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Feb 22, 2007 11:16 AM
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Oh MY! no joke, people. watch and see...

they make no excuses for the testicles in this interesting ghibli film.

tell me that someone else noticed and dropped their jaw. o_O
Mar 2, 2007 4:23 PM
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I noticed...and my jaw dropped. Hahaha. But, it was extremely amusing, you must admit. I mean, c'mon. "Do you know what you are sitting on?" xDD Hahahaha. They called them something different in the dubbing, but I don't quite remember what it was...I watched the subtitled version.
Mar 2, 2007 4:28 PM
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Not a bad film, pretty entertaining actually. They used their balls as means of fighting. Rofl.
Jan 3, 2008 5:41 AM
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Yeah that was pretty hilarious because it is something I have never seen before, especially in a kids movie. ^_^
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Jan 5, 2008 2:57 PM
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I guess some kinds won't even notice that they're using their testicles. Anyway, it's just funny... It wouldn't have come to my mind, hilarious ^^ Bouncing all the way, yippee!
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Jan 5, 2008 3:03 PM
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But me being a guy, it did seem painful to watch. ^_^
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Jan 14, 2008 10:42 AM
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RinnyChan said:
I noticed...and my jaw dropped. Hahaha. But, it was extremely amusing, you must admit. I mean, c'mon. "Do you know what you are sitting on?" xDD Hahahaha. They called them something different in the dubbing, but I don't quite remember what it was...I watched the subtitled version.

his 'pouch'


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Apr 17, 2008 7:40 AM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki

The testicles thing is a Japanese folkore bit.

The comical image of the tanuki is thought to have developed during the Kamakura era. The actual wild tanuki has unusually large testicles, a feature that has inspired humorous exaggeration in artistic depictions of the creature. Tanuki may be shown with their testicles flung over their backs like travellers' packs, or using them as drums. As tanuki are also typically depicted as having large bellies, they may be depicted as drumming on their bellies instead of their testicles -- particularly in contemporary art.

But it is pretty weird for a westerner. Still, this is a great movie. I loved it.
Nov 7, 2008 6:35 PM
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Ah, that was one of my first anime movies....*pokes Anime Life Story*, me at age....10? 11? and I knew what they were. XDDD;; That movie had a bunch of bad stuff in it besides it, still one of my favorites.
Oct 2, 2013 12:37 PM

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I was like "wtf" and laughed when they called them pouches since I watched the dubbed version.
Nov 3, 2013 12:31 AM

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yup, they literally put their balls on the line in a last ditch effort to ensure their survival. But alas...
"...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth')
Aug 3, 2020 3:17 PM

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I wasn't too interested in that. Pretty gross and ruined their cuteness :( I guess I have to accept it because it is part of the Tanuki's folklore but now I just can't stop thinking about how Tom Nook never wears pants :(

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