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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
I've been trying to look for this anime I remember watching one episode of a couple of years ago.
It was this fantasy action-comedy series from the mid-90s (1996 IIRC) and it had an English dub, which was the version I remember watching. The protagonist was this selfish dude with long blonde hair who wore a black tank top and a red bandanna around his head.
As for the plot of the episode I watched, the protagonist decides to go rescue a kidnapped princess so that he can use the reward money offered to pay his rent. The protagonist runs into a blue genie who offers to make him rich and famous if he lets the genie join him on his adventure. The protag doubts the genie's powers, and the genie responds by... turning himself into a big-breasted anime girl, which somehow convinces the protagonist that the genie is legit.
Does anyone remember what this show is called? If it helps, I came across this anime during early quarantine on an anime streaming channel on my Roku box (it could've been RetroCrush, but I checked through their entire lineup and couldn't find anything similar to this; for all I know it could've been taken off their service in the two years it's been since I've seen it).