The Kawaii Counterculture of Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space | KYOTO VIDEO
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- What happens when two musicians make an independent anime film about cute, rebellious kitty cat in space? You get 2002's Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space, a punk rock avant-garde film that sets out to cute up the counterculture!
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00:00 Kawaii Culture
03:25 Intro
03:55 Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat In Space
07:55 t.o.L. and Tamala
11:06 The Product Being Sold
17:21 The Kawaii Counterculture
24:29 The Counterculture Becomes Capitalist Culture
36:03 Credits
WORKS CITED:
Raine, Emily. “The Sacrificial Economy of Cuteness in Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space.” Mechademia, vol. 6, 2011, pp. 193-209.
The Advent of TAMALA - Super Idol. tamala2010.com
Michael Chmilar. "Some background on t.o.L. and Tamala 2010 production" April 5, 2005
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Wow, 2032 being overrun by one corporation doesn't even seem that farfetched now.
It's another Gilded Age, maybe, probably, and it too shall fall.
@@lainiwakura1776 Did the gilded age failed? because those bankers caused two world wars and most powerful people in the world today still come from that
@@lainiwakura1776 jews then and now
This goes with my head canon that Mickey Mouse straight up left The Walt Disney Company until it stops being political and a monopoly.
I understand they're not related but this gives me ralph bakshi racoon skin vibes, probably the long awkward silent segments, semi disturbing aura and depressive atmosphere.
"noooo, don't turn me into a marketable plushie!" indeed...
Kevin: ahhhghgg
The image sticking with me the longest is definitely going to be the random cat at 34:34 dismissively flipping off the protag with her tail. It's too cool of a gag!
I do like how it's in black and white
KaiserBeamz; the best to ever do it, never disappointing, never lacking, always insightful, always interesting. I respect the effort and authenticity you bring to this space, thank you.
20:20 JUNKO MIZUNO MENTIONED!!!!!
I LOVE HER WORK, I KNEW THE STYLE FELT A LITTLE SIMILAR! I have a hardcover copy of Pure Trance, and to this day it's my favorite manga ever
To think I somehow found this film through the Discord GIF search of all places
This feels like Super Milk-chan if all the color were sapped from it (both literal and emotional)
I can't wait to watch an anime that takes place in the far-off time of 2010.
The choices of b-footage in the video's preamble felt like I was being taken across the universe. Just a bunch of "Wasn't expecting to see reference to that today"s in a row. Like that one New 3DS commercial where that one Japanese pop star gives a bunch of Nintendo heroes stylish makeups? Man, I think "Kisekae Plate" defined half my personality for the year I saw someone react to it.
You had me at countercultre
i've been binging your channel for the past two weeks, really glad i stumbled across it. you're putting so much research into punchy runtimes. i can only join the refrain that your channel should be ten times as big. thanks for everything, and thanks for showing me this cool alternative anime.
I didn't expect to see you here, but I'm not surprised either lol
@@Riley-uy5pe the surprising thing is i didn't find this channel earlier lol
@@doyleharken3477 right? KB really deserves more eyes
anime got really mainstream but its only for the current year stuff, if something is not seasonal no one cares and is relegated to a niche. Zoomers don't watch anything older than them.
When you give your company name such a weird spelling that embedding a pronunciation guide into the logo still doesn't prevent people from mispronouncing it: 8:40
Obscure controversial old animation? Welp I'm invested.
YES one of my favorite movies! it's so great to hear someone other than me talk about it.
I had a friend who was really into this movie when it came out. It’s because of him that I saw it.
I remember seeing a preview article about this in either Animerica or Anime Imvasion magazine that also had a feature interview with Junko Mizuno. At that time her work Cinderalla was coming out in english for the first time. I'm glad I watched this movie but for the longest i thought I was the only one since I never heard about it
ah yes, the anime adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49... I thought I was the only one who looked this up, soley because of an article in the 2011 book Mangatopia
Some years ago, an old friend of mine and her girlfriend at the time lived with my family for a while. Tamala 2010 was said girlfriend's favourite film of all time. I've been meaning to watch it for years, and any time I think about doing so, I think about her. We haven't spoken in some time; I hope that she's doing well.
