November 2008
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Magical Testicles!
Posted by himitsu on 21 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
You read right. Think you have seen all anime movies? Okay, you admit you haven’t, but once you’ve seen this, you’ll probably say to yourself, “now I’ve seen everything”.
How many of you have heard of the anime movie “Pom Poko”. It’s a rather underrated Studio Ghibli film about raccoons, and let’s keep it that way! Here’s my quick blurb of the story:
- Raccoons were living peacefully in an abandoned home on the top of a hill, but recently, human development have forced them out of the forestry. Fending for new living areas continues to happen as the human population grows. Demands for resources inevitably increase, but what happens to the raccoons? Instead of running away for their whole lives, the raccoons train themselves to live with the humans. They master morphing techniques whether it is to a human form, statue, or any other material they deem helpful for living. Not all the raccoons agree with this plan, some of them wish to use their meditation abilities to steer the humans away, frighten them, or even severely hurt them.
“Studio Ghibli, you say? Aren’t those that same people that made Grave of Fireflies, Spirited Away, and Porco Rosso?” - Hell yes!
“It doesn’t look so bad…”, you might be saying to yourself. But just imagine watching a movie that you think has run for two hours when in reality, it was only 30minutes.
Continue reading to see the “magical testicles” at work!