their boss sends them after it, but the information he hands them is often faulty, and their hunt proves far harder than they imagined. Standing in their way is Yatterman, a justice-minded duo made up of the young inventor Ganchan and his partner Ai-chan, backed by the mecha Yatterwan. Each episode stands largely on its own: the trio runs a scam and builds a new mecha to chase the prize, only to be stopped by Yatterman and left in tatters to face their boss's punishment. The result is lighthearted adventure comedy built on slapstick and absurdity.