Kawaii!
I don’t know about you, but I generally don’t consider male surfers “cute.” Oh sure we’ve had Baby John John, tween Julian and tiny tot Jack Robinson but they have all grown into grizzled men, beaten unrecognizable by an unrelenting sun, soaking in unforgiving brine, flying around the world again and again and again and you know how bad flying is for your skin. You see yourself in those airplane bathroom mirrors, bags under eyes etc.
No, male surfers aren’t cute but the idea of surfing can’t get cuter and therefore it thrills me that Japan, host of the 2022 Olympiad, has stepped in.
You are well aware of Japan’s kawaii culture and I don’t have to explain that while the word looks like Hawaii and sounds like Kauai it could not be more different than both. Hawaii and Kauai are filled with cultural problems and methamphetamine pock marks. Japan’s kawaii means “cute” as in “childlike, charming, shy and innocent” and, finally, a very famous Japanese artist has turned surfers into kawaii manga characters.
And shall we learn Wave!!? Well, we have to.
If you haven’t heard of WAVE!!… well, you have now. And the surfing-centric mixed media project is set to party hard for its fan base this August.
WAVE!! is a product of LOVE&ART (B-Project) featuring character designs Yomi Sarachi (WIXOSS). The story is, basically, eight cute anime boys love surfing. From there, plans are afoot for anime, manga, games, CDs, and much more.
This new key visual came along with news of of their first live event. Dubbed WAVE!! 1st Event ~Wonderful Party~, all eight of the project’s lead voice actors are scheduled to appear. Filling out the voice ranks, and thus the stage, will be notable personalities such as Tomoaki Maeno (White Blood Cell, Cells at Work!), Yoshiki Nakajima (Nitta, Hinamatsuri), and Nobuhiko Okamoto (Rin, Blue Exorcist).
Etc.
Now, it is very important for us to look at the picture above and the one below and choose which character best embodies your own spirit. The cute blonde boy throwing an upside-down shaka? The moody tall drink of water with long red hair? The one in ripped jeans and a “Shorebreak” t-shirt? The raven hair’d boy with a Hayden Shape’d board on his shoulders?
Which character best embodies the ’89 World Champion Martin Potter’s?
They all kind of look like chicks. Some just a little more dykey than others.
I don’t know, those back pads all look pretty far forward from the tail and with the exception of old raven hair’s Hayden Shape, all those boards look pretty bloody flat… they’ll track well at least.
We need a directional board now!
I challenge you all to pick up your boards, pick up your saws, and customize your boards with these shapes in nose and tail, just the same!
And here I give the idea to KS and Surf Ranch, and WSL, to the Freshwater event:
Put cables / ropes on the train to pull athletes in the waves, and perform more radical maneuvers that have never been seen!
And put some solid obstacles in the middle of the pool, so a freestyle can happen!
We needthat our surf arrive at Chiba with a new form of surf, acrobatic, disruptional, dysfunctional, agressive and progressive!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Looks like a Jap boy band!
I’m the middle one I. The yellow t shirt. I seem optimistic, positive and full of fun on the exterior but am, In actuality, a boiling cauldron of spam, fury and hate. And I still can’t land anything.
Meh, let me know when the hentai version comes out.
Am I the only dumb K*nt on this surfing planet that thinks that Kanoa is not one of Akira Kurosawa‘s Seven Samouraï but a robot created by the Brave New World (SL) Production Line , named Pluto , disguised as Astro Boy ?
With his giant horns, Pluto was created to be the world’s most powerful robot. His master, a fallen and corrupt sultan named Chochi Chochi Ababa the Third,(ZIFF) orders him to fight and destroy Earth’s mightiest robots. This is so that he might become “king of the robot world”.
Pluto does not show any joy or sadness (or really any emotion) when destroying his enemies, CLAIMING (when he wins US Robot Opens ) to be only obeying his master. Because of this, he refuses to take part in any sort of activity that doesn’t have anything to do with fighting, nor does he care about anything else, claiming to be a “fighting robot”. However, he is shown to never shy away from a fight, even after knowing that defeat is inevitable (such as when he promises Astro to not forget him, after going on bravely to fight Bora).[1][2] He is also shown to be loyal to his master.« ?
Only kidding Robots don’t get overscored for FLOATERS …..?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
A weak robot-tron at that…
Pretty sure it’s impossible to hold the purple board in the top picture that far up on the board and have it not drop and ding the bottom right rail.
Everything else is plausible.
what about the gumboots on the tall chick in the bottom picture?
Soz.
I missed it, was 430am
I was off to work, there were letters to be be sorted and parcels to deliver.
I reckon that the sisters of Coffeee could probably find gainful employment at the house of the bloke holding the Rising Sun ( board )
https://youtu.be/5A-4VGfx5lU
What if the leash tied to an ass plugger is preventing it? plausible…
True.
I didn’t think this through enough. It was early before work when I wrote this.
Could also be a dwarf holding it up that is cut out of the picture.
A ways back, the Huntington crew (Burchell, Dugas, etc.) used to carry their boards like that. Actually even further forward. It looked hilarious.
Needs more octopus tentacle penetration.
Needs more Beastie Boys ! Intergalactic ?
https://youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g
I’m identifying with the blond guy in the pink hoodie…. and Pottz isn’t in either photo. Here he is from a future episode when one of the guys make the ‘CT… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Ha!
Surf is doomed!!!
Doomed!!!
Doooooomed!!!
Dooooooooooomed!
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Bleach… tks!!!
The Simpson’s the great oracle of our time!!!
Amen!!!
Thank goodness.
they all look kind of bootable.
damn you auto correct. “root-able”
It’s a very rare root-able bootable combo. Sort of like the Coffey Sisters.
heads you could kick all day.