What I Know
Nothing.
What The Title Suggests
Well, it’s gotta be a kid show right? It’s short, it has a name like Suzy’s Zoo (kids like animals, right?). Sounds inoffensive and kiddy. I’d love to say “prepare to be disappointed” but I think there’s only an outside chance of it secretly being some horrible adults-only jive.
Episode Impressions
This show is two minutes long. How bad can it be?
MORTAL TERROR, or possibly just a misleading screenshot?
A duck is scared of a ghost. His stuffed bear don’t give a shit, so he turns to his giraffe, who is apparently more badass or at least cares slightly.
He advises it to watch for ghosts, after facing it the wrong way. Not the brightest little duck.
"We'll be totally fine as long as ghosts aren't OUTSIDE the house."
Fortunately the giraffe (which can talk, I guess; I suppose if a duck can talk a stuffed giraffe can) has nothing to worry about because the ghosts are… indisposed.
That sounds kind of sweet.
Then they start playing around, which wakes up the bear and the rabbit (there’s a rabbit but I guess he didn’t matter very much until now). They, of course, are afraid of the “ghosts,” because two people they know dressed in sheets or curtains are indistinguishable from ghosts.
Seriously, guys.
Then they all pretend to be ghosts all night. I assume the duck slept poorly, woke up tired, and was savagely beaten by his mother the next day.
Show Impressions
You may have actually heard of Suzy’s Zoo; it’s a greeting card company. I think I knew this at some point but I forgot about it (I worked at a Hallmark Store once; I was fired for incompetence. THIS STORY IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE). Why a line of greeting cards about adorable animals has been made into a Japanese-language cartoon two minutes in length is something I can’t entirely explain. I’m sure there’s something to this but I don’t care to know.
Production-wise, the whole thing is CG with that cel-shading effect, and it looks a lot better in stills than it does in motion because the framerate of the show (short? clip?) was really low. As for the acting… it existed?
Did I Miss Something?
Do the stuffed animals require magic to talk or something? The giraffe seemed to light up before it came to life and started talking about moon ghosts, but the bear is clearly a stuffed toy and he was bitching the second his rest was disturbed by a wussy duck.
The First Two Episodes Were…
Hopefully less of the duck waking up all his roommates. Seriously dude, some of us are trying to get some sleep here.
Keep Watching?
I could accidentally watch the whole thing in the time it takes me to upload a screenshot for this post, but probably not, no.
Rewind or No?
I somehow doubt there will be a follow-up to the ghost party on the moon, but if Suzy’s Zoo later does bring up that plot thread feel free to correct me.
Final Single Episode Coherency Rating
4 (George Orwell)
A duck is scared of ghosts. Then a duck is a ghost. The story is pretty coherent for two minutes, although it could have been slightly more straightforward.
I have apparently not reviewed Sket Dance. I guess I’m supposed to do that?
