Stumbled upon this while surfing the net recently. “Cat Shit One“( also known as “Apocalypse Meow”) is the title of an anime that is set to debut in Japan this winter.
It’s based on a manga by Motofumi Kobayashi, spanning 17 chapters in total. For those of you who can’t wait or are eager to learn more about the title; You can catch the manga first over at MangaFox under the title ‘Apocalypse Meow‘ before the show debuts in winter.
The story revolves around Sergeant Perky, Rats and Botasky, the “men” (or bunnies, as it were) of Catshit One, a special forces unit engaged in risky missions involving recon patrol, jungle ambushes, tactical assaults and rescue operations. The American soldiers in the story are portray as rabbits, Vietnamese as cats, Chinese as pandas & other animals representing various nationalities involved in the war.
Why animals instead of people were used in the depiction of war, you asked? Because the author, Mr Kobayashi thought that a standard war comic would be “boring.” Hence, he thought of the idea of recreating the horrific violence and vivid military exploits in the conflict using these cute anthropomorphic animals; in order to give readers & viewers a stronger impact and feeling of the misery of the wars that are taking place in this world.
Without boring you any further, below is the trailer of the show shown in the recent TAF (Tokyo International Anime Fair).
At the moment, I’m caught up with the feeling of how cute it is to see these animals engage in military warfare, instead of experiencing & feeling the misery of war that the author wishes to convey & bring across to us. ^^”
What about you guys after seeing and reading about this? What are your thoughts on this? And will you be catching this?
Girls’ stuff, as i can say, although it is war. It is rather creative and interesting but at the same time, ridiculous and funny.
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what? is that really the title? I dunno, but the word ‘cat shit one’ sounded really weird, for such a cute animation anyway
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After watching the trailer, I don’t see how this could be “girls stuff”
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Wow this is awesome. I’m so watching/getting it when it comes out. Is this an animated TV series or is this a movie btw? It says movie trailer as wel as animated series so which one is it? :S
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lol
i mean cute stuff are like gal stuff
Cat Shit One is a weird name…
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Being kinda used to military and war related films, be them documentary or theatre ones, so seeing this is a bit unusual and hard to get over with for me… x_x
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Hahaha, Cat shit… I though it is some japan news at dannychoo about that “shit” ^^;
will it like happy tree friends or keroro gunso?
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@EXkurogane,
so that it would cause any misunderstandings. 
be more specific next time
@Passerby,
Yup, that’s the original title in Japan. In U.S., it’s known as Apocalyse Meow and it is also available for sale in Amazon. And it sounds weird indeed, I went ‘wtf?’ when I first saw the title.
@Cerburus,
it looks to be a movie from the way I see it at the moment.
@charge,
I’m sure what EXkurogane meant is that, we usually associate ‘cute’ with girl.
@Q,
after seeing so many war-movies before, this one is indeed kinda unusual and unprecedented.
@eyeshield30,
had somewhat similar thoughts as you initially. It’s more towards Keroro Gunso if you ask me.
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Well if you guys actually read the manga, the name is actually based on a real life Spec Ops unit dated back in the Vietnam War. They just modernize it for the anime and put the theme in today’s middle eastern conflict.
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haha looks interesting but kinda weird since the rabbits are about the same size as the camals? ether would like to know the story behind it
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what? is that really the title? I dunno, but the word 'cat shit one' sounded really weird, for such a cute animation anyway
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