KarmaKula chapter 4: “BOGI YOGI”
What can I say: if there is a series that always repeats itself, with no thrills or continual stylistic variations this surely isn’t Karma Kula! After the first two episodes full of swordfighting and the third chapter with an horror/mysticism setting, on June the Bellord family and all the crew that made the live action project annihilates any possible expectation by releasing another surprise, a sort of hallucinated journey among strange characters and situations that are far beyond the boundary of insane humour.
This time too there is no fight, just to be clear, but entertainment remains: during his journey toward the temple of monk-killing cult worshippers introduced in the third episode, in BOGI YOGI the Karma Kula runs into a bath house fallen in disgrace. Earlier the business was flourishing, but because of the demoniac cult the monks disappeared with the other customers too, and what remains now is a holy man smoking marijuana all the time and a hallucinated atmosphere due to the aforementioned smokes.
Once established that at the heart of the new chapter’s plot there is marijuana (and the Ninjai Gang cares to specify this on YouTube too), all the other bizarre gimmicks shown on the screen seem perfectly coherent and understandable. The bathouse owner is realistically ridiculous in his attempt to silence the holy man which says he has seen the worshippers at work with his own eyes, the digital effects are appropriate and the chasing between the hallucinated bath owner and the holy man (with some occasional martial arts blows just to avoid betraying the main theme of the series) is bizarrely funny. Not so much lucid and pointless but surely funny 
The hallucinated journey in this doped atmosphere ends up with our hero asking to have a bath, for the owner’s joy and… the joy of the holy man in a state of eternal joy The next Karma Kula chapter as well, on-line by the next 8th of July, will be set in the bathouse, and frankly I don’t dare to imagine any more what the Ninjai Gang arranged to continue a series that has eclecticism as its mostly distinctive trait.
Related posts
- KarmaKula chapter 8: “Flowers of Illusion”
- KarmaKula chapter 7: “The Riverboat”
- KarmaKula chapter 6: “Big Monk, Little Monk”
- KarmaKula chapter 5: “Finally a chance to relax”
- KarmaKula chapter 3: “Harvesting the Ohas”
- KarmaKula chapter 2: “The Frog in the Well”
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