Cat Soup (AKA: Anime on LSD)
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thistlechaserI've experienced many odd things from Japan, but this by far (far far far) takes the cake.
There's no dialogue in this film, so I'm having a little trouble describing what the storyline is supposed to be. I'll tell you what was told to me about it: The main character (a cat), tries to rescue his brother from Death, but doesn't save all of him. Sound reasonable enough? Ha!
This is our main character, a cat with very dilated eyes. That's his mother next to him.
This is his father. Clearly a fine, upstanding man-- eh, cat. (Text was not added by me.)
People (cats) in their hometown are actually just ... well, look. They made squeaky-toy sounds instead of talking.
So Death (who looks like an Indian god) comes to their door to take the brother away. (Nice of him, huh?) I don't know what he's saying, but that's all he says for as long as we see him, up until the end of the scene.
Death sucks the thoughts right out of brother's head. "Brains! Brains!"
So our main character catches up with Death and Brother, and fights back the only way he knows how. That's right, a tug-of-war with Death! Death continues to suck.
Things start getting odd, and Brother ends up as things often do when tug-of-war'ed over. Main Character ends up with what I at first thought was Brother's skin.
Yes, I'd be shocked, too.
Death, with half of Brother, has this to say. It's the only thing he has to say over the whole matter. This is about where I sat back in my seat and glanced left and right, looking for an escape.
So Main Character arrives back at home. Doctor is attending Brother (no, there's no reason he's now back home), and the doctor says perhaps the only logical thing in the whole show. (Notice MC is still holding Brother's skin.)
In through the nose... At this point I realized that it must have been Brother's soul, not his skin. Well, whatever it is, MC lets it flow in through Brother's nose.
So now, for some unknown reason, MC takes Brother to the circus. I like this picture. By the looks on their faces, it's quite clear that all those humans are watching this anime, too.
Like all Japanese circuses, this one features a woman getting sawed in half. Hold onto your seats...
This really shouldn't be surprising. Gah.
Which results in this gory shot. (Warning: Gross.) Gah gah.
Crotch shot! (Again: gross.) Her assorted parts and lots of blood go flying in circles all around the circus. I really wish I could say this is the worst that happened. (Be thankful I saved you from seeing her slack-jawed head.)
So after he did that to the woman, he started using smoke or souls to create what the people yelled out. Looking at Brother, I think MC should have requested a healing instead. (This is not just an odd shot, Brother looked like this since his encounter with Death.)
Now things get really, really strange. This giant, cloud and smoke filled bird stomps onto the stage. The handlers (see how tiny they are?) throw ropes around the bird and strangle it to make neon shapes come out of its mouth (buh?). They end up strangling it too much, and the bird thing explodes. What else are cloud/smoke-bird things filled with but water? Enough water to flood the circus, the hometown, the country, then literally the entire world. Really.
Somehow Brother and MC end up on a boat. No reason that we know of. The world was flooding, then *poof!*, they're on a boat. See that thing in the upper corner? That's a butterfly made from a metal hinge.
Main Character has to go to the bathroom, which of course attracts this: I so didn't need to see this. Mmm, yummy!.
Now things get really, really strange. So this thing with perky nipples is floating along in the water. I'm not sure if it's a sex toy or dead or what.
Quite clearly (get it? Heehee!), Perky Nipples Thing is pregnant. It/she falls off the edge of the world (over the waterfall falling off the edge of the world).
As she falls over the edge, she's caught by a pterodactyl. But is she saved? I don't think so!
After the baby pterodactyls eat her, they cry (which I can understand), and those tears fall down, down, down, down and turn into stones. Those stones grow a tree, and the babies which the Perky Nipple Thing had in her end up as fruit on it.
And here I had to stop. This was only ten minutes of the thirty minute film. I had to download a special tool to get the screenshots (it's format is funky so I couldn't get them the normal way), and my trial license for it didn't permit me to view more than ten minutes of video. If anyone wants to see screenshots from the rest of it, leave a comment and I'll try to find some other tool to use.
