{"id":14402,"date":"2010-10-29T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=14402"},"modified":"2010-10-29T04:01:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T10:01:12","slug":"art-out-moment-eric-merceds-chibi-monsters-will-horrify-you-with-cuteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/art-out-moment-eric-merceds-chibi-monsters-will-horrify-you-with-cuteness\/","title":{"rendered":"Art-Out Moment: Eric Merced’s Chibi Monsters will Horrify You with Cuteness"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the incredibly exhaustive, often reviled and mind-numbingly extensive Wikipedia we define a few words. First up, chibi<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Chibi(term)<\/a>, Japanese word meaning “short person” or “small child”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Second, the more familiar, monster<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Monster<\/a>: a fearsome creature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These terms are not mutually exclusive. Anime watchers and manga readers have long known about Japans fascination with making things cute. And by “things” we mean “everything<\/strong>.” We recently learned Japan’s uncontrollable urge to “cute up the place” is related to kawaisa <\/a> which started in the 1970s. Kawaisa can be translated to mean “precious”, “lovable” or “innocent”.<\/p>\n

Fast forward a decade or two. The USA has fully embraced chunks of Japanese culture thanks to the mainstream audience finally catching up to what anime-subbing nerds have been on about since they first watched Akira <\/a>or Robotech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now we get comics artist, Eric Merced<\/a>, chibi monster creations of the classic Hammer film monsters<\/a> from days of about the 1950s to 1970s. <\/p>\n

What was the ultimate lesson here? Mashups remain king and cute monsters are cute.<\/p>\n

Look at these guys. They’re like Japanese influenced Drak Pack<\/a> of the 21st century .<\/p>\n

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Three more classic monsters live on Merced’s posterous<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via eric merced<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the incredibly exhaustive, often reviled and mind-numbingly extensive Wikipedia we define a few words. First up, chibi: Chibi(term), Japanese word meaning “short person” or “small child” Second, the more familiar, monster: Monster: a fearsome creature. These terms are not mutually exclusive. Anime watchers and manga readers have long known about Japans fascination with making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,55],"tags":[2131,4938,3545,2203,3544,3383,3546,3547,1951],"class_list":["post-14402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-artist","tag-art-out-moments","tag-artist","tag-chibi-monsters","tag-cute-overload","tag-eric-merced","tag-halloween-2010","tag-kawaisa","tag-the-new-drak-pa","tag-too-cute-to-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14402"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14415,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402\/revisions\/14415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}