it don’t end there mate, some dude who died in a hiking accident had literal minky momo cassette tapes with him, and a girl who was a fan of minky momo live streamed her self-game over, and guess why
This has as much infamy as that one song called Gloomy Sunday. There just something’s the human imagination created that just give off unusual circumstances.
Truck kun is the alpha and the omega. He startes the plot, but ends it too
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"Minky Momo even got a release in America! That's right! It aired right after the season premiere started and you wouldn't guess which day Toonami decided to air Minky Momo... that's right, September 11, 2001..."
"Could you imagine if they ended Pokemon this way?" Yes, I can, because the same Takeshi Shudo was behind the show in its early seasons, and he was even thinking about ending it like something between The Birds and Planet of the Apes (the question is if Tajiri and other people in the production team would allow it). And maybe even ending it like Minky Momo would be better than how it really went after 1999 (let the main character hop from island to island never becoming the master, and kicking all the other main characters out).
@@TheBonkleFoxBut now only the Pokémon anime "nerds", not even Pokémon fans in general, do care. Back in the day the Pokémon snime was a mainstream phenomenon
The original ending of Pokemon anime ends with Pokemon rebelling against humans and Pikachu betrayed Ash. Yep. This is Animal Farm level of resistance.
That's one way to get back at a toy company. "Hey you remember that cute magical girl you decided to abandon? Well she's dead now. She's dead and it's all your fault."
It really seems like a Dick move lol... i mean, dont even consider all the fans, all the children... just how they feel about their paycheck which should have been a legal isssue, not a reason to make a whole generation of kids cry.
Actually Takeshi Shudo who went on to become the head writer of Pokémon, intended to kill off Ash in the first ever movie as a finale but due to the sheer popularity of the anime, the ending was re-written at the last moment (you can even see how the writing must have been hastened when Ash turns into stone and Pikachu keeps shocking him and the hints of his death are there in the first ever Japanese teaser of the film) I read somewhere that he had depression and anxiety which made him have a bad outlook towards life and he intended to portray how Ash have to move on from his "childhood" dream because they are mostly unachievable. But thankfully the writing team eventually took a different narrative after his departure and Ash is now a world champion!
I was six when I watched that show. I was in love with her. I remember every time I got to choose what to draw, I would draw her. It was awfull when she died, I cound't understand. Then she came back, but it wasn't her, it was something like "this would have happened if she would have lived, but don't forget she's dead". I had many nightmares about it. I don't remember when I stopped drawing her. Many years later I remembered Gigi again, and I ask my friends if they knew her, but nobody knew who she was. And I repeated: the girl with pink hair, who transformed into profesional growned women, and died hit by a truck. I tought I was crazy. Until I discovered my 1° Grade school notebook at my grandma's attic and effectively, it had drawn Gigis all over it. So she was real. When Internet became a thing Gigi was one of the first things that I looked for. 0 results the first times. Years later I found out her original name was Minky Momo, and could download a couple of pictures. And after that more information become available. Thanks for explaining why the hell I lived traumatized all my childhood. I don't know if I feel better now, hahaha.
Well in my country she was called Hanin. I was 5 years old at the time and I used to watch this show regularly. I was so in love with her character and I would imagine myself going on those adventures with her. I spent a whole week crying when she died...
I'd love to hear that she was brought back to life because the president of Japan begged and threw money at them, after his grand daughter became catatonic.
I REALLY miss this entire era of Japanese animation, there were just SO MANY GREAT and crazy shows that came out of the 80s and even the 90s. They had a style both in story and animation that you just don't see anymore. I really wish they'd bring it back.
I always thought that 80s cartoons where hard for me to get into but I usually get easily into 80s anime Now I feel the opposite nowadays I don’t see myself get into anime of nowadays that easily but some recent cartoons where my favorites
@@ahmadmalaki8364 Technically only once. However the downturn is so severe it basically put people into two tiers of wealth back. I guess its like how boomers got it made while millenials couldn't even buy a house nowadays. Its kinda like that. But much earlier.
imagine you stop funding a company because you aren't getting enough money for some toys you're making and then a rumor starts about how you caused the biggest earthquake in japan
The funny thing about this is that the head writer on the show, Takeshi Shudo, eventually got to be the head writer of Pokémon up until mid-to-late Johto. Had Pokémon not been the cash cow that it is today, he might have killed Ash Ketchum in the same manner. EDIT: After two years of this comment being up, I'd like to mention that he said that Ash couldn't become the Pokémon master because the show would end. And it made me think of an ending for Pokémon where Ash dies after winning the Alola League Tournament: While running out of the stadium, Ash doesn't look where he's going and gets hit by Truck-kun. Every companion he's ever had, every rival he's been on good terms with, the one-offs that reappeared in specials, and even the Team Rocket trio visits his hospital bed. Pikachu goes through a depressive episode and offers himself up to be taken by Team Rocket, but they decline because it just doesn't feel earned. No plot contrivance, no legendary Pokémon comes in to save the day, we just get to witness Ash's life flash before his eyes as he dies happily, his life fulfilled. That would've been my ideal finale, a real tear-jerker.
Sir you have no idea how happy you've made me. Im 3yrs behind, but I have dug deep into my childhood memories to try and find this anime. My mom bought me one single VHS of this show somehow in like 2002 or so and i never ever could remember the name. Im almost 28yrs old and have searched for well over 15yrs for this show. I never could remember the plot or anything so IMDB'ing was impossible. Ofc Sailormoon and Sakura cardcaptor kept popping up and I was always like "NO DUDE...THIS IS A CHEAPER... OLDER VERSION!!" lol EDIT: I live in the U.S so i really have no idea how she got this tape lol
I am also 28 and in the US. Harmony Gold's Magical Princess Gigi and the Fountain of Youth was in the free kids movies at my local Family Video. I rented it almost every time I went. Maybe that's where she got it?
"But it was so traumatizing that it is said that Minky Momo's energy leaked into the real world where it manifested as an actual event" *I am going to SHIT MY PANTS that is so insane*
more insane one episode is based on dr strange love complete with riding the bomb! another is William shatner as a shuttle astronaugt with a lolicon fixiation with the little match girl ect
how the hell did momo, a show who was just made for children entertainment, turn into a literal cursed urban legend edit: this comment is getting sm attention 😭 i worded this wrongly but i was trying to say how it was very funny to see a harmless child show become a cursed urban legend ,, i know where most urban legends come from i promise 😭
because the people funding team of minky momo stopped funding even tho the show was going great, which made the team mad because merchandise wasnt selling well, so the team wanted to grab the funders' attention in special way because the team new that the funders dont care about which way the story goes, unless something "interesting " occurs to their loss. The team, therefore, killed mikymomo and in coincidence, an eathquake came, coincidently showing minky momo's dark powers (ofcourse it aint true, but look how big of coincident this is)
@amateur bobomb ik rorochan's case, but by kenji do you mean the guy who lost his way to motel on some hill and had sos message on tape? who got lost due to a boulder used to guide ways and looks exactly same which caused misunderstanding
This urban legend is like literal indonesia urban legend. Almost all of them are real, and some are coincidence. Theres 1 urban legend where they said to not wondering all alone when its 6pm or 2-3 am (witchering hours). Some of people experienced this thing where they saw ghost, etc. Its reminding me of my grandfather. He was hunting Bats in forest (for eat and sell to market if im not wrong). About midnight.. when he want to go home. He was lost. Trust me, he was a pretty keen vision that time when he was young, but everytime he follow the right path.. then Bam, he came back to his normal position where he started to go back home. Its about a 2 or 3pm (i guess... he said it was a mignight to morning time) he saw his friend.. just came back from mosque. Its a good thing his friend got a candle and they can walk back home safely (my grandfather have flashlight.. but yeah, even with flashlight, he cant go home. Even when he followed the right paths). Im open to any question btw. Just to make sure you to dont have any curiosity.
Minky Momo is legendary here in Latin America because the horrific "ending" that traumatized an entire generation of small tv viewers. Here it was called "Las Aventuras de Gigi" and because of never explained reasons, the last season of the show was never dubbed in spanish, so the "run over by a truck" IS the last episode of the series! That's right, for all the little latinos viewers, the final fate of cute Gigi/Minky Momo was dead by a truck! Only decades later, by the dawn of the Internet era, many grown up latinos viewers finally they got to know there was one extra season of never dubbed episodes of the original series and that their beloved magical girl was actually alive and well. You can read the comments section of any latino spanish dubbed videos of "Gigi" on TH-cam and it looks like a PTSD therapy group, still reeling from the shocking "finale" and needing a hug.
@@xrinxdarkx7493 yeah but we didn't knew about that years later. What we saw in the anime original run was "she is hit by a truck"...and that was the end of this series and it was replaced by another different anime soon after. The "reincarnation" season was never dubbed in latino spanish.
Lmfao my cousin told me about that and she said that after she was traumatized by Gigi getting hit by the truck, her mother would say that she would get run over like Gigi if she didn't stop crying or something.
I remember watching the last episode as a really young kid. It didn't traumatize me or anything. It was just my second earliest "SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FOCK IS HAPPENING" moment in my life. The first one was when my uncle died in a traffic accident and I saw his corpse in my grandpa's house but that's totally unrelated.
