SOUNDTRACK: みっちりねこマーチ – MitchiriNeko March (2013).
Because Lewis-Kraus mentions “the most important internet cat band of our day” in this article, I did a search for such a thing and came across this. This is an adorable cartoon of cats marching (and playing along to the music).
I didn’t look into this too hard, and I don’t really know MitchiriNeko, although the video says that “MitchiriNeko” is a cat-like cartoon character who is always in a group to hang out so closely with each other wherever they go.
I’ve listed below more stuff about MitchiriNeko, but really I just enjoyed watching the video.
Evidently there is a web comic for this fella:
Manga Box! English editions are coming soon.
https://www.mangabox.me/
https://www.mangabox.me/reader/247/
There are apps for this character:
iPhone
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/mitch…
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de…
And this song “MitchiriNeko March” is now on sale.
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/mit…
[READ: November 17, 2014] “Story A”
I enjoyed Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ previous Harper’s essay about Japan: “Sleeping Together.” I thought it would be fun to tie it to this one which is also about Japan.
He says that for a time, he was drawn to “particular breeds of the Japanese trivial” like “the “most important internet cat band of our day” and the cafe that he describes in “Sleeping Around.” Thus he was immediately drawn to the Japanese hole-digging contest. He decided to go see it, which would also allow him to visit his brother Micah in Japan.
The title of the article, “Story A” refers to a journalistic practice in which “essays purport to be about one thing but reveal themselves to be about some other, profounder thing. Story A might be about the game of Monopoly but its real role is to give cover to Story B which is about the decline of the American city.” He imagined that the nonsense of hole digging could lead to something incredibly profound. (more…)
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