- This is so devastating!
(gasps) Bubble Bass.
- "Now I know they weren't lies!" You got dragged, Krabby!
♪ (punk rock intro) ♪
- It's like SpongeBob anime. - Not anime as SpongeBob!
- I'm instantly mesmerized by this, and I want to watch it.
- Yo, it's a shounen anime? That's...
I'm really getting some shounen vibes from this. Oh.
- There were other ones before this one, right?
(popping) - (chuckles) I love how
it's SpongeBob, but it's so... It's anime, so it's so dramatic.
- Wow. In this, SpongeBob is more angry
and more demanding.
He's more of a leader.
- (gasps) Damn! Call him out. Call him out!
"Now I know they weren't lies!" You got dragged, Krabby!
- It's time to turn against him.
(squeaking) (chuckles) I just like the squeaks.
- Is he in a thong?! I'm done! (claps)
- Whoa! Patrick! What is you doing, Patrick?!
- Patrick looks like a hillbilly right now.
- These parts of anime shows, always the best part,
'cause you know somebody's about to go super Saiyan.
Something's about to happen.
- (laughs) He's fighting for his honor. That is so funny.
- "F is for friends!" (imitates Sandy) "SpongeBob!"
- (chuckles) It has all the light motifs of anime.
In a lot of animes, you see the super cool character
and the white background with leaves flowing
in the background, and he's telling all this exposition and stuff.
- It's so cool, though, the drama. - I'm used to seeing Patrick
as this silly side character,
and now he seems like this prodigy,
knows-all god-type figure.
- I don't like the way (chuckles) Squidward looks.
- Ooh! There it is! Damn, there he goes.
(loud explosion) - I feel like I'm in a nightmare.
- Since when does Squidward care enough to get the formula back?
- Ah, senpai. (chuckles) Senpai Krabs. What the heck?
- "I can't even play the clarinet." I'm dead. I'm crying. I'm crying!
This is-- ah! (laughs)
- I don't know who still falls for that when people pretend--
when they pass out, that doesn't mean they're dead.
- What? This is so devastating.
(gasps) Bubble Bass!
- So, he's working for Plankton. I feel like that would be
an interesting duo actually. - Did he drug himself
with the Krabby Patty formula?
- I would not give him this much time to monologue!
I'd go bop, bop, bop, you're done!
- Oh my god! - (chuckles)
- Come on. Unlock your sharingan, SpongeBob. Please.
- Oh my gosh! SpongeBob never gets mad.
Did they have a fight now? Oh my god!
- How can someone that big jump that far? Ah!
Do you see his bellybutton?!
- These moments are always the best part of anime.
When people hit that new level, always the best part.
- One thing I gotta say is that his karate lessons really paid off.
- This is so stupid that it's good. - They're doing their best out here.
(chuckles) It's pretty nice. Ha!
- (laughs and claps) Bro, what is this?
- Oh! SpongeBob, you saw that coming from a mile away.
He even announced what he was gonna do!
- Wait, how is he bleeding? What? (laughs)
Like... he's still SpongeBob.
- Oh. Oh, he's done.
- (Bubble Bass screams) - Oh my gosh!
I bet that's the secret ingredient in the Krabby Patty formula.
- How dare you punch me? (gasps) Oh, he's dead.
That noise right there in the fade? Uh-uh.
It's gonna be some slit, some half cut.
There it is! The decapitation!
There it is. Let's be real.
SpongeBob has a concussion. Squidward died.
Sandy and Patrick are useless. And Mr. Krabs needs to find a new job.
- I enjoyed it in the beginning. It just got really unsettling,
and it started giving me a little bit of a stomach ache.
My childhood just was destroyed. - So, that was most
of SpongeBob Anime episode one, Bubble Bass Arc, by the animator
known as Narmak. - Okay, Narmak. I see you.
- He's been posting animations to his YouTube channel since 2014,
including a few other SpongeBob anime intro sequences.
And since those early videos gained a lot of traction online,
he recently released this full-length episode.
- It's just really cool to put these characters that we already know
into this entirely different genre. It's just so absurd.
- Honestly, it takes a very creative mind
to be able to do any of that. - Animation is not easy.
And what he did is something else. So, shouts out to you, Narmak.
- From watching this episode as well as possibly seeing
some of his other content, what do you think it is
that has made him so popular? - 'Cause a cartoon and anime
are two different things. If you could mesh it together,
even if you get a quarter of both of 'em,
it's still a huge, huge market. - It's something familiar
mixed with something that is unfamiliar.
If you show that to someone who doesn't watch anime,
and they may be intrigued to check out something
like what they actually got the inspiration from.
Definitely something that people will wanna dive into more.
- The weekend after it was released, SpongeBob Anime episode one
was actually taken off of YouTube in violation of YouTube's
child safety policy. - (laughs) That child safety policy
is protecting me. - Fans made such a fuss about this
that they actually started a Save SpongeBob Anime campaign
on Twitter. And after it trended over the weekend,
YouTube put the video back up on the site.
- (claps) That is how it's done. Let me tell you,
these Twitter fans are something else. - That's really cool to be able
to have a community, where they'll stand up for the creators.
Having a YouTube community be able to create that change
is super interesting, and it's also really amazing.
- Finally, if Narmak were to continue to produce
full-length animated episodes, would you want to see
the SpongeBob anime arc continue or would you rather see him take on
maybe another show? - I feel like it would be cool
to see it within different shows, like a Fairly Odd Parents one.
That would be so funny. - I'd probably like to see
more SpongeBob episodes. - It'd be cool if he kind of
gradually went through them, like maybe just a four,
three-episode arc for one show and then move on to the next.
- I'd rather keep seeing different SpongeBob episodes,
keep seeing the aftermath and what happens next.
- If he did the first part, like the innocent anime of SpongeBob,
where it doesn't scare me, I would watch that all day long.
The violence part, I don't know why, it just give me the heebie jeebies.
Not on SpongeBob. Just something about it, bro. (laughs)
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Lauren, producer here at FBE. Thank you guys so much
for watching this episode. Can't get enough animated content?
Make sure you go check out Narmak's channel by clicking
the link right over here or down in the description.
Bye, everyone!