@@lilithcrawler-mj3xr yea I meant like, kinda funeral in my grandpa's house but it's more up close. It's different from western type of funerals. I was like, "Why people surrounds him? Why my mom and my grandma's crying? My uncle is just sleeping, right?" Then I saw him getting lowered in his grave. "Wait what he's... WHAT? WHY? WHAT THE FOCK IS HAPPENING!? UNCLE YOU GOTTA WAKE UP THEY TRYNA BURY YOU ALIVE!!" Took me a day to figured out he was not buried alive.
4:05 it's a bit ironic that you said that if they would have ended Pokemon this way, fans would have rioted. Takeshi Shudo, the writer for both Minky Momo and the Pokemon anime was originally planning to end on a darker note with the Pokemon rebelling against their trainers.
peepee poopoo right? I mean, most of those Pokémon are cohabitating like it’s no big deal. I wouldn’t have mind seeing the show end in a not happy way. Now, its just dragging on. Ash Ketchum should have achieved his dream by now?! Or he’s a freaking professional ten year old student. With no worries. Wtf man. I mean after Ed and Alaric completed their mission. They moved on. Ash is forever stuck as a 10 year old. He’s never gonna get a girlfriend, settle down, and do other stuff. He’s just forever stuck as a ten year old boy.. Why?!
"Momo needs to stop Peter Pan from childifying all the people, stop a war from between every nation on Earth, and have a dogfight for good measure. I know this sounds boring but..." wut?
that's the 3rd peter pan the frakenfurter one don't dream it be it the frist one was peter tan created as part of daisy fantasy world to be a companion to her dead kitten given rebirth as an inmaginary friend where daisy is the queen when she was a lonely mafia princess when she had a dream of them peter traped her in the dream reality putting her in a coma making momo go into daisy dream he's part drop dead fred and freddy kruger hn he hulks out as and adult form to compete with adult form momo its not pretty the second one she meets peter in a park as a old man kinda looking like artie Johnson dirty old man waldo from laugh in! he takes a bullet for her from daisys fathers goon who destroys her wand in the early episode minky momo discovers that captain hook is the bramuda triangle
I remember this being one of my favourite shows as a kid over 25 years ago. She's called "Haneen" in Arabic, which is a real Arabian name. I still listen to their opening every few years. Such golden days.
So, fun fact pertaining to Takeshi Shudo also being head writer of the Pokemon anime for a while: According to iMDB, "While working as head writer of Pokemon (1997), Shudo had envisioned an ending to the animated series where the Pokémon would rebel against their trainers, with Pikachu as the lead and Meowth as the mouthpiece." So he really was gonna try to traumatize another generation of kids lol
@@kennylauderdale_en After much research, I think I figured out why Amazon axed the Minky Momo dub before anyone noticed. Someone at the company probably heard of the curse of Minky Momo and realized that if a large enough group of ppl started to livestream the truck kun moment at the exact same time, which is pretty easy considering it's Amazon Prime Video, the energy of Minky Momo would reawaken once more and, like a bolt of lightning, escape Japan, cross the Pacific, and cause the Yellowstone Supervolcano to erupt.
A man named Kenji Iwamura got lost and died in a mountain while hiking. A tape recorder was found with 2 tapes. 1 being his cry for help and the other was a soundtrack from this anime. Unlucky.
It’s like those old japanese stories where someone died and all their nagative emotions got sealed in a sword or building, except the negative emotion was so powerful that Minky Momo entering the airwaves created a natural disaster.
Momo looks a little like Madoka Kaname, whose anime became associated with the most powerful earthquake in Japanese history; the 2011 Tohoku quake, which struck the day after possibly the highest-rated episode of the show first aired. Maybe it was also a victim of the Momo Curse, due to the protags' resemblence?
I think even TFS got that. Piccolo saying "My cocaine!" in the 2.9 joke garlic jr saga moment and saying he was on cocaine instead of the black water mist sounded accurate to harmony gold's bizzare totally lost anime and existence of whatever they were aiming to do then.
Minky from the term "mink" as is a mink fur coat, they're referring to how Momo's hair is "fluffy" like a mink coat, and Momo means "peach" , there is a type of Asian peach that are light pink in color. So the character's name is basically another way of saying she's like a "Fluffy Peach" Minky from "mink" a type of warm fuzzy cute animal/or it's fluffly fur, and sounds like "pink", and "Micky (Mouse)" pink+mink+micky = Minky
Fun fact: "Momo" is one way to say "Pink" (among other things) in japanese, so its possible for Minky Momo's name to be translated as "Minky Pinky" and im gonna refer to her as such from now on
@@morganolsen432 Yes, momo means peach. And in Japanese culture the color of a peach is equivalent to what many western cultures considere pink. That is why the word for pink is momo-iro.
@@Japanthewoman Yes, I know. Thank you for clarifying that. Still peach colored is different than Pink colored. I basically was getting at if her name is Momo I'm pretty sure it pointing to her name meaning peach rather than pink.
OMG! I thought the name Miki Momo sounded familiar but I knew I never watched it. Where I must have heard it was on My Life As A Teenage Robot. Lol thank you.
@@nowheredude4204 Funny I kind of thought that part of the miki momo curse was part of the episode’s plot. After brad sang the theme song and had a talk with Jenny. Jenny gets shipped off to kindergarten due to a misunderstanding. But that’s just my theory.
The ONLY reason ive ever heard of Minky Momo was through an episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot where in the beginning of the episode ( I think its the one where Jenny goes to kindergarten), he starts singing the "Minky Momo song". Pretty sure the song in that episode is completely made up, but the song definitely did get stuck in my head
Imagining Minky Momo's energy materialize into the real world causing natural disasters is scarier than Nora's constant frame skips and the Laughing Salesman's smile. Good luck Minky Momo.
From what I had read, early Laughing Salesman deals were the sort of thing where... well, they were bait to catch types who thought they found a loophole...
Don't forget the case of the mystery SOS in Japan. A hiker got lost, and was only found because of a large SOS on the ground near them that they didn't make. Then further investigation found the five year missing remains of another hiker who was partially identified from the cassettes with Minky Momo and Macross music they had in their stuff. And THAT person didn't have the means to make the SOS either.
I walked into my house and found my sister watching Minky Momo. I snorted mockingly and at that exact moment my mother tripped in the kitchen and almost shanked herself with the knife she was cooking with..... I never disrespected Mistress Momo again.
Harmony Gold's version of Minky Momo might still be lost media, but Crunchyroll just uploaded the subbed Japanese version today. Just saw the first episode. I'm in South America, so I'm not 100% sure it's available in NorthAmerica, but it should be. Will finaly get to experience the curse first hand! And yes, everybody here knows her as Gigi. This is a great channel. Hope you can upload more content soon! Greetings from Chile
@@AAAAA1128AA another comment gives some information. Basically, a Japanese man was found dead and used logs to write "SOS". He had 2 video tapes. The first one was his cry for help. The second one was the Minky Momo soundtrack.
Maybe because the features and proposals were more original back in these days, I mean, they weren't generic as nowadays's animes (not all of them, of course).
My favorites are studio Pierrot's Mahou shoujo series in the 80's, specially Persia the Magical Fairy, I have very dear childhood memories attached to this anime and Candy Candy, with my mom Also Sailor Moon's aesthetic is goals
"Hey it's a magical girl show, they're not really known for their stories." *The Precure Franchise throws it's collective head back and laughs like that seagull meme*
@@kennylauderdale_en yeah yeah, just giving you a light ribbing. Honestly, this video was so well done, I appreciate it. Also Kenny Lauderdale responded to one of my comments EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
"can you imagine pokemon ended this way?" well, considering Takeshi Shudo was the main writer for the Kanto (first) act of the Pokémon anime, it *could* have happened
It fucks me up in a big way to know that that was the same guy. I've always been obsessed with early pokemon--the original had so much soul and wit that the newer seasons lack. You have to wonder how Takeshi Shudo felt, considering how pokemon is a classic example of Anime As Marketing. I hope he knew that he made more than just toys, and that we're still celebrating the things he worked on. I know I'm rambling, but god I'm so weak against this creepypasta shit.
you should see his original drafts of the anime... like Ash's mom being a single mom because Ash's dad left her to be a Pokemon trainer (deadbeat father) and Ash's mom giving birth to him as a teenager. I'm not even making any of that up, he wrote a book about his original drafts for the anime that he couldn't do because it was a bit too dark for Pokemon.
There's a very easy way to tell the 2 Momo apart, the original (called sky Momo) has the star hairpin, while the sequel (called sea Momo) has the heart hairpin I don't get Shudo's mindset, was he trying to guilt trip the toy company, who probably thought: What do I care if you choose to kill off your own main character, it's no sweat off our backs.
Yeah. Honestly when thinking about said mindset, I can't help but mutter to myself "Really Shudo? This is a kids magical girl anime, not Captain Scarlet."
I don't know, Ojamajo Doremi seems more nuanced despite (or in spite of) being longer, but that's just me. Either way, it beats some of Sailor Moon's filler.
