- Oh, ewww, Patrick's under-- (shrieking and giggling)
No, that flop!
- (gasping) No, Pikachu!
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
(seagulls squawking) - Are ya ready, kids?
- Is this Spongebob?
- Spongebob.
- (pirate) I can't hear you!
- (chiming in) "Aye, aye, captain!"
- (pirate) ♪ Oh... ♪ - (disturbed) Oh.
- Uh-oh.
- What's happening? (static)
♪ (dramatic music) ♪ - (giggling softly)
♪ (dramatic music) ♪ - Anime Spongebob?
- Is it anime Spongebob Squarepants?
- Is this a Japanese version of Spongebob?
♪ (singing dramatically in Japanese) ♪
- Wow.
- I'm just surprised this hasn't been a thing sooner.
♪ (singing continues) ♪ - Squidward, what's happened?
- Is that Mr. Krabs?
"Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?"
- Why does Sandy look so creepy? - (gasping)
- Is this fan made?
- This makes me so happy.
- I never really watched anime besides Naruto
a few times with my friends, but I think they're nailing it.
♪ (singing continues) ♪
- (chuckling) They make it even look cool, like epic.
- It's so spot-on.
I feel like I'm watching a real anime right now.
- What? Why?
- (giggling) No. Oh my god.
- Oh, I think they could've done a little better on Patrick.
- Oh, ewww, Patrick's under-- (shrieking and giggling)
No, that flop!
- Patrick looks like Buu from Dragon Ball.
- (gasping) Wow.
- And they're fighting. - (gasping)
- I don't remember this episode in Spongebob.
- (gasping) Ow!
♪ (singing continues) ♪ - He got turned evil.
Whoa, okay! Didn't see that coming.
- What?!
- This is getting real.
- (giggling) Oh my god.
Sandy looks like a bad bitch.
- We always knew Sandy was that much of a bad ass.
- I'm impressed.
♪ (singing continues) ♪
- What?!
- Oh, wow.
- I'm gonna see that in my nightmares.
- He just watched his best friend die. - (gasping)
- Okay, this is-- I don't like this now.
- Oh, wow. It's really bloody too.
- Wait, look, Spongebob's gonna say to everybody--
No, Patrick's dead!
- God, this is just terrifying.
- I'm already down.
Where's the sub button?
- I love this.
- (Gary meowing) - (Spongebob) Gary!
- The ending's normal, though.
- (Spongebob) I was just looking for the sports channel, Gary.
- (laughing) - Oh, that's so cool.
- Pretty awesome. Pretty epic.
Bring on episode one!
- (FBE) So that was a video called "The Spongebob Squarepants Anime"
by the animator Narmak that went viral last week.
- Did it really?
How did I miss that?
- Okay, I think I saw something about it on Twitter.
- It was cool.
I love when someone on the internet does something like this,
you know, unexpected, and people are like, "What?!"
- To see something put into the Japanese format
of what anime is, and that's an English cartoon,
is really cool.
- (FBE) The creator has actually done several other
similar animations, so before we get into questions,
we wanted to show you one more. - Okay.
- Let's go.
I'm about this lifestyle. I'm invested now.
- (broken English) Long ago, in a time when Pokemon...
- Pokemon? - (voice-over) ...weren't so little,
- Crossover?
- (voice-over speaking gibberish)
- I like this voice-over artist.
- Shrek?
- That's Shrek and Pokemon crossover?
Uh-oh.
- (dad) Go back over there and play with that ball
before I smack your little ogre ass!
- (Shrek) But daddy...
- (dad) What do you want, Shrek? - Is that little Shrek?
- Oh, that's baby Shrek.
- (Shrek) I don't want that ball.
I want to play with daddy's balls! - (chuckling)
- (Shrek) I want to play with daddy's balls!
- (cracking up)
- (dad) Shrek, what the [bleep]?!
- (Shrek) He always keeps-- - (cracking up)
- (Shrek) You hide away two massive golden balls...
- (amused) "No touchy."
- "No touchy." - "No touchy."
- (chuckling softly)
- (Shrek) And I should be able to play with them!
And I can't play with mummy anymore!
- (dad) Mummy is gone.
That ball is all we have left of her.
- This got very dark.
- This is sad.
- (dad) ...in the basement are off-limits.
- The music is good.
- (dad) Those balls are the only weapons we have
to defend ourselves from another attack by the Titanmons.
- The Titanmons?
- (loud stomping noise) - (dad) Huh?
(silence)
- Oh my god.
- (gasping) - This is like Attack on Titan.
- Okay, it is Attack on Titan. All right, I get it.
- (dad) It can't be! It's...
- (laughing) It's Pikachu.
- Titan Pikachu?
- Go grab your balls, bro.
- (Shrek gasping) - The Titanmons are here.
- Oh my god.
- (gasping) - (Titanmon bellowing)
- No, Pikachu!
- But Pikachu's supposed to be so cute.
- (dad breathing heavily)
(dad grunting) - Oh no, he's going to eat--
he's going to eat him.
