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Post number 5681

mathowie — Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:59:30 -0800

Chack is an artist doing stuff you've never imagined. It's sugar-coated, sappy, happy, cartoony imagery you often find in japanese logos, but the subjects are violent and sexual. Brilliantly funny and shocking. If anyone can translate or knows the story behind this person, please enlighten me. (via andrew and mrpants)

By: aaron

aaron — Sun, 04 Feb 2001 22:31:21 -0800

I don't know what any of this stuff means, but it makes me desperately wish I had a kid. Then I could plaster these images all over her lunch box and send her to school to mindfuck all the other kids and the teachers.

By: m.polo

m.polo — Sun, 04 Feb 2001 22:51:41 -0800

Dunno either - but just seeing that animated GIF of the chick with the golf club is enough to make me kinda worry about someone who wants to find out! (I'm thinkin' that we could print that on those little mylar stickers that make Jesus blink and stuff - imagine what a cool lunch box graphic THAT would make!)

By: bjgeiger

bjgeiger — Sun, 04 Feb 2001 22:53:45 -0800

Love this one.

By: David Gaddis

David Gaddis — Sun, 04 Feb 2001 23:21:48 -0800

Awww, so cuuute... Are these character drawings animated somewhere? I saw a couple of the little animations, like the one with the golf club, but couldn't find much more, though it is hard to navigate through all those question marks. The reason I say that is because the line on the drawings has that kind of chewed-into look that I see on all those flash cartoons on the web.

By: yangwar

yangwar — Sun, 04 Feb 2001 23:41:44 -0800

I've been MeFi lurking for a couple of months now but if finally took *this* to make me register. I just have to ask, if the site is in japanese, how come the page names are in English? Does that make any sense at all?

By: aurelian

aurelian — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 00:10:25 -0800

Hm. Either I've been exposed to a lot more stuff, or not enough, or something... Because what I saw, between the kanji, was fairly pedestrian stuff. Even by Euro-Atlantic standards, let alone Japanese. {shrug}

By: (alice)

(alice) — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 00:13:05 -0800

From what I can read on his fairly standard bio page, he's a 28 year old from Osaka named Chisato Mori. And he's funny.

By: centrs

centrs — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 00:53:25 -0800

i found that page a few months ago and thought the juxtaposition between the cuteness and the violence was very trippy. i've noticed that a lot of japanese pages have the link titles and titles in english.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 05:59:55 -0800

Not that it'll give you much more in the way of enlightenment, but you could always try and run this site through Babelfish. (Just click translate, and wait for it.)

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 06:14:32 -0800

Don't know why, but babelfish only seems to work part of the time... (shrug) Stupid technology!

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 07:13:33 -0800

The experimental moth of roaming it does, Licking it licks? It is! " Me, it is tasty. " That's a mean bear.

By: jbushnell

jbushnell — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:40:03 -0800

Babelfish itself is often brilliantly funny and shocking.

By: Neb

Neb — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:51:03 -0800

The caption on this page translates to: "Ouch! Ooof! Aaah! Ooow! Okay, now it's my turn!" The boy's caption on this page translates to: "Heeeey! I'm going to be late for school!" (in a whiny voice)

By: davidgentle

davidgentle — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 15:07:51 -0800

I think there's a lot of this sort of stuff going on in underground Japanese comics. I got Secret comics Japan a while ago and that has some interesting material in it. Bear in mind that the cutesy look is very much a part of the Japenese culture. I just assume that these artists are trying to subvert their culture in some way

By: davidgentle

davidgentle — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 15:10:17 -0800

Oh yeah: saw this link on Boing Boing ages ago: Bam-B

By: kindall

kindall — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:11:00 -0800

Yeah, a friend and colleague who recently came back from a trip to Tokyo tells me that seemingly everything in Japan has a cute cartoon character connected to it, from your toothbrush to your cell phone. (Take a look at the cover of the 2/5 Industry Standard for an example of the latter.)

By: rodii

rodii — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:39:18 -0800

Second for Bam-B. Disturbing! Like goatse.cx, only cute.