My parents loved this show when they were kids and they showed me and my sister an episode of this once when we were younger. Little did we know about how it ended... 😬
"could you imagine if they ended pokémon this way? There would have been rioting in the streets." It's funny that you mentioned that because my first thought was Ash's death near the end of the first movie. Little baby me really wasn't ready for that moment. "He went on to write for Pokemon." Ah.
What creeps me out is that I have no memory of ever seeing anything about this show (and being from the states that's understandable) yet I knew who she was and her name Minky Momo as if she's just always been there in my memories... Good luck Minky Momo..
@@barrybend7189 I watched that show like once and not enough to remember anything about it. I didn't really care for that show haha. I must have run into minky somewhere else.
@Carson Colorgrave an interesting idea! I just have this vague memory of her like as if I watched her on TV as a kiddo. Like on the old 80s nick jr that aired a shit ton of kid friendly animu. Probably there was either a character that was reminiscent of her on a show i watched and that memory got combined with seeing her somewhere else at another time or maybe there was a forgotten crossover episode somewhere. I'm a huge weeb though and have been for like 23+ years.. so surely I ran into her at some point. It's weird how random things can get filed away in your memory. Lol
@@EthanMeatan Bruh! I am watching this while I have fever and my whole body is hurting. What more could--, I ain't gonna say anything more, I ain't gonna challenge Murphy.
I just wanna say, this video has been in the top of my watch later playlist despite the fact I've watched it multiple times I've seen all the times you've changed the thumbnail, it's very funny lol
My fiancee got hit by a bus and now that they're discharged from the hospital we decided to rewatch this because we kept making Minky Momo jokes about the incident, only to realize it's the exact anniversary of the airing of the last episode of Minky Momo...
The only reason I know this anime is bc of the song Rurus Suicide Show on a Livestream, where it talks about Roro, a girl from Japan, who committed suicide by jumping off a building. She was known for running across busy streets, jumping from high buildings to other high buildings, and her livestreams full of comments telling her to off herself.
@@aniahliepard with all the paranormal things people keep mentioning and the evidence there is to support the theory it is quite disturbing. It's like if you say something bad about her something can happen or something but if you make comments like this or anything that's not related to putting her in bad light it seems others haven't had problems.
The two momos have different color hair. Idk if everyone else can see it, but classic has a redder hair color, new one has a bubble gum pink hue. It’s a subtle difference, and not everyone can see color that clearly. They should have made the colors more accentuated.
I remember this one cartoon called "My Life As A Teenage Robot" referenced Minky Momo, but as a song that was considered annoying in that cartoon's universe.
And now all 63 episodes of the original Minky Momo series are up on Crunchyroll. When I noticed, it made me think of this video so I came to rewatch it. I'd forgotten this was one of Takeshi Shudo's projects… explains a lot, really.
Found this channel a few days back and I have been so intrigued by these videos. I love finding things I didn't know existed that look like I coulda stumbled apon them scrolling the TV early 4 am by waking up in accident. Old TV was amazing sometimes.
soon as you said that Takeshi Shudo had a hand in this series, the darker themes made a lot more sense. the man was certainly troubled but he loved his work, he loved to write and was pretty open about how his writings were usually done during days long drug binges (alcohol and stimulants) his work later on, on pokemon, was done in the same way. he fought to have Ash killed off (or at the very least, age out) so different protagonists could be used and new themes explored. but his bosses, knowing they had a gold mine on their hands, told Shudo that they fully intended to have Ash basically live forever. if I recall correctly, his last project, which was unfortunately never finished due to his passing, was a pokemon story about a threat so great that all of mankind and pokemon alike would have to come together or face a horrible destruction. one of the main things that seemingly sent Shudo over the edge and towards his end was the treatment of the only pokemon he ever created, Lugia. Shudo's story is fascinating and heartbreaking all at the same time. he lived to write. to create worlds and characters that were both fantastical yet realistic. the world has never been, nor will it ever be, all sunshine and rainbows. there's death and devastation. the good guys don't always win. pain and suffering are just as much a part of life as anything else. his works held onto this truth. he wasn't going to hold your hand and take you into a world where everything and everyone in it is bright and happy because that kind of world isn't truly believable. sorry for the tangent, Shudo's story has always struck a cord with me and I can't help but try to share it when I have a chance ^^;
Yeah madoka suffer and died thousand times and she doesn’t even know it. Legend said that till now,she’s still suffering in school thinking about Homura.
I was 5-6 years old when I watched her being hit and die.... She was my heroine back then. 33 years later I still feel that trauma. Ps. I'm from Mexico, and they aired this on public TV.
I just asked my dad about the program and he went "hmm sounds very familiar..." Imma update this comment after i ask my mom if she remembers watching her lol Update: she never heard of her lolol
My auntie said she watched it, and when momo died, she was so surprised. She said it was so traumatic, it affected whatever activities she was doing by the time they passed the shwo
OMG Kenny, I Cannot Believe A Western Man Talks About One Of My Favor Cartoons From Japan ! 😱😱😱😱 My most favor one is " 魔法の妖精ペルシャ " , it freed me from a very boring high school life (in Taiwan) and it still influences me in some way. The theme song, " 見知らぬ国のトリッパー " so greatly matches the storyline. Do you happen to have any vidéos about " 魔法の妖精ペルシャ " ???? (Please say yes ! 😉😉😉😉)
Well, the rumor was the toy weren't exactly doing that bad. The staves (which advert is shown here) had some problem yeah, but other goods were doing fine, especially the figurines, actually. The toy producer did some market research and found that the ones who bought the figurines were not children or parents, but single adult males. Sexualizing anime chars & figurines was already a "well-known" secret in Japan at the time, but the public stigma against pedophilia were at an all-time high in Japan. And Momo-Mami at the time could be seen as a kid-like adult-oriented mahou shoujo. (Evident from how their respective transformation scenes involve showing the body lines transforming from girl to woman, and some skin. Not something a kid is supposed to watch lol.) So you see where this is going. Somebody prob thought what they were doing was morally right (or could be he got pressured by other factors, too, which we won't ever find out), and that the whole fiasco caused a collapse in the project committee's financial structure. That caused an early forced cut to all products of the franchise, including anime. The other half of the rumor talked about the toy producer withholding the return money for cancellation of contract. That's what led to the animal friend kidnapping episode. (The part where Momo lost her power and then got it back was always planned, if I recall right. Shudo did an interview once, tho I forgot where did I read it.) Not much on that beyond this, tho. I'd like to believe that they prob resolved the issue behind closed doors. One can argue that Momo might not bring the dark element of a witch into Japanese anime, but it polarized it into something that later on became what we know today regarding mahou shoujo genre of anime. It also settled some of the tropes that, up til now we still see in new mahou shoujo anime, or even non-mahou shoujo. Example: this whole idea of a pink-haired dominant main protagonist girl.
@@lakia-chan it probably works both ways. Pedophilia is an issue of every society since ages ago, long bfr the idea of pedophilia itself was considered taboo. Then the otaku exists. They did many socially-deviant things, along with their seemingly anti-social attitude. Then pedophilia got included in that as time progressed, making the two terms even more notorious and making society correlate the two previously unrelated things. ps.: The two things are unrelated, tho. Figured I need to say that bfr anyone assume otaku = sexualizing depiction of underage girls.
@Grande Leonardo and I'm trying to clear that misunderstanding. bcs the term otaku itself is not specific to the moe culture. A game addict is referred as an otaku there. A military addict is referred as otaku, there. It's a very general term which uses only implies insult (bcs it refers to one's inability to cope with Japanese closed society.) As such, I need to at least make my dues bcs the original post was mine and, same as people here, I think what happened with Momo anime cancellation was dumb.
I just feel like Japan has too many things going on
“Oh? You wanna stop funding us? Fine, we’ll kill the pink-haired-magic-girl”
what an absolute *power move*
And do it with a Truck basically driven by your guy
Switch pink-haired-magic-girl with kid and you get a better threat.
Dick move...
That literally something a book writier would do
Truck-kun.
Momo is just like:
"hit me with a truck again and you'll soon learn that nuclear war avoidance is a privilege, not a right."
THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD PLEASE I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT
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Ah- I wanna like but it's at 420.... Please tell me someone if it changes to 421 or more
@@corslibrary I hope me telling you isn't bothering you!
@@corslibrary it's good bro
Japan: "Hey maybe we should broadcast this old magic girl anime."
Minky Momo: "JUST LET ME DIIIE!!!"
They can't. You're " too profitable".
Never
Ok * brings out the Isekai truck
I AM TOO PERFECT
Years later, Minky Momo became a brainwashed minion thanks to ZAURS.
The fact that your computer kept crashing while you were trying to make this shows that the curse of Minky Momo is true.
I actually believe in curses despite everybody telling me they're just coincidences. There HAS to be some truth to them.
it don’t end there mate, some dude who died in a hiking accident had literal minky momo cassette tapes with him, and a girl who was a fan of minky momo live streamed her self-game over, and guess why
This has as much infamy as that one song called Gloomy Sunday.
There just something’s the human imagination created that just give off unusual circumstances.
My pc randomly reset itself while this was playing
@@JTruong3rd one time I searched onto this and the next morning I almost threw up
"My computer crashed 110 times trying to edit this video"
Even talking about her is a curse.
