This edition was heading towards "weird japanese things" this time around. But I'm holding off on posting too much weird japan stuff. Japan has enough nonsensical animation to bloat 10 of these posts.

Chances are your thanksgiving was quiet and your stomach is now greasy and rotund with the meal of turkey and/or possum you have delicately quaffed.

And to help you relax, a nice relaxing song and video from TOBIAH
"I Love Your Music"
which seems to be a war between pink prism people and 8-bit monsters.

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I think chiptunes and turkey go together quite well
and so to continue the theme

ROBOTTO KOUJOU
by Jonas Tunander

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now something a little sweeter

Lulu Mae

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Now for some weird Japan stuff.
Now.

As some of you may recall, I've made about 2 or 3 posts now where I've posted various things by Koji Morimoto (Memories, Animatrix). In fact in my first post I believe I posted his Noiseman Sound Insect film because I loved it so much. And I think in my last one I posted a bunch of music videos he directed.
Now.
Noiseman Sound Insect was the one I posted about the robot that ate noise and people and spit them up as little drunken ghosts. There was a character in it named Dr.Franken. Now as I said in some other post, Dr.Franken was a character from a short film Morimoto had worked on.

Specifically a frightening and imaginative blend of short films from the creators of Akira known as

ROBOT CARNIVAL

Pretty much all the gods of good modern japanese animation (not shite like bakugan) worked on these films. They still look as great as anything today.

AND THEY WERE MADE IN FUCKING 1987 HOLY SHIT. It also has a quick cameo of Tetsuo from Akira.
Anyway, a kindly person has put the whole film on youtube.
I'm just going to post my favorite bits, since hey its my ng blog and fek u.

The Theme of Robot Carnival is robots. Each film deals with the future and technology in some bizarre and fascinating fashion, and its a real treat these things havent been forgotten.

SO HERE WE GO. Each part is about 10 minutes long. And are for the most part, frightening and emotionally upsetting in some way. And brilliant.

THE INTRO TO ROBOT CARNIVAL
directed by Atsuko Fukushima who would later go on to animate on Kiki's Delivery Servive from Studio Gibli and directed a segment in last year's GENIUS PARTY

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FRANKEN'S GEARS
by the aforementioned Koji Morimoto

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NIGHTMARE by Takashi Nakamura
who later went on to become the backround artist in Akira and and direct Catnapped and Fantastic Children

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1987.
Those were made in 1987.
And all the dudes behind that are still making great stuff today.

On the other end of the anime spectrum, here is some stuff that I really can't explain at all.

First, this amusing and strange commercial for some food, which upon looking at other commercials for it, appears to be brown beans floating in a transparent fluid. Yum.

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Everytime you eat tomatoes from now on
you will remember this next vid
and feel pity for the poor fruit

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Here, a ridiculously adorable caterpillar addresses the audience on the proper methods of balloon bouncing.

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Now, on the other side of the pond, Michel Gagne. I've talked about Gagne before. He's worked on all sorts of animated films. Osmosis Jones, Iron Giant, Ratatouille.
And I posted a clip of his INSANELY TWISTED SHADOW PUPPET SHOW.
And I've also posted his award winning short film PRELUDE TO EDEN which has become a huge cult classic since he made it.
This is an old OLD student film of his.
And as you can see, his amazing talent at animating fire and lasers and fluids was apparent even back then.
this was made in 1985

A TOUCH OF DECEIT

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Here's some neat typography animation a friend showed me.
THINK

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I posted a bunch of rap and hip hop videos from various artists last time and people seemed to enjoy it so here's another video from the stones throw album

from the illustrious MF DOOM

Monkey Suite

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Most people know Ralph Bakshi because he was one of the most revolutionary cartoonists in the 60's 70's and 80's choosing to make more personal adult animation than doing what all the corporations were doing.
However, he did make a handful of "cute" cartoons
and this is one of them
Marvin Digs (1967)

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I love when people cut up cartoons and make little fantrailers with them.
Some of them are so well done they get a good laugh out of me
this is one of them
BEARD TO BE FEARD

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And thats it for this week.
Have a happy thanksgiving!!!!