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markbandanawitts Ā· 4 months ago
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Things to Never Say to Someone Who Just Came Out, a Keroro Gunsou version ā¤ļøšŸ„°
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Iā€™m sure this has been done before in the fandom but this is the markbandanawitts special (my wonderful two cents everyone cares about)
mois is not here on purpose i promise sheā€™s just not an asshole like the rest of these plebeians . i am also allowing myself to post anything that includes saburo and not just the days counter THIS IS MY BLOG I MAKE THE RULES HERE ALRIGHT
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tamamatango Ā· 5 months ago
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Unplanned character analysis I shouldā€™ve saved for 6/23 but I need instant gratification whenever I have a thought or I explode
Sup nerds, thanks for reading my masterā€™s thesis completely overanalyzing what literal scraps we have in relation to the new anime. Unfortunately no updates yet on that front but Iā€™m starting to go a little Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs in anticipation so fingers crossed they drop something soonish. I have a couple of longer form posts in my back pocket that may or may not happen in a nearish timeframe, weā€™ll see what I get around to.
I was going to not do any more posts until one of those materializes but Iā€™m detouring from that for a bit because I had an epiphany about Saburo now that Iā€™ve spent a lot of time thinking about this series again. Those if you who know me and/or were around for when I was most active here know he is my favorite character behind Kururu and thatā€™s still true. So hereā€™s like. A reading of him that I think completely changes the way you will look at this character. If you donā€™t see him like this already.
Saburo(/Mutsumi since this goes equally for the manga side) is not actually cool. Like this kid is totally cringe and a weirdo right. Literally thinks of the most unnecessarily extra solutions to things, wardrobe that gets increasingly bizarre over time, writes poetry that is usually either obnoxiously cheesy or just doesnā€™t make any sense. Spends his free time doing stuff like talking to cats and collecting shitty kidsā€™ meal toys. His drawings arenā€™t even that good most of the time. Unironically Momoka has more swag than Saburo does (granted Momoka has more swag than most characters but thatā€™s besides the point). Yes he is a super genius and athletically gifted and conventionally attractive to other people his age, and (for manga Mutsumi only) itā€™s later implied he was modified by the N326 in some way. But hereā€™s the thingā€”a lot of his peers either think heā€™s a smarmy ass show-off little shit (manga) or just completely inaccessible to the average person so why bother (anime).
The reason why heā€™s such a celebrity is because the only people who think he is really cool are children and preteen girls (and secretly Giroro but the whole reason thatā€™s a funny joke is because Saburo is totally not appealing to adults at all let alone hardened super serious soldiers). But this is a very profitable and exploitable audience so he is really successful. He is the equivalent of a Disney Channel teen star. Heā€™s like what Justin Bieber was in 2010 or whenever. In the manga Mutsumi gladly eats up this attention, but the anime pretty heavily implies especially toward the (until this year tee hee) end of the series that Saburo kinda dislikes being under the celebrity microscope and having producers who want to milk their child star as much as possible; he just wants to create and entertain and express himself freely which is why he does everything anonymously.
I think the anime tried a little too hard to make him unironically cool and my guess is that this is for a couple reasons. One, he has Akira Ishidaā€™s voice coming out of him which yes was obviously chosen primarily because lol Kaworu but also his voice is just inherently associated with ā€œwe want you to think this character is a mysterious ikemenā€ most of the time. Two, compared to the manga thereā€™s a lot more fillery stuff revolving around Natsumi idolizing him and because so much of the show is from Natsumiā€™s perspective, thatā€™s the perspective the viewers (who were also intended to be children then, though I think now that itā€™s a 20 year old series theyā€™re going more for the nostalgic adult audience) get as well. Donā€™t get me wrong though the VERY few serious moments he had were fantastic, 229 best episode movie 3 best movie etc etc.