110 is also the emergency number for the Japanese Cops... just sayin'
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Oh shoot
@@astaroth_sasazaki_yt oof-
Ty Love my power went out in the middle of this video
You still alive?
Toy Company: We don't want to make toys anymore.
Truck-kun: My anger won't be satisfied till the streets flood with the blood of anime protagonists.
Lol
LMFAO
Truck kun is so awesome
uh
Truck kun is the alpha and the omega. He startes the plot, but ends it too
"Minky Momo even got a release in America! That's right! It aired right after the season premiere started and you wouldn't guess which day Toonami decided to air Minky Momo... that's right, September 11, 2001..."
Seriously???
this show is fucking unlucky man
Did they recently release it somewhere else? Might explain Corona.
At the exact time the first plane crash began
no way, seriously???
"Could you imagine if they ended Pokemon this way?" Yes, I can, because the same Takeshi Shudo was behind the show in its early seasons, and he was even thinking about ending it like something between The Birds and Planet of the Apes (the question is if Tajiri and other people in the production team would allow it). And maybe even ending it like Minky Momo would be better than how it really went after 1999 (let the main character hop from island to island never becoming the master, and kicking all the other main characters out).
(Genesect didn't exist back then BUT) Ash getting ran over by a Genesec using extreme speed sounds like a great ending now lmao
I mean he did become a master now and we've been able to move on.
@@TheBonkleFoxBut now only the Pokémon anime "nerds", not even Pokémon fans in general, do care. Back in the day the Pokémon snime was a mainstream phenomenon
The original ending of Pokemon anime ends with Pokemon rebelling against humans and Pikachu betrayed Ash. Yep. This is Animal Farm level of resistance.
@@poweroffriendship2.0 I know, but I doubt they would let Shudo do it.
Imagine remaking the series?
“We are considering cancelling your show”
Writers: do you really want to take that risk?
The earth apparently loves Minky Momo and throws a fit when you cancel it.
😂😂😂😂😂
Stellermeerkat the earth: We don’t do that on this timeline
@@Stellermeerkat So that's the Magical girl series Terra-mama was talking about. huh
*Writers:*
*so you choose, death*
It's called Gigi in french and they didn't air the followup to her death, leaving the french youth traumatized. Absolute gold
How 'bout that, the exact same thing happened in latin america
Children are resilient!
Woooo! :0
I was completely traumatized when Gigi passed on. I remember crying my eyes out, things were never the same after that. 😔😢
I remember crying so hard i was like wtf they can't just end the show on that
That's one way to get back at a toy company.
"Hey you remember that cute magical girl you decided to abandon? Well she's dead now. She's dead and it's all your fault."
Lol
Damn
Dark
It really seems like a Dick move lol... i mean, dont even consider all the fans, all the children... just how they feel about their paycheck which should have been a legal isssue, not a reason to make a whole generation of kids cry.
@@Glitch-Gremlin Fuck them kids. They learned a hard lesson about life that day.
Actually Takeshi Shudo who went on to become the head writer of Pokémon, intended to kill off Ash in the first ever movie as a finale but due to the sheer popularity of the anime, the ending was re-written at the last moment (you can even see how the writing must have been hastened when Ash turns into stone and Pikachu keeps shocking him and the hints of his death are there in the first ever Japanese teaser of the film)
I read somewhere that he had depression and anxiety which made him have a bad outlook towards life and he intended to portray how Ash have to move on from his "childhood" dream because they are mostly unachievable.
But thankfully the writing team eventually took a different narrative after his departure and Ash is now a world champion!
I was six when I watched that show. I was in love with her. I remember every time I got to choose what to draw, I would draw her. It was awfull when she died, I cound't understand. Then she came back, but it wasn't her, it was something like "this would have happened if she would have lived, but don't forget she's dead". I had many nightmares about it. I don't remember when I stopped drawing her.
Many years later I remembered Gigi again, and I ask my friends if they knew her, but nobody knew who she was. And I repeated: the girl with pink hair, who transformed into profesional growned women, and died hit by a truck. I tought I was crazy. Until I discovered my 1° Grade school notebook at my grandma's attic and effectively, it had drawn Gigis all over it. So she was real.
When Internet became a thing Gigi was one of the first things that I looked for. 0 results the first times. Years later I found out her original name was Minky Momo, and could download a couple of pictures. And after that more information become available.
Thanks for explaining why the hell I lived traumatized all my childhood. I don't know if I feel better now, hahaha.
Jesus Christ dude, this is fucking dark.
@Piriathy in Argentina.
Well in my country she was called Hanin. I was 5 years old at the time and I used to watch this show regularly. I was so in love with her character and I would imagine myself going on those adventures with her. I spent a whole week crying when she died...
@@Kayavod la vuelta de la democracia y la muerte de minky momo, creo que voy a preguntarle a mi mama si alguna vez vio en esa época este anime
@@missmaku Ja, dale. A mí por lo menos, Gigi me marcó más que Alfonsín.
"Saving the world doing the basic magical girl stuff"
At the same time, she destroys a missle and transform it into loving hearts.
Holy shit
Typical weekday
syaondri That’s Lotte (don’t worry, you didn’t spoil anything for me. I already did I shed the anime)
@@syaondri oh hey look Little Witch Academia's best gal on the pfp.
@@syaondri I was just thinking about it too! Only a big smile. The trigger folks did their research.
Toy Company: Stops sending money
Minky Momo: I'm going to end this whole country's career
Do not anger our Minky Overlord.
@@Shiirow mingcky momouse
-and mine too
I'd love to hear that she was brought back to life because the president of Japan begged and threw money at them, after his grand daughter became catatonic.
I REALLY miss this entire era of Japanese animation, there were just SO MANY GREAT and crazy shows that came out of the 80s and even the 90s. They had a style both in story and animation that you just don't see anymore. I really wish they'd bring it back.
Sadly the Japanese economic crash of the 1990's made sure it will never happen again.
I always thought that 80s cartoons where hard for me to get into but I usually get easily into 80s anime
Now I feel the opposite nowadays I don’t see myself get into anime of nowadays that easily but some recent cartoons where my favorites
@@StriderVMhow many crashes happened in japan ?
@@ahmadmalaki8364 Technically only once. However the downturn is so severe it basically put people into two tiers of wealth back. I guess its like how boomers got it made while millenials couldn't even buy a house nowadays. Its kinda like that. But much earlier.
@@StriderVM damn that’s so rough
imagine you stop funding a company because you aren't getting enough money for some toys you're making and then a rumor starts about how you caused the biggest earthquake in japan
Big oopsie
Actually it was stopped because only single adult males were buying the toys
Karma at its finest
Haha boy, I sure do hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
@chicken for real?
This was Truck-Kun's first ever role, look how young he was
*low-key chuckles at the toy truck*
no ita his first experience
he havent have his calling at this time yet
How *CUTE*
So the truck kun meme is begin in minky momo
Unless there was a scene that predates, yes that's Truck-Kun's first victim
The funny thing about this is that the head writer on the show, Takeshi Shudo, eventually got to be the head writer of Pokémon up until mid-to-late Johto.
Had Pokémon not been the cash cow that it is today, he might have killed Ash Ketchum in the same manner.
EDIT: After two years of this comment being up, I'd like to mention that he said that Ash couldn't become the Pokémon master because the show would end. And it made me think of an ending for Pokémon where Ash dies after winning the Alola League Tournament:
While running out of the stadium, Ash doesn't look where he's going and gets hit by Truck-kun.
Every companion he's ever had, every rival he's been on good terms with, the one-offs that reappeared in specials, and even the Team Rocket trio visits his hospital bed. Pikachu goes through a depressive episode and offers himself up to be taken by Team Rocket, but they decline because it just doesn't feel earned. No plot contrivance, no legendary Pokémon comes in to save the day, we just get to witness Ash's life flash before his eyes as he dies happily, his life fulfilled. That would've been my ideal finale, a real tear-jerker.
Javier Rico pretty sure ash is already trapped in the dream world of minky momo, giving him the curse of immortal and always chased by bad guys.
Then the series gets rebooted years later, as an isekai featuring anime girl versions of Pokemon.
Javier Rico Pokémon gotta catch em all
U know Ash has actually died on several occasions during the first 3 season
the movie came painfully close...
Sir you have no idea how happy you've made me. Im 3yrs behind, but I have dug deep into my childhood memories to try and find this anime. My mom bought me one single VHS of this show somehow in like 2002 or so and i never ever could remember the name. Im almost 28yrs old and have searched for well over 15yrs for this show. I never could remember the plot or anything so IMDB'ing was impossible. Ofc Sailormoon and Sakura cardcaptor kept popping up and I was always like "NO DUDE...THIS IS A CHEAPER... OLDER VERSION!!" lol
EDIT: I live in the U.S so i really have no idea how she got this tape lol
I am also 28 and in the US. Harmony Gold's Magical Princess Gigi and the Fountain of Youth was in the free kids movies at my local Family Video. I rented it almost every time I went. Maybe that's where she got it?
Does your mom still have the tape(s)?
