Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon

The story follows Goemon's struggles to stop the gang of Peach Mountain shoguns from turning Japan into a Westernized art theater. The plot includes three cinematic musical interludes and battles between giant robots; like other Ganbare Goemon games, it is peppered with surrealist humor and anachronisms. The protagonist of Mystical Ninja is Goemon, a hot-blooded, Kiseru-wielding ninja with blue, bushy hair, loosely based on the legendary thief Ishikawa Goemon. The Prince of Oedo asks him to find those who have mutilated Oedo Castle. Goemon lives in Oedo Town and is friends with Ebisumaru, a strange, gluttonous, fat man who wears a blue headscarf. Ebisumaru is described as lazy and perverted. Their kunai-throwing friend Sasuke is a mechanical ninja (made by the sage of Iga) who enjoys hot baths and Japanese tea. Rounding out the heroes is Yae, a fierce, sword-wielding kunoichi who happens to meet Goemon's gang in Zazen Town. The game's villains come from the Peach Mountain Shoguns organization and are a gang of four "spinners" led by Spring Breeze Dancin' (Danshin Harukaze) and Kitty Lily (Margaret Ranko). They intend to turn Japan into a stage for their talents.