There's no dialogue in this film, so I'm having a little trouble describing what the storyline is supposed to be. I'll tell you what was told to me about it: The main character (a cat), tries to rescue his brother from Death, but doesn't save all of him. Sound reasonable enough? Ha!
This is our main character, a cat with very dilated eyes. That's his mother next to him.
This is his father. Clearly a fine, upstanding man-- eh, cat. (Text was not added by me.)
People (cats) in their hometown are actually just ... well, look. They made squeaky-toy sounds instead of talking.
So Death (who looks like an Indian god) comes to their door to take the brother away. (Nice of him, huh?) I don't know what he's saying, but that's all he says for as long as we see him, up until the end of the scene.
Death sucks the thoughts right out of brother's head. "Brains! Brains!"
So our main character catches up with Death and Brother, and fights back the only way he knows how. That's right, a tug-of-war with Death! Death continues to suck.
Things start getting odd, and Brother ends up as things often do when tug-of-war'ed over. Main Character ends up with what I at first thought was Brother's skin.
Yes, I'd be shocked, too.
Death, with half of Brother, has this to say. It's the only thing he has to say over the whole matter. This is about where I sat back in my seat and glanced left and right, looking for an escape.
So Main Character arrives back at home. Doctor is attending Brother (no, there's no reason he's now back home), and the doctor says perhaps the only logical thing in the whole show. (Notice MC is still holding Brother's skin.)
In through the nose... At this point I realized that it must have been Brother's soul, not his skin. Well, whatever it is, MC lets it flow in through Brother's nose.
So now, for some unknown reason, MC takes Brother to the circus. I like this picture. By the looks on their faces, it's quite clear that all those humans are watching this anime, too.
Like all Japanese circuses, this one features a woman getting sawed in half. Hold onto your seats...
This really shouldn't be surprising. Gah.
Which results in this gory shot. (Warning: Gross.) Gah gah.
Crotch shot! (Again: gross.) Her assorted parts and lots of blood go flying in circles all around the circus. I really wish I could say this is the worst that happened. (Be thankful I saved you from seeing her slack-jawed head.)
So after he did that to the woman, he started using smoke or souls to create what the people yelled out. Looking at Brother, I think MC should have requested a healing instead. (This is not just an odd shot, Brother looked like this since his encounter with Death.)
Now things get really, really strange. This giant, cloud and smoke filled bird stomps onto the stage. The handlers (see how tiny they are?) throw ropes around the bird and strangle it to make neon shapes come out of its mouth (buh?). They end up strangling it too much, and the bird thing explodes. What else are cloud/smoke-bird things filled with but water? Enough water to flood the circus, the hometown, the country, then literally the entire world. Really.
Somehow Brother and MC end up on a boat. No reason that we know of. The world was flooding, then *poof!*, they're on a boat. See that thing in the upper corner? That's a butterfly made from a metal hinge.
Main Character has to go to the bathroom, which of course attracts this: I so didn't need to see this. Mmm, yummy!.
Now things get really, really strange. So this thing with perky nipples is floating along in the water. I'm not sure if it's a sex toy or dead or what.
Quite clearly (get it? Heehee!), Perky Nipples Thing is pregnant. It/she falls off the edge of the world (over the waterfall falling off the edge of the world).
As she falls over the edge, she's caught by a pterodactyl. But is she saved? I don't think so!
After the baby pterodactyls eat her, they cry (which I can understand), and those tears fall down, down, down, down and turn into stones. Those stones grow a tree, and the babies which the Perky Nipple Thing had in her end up as fruit on it.
And here I had to stop. This was only ten minutes of the thirty minute film. I had to download a special tool to get the screenshots (it's format is funky so I couldn't get them the normal way), and my trial license for it didn't permit me to view more than ten minutes of video. If anyone wants to see screenshots from the rest of it, leave a comment and I'll try to find some other tool to use.
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