Jossy’s is a lively comedy that finds humor not only in superhero battles but also in the way its characters deal with one another. Five women are chosen to form a color-coded superhero team simply because their surnames contain characters associated with different colors. Their ordinary lives are already busy enough, however, and getting the entire team together can be more difficult than fighting the villains.
Some of the comedy comes from a familiar Japanese form of social restraint often described as enryo: holding back out of politeness, modesty, hesitation, or reluctance to impose on others. The characters do not always step forward with the confidence expected of superheroes. They hesitate, defer, complain, or hope that someone else will take responsibility first.
That attitude becomes especially funny within the sentai format. A superhero team is normally expected to arrive together, strike confident poses, and place its mission above personal convenience. The members of Jossy’s remain far more concerned with their jobs, schedules, relationships, and individual priorities. Their reluctance and awkwardness make them feel less like perfectly disciplined heroes and more like ordinary people who have been given an extremely inconvenient responsibility.
The film also playfully reworks sentai, Japan’s tradition of color-coded superhero teams. Familiar costumes, poses, group dynamics, special attacks, and monster battles are treated affectionately but never too seriously. The Japanese Film Database describes the movie as a comedy that pays homage to sentai films and television programs while filling the story with relaxed, offbeat humor.
Jossy’s remains cheerful because it does not mock the genre with hostility. Its comedy comes from placing recognizable human behavior inside a heroic structure that normally leaves little room for hesitation or self-interest. The contrast between dramatic superhero duties and the members’ reluctance to inconvenience themselves gives the film much of its distinctly Japanese comic charm.
Enryo is commonly described as restraint or hesitant self-expression intended to avoid imposing on others or disturbing interpersonal harmony. It should be presented as a useful cultural lens rather than a fixed personality shared by every Japanese person.