"But it was so traumatizing that it is said that Minky Momo's energy leaked into the real world where it manifested as an actual event"
*I am going to SHIT MY PANTS that is so insane*
more insane one episode is based on dr strange love complete with riding the bomb! another is William shatner as a shuttle astronaugt with a lolicon fixiation with the little match girl ect
*666 likes*
Now this is what could be called "cause and effect".
See a doctor.
how the hell did momo, a show who was just made for children entertainment, turn into a literal cursed urban legend
edit: this comment is getting sm attention 😭 i worded this wrongly but i was trying to say how it was very funny to see a harmless child show become a cursed urban legend ,, i know where most urban legends come from i promise 😭
because the people funding team of minky momo stopped funding even tho the show was going great, which made the team mad because merchandise wasnt selling well, so the team wanted to grab the funders' attention in special way because the team new that the funders dont care about which way the story goes, unless something "interesting " occurs to their loss. The team, therefore, killed mikymomo and in coincidence, an eathquake came, coincidently showing minky momo's dark powers (ofcourse it aint true, but look how big of coincident this is)
@amateur bobomb ik rorochan's case, but by kenji do you mean the guy who lost his way to motel on some hill and had sos message on tape? who got lost due to a boulder used to guide ways and looks exactly same which caused misunderstanding
@Panic! At the everywhereyeah now THAT is something I did not knw. Thanks for sharing :)
Ahem
Barney
This urban legend is like literal indonesia urban legend. Almost all of them are real, and some are coincidence.
Theres 1 urban legend where they said to not wondering all alone when its 6pm or 2-3 am (witchering hours). Some of people experienced this thing where they saw ghost, etc.
Its reminding me of my grandfather. He was hunting Bats in forest (for eat and sell to market if im not wrong). About midnight.. when he want to go home. He was lost. Trust me, he was a pretty keen vision that time when he was young, but everytime he follow the right path.. then Bam, he came back to his normal position where he started to go back home. Its about a 2 or 3pm (i guess... he said it was a mignight to morning time) he saw his friend.. just came back from mosque. Its a good thing his friend got a candle and they can walk back home safely (my grandfather have flashlight.. but yeah, even with flashlight, he cant go home. Even when he followed the right paths).
Im open to any question btw. Just to make sure you to dont have any curiosity.
Minky Momo is legendary here in Latin America because the horrific "ending" that traumatized an entire generation of small tv viewers. Here it was called "Las Aventuras de Gigi" and because of never explained reasons, the last season of the show was never dubbed in spanish, so the "run over by a truck" IS the last episode of the series! That's right, for all the little latinos viewers, the final fate of cute Gigi/Minky Momo was dead by a truck!
Only decades later, by the dawn of the Internet era, many grown up latinos viewers finally they got to know there was one extra season of never dubbed episodes of the original series and that their beloved magical girl was actually alive and well. You can read the comments section of any latino spanish dubbed videos of "Gigi" on TH-cam and it looks like a PTSD therapy group, still reeling from the shocking "finale" and needing a hug.
donde mierda estaba este anime cuando yo estaba creciendo
But she got reborn-
@@xrinxdarkx7493 yeah but we didn't knew about that years later. What we saw in the anime original run was "she is hit by a truck"...and that was the end of this series and it was replaced by another different anime soon after. The "reincarnation" season was never dubbed in latino spanish.
@@historiador1976 ohhhh
Lmfao my cousin told me about that and she said that after she was traumatized by Gigi getting hit by the truck, her mother would say that she would get run over like Gigi if she didn't stop crying or something.
I remember watching the last episode as a really young kid. It didn't traumatize me or anything. It was just my second earliest "SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FOCK IS HAPPENING" moment in my life. The first one was when my uncle died in a traffic accident and I saw his corpse in my grandpa's house but that's totally unrelated.
You saw WHAT?
@@lilithcrawler-mj3xr yea I meant like, kinda funeral in my grandpa's house but it's more up close. It's different from western type of funerals. I was like, "Why people surrounds him? Why my mom and my grandma's crying? My uncle is just sleeping, right?" Then I saw him getting lowered in his grave. "Wait what he's... WHAT? WHY? WHAT THE FOCK IS HAPPENING!? UNCLE YOU GOTTA WAKE UP THEY TRYNA BURY YOU ALIVE!!"
Took me a day to figured out he was not buried alive.
@@rumiDVD lmao
@@Doritoschiplivingthebestlife ???
i too say lmao to cope with this information, because what the fuck@@lilithcrawler-mj3xr
Homura: being magical girl is suffering
Momo: first time?
Being maguca is suffering
being meguca is suffering
being meguca is suffering
being meguca is suffering
being meguca is suffering
4:05
it's a bit ironic that you said that if they would have ended Pokemon this way, fans would have rioted. Takeshi Shudo, the writer for both Minky Momo and the Pokemon anime was originally planning to end on a darker note with the Pokemon rebelling against their trainers.
Kuro Yasha - I’d pay to that lol
peepee poopoo right? I mean, most of those Pokémon are cohabitating like it’s no big deal. I wouldn’t have mind seeing the show end in a not happy way. Now, its just dragging on. Ash Ketchum should have achieved his dream by now?! Or he’s a freaking professional ten year old student. With no worries. Wtf man.
I mean after Ed and Alaric completed their mission. They moved on. Ash is forever stuck as a 10 year old. He’s never gonna get a girlfriend, settle down, and do other stuff. He’s just forever stuck as a ten year old boy.. Why?!
@@greendayfecer Ash is cursed with immortality.
@@user-qv6fg1zr6y watch the streets filled with enraged pokemon fans while eating Onigiri
@@rodrigopereira7104 and then one day he will stop thinking too
"Momo needs to stop Peter Pan from childifying all the people, stop a war from between every nation on Earth, and have a dogfight for good measure. I know this sounds boring but..."
wut?
Boring my asshole
That's the kind of sentence you don't think you'll ever hear in your life
wut du fook
It sounds just insane enough to be interesting, tbh.
that's the 3rd peter pan the frakenfurter one don't dream it be
it the frist one was peter tan created as part of daisy fantasy world to be a companion to her dead kitten given rebirth as an inmaginary friend where daisy is the queen when she was a lonely mafia princess when she had a dream of them peter traped her in the dream reality putting her in a coma making momo go into daisy dream he's part drop dead fred and freddy kruger hn he hulks out as and adult form to compete with adult form momo its not pretty
the second one she meets peter in a park as a old man kinda looking like artie Johnson dirty old man waldo from laugh in! he takes a bullet for her from daisys fathers goon who destroys her wand
in the early episode minky momo discovers that captain hook is the bramuda triangle
I remember this being one of my favourite shows as a kid over 25 years ago.
She's called "Haneen" in Arabic, which is a real Arabian name.
I still listen to their opening every few years. Such golden days.
Spacetoon?
Spacetoon... قناة شباب المستقبل
So, fun fact pertaining to Takeshi Shudo also being head writer of the Pokemon anime for a while: According to iMDB, "While working as head writer of Pokemon (1997), Shudo had envisioned an ending to the animated series where the Pokémon would rebel against their trainers, with Pikachu as the lead and Meowth as the mouthpiece."
So he really was gonna try to traumatize another generation of kids lol
he almost killed Ash at the end of the first movie. It's kind of his thing.
The equivalent of, "kids these day got too easy, let me introduce truck-kun to their life"
@@kennylauderdale_en After much research, I think I figured out why Amazon axed the Minky Momo dub before anyone noticed.
Someone at the company probably heard of the curse of Minky Momo and realized that if a large enough group of ppl started to livestream the truck kun moment at the exact same time, which is pretty easy considering it's Amazon Prime Video, the energy of Minky Momo would reawaken once more and, like a bolt of lightning, escape Japan, cross the Pacific, and cause the Yellowstone Supervolcano to erupt.
@@kennylauderdale_en I guess he loves traumatising little kids, what’s next for gen z and gen alpha?
i would watch that
A man named Kenji Iwamura got lost and died in a mountain while hiking. A tape recorder was found with 2 tapes. 1 being his cry for help and the other was a soundtrack from this anime.
Unlucky.
Holy Shite
Wait, is this real?
Edit: I just found out that this is real
@@chrisnobel2386 HOLY FUCK THIS IS REAL????
@@Fisinocean yes, you can search it. I also shock at first but this was really happened. Guess it just a coincidence.
Ok this legit terrifies me
It’s like those old japanese stories where someone died and all their nagative emotions got sealed in a sword or building, except the negative emotion was so powerful that Minky Momo entering the airwaves created a natural disaster.
Must of been the combined negative energy from all the depressed Japanese after Minky Momo died.
is that nonon
the negative energy are from all the kids who loved momo and are heartbroken after seeing her died on TV so... make sense HAHAHA
Nagative XD but anyways, ya dats scary .w.
There is no way that's true
Momo looks a little like Madoka Kaname, whose anime became associated with the most powerful earthquake in Japanese history; the 2011 Tohoku quake, which struck the day after possibly the highest-rated episode of the show first aired. Maybe it was also a victim of the Momo Curse, due to the protags' resemblence?
I see it more as retelling of Sailor Moon coz in both anime there is this alien that looks like cat
Toy Company: "Momo gotta make more money."
