Awww, What Cute Forest Animals…
September 21st, 2009
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where are the giant tentacels?
Lol! I remember seeing this before. With nuts like that, that raccoon doesn’t need to go looking for food anymore. >__>
EPIC win.
Can anyone one translate?? It might help us solve this mystery before its too late!
Watching out for racoons in the forest now. I thought I only had to aware of them and rabies. Now I have to be concerned about them shaking thier junk at me too.
It’s a tanuki, fools. Part of their mythology in japanese folklore is that they have enormous testicles.
Watch Pompoko. If this shocks you, then perhaps a Disney-produced feature length animation with tanukis attacking people from the air with their giant nutsacks will give you a seizure.
the classic gif. Finally, I got to see the actual video of it lol
It’s an ad for a Japanese construction company that wants to tout how they keep expanding. There’s a version with subtitles here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oEhxd16f0A
It’s an ad for a real estate company. If you don’t believe me, look at their Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabukinchan
The song goes “your dreams grow, your expectations grow, even your breast grows” – I suspect the “breast grows” part is a perfectly innocent idiom, with the visual rendering as a gag.
BTW, the racoon is a Tanuki, which does have relatively large testicles, often further exaggerated on statues used as a good luck charm. There’s even a common children’s song about the tanuki’s balls.
“Anabuki Construction Inc. (株式会社 穴吹工務店, Kabushiki gaisha Anabuki Kōmuten?) is a Japanese construction and real estate company for apartment buildings.[1][2] In early 2008, it was reported that Anabuki became Japan’s leading seller of condominiums, ending Daikyo’s 29 year lead.[3]
The company advertising mascot Anabukinchan is a little girl based on Little Red Riding Hood.[4]”
“in the commercial we find Red wandering through the forest, meeting some strange, large-breasted new friends, and celebrating how Anabuki makes it possible for things to get bigger and better”
Wikipedia
“Then there’s the big pendulous nads on the raccoon, which is a joke that refers to the way that the similar but not-so-closely-related indigenous critter, the _tanuki_ or raccoon-like dog, is depicted as a fertility icon in Japanese folk art”
^^^ but its still really wierd.
I actually had to have a Japanese person explain this to me. It is just as Sqwirk says. I knew previously about tanuki, tho. How come tanuki Mario doesn’t have big balls too?
My jaw is still hanging as I type this.
Ah Tanuki…my sister, a mega-Japanophile, got a darling little siamese/stray mixed male kitten that looked like it had been genetically manipulated to be a live version of Tanuki…strangely, my sister didn’t even think of naming him the obvious, so I, the red-haired sister had to grab her by the shoulders and shake her until she realized what she had to do. I am now the red-haired Auntie of Tanuki.
Really, is this any weirder than the model making out with those lizards in the Sobe Lifewater ads. Think about it…
Somehow this reminds me of a certain AC/DC song.
“But I’ve got the biggest/balls of them all!”
Japanese culture is weird. And that’s all I have to say about that.
@Aeyvi
because it came to America and drank Mountain Dew.
Wow, I thought every single human being on the internet had seen this already.
The ad doesn’t hold a candle to the penis festival thing. Now *there’s* some WTF for ya.
And indeed they’re always bouncing… to the left and to the right…
“It’s my belief that my big balls should be held every night”
21 comments and not a single one about furries? That seems like an obvious topic…
From “Tanuki” on Wikipedia:
A common schoolyard song in Japan (the tune of which can be heard in the arcade game Ponpoko and a variation of which is sung in the Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko) makes explicit reference to the tanuki’s anatomy:
Tan Tan Tanuki no kintama wa,
Kaze mo nai no ni,
Bura bura
Roughly translated, this means “Tan-tan-tanuki’s testicles, there isn’t even any wind but still go swing-swing-swing.”[1] It continues for several verses, with many regional variations. It is sung to the melody of an American Baptist hymn called “Shall We Gather At The River?”.[2]
Now that I know what it’s actually about, I think it’s hilarious. I also think it’s hilarious about the song’s choice of tune.
That was Lazytown freaky!!
@raznzrukus i can’t translate but i can tell u they’re called tanuki and they’re japanese fertility spirity things
Incrementally creepier thing for the checklist of wrongness: The deer is a buck. A doe doesn’t grow horns.
Antlers. I meant antlers. My brain is scrambled.
Pom poko wasn’t “Disney produced”, it was produced by Studio Ghibli. Thanks to a contract between the two studios, all of Studio Ghibli’s movies are dubbed into English and distributed in the US by Disney, but they don’t get to touch the making of the original movie, nor distribution elsewhere in the world.
Needless to say, thanks to good old American prudishness, Disney doesn’t market Pom poko anywhere near as aggressively as better known Ghibli features like Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away.
But it is a touching movie, filled with wondrous testicles. I highly recommend it to my fellow WTF’ers
I’m not sure that really clears it up much. Guess I’ll chalk it up to cultural references that go over my head.
@raznzrukus
Meh. It’s a tanuki. A Japanese racoon-dog animal. Often anthropomorphic (Like Kitsunes, foxes) they ALWAYS have big giant balls. ALWAYS. Often you’ll see a statue of one in a monk’s hat with a jug of sake outside a business as a good-luck token.
Hey! Someone else has seen Pom Poko, awesome.
@wishiwas
Yeah I saw pompom couldn’t believe it all the animals have big nuts and boobs. Bought cartoon for my kid, 15 minutes later told him to go to his room. why do they have to do that? why? why? why?
@toothfairy
Animations are not necessarily for children. You need to look it up (if you don’t know what it is) before you ‘buy it for your child’ just because it’s drawn. Yeesh.
Is it wrong that I only saw the Red Riding Hood in the preview and immediately thought of Nutsack Ned at the end there?
It doesn’t really wierd me out that Japanese media has bizarre sexual overtones or weirdly freudian themes until they start putting really little children that are dressed to make them look even younger in. It’s the sort of stuff that would be offensive it it wasn’t too incomprehensible to find something to take offense to.
Also this is so much freakier than Lazytown.
@Anna Rexia
I love that festival! I love how weird the Japanese are. Ooh I just got reminded of that funny Japanese photo I found must submit it here.
Where’s Samara when you need her?
It takes balls to be in this picture. Great Job Racoon!
Is it weird that the only thing I thought of through the whole video was “Holy crap, are they humping her?”
@Evildave
Not if they’re reindeer…
Between this and the human muscle car thing, I just about given up on Japan.
Oh my god!! He needs a hammock to hold those things in!
I won’t lie, I wanted to grope the bunny’s boobs :p
This is why I love the Japanese