Wanted: Cheap Manga » Anime http://childismine.com/manga TECHNICOLOR 肉弾地獄 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:19:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en 妖怪人間ベム - Big in Italy http://childismine.com/manga/2007/11/26/%e5%a6%96%e6%80%aa%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%93%e3%83%99%e3%83%a0-big-in-italy/ http://childismine.com/manga/2007/11/26/%e5%a6%96%e6%80%aa%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%93%e3%83%99%e3%83%a0-big-in-italy/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:29:51 +0000 Rizzah http://childismine.com/manga/2007/11/26/%e5%a6%96%e6%80%aa%e4%ba%ba%e9%96%93%e3%83%99%e3%83%a0-big-in-italy/

I found this weird anime from 1968. It’s called: 妖怪人間ベム or Human Ghost Bem. The art style is crazy, and it looks old as hell. Apparently, the only country it exported to was Italy (why?), so there is a lot of Italian nostalgia to be found. Here are some youtube links to the opening and such.

Youtube 01 Youtube 02 Youtube 03 Youtube 04

an italian page with screenshots of bloopers.

and a japanese site with a little info.

Recently, they even re-made the show with this updated version. It still looks weird. Oh, and to make the internet even weirder, the characters from Human Ghost Bem are on Second Life. What an odd marketing campaign. Does this work? or just freak people out.

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