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Popee the Performer: One of the Weirdest Animations of All Time

This is how you both confuse and delight. With cheap computer animation. And talking frogs. On TV. In Japan.

NOTE: Please let me know what this is. I’m both weirded out and fascinated.

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Posted in: Animation, Anime Inspired, Furries, Weird

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5 Responses to “Popee the Performer: One of the Weirdest Animations of All Time”

Capt*in Chu July 20th, 2006 at 5:38 am

Hmmm…. Well, this reminds me a little of “Spirited away.” Kidomono is a creature sorta like “Noe-Face.”

In Noe plays in Japan, the actors wear masks, except for the villian, who wears heavy makeup and alot of white on his nose. It can be assumed that Kidomono’s life is a Noe act, ergo, as the good actor he is, he doesn’t want anybody to know what his face looks like.

Lor July 20th, 2006 at 8:57 pm

I was alternately charmed and kind of freaked out by this animated short. So, I decided to google it. I found this:

http://www.animefringe.com/magazine/2003/08/feature/08/index.php3

“Kedamono, Popee’s assistant, is a wolf who, ashamed of his wolf-y nature, wears white masks with human facial features drawn on to disguise himself as just another member of the human race, even if his knees bend backward…”

Father Kirk July 23rd, 2006 at 3:40 pm

As a Jungian psychotherapist, I see so many motifs from the coolective unconsious appear in this clip. I’m not sure how well this translates from West to East, but this is my take on it.

Kedamono the blue wolf must hide his true face. The thought of others seeing him for what he really is gives him great exsistential anxiety. Unable to embrace his true Self, he must hide behind an endless series of masks. So one night he rises when all others are asleep. Why does he dig up ‘Mister Frog”? His underground subconsious mind can no longer contain his secret. Mister Frog is the spokesperson of that hidden place, the place where his true hidden face resides. Frogs are the symbol of the boundry between the conscious and subconscious mind because they move freely between above and below the surace of water.

Things are then set in motion that cannot be undone. His true face must come out and nothing can stop it. Mister Frog sees Kedamono’s true face and begins to give voice to what is there. Ultimately, it speaks from his most sensitive place of shame. He is his mother. His source of shame is his inablity to integrate his Anima into his Self.

Please reference; Carl Jung, “Until We have Faces” by C.S.Lewis, Archeotype, Collective Conscious, Anima/Animus and Transpersonal Psychology.