Outrage Girl Shiomi is the sort of title that has a lot going for it but has almost as many strikes against it. Its undeniably wellmade but at the same time rather hard to recommend. The mangas central premise is that yakuza boss they just call him a mob boss but lets be honest with ourselves we all know what that means Gen Shiomi whose clique is embroiled in a mob war gets extensive plastic surgery to disguise himself. Through the machinations of a perverted doctor he ends up looking like a high school girl specifically a famous idol. Fair enough strange premises are nothing new to the medium and there are all kinds of angles you could pull out of this sort of thing. So what frustrates about OGS is that it so frequently is decent sometimes is good and occasionally is great yet also manages to fumble the ball when it comes to anything thats not specifically schoolbased comedy hijinks or mobster action scenes of which there are surprisingly many and almost all of which are manga highlights. In particular there is just enough weird out of place fanservice and just enough shitty cracks at the expense of crossdressers and transpeople that even if youre a part of neither group it will inevitably wear on your nerves unless youre thoroughly desensitized to such things. When crossdressing schoolboy Rei is introduced and offers to take Shiomi to meet his friends it doesnt take a clairvoyant to guess correctly that theyre depicted as gonky middle aged men in maidthemed drag. Its just rote and is honestly more sighworthy than actively offensive at least in the opinion of this particular transwoman but its frustrating nonetheless. There arent a ton of these scenes but there are enough that it detracts greatly from the overall experience. Really thats the main problem with OGS. That if it were just slightly differenta few scenes changed or omitted one or two characters rewrittenit would be great and much easier to go to bat for. In its best moments its reminiscent in tone of One Punch Man in the way it seamlessly blends ridiculous physical comedy with actual serious action but it simply falls back on laziness too often to be truly recommendable to most people and sadly it doesnt really seem like it has an interest in pulling itself out of this holding pattern. Despite being onpoint in the technical sense I must restate again that the action scenes are a highlight and are very well done especially anything that involves Shiomi and a katana it has too much holding it back to be truly great.