Jungle de Ikou!

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Jungle de Ikou
ジャングルDEいこう!
Genre	Comedy, Magical Girl
OVA
Director	Yuji Moriyama
Studio	Studio Fantasia MOVIC Star Child
Licensor	AnimeWorks
Episodes	3
Released	1997

Jungle de Ikou! (ジャングルDEいこう!, Jungre de Ikou!^?, lit. Let's go to the jungle!) is a fanservice anime directed by Yuji Moriyama in 1997. It was licensed in the U.S by Media Blasters and released to DVD and VHS in 2001.

The story is centered on Natsumi, a young student in Japan who gains the powers of Mii, the well-endowed fertility goddess of a tribal culture. Natsumi and friends must save the earth from ultimate destruction from a "god of ruin". Despite the lackluster story, Jungle de Ikou was notable upon its release for its ecchi factor (fan service). That said, Agent Aika came out the same year and rendered Jungle de Ikou's greatest "attributes" rather tame in comparison. Jungle de Ikou remains noteworthy however for its wildly comedic moments.

1 Characters
2 Media
3 In Other Media
4 References

[edit] Characters

Natsumi Rokudo (六道那柘美)

Voiced by: Eri Sendai (Japanese), Melissa Fahn (English)

Natsumi is a ten year old girl, who is given an ancient sculpture by her father. In a dream, the God of Earth, Ahem, appears before her and teaches her a special dance that allows her to transform into the sexy goddess Mii.

Mii (ミィ)

Voiced by: Eri Sendai (Japanese), Melissa Fahn (English)

Through a very bouncy, sexy and jiggly dance, Natsumi can transform into the voluptuous Mii, a spirit of flowers, fertility, and reproduction. Her gigantic breasts are said to represent and contain Earth's life-giving energy. In addition, her already humongous breasts grow larger yet as Mii increases in maternal strength. Mii can also enlarge her whole body to giant size when needed.

Mii's other powers include temporarily increasing her breast size, making her entire body grow, reflecting projectiles off her chest or absorbing them into her cleavage, as well as extreme muscular strength needed to carry her absolutely enormous breasts around without hurting her back or tipping over forward. Usually, men are not able to look at Mii's face because of her big boobs.

Ongo (オンゴ)

Voiced by: Megumi Hayashibara (Japanese), Mona Marshall (English) Lex Lang (Evil Ongo)

The spirit of wood and destruction. Thousands of years ago,he was engaged to the water spirit Rongo, but then the evil inside of him awakened. He then went on a vicious rampage of destruction in the heart of New Guinea, only to be stopped by the beautiful flower spirit Mii,who sacrificed herself to imprison him. In 2009 Fuyuhiko Rokudo, an archaeologist unknowingly brought his statuette prison back to Japan as a gift for his daughter, Natsumi.

Upon his release Ongo was revealed to be a little pygmy and he began to cause all sorts of mischief. Later he became the destroyer again,but Mii defeated him by comforting him with her breasts.

Ongo's powers include being able to summon anything through wood, and as the destroyer he can fire bolts of energy out of his mouth, and extend his claws into long blades.

Rongo (ロンゴ)

Voiced by: Sumi Shimamoto (Japanese), Barbara Goodson (English) Stevie Bloch (Little Rongo)

Aham's daughter, the water spirit. Centuries ago she was engaged to Ongo until he became evil and they were split up. Then in 2009,Rongo spotted Ongo in Tokyo with Mii. Believing Mii had taken the form of a 10 year old and taken Ongo for herself,Rongo took over the body of Natsumi's friend Nami,and tried to remove her skull necklace only to receive an electric shock.

Then upon doing a dance, Rongo showed herself and attacked Natsumi with water, and when Ongo showed up, Rongo was horrified that he didn't remember her. So Rongo challenged Natsumi to a duel and, after almost shooting a fighter jet down with jets of water, Natsumi tried to stop Rongo, but due to interference by Ongo, Rongo was transformed into a smaller child version of herself. Only then did Ongo remember her. Having lost her powers, Rongo requested to stay with Natsumi.

When Ongo became evil and giant again, Rongo tried to stop him, but eventually she left it up to Mii. Rongo's powers include being able to control all forms of water.

Nami Kuki (九鬼波美)

Voiced by: Sumie Baba (Japanese), Michelle Ruff (English)

Natsumi's newest friend, a shy soft-spoken and strange girl, Nami is into things like magic and UFOs. Her dream is to obtain New Guinean magic and take over the world. When Natsumi takes Nami to the museum to look at the artifacts her dad brought back, Nami gets possessed by Rongo - who thinks Natsumi has stolen Ongo from her. Rongo soon was defeated though and gives Nami back, but the two can still bond together when Nami does her own dance of transformation.

Aham (アハム)

Voiced by: Kaneta Kimotsuki (Japanese), Steve Kramer (English)

The spirit of earth, and Mii's ex-husband. When Natsumi inadvertently breaks the seal of Ongo's prison, Aham appears to her in a dream and gives her Mii's necklace. He then demonstrates a perverted dance which he says will protect Natsumi in times of danger. This dance in fact unleashes the spirit of Mii, and gives Natsumi all of her powers. When Ongo became evil again, Aham destroyed the evil spirit inside him.

Aham's powers seem to be the ability do destroy evil with his spear, and to enlarge the spear into a pole.

Takuma Kusanagi (草薙琢磨)

Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese), Barbara Goodson (English)

One of Natsumi's friends, although she hangs out with him a lot, she is disgusted with his perverted attitude. This gets worse when Mii shows up and he becomes infatuated with her. He also has frequent conflicts with his dad, whom he insults for serving peas (which he hates) with whale meat.

Fuyuhiko Rokudo (六道富由彦)

Voiced by: Ryunosuke Ohbayashi (Japanese), Doug Stone (English)

Natsumi's dad, who's an archaeologist. He brought back the statuette from New Guinea with the two gems that had Ongo trapped in them. Natsumi is upset that he still treats her like a little girl, instead of a young woman.

Haruka Rokudo (六道葉琉香)

Voiced by: Mako Hyoudou (Japanese), Dolly Pearl (English)

Natsumi's mother, who's a very devoted housewife.

Manami Izumikawa (泉川真奈見)

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Jessica Gee (English)

The grade's class president and a classmate of Natsumi and Takuma, who is freaked out by all the weird occurrences that have been going on.

Itsuki Kusanagi (草薙五木)

Voiced by: Toshihiko Nakajima (Japanese), Lex Lang (English)

Takuma's dad,he owns an antique shop. He wishes his son would treat him with more respect as they fight constantly, such over the serving of whale meat (which is a rarity) with peas (which his son hates).

[edit] Media

Jungle de Ikou! is primarily a three-part OAV series, but the franchise extended to three drama CDs and a novel. Unfortunately for non-Japanese-speaking audiences, these extensions of the story remain largely mysterious; no translation or synopsis of either is known to exist.

[edit] In Other Media

In the anime Futari Ecchi, also directed by Yuji Moriyama, Ongo and Rongo appear on a cell phone at the beginning of every episode before the disclaimer.

[edit] References

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