KOM_I and that wierd French bloke adopt a kappa, also something about the Paris Syndrome
Another collaboration between Suiyoobi no Campanella and the French band Moodoïd, from the new album by Moodoïd this time (the last video was a track from the new Suiyoobi).
French pop music is not my favorite thing, and this song is a typical example of boring French pop trash, but I’m showing this video for the storyline around a kappa, a water creature from Japanese folklore, still revered in Japan, where I visited, in Tokyo, a shrine which was dedicated to the kappa and contained, besides a bunch of original paintings by manga and anime legend Osamu Tezuka, the mummified fore-arm of a kappa.
For real.
Did you know, by the way, that Japanese people tend to over-romanticize France (you can see examples of it everywhere in Tokyo, they think it’s like in that Brad Bird movie, Ratatouille, or like in those old Louis de Funès movies, with harmonica music everywhere and flirty elegant women and friendly little men wearing berets and carrying baguettes) and that there’s a special mental disorder especially for Japanese people who visited Paris and discovered it’s like nothing they imagined it was, just a big stinking city full of rude kind of New Yorkers only they speak French and think you’re a despicable humanoid for not doing so?
Well, it’s true. (PB)
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