FURTALITY!

April 15, 2006 6:49 AM

Samurai Kittens - 99% fun and hilarity watching little martial-artsified kittens die in horrifying ways, 1% ad for IFC's Samurai 7, an anime about Akiro Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. I don't normally go for this stuff, but all ya gotta do is mash a few buttons, and even I got to see all 9 "Furtalities" and enter the drawing for a dvd box set. Check out the fake ads, I won't spoil them for ya.
posted by beth (12 comments total)

NSFW if you work at PETA. Also small children might be traumatized, it's pretty visceral and bloody death depicted here. (Which makes it even better since it's paired with the cuteness of kittens).
posted by beth at 6:51 AM on April 15, 2006

Don't worry. The kittens will have their revenge.


posted by magodesky at 7:04 AM on April 15, 2006

The mushroom furtality is excellent.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:26 AM on April 15, 2006

why is it to hard to start a fight again? i had to reload the damn page just because i didnt want to submit my score?!
posted by lemonfridge at 7:37 AM on April 15, 2006

Cute (?) and really slick animation and detail, but painfully lacking in the fight mechanics department. If you're really interested in seeing all the fatalities, I won every fight in four moves by holding the right arrow key and selecting the middle level attack.
posted by XQUZYPHYR at 7:38 AM on April 15, 2006

Are they supposed to all have blue fur?
posted by Drexen at 7:43 AM on April 15, 2006

You gotta have blue hair.
posted by magodesky at 7:47 AM on April 15, 2006

The fake banner ads are awesome. It took me a minute to realize they were part of the joke.
posted by nev at 8:02 AM on April 15, 2006

Priceless.


1 sec of play = 1 sec of time wasted.
posted by lalochezia at 8:32 AM on April 15, 2006

Love the music, love the sense of humor, love the details, hate hate hate the poorly done fighting.

I guess that's to be expected (this is a flashvertisement that needs to appeal to the broadest possible audience, including people who don't know how to play fighting games), but if only this had had some kind of decent gameplay it would've been up there with Alien Hominid as one of the best Flash games evar.
posted by xthlc at 8:39 AM on April 15, 2006

Awesome.
posted by tkolar at 9:48 AM on April 15, 2006

reminded me of samurai pizza cats, but with more gore. i hadn't thought about that cartoon in AGES.
posted by Igor XA at 11:17 AM on April 15, 2006