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Kikkoman!

 
 
w1rebaby
18:11 / 18.11.02
Strange Japanese flash time, again for lovers of soy sauce, tempura and some other food items which I'm not sure about. And pecs. Big pecs.

It's work safe unless confusing things are banned where you work.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:21 / 18.11.02
Suspect I missed a glorious soundtrack there! Watch fish headed Kikkoman defeat the dark forces of "Heints" and other inferior condimental agents! YAY! The prawn tempura looked oddly like cats though and why was the happy little white cat hanged by the neck suddenly?

Brought to mind that happy tune about "Fishheads, fishheads, rolly polly fishheads..."
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:27 / 18.11.02
I was cool with it up until the prawn tempura. Then I realized that it's sick, obscene and wrong.
 
 
Linus Dunce
21:14 / 18.11.02
Yes, that chilli sauce that looks like watered-down marmalade is the only thing that should go go on the prawn.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
23:55 / 18.11.02
I think I'm broken.
 
 
grant
01:36 / 19.11.02
Explanation from a friend with a Japanese connection:
Atsuko went
out of her way to "show
me" the Kikkoman animation -- she thinks it's a
riot. She also let me in on
things that aren't easy for folks raised in the
US to get: rather than
little foil ketchup-style packets, soy sauce is
generally available in
little plastic fish bottles-- hence kikkoman's
fish head; the animators used
slightly different chinese characters to spell
kikkoman-- hence "kikkomaso"
in the url-- probably to evade litigation.... But
even with this explained,
it's hilariously fucked up.
 
 
w1rebaby
01:52 / 19.11.02
Do our Flash animations look just as fucked-up to the Japanese, I wonder? Does Tales Of The Blode really fuck with their heads?
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
01:36 / 21.11.02
Oh my dear sweet Christ in heaven that is the most wonderful thing that has ever existed...
 
 
Margin Walker
01:35 / 23.11.02
Well, I was down with it until I saw the dead kitty hanging from a rope. That's just plain wrong. Anyways, here's a rough translation of the song:

okay first it says to sit back from the TV when you watch and turn on the lights in the room [this comes on at the beginning of kids shows]

then the song......
opening image Kikkoman- [above] Soy Sauce Fighter
[Fight! Kikkoman!]
first verse:
he came from the planet Soybean
the messenger of justice, Kikkoman
if you put Shoyu on quick
your food will be grub
eating out, send it flying! [in Japanese it was 'buttobase' but that means like 'send flying' or punch really hard]

desperation move- Kikko Punch!

[the cat is wondering what to put on the eggs][Kikkoman says]
"you put soy sauce on sunny-side up eggs!"
[cat] "thank you Kikkoman!"

Show me/Show you etc

second verse:
he came from the planet Soybean
that bad looking mutha is Kikkoman!
shoyu does a body good
it also kills bacteria [the kid is Giant from Doraemon, turns cool]
sauce and ketchup, they taste bad!

desperation move- Kikko Beam!
[the cat is wondering what to put on the eggs again][Kikkoman says]
"I thought I told it's SOY SAUCE!!!"
[then the cat kills itself and 'that ain't right' is written on the side- as in 'you don't put soy sauce on suny side-up eggs']

Show Me Show You [a play on soy sauce in Japanese, Shoyu]
Kikkoman!
Allright!

etcetc....
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:05 / 03.12.02
A translated/subtitled version is available here.
 
  
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