As promised last week, IDA has released the full 22-minute first episode of the delightfully insane Cat Shit One on YouTube. The video will stay online for two weeks (ending Feb 19th?).
Deb Aoki has a nice write-up on what you’re about to watch over at About.com. Of particular note Deb writes:
Cat Shit One was adapted from Motofumi Kobayashi’s Vietnam war manga that featured rabbits as American soldiers, cats as the Viet Cong and various other critters representing soldiers, officers and civilians from different countries. In some ways, the concept is a bit similar to Art Spieglman’s Maus, which featured cats as Germans and mice as Jewish people in World War II Germany. But what makes Cat Shit One a very different comic than Maus is its attention to detail, regarding military strategy, history and munitions.
Head on over and read the rest.
Cat Shit One – Episode One
What is ‘Cat Shit One’? The two rabbit soldiers from Special Force ‘Cat Shit One’, PACKY and BOTASKY, infiltrate enemy lines to rescue the hostages captured by unidentified militia. Knowing the hostages are in need of immediate help, they launch a sneak attack without waiting for backup.
Skip ahead to about the 3:40 mark to jump straight into the episode.
If it weren’t for the animated anthropormophic heroes (and ‘villains’) this could almost play like a straight ahead thriller. Instead it feels like a mashup of a Matt Damon actioner, a Pixar film and the animatics for a Tom Clancy video game. They got the gun porn correct and nailed it right down to the ‘hand-held’ shaky cam.
I think I’ll give the rest of this series a shot.
-Jay
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