Shudo: "Then I diagnose her with dead."
Shudo was a crazy fucker. Drank himself into a depression because of what they did to Lugia
LMAO
She did died.
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 for reals?
@@flyingstonemon3564 Yup
"It was harmony gold, try to figure out what they were doing in the 1980s"
Cocaine. If it's the 80s it was cocaine.
Unless you worked at Imagic. Just look up "Fathom" for the Atari 2600.
I think even TFS got that. Piccolo saying "My cocaine!" in the 2.9 joke garlic jr saga moment and saying he was on cocaine instead of the black water mist sounded accurate to harmony gold's bizzare totally lost anime and existence of whatever they were aiming to do then.
They ended a kid's anime show by killing off the main character by having her get hit by a truck? 80s anime was great
Great plot
Slogan: Momento Mori! buy our dolls
They probably gets influenced by devilman.
@@tabitapana9345 ... ikr
Reboot/remake sequel series start in isekai?
Minky from the term "mink" as is a mink fur coat, they're referring to how Momo's hair is "fluffy" like a mink coat, and Momo means "peach" , there is a type of Asian peach that are light pink in color.
So the character's name is basically another way of saying she's like a "Fluffy Peach"
Minky from "mink" a type of warm fuzzy cute animal/or it's fluffly fur, and sounds like "pink", and "Micky (Mouse)" pink+mink+micky = Minky
Fun fact: "Momo" is one way to say "Pink" (among other things) in japanese, so its possible for Minky Momo's name to be translated as "Minky Pinky" and im gonna refer to her as such from now on
Momo is peach lol
@@morganolsen432 Yes, momo means peach. And in Japanese culture the color of a peach is equivalent to what many western cultures considere pink. That is why the word for pink is momo-iro.
@@Japanthewoman Yes, I know. Thank you for clarifying that. Still peach colored is different than
Pink colored. I basically was getting at if her name is Momo I'm pretty sure it pointing to her name meaning peach rather than pink.
So in one of anime to love Ru also have named momo . same pink hair style. Is that could be momo ?
One in the pink, one in the mink
Fun-fact: in the My life as teenage robot episode, “I was preschool dropout” Brad sings the Miki Momo theme song
OMG! I thought the name Miki Momo sounded familiar but I knew I never watched it. Where I must have heard it was on My Life As A Teenage Robot. Lol thank you.
Curse: Cancelled after 2 seasons
@@nowheredude4204 Funny I kind of thought that part of the miki momo curse was part of the episode’s plot.
After brad sang the theme song and had a talk with Jenny. Jenny gets shipped off to kindergarten due to a misunderstanding. But that’s just my theory.
It really didn’t sound all that similar, actually.
preschool dropout?
Yeah shes a magical girl, they just didn’t mention its black magic
Racist comment...
Eric Leiva no u
Eric Leiva ???
all magic are black magic...there's no white magic
M. Yie lol idk if ur joking or not but ok haha
The ONLY reason ive ever heard of Minky Momo was through an episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot where in the beginning of the episode ( I think its the one where Jenny goes to kindergarten), he starts singing the "Minky Momo song". Pretty sure the song in that episode is completely made up, but the song definitely did get stuck in my head
Imagining Minky Momo's energy materialize into the real world causing natural disasters is scarier than Nora's constant frame skips and the Laughing Salesman's smile.
Good luck Minky Momo.
Laughing Salesman's Smile? What about his life-ruining Monkey Paw deals with deceptively easy limitations?!
From what I had read, early Laughing Salesman deals were the sort of thing where... well, they were bait to catch types who thought they found a loophole...
What anime is nora from?
@@bluemonster5235 Twinkle Nora Rock Me
Oh boy.
"I guess after isekai'ing a magical girl with a truck, you can get away with anything" I'm ded
Not as dead inside as she is after you know what ..
Roadkill
Don't forget the case of the mystery SOS in Japan. A hiker got lost, and was only found because of a large SOS on the ground near them that they didn't make. Then further investigation found the five year missing remains of another hiker who was partially identified from the cassettes with Minky Momo and Macross music they had in their stuff. And THAT person didn't have the means to make the SOS either.
Are you sure about that
@@ericgolightly8450 Yeah it’s a real thing
wtf
@@01jiratjiampoonsap80 The “My Favorite Murder” podcast had an episode about it
Mr Ballen once talked about this I think
Me, watching this video: "The curse can't be real!"
Minky Momo: *Destroys Japan with Typhoon Hagibis*
It's like the "--- doesn't exist, it can't hurt you" meme, but IRL.
I walked into my house and found my sister watching Minky Momo. I snorted mockingly and at that exact moment my mother tripped in the kitchen and almost shanked herself with the knife she was cooking with..... I never disrespected Mistress Momo again.
Oh no that's unfortunate, is your mother okay? I'm worried
@@onnan0k085 big gay
Snopple Wopple this guy gets it, big gay
@@rinreborn7364 ur mom
Snopple Wopple ur mom is gay
Even creepier was the episodes where out of revenge she got esp powers and was ready to hurt people . First dark magical girl anime.
what
Which one?
Elaborate?
Huh?
@@racist2708 your name singlehandedly killed me on the spot
It's so weird that this show was so influential. I lived in Japan for 10 years and I've never heard of it till now.
Roro chan died with a Minky Momo reference in one of her usernames. This 80's anime really is unlucky....
Also her profile picture too I think
Cookiesandpudding Yeah. Her profile picture was Minky Momo.
Was looking for this comment
@@bee5310 lol, "maybe"
@@bee5310 we all know that...were just mentioning how the anime can be connected to bad incidents.
"And then she turns into Blackjack."
Yeah, it's a classic.
Oh hey, first reply.
Spoopy D. My thoughts exactly
That Earthquake warning after the last episode must have been terrifying
Tbh I wouldn't mind dying after my favorite series finishes. I'd be dying with no regrets.
Chloe Prentice it would be like “My FavOrIte oTp SEalEd I cAn Die HaPpY nOw” *fighting through tears*
I bet it was one of those days where you look back and are just like "Ya know, this day just never felt quite right."
Well, this was probably the only new information ive learned from the video today. Ive never heard anyone talk about the incident before to be honest.
You know what's scary? My computer genuinely crashed when I had just started watching this video
Harmony Gold's version of Minky Momo might still be lost media, but Crunchyroll just uploaded the subbed Japanese version today. Just saw the first episode. I'm in South America, so I'm not 100% sure it's available in NorthAmerica, but it should be.
Will finaly get to experience the curse first hand!
And yes, everybody here knows her as Gigi.
This is a great channel. Hope you can upload more content soon!
Greetings from Chile
Fun fact, the theme of this song has been involved in the death of atleast 2 people.
1. Ro Ro chan
2. The SOS incident
Wait...how was the THEME SONG involved with Rorochan?! I've seen the suicide footage, and I don't remember any music playing...
@@emmastarr5242 it was her favorite anime and she sang the opening on her Livestreams
Whats the sos incident?
@@AAAAA1128AA another comment gives some information. Basically, a Japanese man was found dead and used logs to write "SOS". He had 2 video tapes. The first one was his cry for help. The second one was the Minky Momo soundtrack.
What was the ro ro incident?
I love 80s anime. There's a certain "look" and charm to them that's just so appealing.
ranma
Cap
Maybe because the features and proposals were more original back in these days, I mean, they weren't generic as nowadays's animes (not all of them, of course).
@@Canal_Aleatorium_ I think he's taking about the artstyle
My favorites are studio Pierrot's Mahou shoujo series in the 80's, specially Persia the Magical Fairy, I have very dear childhood memories attached to this anime and Candy Candy, with my mom
Also Sailor Moon's aesthetic is goals
"I don't know what they were doing, good music tho"
He just described the 80s
gay sex
say gex
war crimes
Car wrimes
The joke you made about Minky Momo growing up to be Haman Karn was hilarious. I love Zeta Gundam and seeing the series get referenced brings me joy.
"Hey it's a magical girl show, they're not really known for their stories."
*The Precure Franchise throws it's collective head back and laughs like that seagull meme*
Well, I was talking about magical girl shows made around the same time as Momo. Like majokko tickle.
@@kennylauderdale_en yeah yeah, just giving you a light ribbing. Honestly, this video was so well done, I appreciate it.
Also Kenny Lauderdale responded to one of my comments EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@kennylauderdale_en How about Hana no Ko Lunlun? I think it aired a couple of years before Minky Momo.
Sailor moon also!
I'm honestly disappointed that no one mentioned madoka magica
"can you imagine pokemon ended this way?"
well, considering Takeshi Shudo was the main writer for the Kanto (first) act of the Pokémon anime, it *could* have happened
It kinda did with that gengar episode.
It fucks me up in a big way to know that that was the same guy. I've always been obsessed with early pokemon--the original had so much soul and wit that the newer seasons lack. You have to wonder how Takeshi Shudo felt, considering how pokemon is a classic example of Anime As Marketing. I hope he knew that he made more than just toys, and that we're still celebrating the things he worked on.
