Is this Adult Swim's Weirdest Anime? SUPER MILK CHAN (RebelTaxi)

[@RebelTaxi]

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[@keynanmartinez]

Super Milk Chan was ahead of it's time that I love.

[@senzurikibbutz6975]

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[@kiricappuchin]

How could I ever forget This is the show with an episode about pigs trying escaping their inevitable fate of having their hocks eaten

[@DeliveryServiceFan06]

Pan have you seen One crazy Summer that had 3:39 in it great film you should check it out highly recommend.

[@OM19_MO79]

Mexico, or rather Latin America, had its own Milkchan around the same time. What I mean by that is that they also got an untranslatable Japanese comedy anime and turned into an improvisational shitshow many remember fondly to this day. There’s an anime called Dotto Koni-Chan which had so many Japanese cultural references that they had to make sense with Mexican cultural references. There are some instances, though, in which they completely forgot to improvise and followed the direct translation making absolutely no sense at all unless you understand some Japanese. For an instance, there was a character that had a curse similar to a werewolf; in Japanese, the joke was that his name was Oookami, misspelling of the Japanese word for wolf, Ookami. When the character is introduced, they showed the name written in Katakana, to which another character responded, “your name is misspelled, did you know that? They kept that in the Mexican dub.

[@Grim_Pinata]

i'm fucking losing it at the image of a child summoning a creature into existence whose only emotion is constant frustration and suffering followed by a cheerful THE END title card

[@idimation5579]

Rebeltaxi reviewing the most RebelTaxi-coded show of all time. Hell yeah.

[@jonathangrant480]

Honestly that's the perfect description for the show

[@agentepolaris4914]

Y2K-pilled

[@khakisohn9710]

Unrelated but holy shit a chew pfp, good taste

[@jonathangrant480]

@@khakisohn9710 Dang yeah... Underrated comic

[@lasarousi]

Weebcore max

[@majesticco.4700]

My mom rented this from my local library. We didnt see the 17+ icon on the side. Learned some colorful language that day.

[@catantcha99]

I remember the library I used to go to as a child had the ghost stories anime and tenchi muyo in the children's DVD section

[@Flip-a-dip-dip]

I always thought this was Adult Swim's version of Kappa Mikey. Learning that it was actually a Japanese anime kind of blew my mind.

[@lightspaceman5064]

Nah, you're thinking of Perfect Hair Forever.

[@DeliveryServiceFan06]

PERFECT HAIR FOREVERRRRRRR

[@jase276]

Kappa Mikey, Perfect Hair Forever, Milk Chan.... this page is based

[@dwainsimmons3447]

Except kappa Mikey was actually funny!

[@bluebaron6858]

Not every anime looks like moe isekai junk.

[@itsjustaclint8404]

my roommate had nearly od'd in dolfenal while watching Super Milk Chan late night and the scene still hunt me till this day. one of the things that scared me other than her trashed bedroom's mold collection

[@RebelTaxi]

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[@itsjustaclint8404]

@@RebelTaxi dont worry she's still fine but waking up around 12am and seeing your roommate foaming in from of the tv was horrifying

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

@@itsjustaclint8404 hehe if it makes you feel better I ran a scam years ago where I would tell people, "yeah you can sleep on my couch for only 100 dollars a month." Then after they paid me I would do the most annoying stuff like vaccum at 4 am. Play techno for like 16 hours straight (I actually just really enjoy techno), scream, and make really bad smells and smoke indoors. I made 600 dollars this way and no one lasted longer than 2 weeks lmao. I'm not like that anymore I have enough money I don't need to do this now.

[@Tornado1994]

@@itsjustaclint8404 What?

[@Gojiro7]

3:57 Fun fact about Turn On, it is to this day the only TV show in american history to be canceled mid broadcast, they pulled from the air halfway through and it became lost media for decades until a few years back.

[@K.J.S.est1994]

Another show that was cancelled midway through the first (and only) episode that Pan covered in 2015 was “Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos.” A raunchy one off spinoff of Australia’s Funniest Home Videos but with risqué content. The show was immediately pulled when Channel 9 owner Russell Packer saw one of the videos of the episode and told the channel to “Get that shit off the air.”

[@Gojiro7]

@@K.J.S.est1994 ah yes, that chestnut, I learned about that from another youtuber who did an entire iceberg on TV shows canceled after just one episode to which there was surprisingly more than I thought there would be XD

[@lrgogo1517]

Me watching Pan dunk on _Rodney Guy:_ Is... isn't this the plot of _your_ cartoon?