On an unrelated note, many moons ago I recall reading the term "abunakawaii" (cute but dangerous, threatening, frightful) in the context of critical discussion of Nekojiru's work specifically-apparently it was coined to describe it and caught on beyond that-and the concept has refused to leave my head. The fine line between what we find grotesque or repulsive or indeed simply pitiable and what we find cute is a much finer one than people like to think, perhaps rooted in the fact that often young things are by nature underdeveloped and haven't grown into their different proportions yet and demand our protection and love, and playing on that ambiguity to between horror and cuteness in an effective way is something which means a lot to me personally. One of my first loves as a late-bloomer anime fan just out of high school was Puella Magi Madoka Magica, followed quickly by Cat Soup; other present favourites include Alien Nine and Made in Abyss. The tension speaks to me, and one day I want to talk about it at length, but seeing what other people have to say first, maybe better than I could, can satisfy me just the littlest bit longer as I gather my druthers to try to say something that might matter.
P.S. 17:22 DID YOU JUST USE THROBBING GRISTLE'S "AB/7A" IN AN ANIME VIDEO ESSAY? *BRAVA.*
P.P.S. Good god, we need more insurrectionary post-Situationist grotesque-cute punk anime cinema. More than ever do I think I need this in my life. Good luck and godspeed to T.o.L. on getting 2030 and Tatla funded and completed one day.
P.P.P.S. It was "Walkabout", not "AB/7A". Please take my Chris Carter fangirl licence away.
Nice. I really want to see this movie
Probably the biggest example of "counterculture becoming the norm" is Pop Team Epic.
It has all the trappings of counter-culture.... but it very much is not. Pop Team Epic uses counter-culture visuals and character designs to be as openly pro-generic pop cutture marketing pandering as it can be. It knows this and loves it, because it knows everyone else is going to either love that too, or write it off as garbage. Even though the creator of Pop Team Epic, Bkub, openly calls his OWN work garbage in the work itself in order to get the leg up on it, by siding with it's own haters. The two characters Popuko and Pipimi do nothing but constantly appeal to nostalgia, other works, parody everything that's popular, and name drop every gamer meme and popular work as possible, unironically reverent in it and assimilating everything from Ghibli to Pokemon, to Undertale, to My Little Pony, to Your Name, Pop Music, Kamen Rider, and whatever else it can mention, into itself.
Pop Team Epic is so satirical that it satirizes satire itself by being as unapologetically capitalist as every single meme on the internet that is soulless as you think it is, masquerading as banal levels of "ah ah, it said the thing" so hard that it reaches around to becoming painfully entertaining like numbers rolling on a speedomitor of sincerely insincere. For those tired of pedestrian counter-culture, I present Pop Team Epic. It is the Counter-Counter-Culture. It wears the face of it's enemy to sell it's own enemy back to itself, because it cares that little. It's the mainstream dreaming of mainstream, wearing a sheepskin of weirdness, selling the mainstream to the mainstream. You can't get much more confusingly 10-level chess meta than that. For Tamala: A Punk Cat In Space having it's message and playing it straight, Pop Team Epic is the modern day, opposite end, betraying insult to all of that. And it's as great as it is terrible.
"counterculture" was always just a marketing gimmick tbh. If there was ever really something that could fit that label it definitely not within the digital era, the internet blurred every line. There's only "trending" and "niche"
@@j.2512 True, and these days it's more of a desperate cope than anything.
I saw this movie for the first time at an actual movie theatre in Madison, Wisconsin. I was able to get it on imported DVD along with the soundtrack soon after. It's still a favourite of mine.
I have this on a hard drive of anime I need to watch.
This looks and sounds like an anime that would never be made nor accepted in the 2020's.
Slight correction. 50s and 60s saw Japan being transformed from a more traditional society that demands conformity at all costs, into a (more) materialistic capitalistic society that demands conformity at all costs.
Thanks for mentioning “Throw Away Your Books Rally in the Streets”. Very few appreciate how much of a great film it is
Amazing film, with one of the heaviest, noisiest and best soundtracks ever.
S3RL’s song, “MTC,” seems to fit you and your channel perfectly. I wonder why RUclips’s AI thought I’d be interested in this subject.
I thought I hallucinated seeing this at the Seattle International Film Festival, that was over 20 years ago!
when you mentioned how the counterculture became the culture, my mind instantly thought of tweet i read about how this is what happened with the Simpsons
Yes, you watched Super Eyepatch Wolf. We get it.
@@teruienages962 but I didn't watch him. what's with the attitude?
@@teruienages962 calm down son, is just words on a screen...
Shibuya-kein mentioned. Pizzicato Five mentioned. It's a good day.
I love tamala , I found it a year or so ago and got obsessed with it, and showed a bunch of my friends. I never got anyone else on board with my idea of throwing a tamala themed rave though.
…that would absolutely rule. Direly disappointed you weren't able to make that happen. One day, mayhap! One day…
"Another fucking day has begun!" - everyone who works a day job.