I know I'm rambling, but god I'm so weak against this creepypasta shit.
you should see his original drafts of the anime... like Ash's mom being a single mom because Ash's dad left her to be a Pokemon trainer (deadbeat father) and Ash's mom giving birth to him as a teenager. I'm not even making any of that up, he wrote a book about his original drafts for the anime that he couldn't do because it was a bit too dark for Pokemon.
Yes it does: pokemonthenovel.dreamwidth.org/380.html#cutid1
Also here: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/User:Umeko/Shudo_novelization_tidbits
@@CuteAnimeGirl damn, kinda makes you wonder how she feels when her son goes to do the same
The whole "truck crashes into main character, changing his life" thing in anime started with Astro Boy.
Oooh that makes a lot of sense now.
It's been a thing for a very long time.
Just like Kenny.
Truck Kun
CTback How many people have been Isekaied because of that truck?
There's a very easy way to tell the 2 Momo apart, the original (called sky Momo) has the star hairpin, while the sequel (called sea Momo) has the heart hairpin
I don't get Shudo's mindset, was he trying to guilt trip the toy company, who probably thought: What do I care if you choose to kill off your own main character, it's no sweat off our backs.
Yeah. Honestly when thinking about said mindset, I can't help but mutter to myself "Really Shudo? This is a kids magical girl anime, not Captain Scarlet."
I originally thought this was an Anime about a magical girl who, despite her best efforts, is overwhelmingly unlucky. This....this is WAY better.
@@JazzStation95 Or knowing Japan, Sakura x_x
I was thinking more of Madoka Magica.
@@NorthernShinigami Mikan
People trying to descrime an overwhelmingly unlucky magical girl without pronouncing the name of Magical Doremi. Great.
I don't know, Ojamajo Doremi seems more nuanced despite (or in spite of) being longer, but that's just me.
Either way, it beats some of Sailor Moon's filler.
Toy company : *stop sending fundings for Minky Momo*
Ashi Production : I'm gonna do a pro gamer move
both of your comments are right by each other
Covid-19 happened after someone watched the last ep of Minky Momo
Oh my god. WE CANT GIVE THE SHOW AN ENDING THATS THE THING
sorry, sorry everyone
@@shedjr_ *danganronpa apology music intensifies*
WHO KEEPS ON WATCHING MINKY MOMO
Listen man I was curious
My parents loved this show when they were kids and they showed me and my sister an episode of this once when we were younger. Little did we know about how it ended... 😬
"could you imagine if they ended pokémon this way? There would have been rioting in the streets."
It's funny that you mentioned that because my first thought was Ash's death near the end of the first movie. Little baby me really wasn't ready for that moment.
"He went on to write for Pokemon."
Ah.
Look up how Shudo intended to end the series. It's quite disturbing.
Pokemon nowadays is a abomination. I would actually appreciate when they would stop making new souless episodes
Look up the Comatose Ash Theory. It's basically like the Squall's Dead theory for FFVIII, but more detailed.
@Shikyoakuma Nowadays, I'd agree. But this was one of the first ones, if not THE first one and it pre-dated Squall's Dead.
@@trolojolo6178 tf are you talking about, current pokemon is great, You're old and Your nostalgia is blinding you mate
What creeps me out is that I have no memory of ever seeing anything about this show (and being from the states that's understandable) yet I knew who she was and her name Minky Momo as if she's just always been there in my memories...
Good luck Minky Momo..
Could have been from the reference in My Life as a teenage robot.
@@barrybend7189 I watched that show like once and not enough to remember anything about it. I didn't really care for that show haha. I must have run into minky somewhere else.
@Carson Colorgrave an interesting idea!
I just have this vague memory of her like as if I watched her on TV as a kiddo. Like on the old 80s nick jr that aired a shit ton of kid friendly animu. Probably there was either a character that was reminiscent of her on a show i watched and that memory got combined with seeing her somewhere else at another time or maybe there was a forgotten crossover episode somewhere. I'm a huge weeb though and have been for like 23+ years.. so surely I ran into her at some point.
It's weird how random things can get filed away in your memory. Lol
Her negative energy manifested and gave you her forbidden knowledge.
future vision?
All I'm saying is that the Covid-19 virus was literally emerging right as this video was made. We will NEVER be free of Momo's terrible curse.
WAIT MAYBE YOU'RE RIGHT
no Covid was first reported on Dec 31st.
@Ghost Ryda no, that is when it was announced in the U.S, in China its been around since late september
@@loitla holy shi--
Edit: got a terrible fever after watching this. Im scared.
@@EthanMeatan Bruh! I am watching this while I have fever and my whole body is hurting. What more could--, I ain't gonna say anything more, I ain't gonna challenge Murphy.
I just wanna say, this video has been in the top of my watch later playlist despite the fact I've watched it multiple times
I've seen all the times you've changed the thumbnail, it's very funny lol
Lol, thanks. It took forever to find something funny that wasn't just a random screenshot.
"You either die as Minky Momo, or you live long enough to become Haman Karn."
- Red-haired Char.
Haman Karn: Don't call me Minky Momo. Because, I am a different kinda woman.
@@gochem3013 Tsundere Haman be like 👆
I choked on my fucking drink. Thanks for that
Nu Gundam Wate de ja nai!
@@jacobpdeleon2747 Ano Mobiru Suutsu wa bakemono ga!?
I'd like to start a petition now to have any circumstance where a character is spontaneously killed via a truck called "being Momo'd"
Yoshikage Kira got Momo’d
Midarezaki Kyouka got Momo(ed)... and lived.
BetaBran That girl from Final Destination was Momo'd
I just want to say that I love all three of you dearly.
Now I know what my friend meant when he said the girl in zombieland saga got momo'd, cause this is definitely something he would know about
My fiancee got hit by a bus and now that they're discharged from the hospital we decided to rewatch this because we kept making Minky Momo jokes about the incident, only to realize it's the exact anniversary of the airing of the last episode of Minky Momo...
Well shìt
Yup, this anime is cursed. Remind me to never watch it
Thank you for telling to not watch the show
Oh dang...☠
...what.
The only reason I know this anime is bc of the song Rurus Suicide Show on a Livestream, where it talks about Roro, a girl from Japan, who committed suicide by jumping off a building. She was known for running across busy streets, jumping from high buildings to other high buildings, and her livestreams full of comments telling her to off herself.
Dayum
The answer is simple god was pissed off that they ended his favorite show.
Kerokerokeroppi *arianna grande god is a woman intensifies*
SquidMeat Ball I love your pfppp
*checkmate atheist*
LMAO
y e s
Okay, who said Minky Momo's name 3 times in front of the mirror at the beginning of the year?
🤭
that explains a lot
Apprently you did because the rest of us are just living on this timeline all our lives, either that or you are too
I am the 300th like
I shouldn't have done that oh no 💀
God fucking damn it
Description: My computer crashed 110 times trying to edit this video
*HOLD UP-*
Minky Momo didn't want us knowing the truth
@@aniahliepard what
You heard me
@@aniahliepard with all the paranormal things people keep mentioning and the evidence there is to support the theory it is quite disturbing. It's like if you say something bad about her something can happen or something but if you make comments like this or anything that's not related to putting her in bad light it seems others haven't had problems.
It is admittedly a creepy coincidence yes
The two momos have different color hair. Idk if everyone else can see it, but classic has a redder hair color, new one has a bubble gum pink hue. It’s a subtle difference, and not everyone can see color that clearly. They should have made the colors more accentuated.
minky momo truck episode: shows up in tv
earthquakes: *_konichiwa_*
The earthquakes really wanted Godzilla to give a show for Minky Momo. Got damn Japan can't get a fucking break.
*Konnichiwa
@@Razorblade_mstr01309 こんにちは*
今日は*
@💮スロー shinrinyoku the わ is は
it all sounds like it's from a creepypasta
I put in the miki momo vhs tape and Peter Griffin and the nostalgia critic bled at me
Minky Momo asked who Joe was
schro JOE MAMA
@@ImmaLittlePip plz get off of TH-cam if you are under 13
@@yuo3670 You obviously aren't getting his reference.
I remember this one cartoon called "My Life As A Teenage Robot" referenced Minky Momo, but as a song that was considered annoying in that cartoon's universe.
Really? What episode?
@@kennylauderdale_en I Was A Preschool Dropout
@@kennylauderdale_en
th-cam.com/video/pyl7V1Nbw-c/w-d-xo.html
@Eevee :3 I was looking for it too.
Nostalgiaaaa
That's IMMEDIATELY what I thought of, too
And now all 63 episodes of the original Minky Momo series are up on Crunchyroll. When I noticed, it made me think of this video so I came to rewatch it. I'd forgotten this was one of Takeshi Shudo's projects… explains a lot, really.
maybe I should do a followup
@@kennylauderdale_en Yes, please do Kenny. This video is now completely outdated and I think you should make a updated version of this video.
The words "Curse of" and "Minky momo" sound like they shouldn't be together.
That's like saying "the dark lord of widdle babby"
*r o r o c h a n.*
*''Rest in peace.''*
*Who that*
SharpSleeper's Classmate
Oh
@SharpSleeper's Classmate she didn't fall. She jumped.
Well in a way she did fall
Cries
@@Ilovebbnomula the worst thing is that she lived after the fall... but sadly passed away in the hospital
“Unluckiest magical girl”
*madoka magica vibes intensifies*
Madoca saved the word from the witch’s I don’t know what your talking about!
