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He dresses like a gay biker boy from the 1970s. He spouts enough annoying, inane clichés about ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ to cure any seasoned insomniac. Oh, and if you look closely you can see the exact line where his foundation ends and his neck begins.

So what’s the deal with Shaktiman? Did someone wake up after years in cold storage and said, “Hey, you know what? Kids are stupid.”

I caught an episode the other day. Get this. Bad guy with bad wig (that might as well be a placard saying ‘Note: this is bad guy’) is doing something bad to someone.
Shaktiman comes to the rescue. Oh damn. There’s still fifteen minutes on the clock before the next programme starts. Never mind, Shaktibaby looks like he got a plan. He stands there in front of the villain, hands firmly placed on his hips. I’m thinking, maybe he’s going to start shaking to ‘Shake your groove thing’.

Instead, he starts rambling for fourteen minutes about how the villain is evil and how he is here to stop him. Yup. One line and fourteen minutes worth of different interpretations. Oh lucky, lucky me.

Oh and the best part is, the villain stands right there and LISTENS quietly. Hey dumb ass, Shaktiman’s a bit busy right now, run for it, you ninny.

Then Shaktiman throws some bad special effects at villain. Villain dodges. Laughs wicked laugh (So if you had any doubts, now you KNOW he’s the bad guy). Shaktiman throws another poorly designed special effect at him. Shaktiman wins.

Is it over? Ha! You wish. Shaktiman has another ‘important’ message to give. This time to the viewers (huh?). So he begins delivering another monotonous boring speech, while staring deeply into the camera, looking as if his toilet hasn’t been flushed in a while. It’s a wonder his jaw hasn’t dislocated with all that yapping.

Someone just informed me that apparently a kid somewhere decided to ape Shaktiman and jumped off a building in an attempt to fly. An excellent idea. The next time the show airs, I think I'll follow suit.