Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Tatsuo Sato's Catsoup! ねこぢる草

A dark twist on the classical 'Orpheus' style tale of a descent into the land of the dead... with cats!

Anyone for soup?

Sit in the soup?

















Maybe pork Soup?
































If there was a word to sum it up it would be 'Trippy', very trippy. A young cat fights to save half the soul of his dead sister, after returning the soul through her nose she partly returns to the world of the living, only badly brain damaged, Now he must descend into the land of the dead to try and recover the other half of her soul, along the way meeting a god, a devil and a very friendly pig.

The less said about this the better, its dark, surreal and tragic but at times, quite funny.

Sato used the style of Nekojiru who was famed for creating her manga characters as wide eyed (and pretty violent) cats, Catsoup was released on DVD in 2001 three years after Nekojiru's suicide.

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