Category: Cartooning

Shake That Kitty!

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Carol came up with the expression “Shake That Kitty,” as seen in the DVD menu for Azumanga Daioh. Great Dick Dale style surf guitar.

I strung together some snippets, including another menu from the DVD. The other scenes are from an episode where a cat costume figures prominently. The cat parade is very nice, don’t you think?

The character that pets the dog is the one shaking the kitty. Her cat bites her every time she tries to pet it, so she’s quite taken with the placid dog.

Raspberry Heaven

There’s lots of Azumanga Daioh on YouTube™, but as a follow-up to a previous posting, here are the end credits, framed by the commercial break outro and intro.  The “Raspberry Heaven” catch-phrase is very catchy. 
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It took a couple of episodes to see past the underlying wackiness.  Something I didn’t realize at first is the show deals with some very contemporary themes about growing up that in previous generations were simply not presented.