CRAZY GO NUTS!

Aug 12, 2007 12:39

MAN THATS TOTALLY NUTS!


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thekamisama August 13 2007, 00:34:17 UTC
I had never noticed how much that scene in Pom Poko is a direct riff on that woodcut.

Good eye there Esmeralda!

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fry1138 August 12 2007, 20:23:57 UTC
Instantly made me think of the character from the Viz comic called "Buster Gonad"...who has unfeasibly large testicles.....yeah viz is rather childish...but briefly it was a guilty pleasure.

http://www.viz.co.uk/

check out the archive to see a buster gonad misadventure....yeah childish and british.....and probebly some other ish's.

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thekamisama August 13 2007, 00:44:29 UTC
thats a totally different Viz than over here in America. Our Viz is a publisher/translator of popular Japanese comics.

I love the British "funny" style of comics. It doesn't look a damn thing like French or American ones. The closest thing we had to British style cartoonists were Dr. Seuss and Charles Addams. And I only think of them in the same style cause those old Grimly Feendish comics look like a cross between the two.

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shebarikiri August 12 2007, 20:39:57 UTC
Oh my god... tanukis! That's what Shukaku is supposed to be. I'm not sure if they really have big testicles or not.

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thekamisama August 13 2007, 00:48:57 UTC
Tanukis! Japanese racoon dogs! correct! That was one of the mythical attributes. Along with shape changing and turning leaves into money.
In the old Mario games, the ears and tail he gets from the leaf is supposed to be him transforming into a tanuki.

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shebarikiri August 13 2007, 03:19:43 UTC
Yup. I wonder what this will make you think of Gaara now. (Possessed by demon tanuki :P)

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