@@biancascream4745 he/she meant all the 5 girl in madoka, expertly Homura
The suffering in meguca isn't exactly bad luck though. Most of it is because of their own fault.
hell yeah, finally someone mentioned it.
*Meduka Meguca*
Found this channel a few days back and I have been so intrigued by these videos. I love finding things I didn't know existed that look like I coulda stumbled apon them scrolling the TV early 4 am by waking up in accident. Old TV was amazing sometimes.
You've been hit by
You've been struck by
Truck
*B O W*
@Tokyo Leap 東京リープ 👁👄👁 excuse me wtf? lol
Tokyo Leap 東京リープ WAT
truck kun is the only path to an isekai world...
It was super effective.
soon as you said that Takeshi Shudo had a hand in this series, the darker themes made a lot more sense. the man was certainly troubled but he loved his work, he loved to write and was pretty open about how his writings were usually done during days long drug binges (alcohol and stimulants) his work later on, on pokemon, was done in the same way. he fought to have Ash killed off (or at the very least, age out) so different protagonists could be used and new themes explored. but his bosses, knowing they had a gold mine on their hands, told Shudo that they fully intended to have Ash basically live forever. if I recall correctly, his last project, which was unfortunately never finished due to his passing, was a pokemon story about a threat so great that all of mankind and pokemon alike would have to come together or face a horrible destruction. one of the main things that seemingly sent Shudo over the edge and towards his end was the treatment of the only pokemon he ever created, Lugia. Shudo's story is fascinating and heartbreaking all at the same time. he lived to write. to create worlds and characters that were both fantastical yet realistic. the world has never been, nor will it ever be, all sunshine and rainbows. there's death and devastation. the good guys don't always win. pain and suffering are just as much a part of life as anything else. his works held onto this truth. he wasn't going to hold your hand and take you into a world where everything and everyone in it is bright and happy because that kind of world isn't truly believable. sorry for the tangent, Shudo's story has always struck a cord with me and I can't help but try to share it when I have a chance ^^;
I didn't realizer pokemon was that dark.....
@@lollybirdy the more you look, the darker it gets I swear
If most of his writing was done while he was doing drug binges, I somehow doubt he really "lived to write."
Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea
OW THE EDGE
“The unluckiest magical girl.”
Madoka Magica: *Am I a joke to you*
Actually:
Madoka Magica: The unluckiest magical girl
Minky Momo: Am I a joke to you
I mean at least minky only died once.
Yeah madoka suffer and died thousand times and she doesn’t even know it.
Legend said that till now,she’s still suffering in school thinking about Homura.
Madoka's airing caused tsunami.
Its less than Minky Momo suffers from bad luck as a character, but that bad luck is connected with her in real life.
I had so many tapes with that kid explaining the tracking!! I was just thinking about it the other day, what a trip to have it pop up here!
this was probably the birth for Truck-kun and his isekai power
Trunk-kun Ghost Rider'd Minky Momo, so she would drive through all anime slaying main characters for all eternity.
Maybe we got it wrong alll this time
Instead truck-kun maybe its truck-chan
The truck actually minky momo all the time
*nods*
I was 5-6 years old when I watched her being hit and die.... She was my heroine back then. 33 years later I still feel that trauma. Ps. I'm from Mexico, and they aired this on public TV.
So I can watch it in Spanish ?
I just asked my dad about the program and he went "hmm sounds very familiar..."
Imma update this comment after i ask my mom if she remembers watching her lol
Update: she never heard of her lolol
My auntie said she watched it, and when momo died, she was so surprised. She said it was so traumatic, it affected whatever activities she was doing by the time they passed the shwo
bonk
Gigi? Momo means "peach" in Japanese, so wouldn't "Peachy" have been a better English name?
"Magical Girl Princess Peachy 💕✨🍑"
😤 Actually sounds adorable-
you expect an american translation studio in the 1980's to give a crap about what Japanese names actually mean?
But Princess Peach is already a thing, wouldn’t the two be too similar?
My cat’s name is Momo lol
Gigi is teeth in Indonesia-
OMG Kenny, I Cannot Believe A Western Man Talks About One Of My Favor Cartoons From Japan ! 😱😱😱😱
My most favor one is " 魔法の妖精ペルシャ " , it freed me from a very boring high school life (in Taiwan) and it still influences me in some way.
The theme song, " 見知らぬ国のトリッパー " so greatly matches the storyline.
Do you happen to have any vidéos about " 魔法の妖精ペルシャ " ???? (Please say yes ! 😉😉😉😉)
I believe US banned all cartoons from Japan at that time along with the ban on inexpensive digital products from them. 😉😉
MOMO, LOOK OUT, THERE'S A TRUCK!
OH GOD! SHE HAS AIRPODS IN! SHE CAN'T HEAR US! AAAAAAA-
Her: **takes off airpods and walks out of the way**
* dbz ultra instinct theme plays *
@@ohheyitscyber2848 Wait what-
MISS MOMO GET DOWN
Pppfffttt
Walkman wouldnt even be available. Headphones were literally 6x9s duct taped to a leather wrapped hair barrette lolz.
OH SHI ITS COMING-
Basically the earth itself went “NOOOOO MY FAVORITE ANIMEEEE” and threw a tantrum.
LMFAOO underrated comment
@@user-64896 It's Cursed
Momo be like:
"Kill me again and I will show you how it's like to live during a nuclear war."
Fr
can she win against nuclear warlord gandhi
@@elitebarbarian1903 yes
@@elitebarbarian1903 not only can she, she will destroy him, his country and all he holds dear
Watching this video in early 2022, and I'm like: "Did someone dub this into Ukrainian and decide to air it on their version of Public Access?"
Godammit the new thumbnail has me in tears 💀.
Well, the rumor was the toy weren't exactly doing that bad. The staves (which advert is shown here) had some problem yeah, but other goods were doing fine, especially the figurines, actually. The toy producer did some market research and found that the ones who bought the figurines were not children or parents, but single adult males. Sexualizing anime chars & figurines was already a "well-known" secret in Japan at the time, but the public stigma against pedophilia were at an all-time high in Japan. And Momo-Mami at the time could be seen as a kid-like adult-oriented mahou shoujo. (Evident from how their respective transformation scenes involve showing the body lines transforming from girl to woman, and some skin. Not something a kid is supposed to watch lol.)
So you see where this is going. Somebody prob thought what they were doing was morally right (or could be he got pressured by other factors, too, which we won't ever find out), and that the whole fiasco caused a collapse in the project committee's financial structure. That caused an early forced cut to all products of the franchise, including anime.
The other half of the rumor talked about the toy producer withholding the return money for cancellation of contract. That's what led to the animal friend kidnapping episode. (The part where Momo lost her power and then got it back was always planned, if I recall right. Shudo did an interview once, tho I forgot where did I read it.) Not much on that beyond this, tho. I'd like to believe that they prob resolved the issue behind closed doors.
One can argue that Momo might not bring the dark element of a witch into Japanese anime, but it polarized it into something that later on became what we know today regarding mahou shoujo genre of anime. It also settled some of the tropes that, up til now we still see in new mahou shoujo anime, or even non-mahou shoujo.
Example: this whole idea of a pink-haired dominant main protagonist girl.
@Grande Leonardo Again what????.
Wait what?!?!?!.
is it safe to say that the whole issue of sexualising underage anime characters is the reason why otakus are generally disliked in japan?
@@lakia-chan it probably works both ways. Pedophilia is an issue of every society since ages ago, long bfr the idea of pedophilia itself was considered taboo. Then the otaku exists. They did many socially-deviant things, along with their seemingly anti-social attitude. Then pedophilia got included in that as time progressed, making the two terms even more notorious and making society correlate the two previously unrelated things.
ps.: The two things are unrelated, tho. Figured I need to say that bfr anyone assume otaku = sexualizing depiction of underage girls.
@Grande Leonardo and I'm trying to clear that misunderstanding. bcs the term otaku itself is not specific to the moe culture. A game addict is referred as an otaku there. A military addict is referred as otaku, there. It's a very general term which uses only implies insult (bcs it refers to one's inability to cope with Japanese closed society.) As such, I need to at least make my dues bcs the original post was mine and, same as people here, I think what happened with Momo anime cancellation was dumb.
Plot twist: Momo actually got isekai'd to another universe and reborn as a girl named Haman
She activated her magic by shouting "Sieg Zeon".
*becomes homura and stops pink haired girl like her from suffering
From magical girl to Newtype.
Bruhh...
@@dereenaldoambun9158 Newtype magic bullshits do exist. Just look at Unicorn Gundam. Or rather, Zeta Gundam.
@@alfianfahmi5430
You forgot Narrative Gundam.
The Phenex got some super robot magic power bullshit.
Minky Momo has been found dead in Tokyo
Is she okay?
She's alright but she's dead.
Hey! She got better!
Jordan McHighlander as a dead person??
@@mightypurplelicious3209 I'm referencing the line at 3:49 which is right after the person in the video mentioned Minky Momo's death.
Everything comes together now!
the truck
the isekai
the crushed dreams of magical girls