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everything reminds me of karamatsu.... i should call him 💔

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"static" by flavor foley is about osomatsu-kun/san.

i've been completely obsessed with this song in the last week. just gonna copy and paste this huge comment i wrote about it. ALSO SORRY IF SOMEONE HAS ALREADY WRITTEN ABOUT THIS LOL i know the song's been out a whole month already

i was taken aback by some japanese comments that i initially wrote off as crackpot conspiracy headcanons theorizing this song/mv (absolute banger btw i'm obsessed) is subtly about osomatsu-san/kun. which as the certified yumejoshi CEO of karamatsu brainrot even i thought was reaching, like no way. and then i rewatched this with the japanese captions on and holy shit. THIS ABSOLUTELY IS 100% REFERENCING OSOMATSU-KUN/SAN, the kid's anime from the 60s (and 80s) about 6 mischievous identical kid brothers that got rebooted in 2016 except now they had grown up and are completely washed adult jobless virgin losers living with their parents. IT WAS POSTED ON THEIR BIRTHDAY FOR A REASON I GUESS. HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU SHITTY NEETS you got an incredible earworm of a vocaloid song

here's the list of observations i put together, mostly from the japanese comment thread started by @夏山蜜柑 that when viewed altogether can't be a coincidence.

japanese captions "glitching" to spell out the names of all 6 of the matsuno brothers: oso, kara, choro, ichi, jyushi, todo. it's so deliberate that they're even bolded and italicized lmfao. "don't be scared", or OSOranaide, becoming 恐れないで, "wired in the the CRT"/buraunkan ni KARAmatta ego -> ブラウン管に絡まったエゴ, "never seems to take it slow"/CHOROchoro to sewashiku -> ちょろちょろとせわしく (which is particularly noteworthy because it should normally be written in katakana, which is also how choromatsu's name is spelled, but they deliberately glitched FROM katakana to hiragana), "in studio seats"/ICHI ni tsuitara -> 位置についたら, "out-manic"/JYUSHou no soujou -> 重症な躁状, and "we'll stay another day"/mou ichinichi TODOmaruyo -> もう一日留まるよ. these are the ONLY characters that get glitched. and most of them are not even standalone nouns just chunks of kana that in and of themselves don't have meaning… outside of osomatsu san that is!!!!! already pretty damning evidence. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE

the background colors in the chorus literally cycle through the 6 matsuno bros colors. IN THE CORRECT ORDER. red, cyan (blue), green, indigo (purple), yellow, pink. it'd be one thing if it was just the colors, but it being in the correct order is too coincidental

ricedeity from flavor foley, literally the composer and lyricist of the song AND the animator of the video, IS A KNOWN OSOMATSU SAN FAN (i know what you are….. /pos). they have re-animated MULTIPLE osomatsusan skits crossed over with vocaloid over the years, so yeah i could definitely see them doing this

the visual style fits the original 60s/80s children show osomatsu-kun closely, same eras (we get both b/w and 80s era color). also miku's outfit literally looks like the classic osomatsu-kun suit jackets down to the same big bowtie and big buttons. there's also a moment (2:28) where miku is drawn as a full grown adult in a more detailed style. a dichotomy just like the matsu blobs vs their F6 bishounen bodies.

the recurring phrase "this is how it should be", or "これでいいのだ", is a VERY iconic catchphrase from bakabon, a different series by the same author of osomatsu-kun, and there was a lot of crossover. when i say it's iconic i mean it's like the showa era equivalent of homer simpson's "d'oh" lol. tbh even when i first listened to static i noticed this repetition and made the connection to bakabon too even without the japanese captions, but i just thought it was a funny coincidence. boy do i look like an idiot now! lmao

miku splits into 6 in the chorus. sextuplets. it'd be a complete coincidence if it weren't for everything else

the overall theme, story, and message of the song, of miku being desperate to keep you watching, parallels the pilot plot of osomatsu-san (the 2016 reboot) really closely, in which the 6 bros as kids from the black and white showa era osomatsu-kun anime are like "wait we got rebooted? it's 2016? what the hell do we do to keep people watching??? we'll do ANYTHING to keep people watching us on TV! (including violate a lot. i mean a lot of franchise copyrights. to the point where they had to remove the episode from the blu ray release and pretend it never existed)". this desperation to do anything to keep viewers watching is a concept so built in to the show that they run it back as the season 2 first episode too lmao.

