Cat Shit One: The animated series Trailer

March 25, 2009 11:50 AM

Cat Shit One: The animated series Trailer. Loosely based on Apocalypse Meow.
posted by srboisvert (25 comments total)

Wha...
posted by leotrotsky at 11:54 AM on March 25, 2009

Is it just me or is amateur Foley seriously getting better nowadays?
posted by Samizdata at 11:59 AM on March 25, 2009 [1 favorite]

Well, that just raises more questions than it answers.
posted by boo_radley at 12:01 PM on March 25, 2009 [1 favorite]

Ok, now I have MORE stuff to put on my too read list, as I haven't read the original Cat Shit One (I REFUSE to call it Apocalypse Meow since I see its both a bad pun and a cleaning up for sensitive Americans). Going to read, then watch this, which looks to be both totally different and wonderfully an extension of the same idea.
posted by strixus at 12:06 PM on March 25, 2009

So, wait--is this supposed to be a comedy, or is it meant to be serious, like Maus?

(Like it matters--whatever this is, if it shows up in the US on Blu-ray, I'm there.)
posted by Prospero at 12:11 PM on March 25, 2009

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Except Nemo's dad never gunned down the Barracuda that ate the rest of his family, and Sulley didn't just crush the skull of the chameleon-like Randall with his bare hands.

More series details (12 episodes, 23 min. each), and the official (Japanese) website.

Sadly, One Manga doesn't appear to have the scans available for easy browsing.
posted by filthy light thief at 12:13 PM on March 25, 2009

I think it just reveals that war is bad, because cute furry animals die.
posted by markkraft at 12:27 PM on March 25, 2009

Anthropomorphic Rabbits and Camels re-enacting a Middle East conflict with a Poopy Title.

Really didn't see this one coming.
posted by cavalier at 12:30 PM on March 25, 2009 [1 favorite]

Is it just me or is amateur Foley seriously getting better nowadays?

I'm not sure, but I don't think this is amateur work.
posted by shmegegge at 12:33 PM on March 25, 2009

Sadly, One Manga doesn't appear to have the scans available for easy browsing.

It's available on MangaFox if anyone wants to read it.
I happen to have actual copies of the manga though. :3
posted by yeoz at 12:55 PM on March 25, 2009 [2 favorites]

I think it just reveals that war is bad, because cute furry animals die.

I remember watching Apocalypse Now and thinking "Oh no, I hope that puppy doesn't get hurt" when one of the characters started carrying one around with him. Then I remembered that people were getting killed throughout the movie, and felt somewhat silly for reacting that way.
posted by burnmp3s at 12:57 PM on March 25, 2009

This is exactly why you don't try to update Watership Down for modern audiences.
posted by XQUZYPHYR at 1:00 PM on March 25, 2009

Yeah, why Cat Shit? I saw no cats.

Also, I'm not sure, from that trailer, how this is supposed to stand out from any of the other two dozen Middle Eastern conflict movies that have been released in the last fifteen years. I mean, other than that the combatants are anthropomorphized animals. Which just isn't enough, quite frankly. At least for me.
posted by Caduceus at 1:01 PM on March 25, 2009

Boy, have I been out of touch. Since when did rabbits get weapons? I need to get out more.
posted by netbros at 1:07 PM on March 25, 2009

Boy, have I been out of touch. Since when did rabbits get weapons.

Since Gamma World was published more than 25 years ago. Duh.
posted by dersins at 1:18 PM on March 25, 2009 [1 favorite]

So that's what happened to the cast of Shirt Tales.
posted by starman at 1:19 PM on March 25, 2009 [2 favorites]

Caduceus, apparently the Vietnamese are cats (according to the Wiki details).
posted by filthy light thief at 1:21 PM on March 25, 2009

Watership^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Black Hawk Down
posted by artaxerxes at 1:27 PM on March 25, 2009

I was thinking about how common it is for American animation to anthropomorphize animals and things while in Japan it is the other way around and is much more common/popular to use human characters. Not that either country doesn't dabble in animating everything, just that the popularity of types of genre is different.
posted by P.o.B. at 3:43 PM on March 25, 2009

I like the tough-guy voiced rabbit, whose name I can't recall. It's just such a great juxtaposition with his cute, albeit armed, exterior.
posted by Muttoneer at 4:25 PM on March 25, 2009

This looks like something I would enjoy but it also looks like it may be racially insensitive, like The Planet of the Apes series.

I hope that this is really a clever way to show the horrors of war rather than glorify modern warfare and exploit the situation in the middle east.
posted by cazoo at 4:46 PM on March 25, 2009

Usagi Yojimbo?
posted by thankyoujohnnyfever at 6:17 PM on March 25, 2009

omg bunnies!
posted by chococat at 7:40 PM on March 25, 2009 [2 favorites]

This is exactly why you don't try to update Watership Black Hawk Down for modern audiences.

FTFY.
posted by hifiparasol at 3:26 PM on March 26, 2009

Awwww.. some!
posted by chairface at 8:19 PM on March 26, 2009