The long and short of it is that Penguindrum is absolutely mental. Perhaps even more so than the likes of the Monogatari series, it - as an animated composition - represents an absolute head-screw of a show. And that's what makes it so incredible. It's like a psychology text-book on crack dosed down on a handful of poppers and Pop Party compilations.
And Rock Over Japan is the cherry on its conveniently penguin-shaped cake. It's rare that an anime contains an insert song that completely outshines both the OP and ED theme, but with Penguindrum and Rock Over Japan, it is absolutely, resolutely the case.
Accompanying as it does female lead Himari's transformation sequence, it seems to epitomize the very best excesses of J-Pop. If you grabbed someone off the street and asked them to imagine what J-Pop sounded like, it'd probably be a bit like this. It's game-show theme tune cum pop-punk kiddy-disco. It's cruise-ship lemonade skating on a silver lining of sparkly, pink nu-electro.
It is, above all, Fabulous Max.
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