{"id":870,"date":"2008-03-31T06:06:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T14:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=870"},"modified":"2008-10-14T18:58:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:58:51","slug":"samurai-elf-versus-mickey-mouse-and-his-legion-of-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/samurai-elf-versus-mickey-mouse-and-his-legion-of-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CARTOON CRYPT: Samurai Elf Versus Mickey Mouse and his Legion of Snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=12\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/headers\/cartooncrypt.gif\" alt=\"THE CARTOON CRYPT\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An utterly bizarre Japanese cartoon from 1934, found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/anime\/1930s-wartime-japanese-cartoon\">courtesy of the excellent Cartoon Brew website<\/a>. A whole lot more interesting information on this can be found in the comments there.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MHFmwbnweR8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here is part of a comment there by &#8220;EricW&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This appears to be Komatsuzawa Hajime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>Toybox Series #3: Picture Book 1936<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 (a.k.a. Momotaro vs Mickey Mouse). I found this description at http:\/\/www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca\/white962.htm: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One very popular cartoon character was Momotaro, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Peach boy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who appeared in a number of cartoons designed not just for domestic consumption within Japan, but for propaganda use in occupied countries as well. For example, <em>Picture Book 1936<\/em> (Momotaro vs. Mickey Mouse) presented fanged Mickey Mouse look-alikes riding giant bats, attacking peaceful Pacific islanders (represented by cats and dolls, for some reason); the hero Momotaro jumps out of a picture book, repels the American mice, and cherry trees blossom throughout the island as the grateful natives sing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>Tokyo Chorus<\/em>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An utterly bizarre Japanese cartoon from 1934, found courtesy of the excellent Cartoon Brew website. A whole lot more interesting information on this can be found in the comments there. Here is part of a comment there by &#8220;EricW&#8221;: This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/samurai-elf-versus-mickey-mouse-and-his-legion-of-snakes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,176,12,181,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-anime","category-surreal-cartoons","category-cartoon_crypt","category-violent-cartoons","category-wonders-and-novelties"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-e2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}