after seeing another ep...i do agree this show is a bit ricockulous......
read this scathing review from The Daily Yomiuri newspaper:
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This small-screen potpourri of platitudes, stereotypes and strange silliness calls itself Galcir (Saturdays, 9 p.m., NTV network). Galcir is short for "gals' circle." When they are not "dancing," the members spend their time fighting, snacking, bullying each other via cell phone, and lounging on the floor of local stores. They don't shoplift stuff. They sit right there and use it in front of the owners, adults who feel powerless to stop them. As one of the shopkeepers says with a moan: "We've been taken over by aliens. In the good old days, this used to be an adults' town."
Yes, and in the good old days continuing series also had to exhibit a minimal level of believable idiocy before getting into prime time. As Galcir shows, anything goes nowadays, and there do not seem to be any adults in the TV industry to stop it.
I hesitate to say this--because whenever I do something even more abominable shows up on screen the next week--
but Galcir earns a spot on my Top 5 list of all-time disgustingly ridiculous dramas. The producers prefer to call it "seishun [youth] comedy."
Oh yes, the storyline. There is one. Shinnosuke has come to Shibuya in search of a 17-year old girl called Imoko, whom Geronimo III wants to see before he dies. Back in Arizona, this modern-day Geronimo sits coughing in his tepee with darling little Momo, an 8-year-old in buckskins, by his side. When she addresses him in English, he admonishes her to speak Japanese. What strange never-never land do they all inhabit?
Well, the Japanese cowboy lived in Tokyo until he was 7 and then somehow turned up in the Arizona desert where he has learned to lasso, cook out, sleep in a tepee, hang glide and dig holes to trap both food and para-para dancers, but he has not had time to master either language.
The opening scene has him being dropped out of what appears to be an old U.S. military plane. He hang glides over the metropolis until he hits Shibuya and sets up camp in a park where the local bicycle cop tries to evict him. His green hang glider comes in handy later. When one of the Angel Heart girls burns down the tepee, he just cuts up the glider, weaves it into a hammock and installs it in the apartment of the kind-hearted cop, who wakes to find meat cooking over an open fire in his six-mat home. The cop desperately puts out the fire by squirting it with ketchup. Voila! We have grilled meat with barbecue sauce.
If this were all just designed to be pure silliness, it might be labeled camp.
What is truly annoying is the scriptwriter's attempt to write in little parables for viewers.
Shinnosuke asks the cop: "Do you want to protect people or rules?" The policeman ponders. Voila again--an awakening.
The para-para girls carry out a concerted "drop dead" ijime bullying campaign by cell phone, driving one girl to contemplate suicide on a high rooftop. (Bullying cell phones...is there any role those little rectangular, multitalented characters, can't play?)
When one of the perpetrators accidentally topples off the building instead of the intended victim, Shinnosuke lassos her in the nick of time but lets her dangle six stories up until she learns what "drop dead" feels like. Just when you think the whole thing could get no sillier, little Momo herself hang glides in from Arizona.
No stars for this one but you will feel like you are punch-drunk and seeing stars if you try to sit through an entire episode of Galcir. I certainly did.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20060420TDY19001.htm
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