[@RebelTaxi]

😓 If my characters were even more messed up in the head, yes

[@ratchetxtreme6591]

“There ain’t no Rizz for the Ricked” - Pan Pizza (2024, Valentine’s Day)

[@AdahnFlorence]

Ree hee hee hee hee

[@anthonyslaptheknee9344]

​@@AdahnFlorence"and money doesn't skibi-" Yknow I won't

[@mesousagaby740]

The Milk-Chan dub also introduced me to Hilary Haag, one of my most FAVOURITE voice actresses ever, and she's STILL voice acting mostly in Sentai Filmworks dubs. This video doesn't talk more about her...but my Pani Poni Dash video, on the other hand, does!

[@motherplayer]

Very much found the right line of work.

[@AniToonimationKawaii]

I remember watching Pani Poni on KZbin when Funimation had full episodes English Dubbed in it's YT channel back then. Good times, it's crazy how it got away with so much stuff with a TV-PG rating.

[@mesousagaby740]

@@AniToonimationKawaii I still own the original DVDs from 2006-2007.

[@CornishCreamtea07]

That was another Steven Foster dub, aside from the last 4 episodes, which were directed and written by Christine Auten. Sadly, since Foster and Matt Greenfield retired, she only gets supporting roles in titles no one cares about.

[@mesousagaby740]

@@CornishCreamtea07 Not just Auten, they were co-written by the show's translator, Sarah Alys Lindholm (who works on Crunchyroll/FUNimation for the last decade now), changing the writing style a bit.

[@TheBattlesword]

Fun fact: the American distributors of Milk-chan at one point had their own planned competitor to Netflix back when they still did dvd rentals, but it fell through due to a lack of interest from everyone.

[@kriss1096]

Would you believe that the straight dub, full of japense pop culture references actually got translated in Spanish with all the pop culture shit UNLOCALIZED!? Enter Animax in the mid to late 2000s, when this show premiered there. It was INCOMPREHENSIBLE since characters talked about japanese people or commercials, shows, music videos but watching it dubbed in spanish was such a surreal feel. There are episodes of the spanish dub uploaded here on YT, it's a trip.

[@angelinacamacho8575]

animax back then was known for its....rather interesting.....spanish dubs lol. everything on their loli block had questionable dubbing.

[@mirelle_mojena]

​@@angelinacamacho8575I'm sorry a what block?

[@pablocasas5906]

​@@angelinacamacho8575 I'd say that it was because most of the anime shown in Animax was dubbed in Venezuela, and while that country had been in the dubbing industry for many year, they were mostly relegated to cartoons and some live-action shows, there were and still are plenty of talented voice actors in Venezuela, but they had very little experience without anime, aside from shows like The Slayers and Shurato. That's why some of their dubs made for Animax for shows such as Galaxy Angel, Di Gi Charat Nyo, Burst Angel, Speed Grapher, Excel Saga and some others sounded kind of weird. Mexico, on the other hand, took a show called Dotoki Koni-chan, a show that already has tons of weird Japanese humor, and completely rewrote the script and added a lot of Mexican and Latin American references and lots of ad-libs by the VAs and it became a cult hit among Latin American anime fans that grew up in the early 2000s Animax did dub some shows to Mexico, like BLOOD+ and Renewal of Evangelion at least, but the majority was dubbed in Venezuela

[@syd1467]

Honestly I loved that, the original Japanese script has an undescribable feeling and nauseous charm I wouldn't change for anything else.

[@MartyAraragi]

I was like 8 when i saw this on Adult Swim, always found Milk's "You dumbass!" Line so fucking hilarious. 😂😂😂 so much ferocity in it. This and Shin Chan were definitely fever dreams 😂😂😂

[@kiricappuchin]

I just love Hideyuki Tanaka's work. Everything's round, bouncy and colorful in 2D, while his 3D stuff is shiny and a little creepy. And to be honest, I like the straightforward dub more. While not as zany as the gag dub, its got a mellow feel that I vibe with a lot. Thanks for covering my comfort show. If there's anyone I wanted to see do a retrospect on it the most, it's you!

