Today, Orphan is releasing Tabi Suru Tobi Neko (The Journeys of the Jumping Cats). It's about... cats! Cute Cats Doing Cute Things™: Playing! Eating! Sleeping! Playing! Eating. Sleeping. Playing... Eating... Sleeping... Did I mention it's about cats?
Okay, there has to be some serious prose in this blog entry. This release is a segment of the 1989 movie Dayan to Tama to Tobi Neko to: Mittsu no Neko no Monogatari (Dayan and Tama and Jumping Cat: A Story of Three Cats). The movie had three segments: animated segments about Dayan and Tama, and live action segments from photographer Igarashi Kenta, who created the Tobi Neko (Jumping Cats) franchise. The live-action portion was shot on Aoshima in the Seto Inland Sea. It's known as "Cat Island", because the cat population now outnumbers the aging and decreasing human population. The cats have the run of the place. They always do; there, it's just more obvious.
The narrator is Tsutsumi Yukina. Her only other anime credits are Kirara in Talentless Nana and a bit part in Tsugu Tsugumomo.
The dialog was translated by tenkenX6, friend to his sister's cats Hailey and Sky. ninjacat timed. I edited and typeset, between my shifts as staff to my cats Pixel and Pumpkin. konnakude, long absent, tore himself away from his cats Angel and Marley to QC, along with (Kuro) Nemesis, who brought Mikan Enikki to the English-speaking world. The raws are full HD web rips by R-Raws; his ailurophile status is unknown. The rest of us are just hopelessly devoted.
So despite the release date (it's already April 1 by the UT standard), this is a serious project. The only surprise is that it's live-action rather than animation. (Orphan has done a few live-action titles before, but not many.) You can download the kitties from the usual torrent site or from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net.
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