I was sold at 4 minutes and 50 seconds. Going to watch it and come back, wish me luck
One of your best reviews, a masterpiece
I love this movie,I saw it last year and I loved it, I will always love this movie
ah, I didn't know they had a twitter! I saw Tamala 2010 a few times and really liked it but I had no idea it was that obscure.
This movie legit needs to be released.
Thank you SO MUCH for making a video on this! i can't believe I've never heard of it!
this looks like an anime that would be airing in locomotion in argentina in 2005 so i an very surprised ive never heard of it before. and i watched super milk-chan subbed on tv!
Another excellent video!
"You who!"
As soon as I saw this I immediately clicked
I love this movie so much, this is such a good review of it aaaaaa
I don't know if its been mentioned, but home video label Deaf Crocodile (who focus mainly on niche movie oddities, especially on weird animation) are preparing a Blu-ray of this film for the states. It will likely be loaded with extras (as all of their releases are) and come with a 60 page book (this is the stated model for all their releases going forward).
I was SUPER into this film in the late 2000s/early 2010s because of a guy who was part of my local anime convention circut who did showcases of weirder and more experimental manga and anime. There was one other Tamala thing that came out that's not included here, which was a short film called Wake Up!! Tamala which was focused around an environmentalist message. If it's not something you found any info about it must have REALLY come and gone.
Ah, one of my favourite anime!
2:35 It would have been really funny if you used a cover featuring lizard priest here as a visual gag... though I doubt such a thing exists XD
the lizard space pope from futurama "Cocodrilus Pontifex"
@@j.2512 i was talking about a cover specifically featuring the character lozard priest
You know this kind of reminds me of Ralph bakshis Fritz the cat and heavy traffic mixed with Satoshi kon
Cat soup by way of the french new wave.
tracklist plz ur music choice is on POINT
There's a list in the end credits of the video.
As soon as I heard 4lung I jumped wtf
I remember trying to watch, skipping to later segments to gauge quality, noticing Tamala (almost?) never blinks, finding it too creepy, and deciding not to watch.
I was wrong. She does blink a times. And before anyone says "not blinking turned you off??", this is animation. This shit is important.
At least I'm not the only one that has watched this weird film, which means that I didn't hallucinate it. I remember randomly finding it over a decade ago on a an anime site that I'm pretty sure doesn't exist anymore and being very confused by it, I had mostly forgotten about it until now.
I'm surprised it's not related to Super Milk-chan.
4:27 Literally reminded me of that Hello Kitty episode of Le Kassos.
Hey I know Yoji Kuri. I don't like his work but I know him. Don't think I will like Tamala either but I feel a compulsion to watch it. Maybe I can use it in a conversation once, that would be nice.
Who’s ready for TAMALA 2030?
There are plans for boutique BluRay company Deaf Crocodile to release this film is the US!
Funnily enough, the last Kyoto Video I watched was on _Cat Soup_ 2 days ago (albeit a rewatch). The two films and their respective retrospectives share quite a few themes, so I spent the first half of this vid waiting for an inevitable Nekojiru mention.
I must say though, the "...and look what happened there 😒" KB slipped on to the end of said mention gives me an "ick" reaction - despite knowing the proper 20-minute tribute he already made to the creator in question. or maybe _more so because of_ it?
Never heard of this film, but it looks interesting!
ok you've convinced me to watch the nega-Aggretsuko movie
I always have mixed feelings on this kind of thing. While I think much of what they have to say about capitalism rings true. I think they also tend to approach the situation from an overly black and white mindset, while failing to provide an actual alternative.
Can you really call this movie about capitalism if there is only one company in existence that controls everything I would argue this movie depicts how end-game capitalism is basically communism with extra steps
@@GwainSagaFanChannel @GwainSagaFanChannel with deregulations corporations essentially become the state and the corporate cartel can regulate the market to stop being free since the biggest incentive is to NOT compete. Is why libertarianism is the most ridiculous and self defeating ideology, they get human nature just as wrong as communists, its two roads to the same conclusion, thats why the technocrats only allow for socialism vs liberalism as a fake dichotomy since both serve their purposes for the ruling class
Truly a meeting of the minds.
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Anime Review analysis 🙏
Being cute means to be human.
Super Milk Chan, but cat
😳 blink-blink …
I drives me nuts how you pronounce Osamu Tezuka's name. 😕
thank you for changing the intro
3:43 FUCK, nvm
okay, Fantasia WAS counterculture. please learn its history