[@kiricappuchin]

Oh GOD this video just made me remember the episode where the President was really into his cat. I tried to forget LMAO

[@Homodemon]

His art just screams early 2000's Reminds me of Tokidoki and Mori Shack's character mascot designs (hest the guy that created Gloomy Bear) Thick stylized lines, bright colors, very gestual designs, simple expressions laced in psychodelia and cynicism. Like, yes I'm selling you yet another cute mascot character, but do you really need another one? Probably. You'll buy it anyway.

[@motherplayer]

Same here. Honestly the effort to adapt the dryness can lead to funnier stuff than the more zany dub, just because it hits much harder when something does get out of step like "You dumbass" or the takoyaki bit. "GIVE ME ALL THE TAKOYAKI I CAN BUY WITH ALL THIS MONEEEEEEEEEEY!"

[@jewel-iqnsboro718]

Some truth to this; while I like the Westernized Dub more I did prefer Hanage's inner dialog in the OG Dub, Westernized Hanage is.. meh.

[@kiricappuchin]

⁠@@jewel-iqnsboro718I like his inner monologue in the OG dub, too. Very mellow and dry, but thats what makes it fun to listen to for me.

[@LeopoldTheUglyBarnacle]

Dude this is insane, like an hour ago I was looking up to see if RebelTaxi made a video about Super Milk Chan, how is this real life

[@HalfLifeDecay]

Can you look up if he made part two of the powerpuff girls reboot? Maybe it'll happen then.

[@armoredvistitor2197]

17:33 inoki is actually a wrestler. really famous over there with tons of references to him in dozens of anime. I think he even appeared in tiger mask 2. in real life most Americans would remember him as Mohammed ali's opponent in the first mixed martial arts match (to my knowledge)

[@alvinjohnson5037]

Yup sadly the man with arguably the best jawline passed away back it 2022.

[@0-kingsloth-020]

Oh he's the creepy chin skit from yugi oh that Joey does right?

[@nowheredude4204]

11:58 This is the type of shit you would see on the widescreen tvs on Mexican parties at 12am

[@bobalinx8762]

…And why wasn’t I invited!

[@Lua_computa]

HOLY FUCK SUPER MILK CHAN YESSSSSSSS I KNEW MY NON-STOP REBELTAXI BINGING RECENTLY WOULD BE WORTH IT

[@BugsyFoga]

Forget Madame Web, watching this is how you spend Valentine’s Day .

[@mc.gemstone]

Honestly this was the better option. I'm glad I didn't go and see today due to feeling pretty under the weather so this was the better alternative.

[@williamB98]

Agreed

[@AniToonimationKawaii]

Straight up facts.

[@Esitaro3670]

Don't worry about it, i forgot that the movie came out

[@fernie-fernandez]

I bet Paul WS Anderson would’ve made a better Madame Web…

[@limemaster4942]

I imagine trying to translate a show like that would be like trying to translate family guy cutaways

[@ASentientToaster]

Yo! I loved watching this show on Adult Swim as a kid and thought it was hilarious even though I had no clue what was going on.

[@motherplayer]

Same. I appreciate the dryness of the effort to stay more true to the original stylings a little more than the full on crass absurdist take, yet I am still also happy that exist and can be found since I know other people WOULD prefer it like that.

[@FoxMan_FF]

I love how I could immediately recognize the voice of Milk-chan from the ADV dubs. Hillary Haag is a national treasure.

[@HeruruMeruru]

TIL the guy that made Electroplankton also made Ugo Ugo Ruga. Also one of the shorts on Ugo Ugo Ruga, Burutabu-chan is the greatest anime of all time. A beautiful, though provoking masterpiece.

[@robertoazuaje9279]

No joke, the first thing that came into my mind when I saw his art installations (I didn't know who he was) was "This reminds me of Electroplankton, I wonder if he had something to do with that"

[@HeruruMeruru]

@@robertoazuaje9279 Same.

[@Zyxie_Zyxie_Zyxie]

Give it up for thick outlines babeyyyyy 🎉🎉🎉

[@mechajay3358]

10:17 So Tanka is the one responsible for ushering in that 2000s Japanese Aesthetic. He is a true genius.