(chomping) (blood spraying)
- Oh, god, anime's so gory.
- (chuckling) Holy shit!
- Shrek's dad just died.
- (Shrek sobbing) - Shrek, it's up to you now.
- Man, Shrek has a sad life.
- (voice-over speaking gibberish)
- "Titanmons." (chuckling)
You gotta get them all.
- (voice-over speaking gibberish)
- (both) "Attack on Ogre."
- "Attack on Ogre." Wow.
- I don't think I would ever watch that again.
That being said, I have respect for anime.
- Being fans of anime, I personally thought
they were great. - Me too.
- I like it.
I want to see more because it was Pokemon, Shrek,
and Attack on Titans all put together.
- Animation is so insanely impressive on any level to me,
and these are fun.
- (FBE) So these videos are both by the same animator,
and these videos belong to a style of video
where people take a well-known property
and place it into an unexpected genre.
Why do you think that people are so drawn to characters
being placed in a completely different genre
that this type of content he makes has gone viral?
- Because it's something different and people enjoy
changing up things every once in a while.
- It's like a fan fiction that people want to see,
but they don't know they want to see it.
- You get to see them out of what they usually are,
so you're just like, "Whoa, Spongebob doesn't do that. What?!"
- It's a fun thing to re-imagine stuff, and to think about
what could have been if it was created by
completely different people.
- It's disruption.
When something in their brain that is, you know, set
and has rules and has a world gets disrupted,
it's confusing so people want to figure out what's going on.
So I think your brain's like, "(gasping) How?
How could you take this thing that I know and love,
or don't like or just know, and make it different?"
- (FBE) So Narmak posted this to YouTube
and it has gone viral, but it's gone even more viral
with it being re-uploaded all over the place,
often without proper credit, including one tweet
that has hundreds of thousands of retweets
that wasn't posted by him. - Whoa.
- That sucks.
- (FBE) So as a creator yourself, how do you view this going viral,
if it is mostly from re-uploads, often times not pointing directly
back to his channel?
- I just think it's really unfair.
It's not fair that you've put so much work into something,
and you don't even really get the recognition for it.
- If I were him, I'd be pissed because animation takes time.
At least throw their handle in there at the bottom,
or just tag them or something.
- It sucks, to be honest.
It happened to me once.
Years ago, my first viral video-- my channel got 2 million views
or something like that, but outside of my channel,
it got 16 million, which obviously I did not, you know,
gain any subscribers or likes or views, you know,
anything from.
- For me, I just want to find an audience,
and as an artist, that's my number one goal.
Next is, you know, if I can make some money,
enough to eat noodles every day, but, yeah, for me,
not a big, deep problem.
- Of course, when you create something that you're really proud of,
and you don't get credited, it sucks as a creator,
but as a narcissist, just having someone see
anything that I do is also very satisfying.
- I don't respect the people who repost stuff without permission
or giving credit, but I know that it does,
from experience, help the creator in a way.
If you want people to enjoy your thing,
all exposure to it is gonna be positive.
- It's like a blessing and a curse.
- Yeah, because you're going to get some exposure from it
because people are going to be like, "Oh my gosh. Who is this guy?
Gotta look up."
And people are going to do their research,
but at the same time, the people who are lazy
and don't want to do the research and look up the stuff
are just going to be like, "Oh, that was funny."
- The whole content ID thing used to, I feel like,
be a little more evolved for people to be stealing content
or reposting.
YouTube does a really, really good job of making sure that
your stuff gets monitored, for the most part,
but I feel like Twitter and Facebook are both really lagging on that.
- I know it's disheartening when people steal your stuff,
but that just proves how much they love it.
They love it so much that they will steal it
and they are douche bags for doing so,
but it still means your work is great and you should keep going.
- (FBE) So finally, if Spongebob Squarepants
were actually turned into an anime like this,
would you watch it? - Definitely not.
There's something that feels like a nightmare in it.
- Yes, I would watch at least the first episode.
- In all honesty, no, but I don't watch cartoons anymore
because they make me uncomfortable.
- I'd watch it.
I'd watch the first couple episodes, just to get feel of the vibe.
- Nope! - Yes.
- Hard pass. - I'd watch it twice.
- Hard pass. - I'd have it on repeat.
- Wouldn't go.
- I would, just because I would love to see
the characters that I love so much in very weird situations.
- Absolutely not.
That one was so scary to me.
I did not like seeing Patrick cut up like that, man.
But the Shrek one, I'm in. Absolutely.
- If it was presented to me on an episode of YouTubers React,
I would likely watch it.
- I'm really into My Hero Academia right now,
so if it had some sick fight scenes like that, yes.
So Narmak, watch a little bit of My Hero,
take some notes from those fight scenes,
give me some of that.
- Thank you so much for watching this episode of YouTubers React.
- Subscribe to all the creators who are in this episode.
Links to them are in the description.
- (both) Thanks for watching and we'll see you later.
Bye!
- Hey, guys, Ethan here from FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this episode of YouTubers React,
and if you want to see more animations
from this very talented up-and-coming creator,
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