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WAR…. and buns on wheels

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November 10, 2007 by miki

OK, about time I posted something Japanese. Got this off the boosted videos from YouTube:

There’s about 6 “episodes” total to watch if you follow the YouTube link. Yeah, we’re talking tanks that look more like featureless skull marshmallows set to wheels and voiced by Alvin and the Chipmunks. Their white squishy heads are spose to be rice balls or Japanese buns of some sort. [referenced off this blog.] Snack buns on wheels… makes a little more sense, right? It keeps getting more cutesy and even kind of bothersome on some levels, if you think about cartoony inserts of war, Iraq, Fidel Castro-lookalikes, and tanks that breed and bottle feed baby tanks… Of course, I still keep watching cause it’s got visual appeal I can’t deny.

Sigh. So confused.

Speaking of Japanese bun cartoon characters, here’s a really big one with the little kids, Anpanman:

Yup, bean paste bun guys who save people and feed them chunks of their head. (at around 4:40.) “Hai! Dozo.” “Haha!.. numnumnum.. Oishi!” Looks pretty damn wholesome to me.


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  1. Jeremy says:

    Even though you warned me about the bean paste superman feeding the kid his head… it still totally took me by surprise. Is every children’s related form of entertainment just a thinly veiled advertisement for something? Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go catalog my old Transformers action figures.

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