Happy New Year, Japanese Thriller-Style
Posted at 3:55 PM Dec 31, 2008
Happy New Year to you, Topless Roboteers! I'm ending my last half-assed day of the half-assed work week (result as previously mentioned in the comments: quarter-assed) with this spectacular video, which should disturb you as much as little Skip's advances have seemed to disturb young Peter Parker below. It is a rendition of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," and if you think it's going to be odd because the girl is played by one of those Japanese anime girl humping-pillows, that...that's not even going to make the Top 10 of weird, horrifying, brain-liquefying things that are wrong in this video. It is technically Safe For Work, but I warn you that any boss with any kind of sense of morality would fire you if he/she caught you watching this video. For those who survive--my utmost apologies, and I'll see you in '09--January 5th at 9am EST sharp. Be there and be square, baby.
Comments
Oh my god! And that is the final version they went with. Imagine the outtakes.
Posted 12/31/2008 at 01:17:52 PMThis is beyond sad.... and what makes it even sadder is I am watching it...
Posted 12/31/2008 at 01:32:14 PMI...I watched every mind-numbing second of this... @_@ I think my brain exploded.
*stares at screen*
Just, why, naked horse-head guys? Why?
Posted 12/31/2008 at 01:41:06 PMThis is even worse (better??) than I imagined! Why the nude men wearing horsey heads? Why am I aroused now?
I also loved that they maintained the Japanese Bunraku tradition of having the puppeteer (for the blow-up doll or whatever) simply wearing black, but otherwise perfectly visible.
This was righteous performance art. Thanks TR! Happy New Year!
Posted 12/31/2008 at 01:42:39 PMThat had a DIY brilliance! Like how the "zombies" crawled out of the bathtub (instead of breaking through the floorboards) or how "MJ" showed the horse mask at the end (instead of revealing scary monster eyes).
And nice homoeroticism, too.
Posted 12/31/2008 at 02:37:28 PMMy eyes are bleeding.
Posted 12/31/2008 at 03:14:03 PMJapanese ass-crack. I thought my New Year's night would be a boring night of doing laundry, but TR turned it around. Excelsior!
Posted 12/31/2008 at 03:15:08 PMI'm no anime expert, but... that WAS a Rurouni Kenshin cosplayer in the bandages, right? Were there other anime references I missed?
Posted 12/31/2008 at 07:50:49 PMI wouldn't mind having one of those pillows. Too bad they are too expensive to import.
Anyway, those horse masks are seriously creepy six ways from Sunday. I also fail to understand why wearing one means you have to be naked/almost naked. I think the Mushroom video was creepier, though
Posted 12/31/2008 at 08:03:15 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffDPTKn7HiY
Good. But not as good as the 1500 Phillipino prisoners doing the "Thriller" thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o
That melted my brain more..but probably because it was the first bizarre Thriller re-enactment thing I saw.
Posted 01/01/2009 at 04:53:13 PMWha....what. The horse heads, the naked dudes, the anime pillow.....someone hold me. I'm scared. I'm going to crawl into a bathtub now and slit my wrists.
Posted 01/02/2009 at 01:30:56 AMOh God, not again!
That seemed like a Kenshin guy and the horse heads....maybe an obscure Full Metal Panic Fumoffu! reference??
But the most important: WHO CARES? This thing is a serious mental breaker.
Now I need to go and get a life
Posted 01/02/2009 at 09:59:01 AMFuck you, Japan.
Posted 01/02/2009 at 03:11:28 PMThat was so disturbing it was funny. The naked horsemen really added the scary to this video.
Posted 01/03/2009 at 03:51:35 PMInteresting, but this video means the niche people that likes cosplay in Japan. Most people are not interested in cosplays, but they are fond of high-tech, green-tech, and new experiences. Japanese consumers know the differences on experiences, I mean. You could access the latest trends on High-tech in Japan.
http://japan20.blogspot.com/2009/01/high-tech-from-japan.html
Posted 01/03/2009 at 05:02:53 PM