like i mentioned at the top, this was posted on the matsunos' birthday, may 24th

hell. there's probably even more that i missed. all of this is to say holy moly. what an incredible song and incredible tribute, and i bet most of the 11 million views didn't even think about this, at least not the english ones. i mean hell even with constant deep karamatsu brainrot that i have i didn't fully make the connection until i read the comments from jp viewers, they did get lots of hints though haha. but man, as if i couldn't love this song any more, now i find out it's all deeply entwined with ososan…. it's just so peak 😭 i desperately need to re-animate this as osomatsu-kun/san… i need to so bad……. FUCK IT'S JUST SO GENIUS! RICE! YOU'RE A GENIUS!!!!!!

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that's the end of the comment i wrote on youtube (gimme thumbsy uppies btw pls or i'll cry). but seriously....

I'M DEFINITELY GONNA DO THIS ONCE I... once i have time... i just... i just need to move first... and do the work... and all the big events i have to run and trips in august... OUGH!!!! OUGH!!!!!!

PLEASE IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE MY MATSU BRAINROT STRUCK ME LIKE THIS! I NEED TO CREATE!! I NEED TO DO THIS BEFORE SOMEONE BEATS ME TO IT!!!!!! RAHHHHHHHHH

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went on an aquarium date with karamatsu!

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IT'S THE GODDAMN TRUTH!!! IT'S NOTHING BUT FAX!!!!!! NOTHING BUT FAX ANON!!!! I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE S3 i'm sorry for being a little hater because kara really had some cute moments in s3 for sure but that was 100% thanks to the animation team hauling ASS to try and cover up how bad the current art director/designer is at drawing the matsus. so i'm not sorry.

IT'S LITERALLY SEXUAL HARASSMENT VS FLIRTING. I DON'T UDNERSTAND WHY THEY KEPT SOMEONE WHO'S SO GODDAMN BAD AT DRAWING THE MAIN CHARACTERS' BASIC FEATURES AS THE ART DIRECTOR FOR NOT JUST 1 BUT 2 SEASONS AND THE 2 OVA MOVIES? WHEN THE OTHER DIRECTORS LITERALLY GOT 1 SEASON/MOVIE EACH? WHAT THE HELL? WHY?

i have more thoughts on s4e1 generally disappointing me especially w/ the writing maybe i'll put below the break although wholly unrelated but i've been trying to post my aquarium date with karamatsu body pillow pictures on tumblr mobile and it won't let me make any posts does anyone know what that's about. i restarted/updated the app and it still won't lol

anyways s4 rant below

for starters the super cheap MMD looking ass unexpressive 3d in the op was rough. IT LOOKS SO UNCANNY BC THEIR FACES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME ALMOST THE WHOLE TIME like : ) the lack of expressiveness/life is super creepy and the writing has really fallen off a cliff. i do like the slow paced slice of life that season 3 had sometimes but jesus not a single joke in that episode, not even 1. the episode isn't even really comfy as a slice of life. and it's not a comedy. so what is it??? tbh though i did see this falloff coming somewhat after the trainwreck that was hipipo tribe, i had a bit of hope regained after takoyaki party but jeez louise it was really disappointing for me like when you compare s4e1 to s1e1 and s2e1 and even s3e1, it has completely lost its edge, completely lost what made osmt what it is, the complete unhingedness and comedy and raunch and silliness.

not to mention the art director from s3 is still here and i hate them and how horrible they are at drawing karamatsu specifically, the actual animation team tries to fix it i can tell but like it's literally sexual harassment vs flirting. what that art director does to kara should be considered a crime :weary: WHY is it that kara is the only one that has a weirdly freakishly tiny face. jyushi and totty also suffer a bit but not nearly as badly :confused: the AD just sucks at drawing them so bad i'm so pissed they kept the same person not just for s3 but the 2 movie ovas AND s4 it's criminal how they gave karamatsu the charlie kirk tiny face treatment :sob: i'm sorry for being a little hater because kara really had some cute moments in s3 for sure but that was 100% thanks to the animation team hauling ASS to try and cover up how bad the current art director/designer is at drawing the matsus. so i'm not sorry actually.

also jesus FUCKING christ what did they do to the karamatsu 3d model in the ending. WHAT IS THAT UNIBROW. WHO IS THAT MAN THAT IS NOT MY BABY BOY WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM???