[@sauzeefy]

the straightforward dub was waaaaaay funnier tbh you really undersold it

[@misterzygarde6431]

Considering how much it didn’t look like an average anime. I guess you could call it the Panty and Stocking of the early 2000s. 6:27 At least it’s not a brothel owned by Chris Chan or John K

[@aneboonchuy3033]

the art style reminds.me of cyborg kuro chan

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

​@@aneboonchuy3033i KNEW i didn't made it up in my head. I was like the only kid reading those in the school library since i felt like shounen jump was too confusing and sailor moon too girly

[@LuC-k777]

@@aneboonchuy3033 thank you I will go look into this

[@CornishCreamtea07]

The irony being that Monica Rial (Stocking) only appeared in the straight forward dub of Milk Chan.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Pan Pizza: “Instead of Milk protecting a statue of…Inoki…?” Me: “ANTONIO INOKI?!”

[@ItsThatRetro]

"...who was a japanese boxer?" Awww and you were so close

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

@@ItsThatRetro Which is especially funny since later in the video the former ice cream factory worker is asked “Who’s the best wrestler, Inoki or Baba?”

[@RogerSmith2004]

10:32 Oh that's Kodocha's second OP, the anime version features the characters all doing the Macarena.

[@deparinge]

7:48 was the Excel Saga OP, right?

[@AniToonimationKawaii]

I loved Kodocha as a kid. I remember when it aired on Colours TV back then.

[@RogerSmith2004]

@@deparinge Yep!

[@CosmicSponge2004]

Oddly, I never thought of the dance that way

[@gordon9232]

i finished watching season 1 a few weeks ago, i got shudders when he said Ultra Relax

[@muffnman980]

I love how rebeltaxi will research something and it will branch into so many weird avenues

[@DeliveryServiceFan06]

It's kinda like Martin Scorsese's after hours in that way.

[@milgrauuu9275]

The funniest thing about that Rodney Guy cartoon shorts was that, this girlfriend he summoned turned out to be lesbian and married another woman at the final short, i am not kidding

[@ThePianistDragon]

Milk Chan saying “you dumbass” needs to be a reoccurring sound clip.

[@alexdelosreyes7052]

A very surprising underappreciated anime that a lot of people had seen to miss out this hidden gem. I hope the executives at Toonami might soon rerunning the episodes in HD possibly in the near future in some form

[@Kodeb8]

From what I could find online, it seems a lot of people didn't like it when it was airing.

[@jase276]

@@Kodeb8 I won't lie, I watched it as it aired and while I loved it, I equally hated it. It's nonsensical and just a massive waste of time. But damn did the art look crisp and when the jokes hit they *hit*

[@JackieLombardi]

Milk chan is one of my favorite anime of all time. It scratches that surrealism itch in such a crazy way

[@DeliveryServiceFan06]

It's the Savage Steve Holland of anime look him up.

[@chrishsmith451]

Im surprised you didnt bring up how Sega's Nights series artstyle was also influenced by his style

[@lightspaceman5064]

From researching early adult swim I assume they went with the straight forward dub because they wanted people to be as confused as possible. That was just their MO back then. What I could never figure out was why they went so hard with it's bumps. Not sure if it would be remembered as much with out them.

[@ParadoxParadise]

PAN YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA HOW LONG I HAVE QUESTIONED MY EXISTENCE ABOUT THIS FUCKING SHOW. I WAS 3* WHEN I SAW IT AND COULDN'T FIND A SINGLE PERSON WHO KNEW THIS EXISTED OR WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT! I am not crazy after all!

[@totempolejoe1]

I watched your videos all the time when I was a kid, and you were one of the first KZbinrs I got obsessed with. I even created a Tumblr specifically because I had been asking you a lot of questions anonymously there and wanted to put a name to it. I unsubbed several years ago because I had essentially lost interest in cartoons and no longer felt the point of watching KZbin videos about them, but in recent weeks, I decided to come back. And I've fallen right back in love. The editing, the aesthetics, the music, the humor... if anything, it's all more refined all these years later. I know absolutely nothing about Milk Chan, but I enjoyed this video so much. Glad to see you're still killing it in this space after such a long time in the game.

[@SwizzleMix]

I don't think I understood anything about the show but DAMN that man's art is nice

[@californiawells2805]

Inouki is the father of mixed martial arts and the founder of New Japan Pro Wrestling. Bringing forth strong style wrestling and changing the sport forever

[@Igorcastrochucre]

Man, this video is the stuff I crave from KZbin: detailed videos about people, media or phenomenon that it's obscure so you get to learn a lot and enjoy new cultures or perspectives.