You could also argue Kururu thinks Saburo is ā€œcoolā€ but I think he respects him more in the way that heā€™s kinda like him but younger so they understand each other intrinsically and that makes Saburo more reliable in fulfilling Kururuā€™s specific needs than most other characters. Saburoā€™s a lot kinder ostensibly but unlike the rest of the cast, who recoils at Kururuā€™s mannerisms and psychological torment of everyone, Saburo usually just thinks itā€™s funny. Kururu is much of a freak as he is but is very particular about his image and actively micromanages almost every aspect of his personality to get people to see him a certain way and avoid showing too many of his vulnerabilities (itā€™s all but confirmed in the anime that his entire cadence and vocal tics are an elaborate act and his normal voice is totally different). We donā€™t see it much on screen but it seems he can kinda relax a bit around Saburo who himself is totally out there but in a more genuine and unabashed way, like even in the anime where the radio persona is a secret itā€™s not like he acts that much differently on the air than he does in his personal life. Besides maybe the early manga Kururu is not really a romantic and probably thinks Saburoā€™s sappy wappy poetry is cringe too, but he likes Saburo enough that he supports him being himself no matter what bullshit that entails (besides getting himself killed of course). Sorry had to shoehorn best partners talk for a bit longtime Kirb readers know how it is.
So there is actually a specific thing that made me decide letā€™s do a fucking character analysis for the first time in like 5 years or something, and thatā€™s that I was browsing through raws of the one 4koma book I donā€™t physically own (shoutout to @kagender for those scans along with some other cool stuff like Keroro Land issues, storyboards and ref sheets!), and it was these strips:
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This is a 4koma series in which Meru and Maru from Movie 2 hang around with the main cast for funny shenanigans. Not super relevant because these two strips donā€™t have them pictured but anyways. Theyā€™re having a beach day and Natsumi runs into Saburo who is there to ā€œsurfā€ but actually there are no real waves and he is just pretending. Because heā€™s copying the 1978 film Big Wednesday (it is Sunday in the comic). In other words teenager larps because he saw it in an old movie once. I know this is not really a pertinent example because the Keroro Land 4komas are all very silly and non-canon (a lot of the artists are actually former doujin artists) but look. This is peak, okay. This is my ideal Saburo outside of serious scenarios. Iā€™ve seen the vision.
I swore I was gonna make this a short post but itā€™s not I guess. Canā€™t resist turning these into goddamn essays. So to wrap it up: Saburo is some dorky kid who thinks heā€™s way more of a hotshot than he really is and totally owns it with no shame. This is adorable. I will defend him with my life. I need Anikero The New to agree with me here. In like 85% of cases I prefer the animeā€™s takes on everything but Yoshizaki cooked with the ideas behind this guy so listen to word of god. Give us more Silly Saburo. The TikTok teenagers of today deserve this representation.
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keroro-france Ā· 1 year ago
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birdmitosis Ā· 2 years ago
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i mean. you see what i mean right.
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pekoponianwars Ā· 2 years ago
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simillimussims Ā· 2 years ago
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Saburo/623/Mutsumi from Sgt Frog in The Sims 4. Although I'm working on his anime and manga designs, I had to go with the Flash series first because of how goofy he looks, IMO.
Includes Saburo's beanie, eyes, hair (limited swatches), jeans, shirt, shoes, and wings- plus a merged file for easy DL.
Download (Google Drive)
Pose Wings inspired by A-LuckyDay
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birdmitosis Ā· 2 years ago
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i fucking love the way the whole keroro platoon speaks in weird as hell ways. not just everyoneā€™s Assigned Speech Quirks but the way one of them will just start saying some new random as fuck phrase and pretty soon theyā€™re all using it. i dont know if sometimes its references that i dont get, or if its a writer making characters say things they think are funny without putting too much thought into who says it, or if the authorial intent really is just like. sometimes one of them starts saying the most bizarre non sequitur bullshit as a semi-catchphrase and then the phrase starts making its rounds through the keroro platoon
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fyeahyoshizakimine Ā· 2 years ago
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lancecorporaldororo Ā· 1 year ago
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Sgt. Keroro Acrylic Stand
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bassclarinetfan Ā· 8 months ago
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Keroro Gunso fanart I made in 2020
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birdmitosis Ā· 1 year ago
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#kululu of course agreed immediately. saburo didnt even have to explain what the task was
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they definitely plotted this beforehand. For Fun
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markbandanawitts Ā· 4 months ago
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day 6
i have so much random art of saburo to fill these days with. in reality iā€™m going through crazy art block but itā€™s ok iā€™ll get on the grind eventually
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brightestlulu Ā· 1 year ago
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two nerds
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keroro-france Ā· 21 days ago
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birdmitosis Ā· 2 years ago
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pekoponianwars Ā· 1 year ago
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