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NEWS: Despicable Me's Minions Make Cameo in Kami-Usagi Rope Anime




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belvadeer





PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:11 am Reply with quote
When you think about it, Japan really loves the Minions.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 7:03 am Reply with quote
The Minions were apparently looking for bananas in that picture.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 7:35 am Reply with quote
As something who hasn't seen the Despicable Me franchise because it looks stupid to me, what is so appealing about the series other than the cute Minions?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 7:45 am Reply with quote
Disgusting
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:44 am Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
As something who hasn't seen the Despicable Me franchise because it looks stupid to me, what is so appealing about the series other than the cute Minions?
It is a spoof of '60's spy movies with super-villian GRU, "blackmailing" a trio of young schoolgirls into helping him get a secret weapon from a wanna-be villian patterned after Woody Allen, which gives him a chance to show a soft side by eventually adopting them. The second movie sees GRU trying to live a normal non-spy life for the girl's sakes but finding that spy life won't leave him alone, becoming convinced that a local mall shop owner is the deceased but legendary villian "El Macho". The Minions play a larger role there in helping out when it turns he was right and "El Macho" is plotting to take over the world. I think they were quite funny in a silly way, but the Minions movie was very confused and more than a little stupid trying to spoof British nature documentaries and, maybe, "To Catch a Thief" or "Pink Panther" with spy-movie trappings and ultimately failing hard.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:24 pm Reply with quote
The Minions don't look as good when flat.
We made our Minions with the 3D printer. Laughing


Kadmos1 wrote:

As something who hasn't seen the Despicable Me franchise because it looks stupid to me, what is so appealing about the series other than the cute Minions?


The heartwarming kids

(Trivia: in some countries, Despicable Me actually top Frozen as the best-selling animated movie.)
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Nonaka Machine Gun B



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 8:33 pm Reply with quote
I'm confused; Were Burton and Depp speaking English or Japanese in their guest roles? I can only assume they just memorized Japanese lines... Or they know Japanese. Or there was some excuse why a character was suddenly speaking English in a Japanese program. I don't know.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:31 pm Reply with quote
I know Arnold will sometimes speak Japanese in those bizarre, nonsensical commercials he'd be in, so he either knows some Japanese or has an acting coach explain to him how he should be speaking.

The Minions are very popular because they appeal to childen well. They essentially behave like children, except with all of Gru's cool toys. They are reckless, insatiably curious, very social, and mischievous. Hence, children can relate to them well, and they also enjoy the Minions' rapid, slapstick humor. They're popular in exactly the same way that SpongeBob SquarePants, the live-action Chipmunks, the live-action Smurfs are popular.

Regardless of what you think of the Minions though, there is one side of their popularity I am undoubtedly enjoying: Lots of banana-flavored snacks.. Banana-filled Twinkies, banana apple juice from Ocean Spray, banana milk (forgot who distributes it), banana-flavored fruit snacks from Betty Crocker, and so forth. I am enjoying this while I still can.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:48 am Reply with quote
leafy sea dragon wrote:

Regardless of what you think of the Minions though, there is one side of their popularity I am undoubtedly enjoying: Lots of banana-flavored snacks.. Banana-filled Twinkies, banana apple juice from Ocean Spray, banana milk (forgot who distributes it), banana-flavored fruit snacks from Betty Crocker, and so forth. I am enjoying this while I still can.


and banana flavoured tic-tacs with faces printed on them.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:29 pm Reply with quote
I'm not surprised that Minions would show up in an anime, as the Despicable Me franchise is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns the anime production company formerly known as Pioneer and, later, Geneon so some degree of cross-promotion would be natural, but Kami-Usagi Rope doesn't seem to have anything to do with the NBCUniversal anime production company, so this is a little out of left field.
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