Xiao Xiao

January 18, 2013 12:52 PM

In 2001, Zhu Zhiqiang began uploading a series of martial arts animations featuring stick figures to Newgrounds.com. The name of the series was Xiao Xiao.
posted by Evernix (9 comments total)

I wasted so much time on this, and the spin off sites. Amazing stuff. Cheers!
posted by Samizdata at 12:53 PM on January 18, 2013

Somewhere on a lonely forgotten directory of one of my hardrives, exist all of these movies in the original formats.

Also, Red Vs. Blue in realplayer format. And a bunch of Homestar Runner rips.

I am old.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 12:55 PM on January 18, 2013 [13 favorites]

This is a total blast from the past.
posted by deezil at 1:00 PM on January 18, 2013

And now I remember being SOOOOO frustrated they never released Mutilator 3.

Sigh.

Kind put me off the whole trend.
posted by Samizdata at 1:02 PM on January 18, 2013

I remember playing the vaguely FPS one with some friends in the computer lab and feeling like we were getting away with something.
posted by codacorolla at 1:17 PM on January 18, 2013

Also from this era Ninjai - original site dead but mirror of episodes 1-12 here - (warning : stylish flash violence and cheesy voicedubs)
posted by lalochezia at 1:26 PM on January 18, 2013

I loved Xiao Xiao. The FPS flash games were awesome.
posted by mediated self at 2:44 PM on January 18, 2013

Oh man. I loved this. One of my favorite early viral videos/memes.
posted by limeonaire at 6:08 PM on January 18, 2013

Was Madness related to this in any way? I think I still have that somewhere. Looks similar, but more guns and zombie Jesus.
posted by Ghidorah at 5:41 AM on January 19, 2013