hi hi just wanted to put out a hateful confession real quick but I genuinely fucking hate the current character designer for ososan season 3 and 4 I'm genuinely disappointed that he's fucking used again for the new season, I don't understand why he's gotta shorten features or why they look so wonky and not even in a way that looks charming like the 1st season and seeing the new season 4 art for the brothers it just makes me hope that it'll at least be a bit better than the third

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You're super man, but not gooner superman.

thank u lily i feel seen

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Youre like mysuperman. Youre the super man for gooners

anon what. are you yapping about. i think there is a some nuance and difference between gooning and my flavor of simping for karamatsu... or i would have a lot more than like 10 pieces of nsfw art of him compared to the literal hundreds of sfw art and projects :') he isn't just my f/o, he is my muse... my drive and motivation to make things

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ib going back to jp this month............................... jyushimaaatsu here i come (but upon rematch karamatsu's voice is So good)

enjoy your trip anon!! you're so right about kara's voice (not biased 100% objective fact)

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you really are the ultimate karamatsu girl.... holy shit.

thank u anon! i hope my karamatsu evangelizing will become more well known when i one day, eventually, i promise, FINALLY finish that video essay talking about the experience of learning blender and unity dev (and VR dev) to make the VR karamatsu date night sim... which at this point i'll have to extend to tack on some discussion of the AI LLM 3d karamatsu sim and me learning unreal engine for that haha. and include the him in the news feature from earlier this year! i really sat down and finished 80% of it last february and was like ok hold on just need to crunch this one more uni deadline and then i can finish it... and now it's june 2024. i pwned myself epic style

but i feel like that and my graduation are kind of the perfect closing chapters of my hardcore karamatsu simping. im so tied up with all my other responsibilities especially now that i'm graduated and having to hunt for a proper fulltime job and sort out permanent residency/immigrating and all that mess.... i haven't had time to draw for fun in so long :') without school projects to railroad me deadlines on crazy work like the 3D kara projects, all that's left is my free time (and i'm tryna get more into fursuit making at least for for con season lol)... so who knows.... i'll try and finish that essay Soon TM though!! maybe uh. hopefully when season 4 is airing? LOL

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COCKMATSU IS BACK!!!!🩷🩷🩷

PLS HOW COULD YOU 😭😭😭

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finally made my dream of walking the stage for graduation with life sized karamatsu cutout come true! won a medal! and the chancellor shook karamatsu's hand!

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HOW THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE THAT MUCH KARAMATSU MERCH?

anon, you should check out my jp mercari shopping guide! the short answer is hunting for bargains on huge bundles of merch from japanese former ososan fans lol

here it is!

hope that helps :3

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yknow i was thinking it's been a while since i last posted an update of the merch collection i have 🤔 but the main reason for that is i just haven't had time to put things up nicely like a new set of grids for keychains and other stuff on display, or towels i need to put on the walls. so this isn't the full collection and i'm also working on a 7th itabag but it's nice to see progress

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was supposed to throw a bigger party with friends for karamatsu's birthday but alas the plague spreads and they cancelled so we had a quieter night in together with the cake :') happy birthday babygirl (and the other 5 too i guess 🙄)

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this made me read the whole thing in one sitting im not ok rn. but i could fix him though

thank you for sharing this great little story the art style is so fun!

hii do you know about that one karamatsu comic (angst?) which was kinda about the totty shouldnt exist theory but for karamatsu.? i saw it on tumblr a while ago but i cant find it now

sorry anon, i don't know :(

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hii do you know about that one karamatsu comic (angst?) which was kinda about the totty shouldnt exist theory but for karamatsu.? i saw it on tumblr a while ago but i cant find it now

sorry anon, i don't know :(

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managed to fit 3 mentions of "karamatsu" on my resume. kinda proud of that

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RAHHH I'M SO HAPPY TO FINALLY BE ABLE TO POST MY SUBMISSION FOR THIS ZINE!!! this is pretty much my first karamatsu art of 2025 (which is. really sad when i write it out actually) and boy was it big LOL but i'm really happy with how it came out and i'm so happy to be able to help support palestinians even in some small way! IF YOU LOVE OSOSAN AND PRETTY ART FROM MANY ARTISTS PLEASE BUY THE ZINE AND SUPPORT IT!!! :D

here are a few bonus variants that didn't end up making the final cut! 100% saturation, the original sunset background i painted, and oops! All blue

THE SPRING 2025 OSMT FANZINE IS NOW LIVE !

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