Saturday Morning Cartoons Vacations in Japan
Posted by Eliza Gauger
I just received a voicemail from Qais, who was appointed this week’s Toontwink via lottery, pleading, and feats of strength. The message was mostly garbled screaming, which I take to mean he’s still busy with his Flynn DeMarco sleepover or whatever.
Seeing as I am currently at my day job, dreaming about my real job, propped by a tripod fashioned of human femurs over a sweltering keyboard, this is really all we can afford: a casually perverse Japanese TV drama about a scorned woman who finds a beautiful young man half-dead in a cardboard box, and then, wait for it, drags him into her apartment.
Originally intended as a Japanese remake of the Seattle documentary film about my quest for Ectomo’s new writers (”Bughunter Q: Eliza Gauger and the Search for the New Scum)”, something is lost in the translation, here. But the essence, the geist of the tale is the same.
Please enjoy, with our compliments, the first episode of Kimi Wa Petto.
Categories: New Scum, Eliza's Muffed Sense of Equilibrium, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Japan
Posted at 3:35 pm on August 30, 2008
6 Comments -
Just checked the IMDB link to Bughunter Q. I call shenanigans.
Comment by mathiasx — August 30, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Uh, Eliza…er, Mistress? It should be gaygamer.net, not .com.
Please don’t kill me.
Comment by racerabbit — August 30, 2008 @ 4:27 pm
It’s true! Thanks for catching that, racerabbit, I fixed it.
Comment by Eliza Gauger — August 30, 2008 @ 5:11 pm
This is… Amazing. I was completely floored by the lovely craziness in a seemingly innocent drama series.
That until I found out that this series is actually based on manga. I was disappointed that this isn’t simply crazy japanese TV, but normal manga-inspired TV.
Comment by Leticia Lopes — August 31, 2008 @ 2:30 am
Aw, don’t let something like -that- ruin the show for you.
Comment by Eliza Gauger — August 31, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
my god, this is crazy! can we get weekly installments of this??
Comment by DocSprinkl — September 15, 2008 @ 5:35 am