[@theblocksays]

Milk Chan could REALLY capitalize on the current trend and come back as a Vtuber persona and eat sushi off Gura Gura's belly or something LOL

[@SaraqaelGuardian]

As a Bust a Groove (Move) fan, I really love Tanaka's art style

[@EBPyeah]

Inoki would be a reference to the late Antonio Inoki, founder of New Japan Pro Wrestling and all round legend of the squared circle.

[@demonicdude1328]

Ultra relax was also the OP song for a show called kadocha. It also has a funny ass dub with a few of the same actors from ghost stories, but it only got 50/100 episodes dubbed sadly.

[@jewel-iqnsboro718]

Glad I watched this video; "Oh! Super Milk Chan" is very underrated. I like your comparison to "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". It was the vibe I was getting when I started off with the direct translation dub but it fell flat on the references.. the Western Dub was SO much better. It's a comfortable show to watch & the humor hits hard, although many people now would find a lot of it's dialog highly offensive.. it overall does a great job balancing the mundane and raunchy in a deconstructed serialized format. I'll also note your mention of y2k in the end is a very good observation- this shows style is very charming. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[@chynas99]

this def feels like a "throw it on in the background for vibes" kinda show

[@TotallyRadicalShow]

Inoki was a wrestler, and one of the most famous and important both in Japan and overall.

[@ErebusHellhound]

I actually discovered Super Milk Chan after watching countless commercials of Adult Swim from 2005. Needless to say, I somehow got hooked on this anime.

[@taiyorenai7690]

It’s so cool that this gag dub thing happened more than once, Ghost Stories is one of the few anime I own on DVD because I just NEEDED that thing physically It’s also really cool that Hilary Haag, the woman who played Satsuki in Ghost Stories, is the voice actress for Milk-Chan on both the normal and gag dubs; that woman is such an inspiration to me 😭🌟

[@mechajay3358]

It's a good thing there are two dubs verisons of it so people can have their preferred choice.

[@FunvoltGunvolt]

6:06 self-insert OC artists: ".... couldn't be me"

[@weirdproq]

I was not expecting the song Ultra Relax to be in this video. That was used as the second OP for the anime Kodocha!

[@khakisohn9710]

Oh my GOD I absolutely love milk chan, thank you so much for covering it 😭😭

[@MondayThirteen]

When the first volume of Super Milk Chan came out I bought it just based on the cover art and was not disappointed. Still have the vol. 1-4 DVDs. 🥛💸 So happy RebelTaxi is covering this!

[@shada0]

You should try reviewing Crayons Shin-Chan, it's a weird anime that's massive everywhere but America. It's got everything, mysteries death, inappropriate nudity (not what you think, mostly Japanese weird humor), a switch game, 32 seasons 26 movies & multiple dubs one being another fail attempt of a Ghost Stories like translation, attempting to turn an odd kids show into anime south park. If nothing else people will finally get that Rayman reference from Laserhawk. It's just one of this shows that any animation fan should know about, yet most westerns are in the dark about it.

[@2bossee564]

There are 31 movies

[@Tornado1994]

Funimation finally brought it Stateside after 12 years in 2006.

[@shada0]

@@Tornado1994 Ya & it's the version I watched, but it got the ghost story treatment. I like the dub, but it lost a lot in translation, & that maybe unavoidable with this show

[@2bossee564]

@@Tornado1994 Not in a good way though

[@CheezVT]

Man, am I the only person who likes the Direct Translation dub better? And it's not even like "American Reference Humor Bad" it's more like I can appreciate the words being said and letting the jokes build up properly to a huge punchline. I dunno, I think all my time playing Yakuza and other games in Japanese has me enjoying more slow-paced, dry humor.

[@RogerSmith2004]

I initially was more into the Americanized one but honestly these days I much prefer the Japanese version. I think the slower paced humor makes it feel more distinct considering the loud aesthetic of the series. And the Americanized one is interrupted constantly with awful skits.

[@kiricappuchin]

Me too. I like some of the jokes in the localized dub but it always felt kinda cynical...

[@Homodemon]

I'm used to weird ass anime with really slow pacing so to me the straight dub sit just right, though I also enjoyed the sub, there's something super soothing about the original VAs I didn't watched it because of the comedy particularly since I know no matter how many translators notes I read I won't get the joke at all, but like, think of it as junk food, as an artist these visuals are like that for my eyes, 0 nutritional value but DAMN those designs and those compositions and those colors were fucking sick, give me more!

