I don't know WTF it's saying, but thumbs up!

Reminds me of this cartoon of vikings and demons in a battle of the bands on the high seas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFXayH1bpY

Looks kick-ass!

Just one little thing:

An inspiration for this ainme (anime***) is one of the most famous woodblock prints in Japanese history, "The Great Wave off Kanahawa," by Hokusai. It dates to teh (the***) Edo Period, circa 1830.

Ebert: Two little things, now corrected. Egad.

it's a beer commercial...

beautiful woodblock print! unique video!

did some searching, and one of the descriptions for this said:

Dope Japanese DJ with Trippy Anime video

;)

http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58801

thanks for the late nite bite!

Cool-yo! :) Thanks for this.. here's another cool short anime.. my favourite actually...

"Dimension Bomb" by Koji Morimoto

Part A and B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCxozNl2bDU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtFDBvmvYkk

Hope you dig.

My college-numbed mind is having trouble computing this. Sushi, purple DJ's, naked guitar-playing ladies, giant fish, synchronized naked ladies, random muscly naked dude doing a face plant on a beach, random creepy banjo dude, and omigod giant fish, neon dj guy, purple guy on stage in a disco, muscly dude playing on a joystick (?), yet more naked ladies, and then the whole party ships off to freaking Narnia. Or the insides of guys' heads. That Japanese beer they're drinking is some potent stuff, I'll say that.

And, because I'm in just that sort of mood, ainme? Errr, what?

How random is this video?
It's very cool tho-I posted it on FB!

A compelling and unique style. Not animated by fifteens, but smooth. No giant doll eyes with many highlights. WTF indeed. Are there no RULES anymore?

Oh, this is the very opposite of random. Everything in the video is very deliberate and precise, all synched up to the rhythm and the beat, to the colors and the feel, to the homage and the inspiration. Just because it has gone way outside of the box, or at least the box of American culture (for we cannot understand this in the context of our cultural upbringing), does not mean it’s random.

4, 6, 3, 6, 7, 2, 82. My selection of those numbers was random; I just banged upon my key board. But if you allow this anime to sublimate into your subconscious and then contextualize with your knowledge of Japanese culture, I won't say it makes sense, but it all lines up in the end. The elements of fishing, weather, fisher men encountering magical beast (Johan and the belly of the beast), songstresses of the sea, magic being expressed via music, contrasting traditional music (that ancient guitar) to modern hip hop, environmentalism, bonding through trials, worried wives at land and dumb looking weather men, trippy WTF sh*T on the internet, and the Japanese woodcut that inspired it all. It’s a deep, interwoven tapestry, not random at all.

As a film restoration artist, I cringe seeing the dirt that was purposely put in this.

The beer scene at the end reminds me of The Great Yokai War, where the adults start seeing spirits after drinking Kirin beer... ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZYaIsyGARg

Mermaids gotta dance...

Pretty long for an alcohol commercial, but it does a good job of making working class drinkers look cool. No less strange than the campaign by Coke with all the weird creatures manufacturing CocaCola inside the dispensing machine every time you put a coin in it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhFYOPvh00w&feature=related

Is it just me or did the anime contain several references to Odysseus' journey? Cyclops, sirens, marine voyage, all evident from a cursory look. Very interesting.

It's a music video for a Japanese electronic/hip hop production duo (excuse the fact I don't remember the name of the group). The great thing about music videos is that no explanation is needed. It's a visual interpretation of what the music presents.

This video is WAAAAYY old ! Not what I expect from a up-to-the-minute blog .... gotta be at least 2004 when this came out. HIFANA - yall better recognize !!