Go Sukashi! - is new to me, courtesy of my buddy Danny... And yes... I will be watching all of the episodes. I actually hope Go Sukashi! takes off to the point of a proper anime or Japanese live action type of producer steps in with funding for oodles of episodes 23 mins long each. I'll take 26 please. If this was a pilot episode and I was Gen Fukunaga... I'd pick it up. Enjoy the show...
Go Sukashi! - Episode 1
Go Sukashi! Episode 2 - if you dare...
Go Sukashi! - Episode 3 - If you make it past this and enjoyed it like me... subscribe to their YouTube channel
Time to share some Mario Madness. A little bit of old school with some crazy new glitch tricks and some unreal engine Mario goodness. I was able to do a few of the tricks in the first video when I was a kid... but there are some glitch/tricks that I was completely blown away by... Enjoy the shows!
Mario in 3-D anyone? Well, 3-D of a 2-D game turns out like this... :)
This parody proves once and for all the impact this game made on my generation.
Hope you feel like playing with Mario right about now... you could probably waste your entire life watching similar clips on youtube, but these are the best IMO. Until next time my anime and gamer junkies!
Yokay, so you're here, that means you probably found this article because you love cats, like anime plushies that happen to also be kitties, or you are one of the few English reading blokes that digs on "Kuruneko". For the rest of my regular audience that already knows what Kuruneko is, give yourself a pat on the back. You are one cat loving otaku that truly knows how to dig up the good stuff. I think I'll start calling yall "nekotaku". (Great a new internet meme has just been born) As for me... no pats on the back deserved as I'm behind the times a bit. But hey, "Better Nate than lever!" Even Suppie who is pretty well versed in Japanese culture, hadn't heard of Kuruneko yet, and if she did, she wasn't sharing any new anime goodness with me... If you have no idea what Kuruneko is and haven't skipped ahead yet, take a ride with me as I discover what Suppie has been hiding from me...
くるねこ (Kuruneko)
First a blog entry-graduating to a manga, progressing on to anime fame in 50 episode shorts each about 3 minutes long. (A second season is in the works already! Wow I'm already way behind. Good thing each episode is only 3 mins long) The genre is a slice of life / comedy anime just about every day life with these cute cats that sometimes have an attitude. But isn't that the proper job of a cat?
Kuruneko over the last couple of years has been a Internet meme mostly in the circles of cat loving online Japanese communities. Not surprising then that in the English speaking communities, that Kuruneko is almost unheard of. I'm hoping that a big dog like Broccoli picks this cute anime title up and translates it for us nekotaku. The 3 minute long episodes make for really short attention span kids and they tend to do shows like that... We'll see...
Of course the more wired we get, the more parodies and ytmnd stuff will happen to your original creation... In this case... IT'S A GOOD THING! - I'll share with you the ShonenSean approved versions of these Kuruneko / Vocaloid smashups. janbox00 has some really cute vids up on their Youtube channel and they are all worth watching. This one is my favorite:
Now that you are an expert on Kuruneko, you probably are spreading this Japanese internet meme to all your English speaking comrades. I hope you get bragging rights as the first in your circle to spam the videos or make your own smash-up. Have fun! If you can't get enough of the Kuruneko goodness, Japan has all kinds of Kuruneko goodies, the first of which are plushies and to my knowledge they are currently only being offered by OtakuFuel in the stateside regions anyways... If you are interested in the family of Kuruneko plushies, here's some pics:
Kuruneko Family portrait
胡ぼん Hu Lanterns
もんさん Mr. Mon
ポ子 Child P.O.
トメ Tome
ぼん Lanterns
Which Kuruneko-chan is your favorite? For me I think it has to be Hu Lanterns. When my nice saw them all she about died. It was kind of like watching a Ryou Kuroyanagi reaction or something... glad it made her day... I hope that if Kuruneko is new to you that it made your day today too! That's all for now... Ho na na!