[@Yagami0fth3Dead88]

Rodney Guy the kinda dude to vent his frustrations with wojaks

[@user-bv8fr4to8k]

Criminally underrated comment. Rodney is half of Discord just with omnipotent powers

[@briancoulombe4517]

23:20 hey Japan! If you’re gonna block OUR traffic with your giant underwear, you can at least sell it in the states too!

[@Wnick1996]

The stuff that this creator made would have fit right perfectly in Adult Swim. Thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole

[@doomdog92]

HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD XD(iykyk) to see my comment front and center in the middle of the screen really surprised and excited me! I am glad you covered this show, its been a favorite of mine for a while, i have heavy nostalgia surrounding the Americanized adv dub and to see my comment there in this video made my day lol

[@itsventastic]

Honestly really happy you reviewed this show and did an overview about hideyuki Tanaka as someone who is a big fan of his work + as a big bust a groove fan (and also freaking out about finding out he did music videos for denki groove cuz i love their stuff too xD) hopefully this brings the show more attention cuz while it is slow, it is pretty funny and id say worth it! And hell maybe it'll give an excuse for more people to check out more of tanaka's stuff (hoping for more fansubs for his other show as i really want to watch that one too hehe)

[@beccatsura]

19:51 Man, the person who uploaded that, what a maroon!

[@bobalinx8762]

You’ve done the world a soivice.

[@hidralalo]

Your investigation of the artist is appreciated, his influence really impacted my perception of bold lines and curve styles (specially his Bust a Groove art). Will check his page, TYVM Pan!!

[@Oni_Manga_Land]

Damn, all that time in Chicago has turned Pan-Pizza into a Deep Disher. Amazing research and digging as always. Also, you hit the nail on the head with this. While I'm a fan of both versions (I'm a voice actor nerd, so the literal translation is great if you're a fan of Monica Rial's voice), both my attempts to watch this series in full have never been completed.

[@Theevil6ify]

Fuggin FINALLY i been waiting years for u to review this show, Pan. I consider it an anime version of ATHF (3 "heroes" living daily life and sucking at their job), i love both the tame and raunchy English dubs, different flavors for different moods

[@ConductorKilgore]

i remember in the summer randomly stumbling upon this on my recommendations and was like: woah! cute art style, must watch! and then i watched it. pretty cool show!

[@a_nervous_wreck]

i forgot all about super milk chan. i think i speak for many when i say i was indirectly inspired by this art style, mostly through other's work that was inspired by it. it's got the vibrancy of old 60s/70s hannah barbera cartoons with the bold linework and crisp vectors of the then modern flash age, resulting in complete and utter eye candy.

[@megasocky]

I love the tangents in this video because this felt like discovering how Lemon Demon/Niel Cicirega made like a bunch of random songs from my childhood.

[@bigblue344]

If both versions of the dub are available I don't see an issue with itt

[@WeTCG]

One of my favorite creators. Criminally underrated

[@JeffreyThrash]

Super Milk-Chan is one of those weird obscure Y2K things I only know about because I periodically see fan art of it on Newgrounds. Thanks for at least attempting to explain the show to me!

[@stefssj1291]

This is the most hidden gem thing I've ever seen ever

[@__BlankStudios]

I honestly tried the joke dub and it just wasn't for me. At times, it felt like they were trying too hard especially with the unfunny live action skits. At least stoner humor was untouched territory for me but rewatching the original JPN audio and straightforward ENG dub after learning more about Japanese pop culture in the mid 10s actually fascinated me. I guess it's an "acquired" taste thing.

[@Dobis624]

I always thought this show was a weird fever dream I had when I was 8-10, glad to know it was just a fever dream of a show lmao

[@Rocketman1292]

Wow somebody had the IRL idea before you only more horrifying and full of existential dread. I'm already thinking of so many ideas for IRLs including a Milk Chan-like Sketch Fighter.

[@RinRinStrikes]

I think the funniest part about KZbin is the timeline shows a bunch of people clicked on the ad because Taxi said "After these messages" and they just assumed it was a few seconds after, like I also skip the ads, but that implies people are so quick to try to skip that shit in such a dramatic way like okay i get it but calm down

[@pass_]

I remember seeing this thing recently on an old adult swim vhs recording I had on my computer and I was very confused at first lol

[@JamesBartonva]

Yo rebel, have you ever thought about bobobo, its another anime that changed a ton of its dub. I feel like its got to be like a childhood fever dream, it would come on toonami right after naruto and the 4kids one piece and was a complete mindfuck every time.

[@dwainsimmons3447]

People hate the dragon maid dub, but praise the ever loving crap out of the ghost stories dub.

[@buglover04]

I thank you for making this video...maybe milk chan will finally get more attention then. I never see this PEAK talked about ANYWHERE!!

[@seltzerstereo8592]

11:42 Denki Groove mentioned! Tanaka also designed a few of their album covers + made a ton of promo art. They’ve been frequent collaborators with Tomoe Shinohara and DJ Tasaka, who’s behind the Disco Milk (We Love Music) theme on the show. Their album VOXXX is pretty adjacent to Super Milk Chan in terms of general wackiness

[@gat0rcrazzi]

There was years of my life where I either tried looking for this goddamn show because nobody knew what I was talking about. I used to watch a lot of adult swim when I was a kid and couldn’t for the life of me remember the name. So dope to learn more about it through you. Thank you!

[@gloomykuma]

i discovered this show through thr cool bumpers back in 2021 and been hooked on it. happy to see you talk about this and the little village people anime i love that show too.

[@GodsBurden]

Don't know if anyone mentioned it, but inoki is antonio inoki, a famous japanese wrestler who was considered a national icon. If you ever played pro wrestling on the NES, he is fighter hayabusa. He was also a member of the japanese diet as well.

[@keynanmartinez]

Honestly though this anime was a fever dream but it wasn't plus the End Credits of this show was God Tier.

[@AniToonimationKawaii]

Man oh man, at first I thought that Shin Chan and Super Milk Chan were from the same universe but nope, they are different despite both of them having a gag dub while airing on Adult Swim back then. Milk-Chan really is like Doogal but done right for Americanization. And Pop Team Epic is like a modern take of it save for keeping it's Japanese culture in the English Dub. And It is impressive that the creator later on did stuff from Harajuku including songs from KYARY PAMYU PAMYU! Now that is impressive.

[@mesosaIpinx]

I'm glad my chronic childhood insomnia let me catch this show live all the time.

[@Enshohma]

2:29 - One of those horrifically dark jokes that I shouldn't laugh at but no less did for a good two minutes straight. Damn you / thanks for that, RebelTaxi!

[@squidyparty]

live laugh love milkchan , the second best obscure show to air on toonami at two in the morning

[@sinister2509]

17:31 "Inoki, who is a japanese boxer" *bruh.*

[@lax9586]

Early 3d animation was nightmare fuel. Super Milk Chan felt like a fever dream from when I was a kid.

[@fundip8526]

Been waiting for this show to get more coverage

[@jarviswash2307]

With things like the 90s x-men cartoon and Frasier returning, i wouldn't be completely surprised if this thing came back.

[@nappa0582]

Super Milk Chan was fucking amazing. I think that was around the time of Excel Saga and/or Puni Puni Poemy, or maybe Colorful in terms of weird and nonsensical anime and I ate it right up.

[@RosemaryThe845]

Rebeltaxi pretending he didn’t make this is crazy

[@ImmaLittlePip]

I will never forget this anime for as long as I live Watched it long ago in the early 2000s on Adult swim and it stuck with me

[@sarahtelles1931]

Oh Dog of Flanders is an anime movie based on a book, I think the VHS of the dub was released by the same company that made the English dub of Pokemon into VHS tapes.

[@STE7ENFOSTER]

Your analysis of the original is exactly what I thought when I first screened it. And I know the live action isn't for everybody, but my thinking at the time was, no matter how much i "fosterized" it, it was still a low action show and I wanted to give people a reason to keep watching it. Anime fans love their VOAs, so... And your call to clip this on KZbin is very sweet. And as you can see by the comments, yours and my positions on it are somewhat controversial. It's nice to have someone see the flaws that I originally thought the show was full of. One more thing: that line about watching it when you think time is moving to fast is one of the funniest fuckin' lines I've heard in a looooong time. Keep up the good work, man. Thank you for giving that little freak and her show some attention. (Oh, great research btw. You're a badass)

[@Rodoadrenalina]

the style is so nice, i'd def look up some merch on my trip to japan

[@AoiUsagiOtoko]

10:38 absolutely peak taste, ultra relax is such a bop i used to love this show as a kid despite most of it going completely over my head lmao. i loved the strange character designs and just overall funkiness-- the fact that it only aired in the wee hours of the morning really helped the vibe too. i had no clue the creator had such a backlog but now i really wanna look more into his stuff