Keroro Gunso (Sgt. Frog) Movie Backlash: The Cast's Final Outing — Japan Reacts

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 156)

• Seriously, someone go apologize to the voice actors.

  マジで声優さん達に謝れ

  — @シヨウ-f2m100 likes

• I feel awful for the old voice cast and the Keroro fans — their graduation piece before the full cast change got turned into a Fukuda Avengers movie…

  声優総変更前の卒業作品を福田アベンジャーズにされた旧声優さん達やケロロファンがかわいそうです…

  — @fold961010 likes

• This was supposed to be the Keroro Platoon's graduation ceremony 😢 and this is what it became, all because of a garbage director.

  ケロロ小隊の卒業式だったのに😢糞監督のせいでこんなことに

  — @ふにゃふにゃ子62 likes

• I'll never forgive Fukuda for fouling the send-off of the current Keroro cast's last movie.

  ケロロの現声優ラスト映画の花道汚した福田を一生許さん

  — @kamenriderjokervs967114 likes

• Why is the narrator a comedian……and one from Fukuda's regular troupe, so it's obviously a connections hire. And honestly, he crammed in way too many of his own past works — apparently they don't even interact with Keroro, so he just wanted them on screen. It's a totally different quality and direction from actual Keroro parody. It scares me, but as someone who watched this as a kid and even as an adult kept rewatching the show on the official account, I HAVE to give the old Keroro cast a final listen… It feels like they're being held hostage.

  なぜナレーションが芸人なんだ……しかも福田組の芸人だから絶対に福田のコネ採用なんだよね あと、さすがに福田作品出しすぎ　しかもケロロ達と絡み無しらしいからマジで出したかっただけ ケロロのパロディとはクオリティや方向性が違う 怖いけど、子どもの時見てた上に成人しても公式アカウントでアニメを何度も復習してたファンとしては、旧ケロロ声優たちの聞き納めしなくてはならない… 人質に取られているかのようだ

  — @他人の解縛よりも我が一物54 likes

• So they forced a series that was sleeping quietly in its grave back up, and then got satisfied just from digging it up and went back to playing with their usual toys. The fact that this made it through the planning meeting is insane.

  墓で静かに眠ってた作品を無理やり掘り起こしたのに、掘り起こした時点で満足しちゃっていつものおもちゃで遊んでる感じか これが企画会議通ったのがおかし過ぎる

  — @dyd88069 likes

• There are a few takes going around like "the Keroro parts are fun and the Fukuda-troupe stuff is only about ten minutes total, so I don't get why people care so much" — but why on earth should the audience have to watch while mentally writing off roughly 10% of the runtime?

  「ケロロ部分は面白いし福田組部分のボリュームは合計10分程度しかないからそこまで気にするのが分からない」みたいな感想もちらほらあるんだけど、何で見る側が上映時間の約10％を切り捨てる事を意識して見なあかんねん。

  — @弾丸-l9v63 likes

• The moment a phrase like "the Keroro parts" even comes up about a Keroro movie, it's already out of the question. I paid money to come see Keroro — why am I being made to sit through the non-Keroro parts? That's all I can say.

  ケロロの映画見に来てるのに「ケロロ部分」なんて言葉が出てくる時点で論外なんよ。 なんで金払ってケロロ見に来てんのにケロロ以外の部分をわざわざ見なきゃならんのってツッコミしかない。

  — @何処にでもいて何処にもいない10 likes

• Keroro was always a parody-heavy series, sure, but don't lump parody together with inside-joke circle-jerking. He doesn't get that the Gundam and Evangelion parodies in Keroro worked precisely because there was real respect behind them.

  ケロロは元々パロディの多い作品ではあったけどパロディと内輪ノリを一緒にすんなよ。 そもそもケロロに出てくるガンダムやエヴァとかのパロディはちゃんとリスペクトがあったから許されていたってのを理解していない。

  — @何処にでもいて何処にもいない43 likes

• It's nothing like when Makoto Shinkai slips characters from his past films into a movie, you know…

  新海誠監督が作中で過去作のキャラを混ぜ込むとは全然違うからなぁ…

  — @バナナナナナナナーン12 likes

• Honestly both Yoshihiko and Gintama are way past their prime by now, so this really was just the director doing whatever he wanted.

  そもそもヨシヒコも銀魂もとっくに旬過ぎてるしマジで監督がやりたかっただけだよな

  — @ミカズン44 likes

• It really is nothing but the director's self-satisfaction. Gintama joked hard about Demon Slayer too, but that worked because there was the topical angle of riding a massive hit and the self-deprecating angle of a senior series openly sucking up to a junior one — none of that is here.

  本当に監督の自己満でしかないのよね 銀魂も鬼滅を思いっきりネタにしてたけど、同じジャンプ作品ってだけじゃなくてと大ヒット作に乗っかったという時事ネタ要素と後輩作品なのに思いっきりすり寄るという自虐要素などがあったから面白かったのに

  — @LikeDoragon7 likes

• People say it's not all on the director, but honestly the warning signs were already there with the live-action Gintama (the casting and character relationships that weren't in the manga, made just because his wife said so).

  監督だけのせいじゃないって言われるが、正直実写銀魂のときから片鱗は十分あったと思う(奥さんの言った通りにした原作にないキャラの関係性や配役など)

  — @user-ぐー6 likes

• Gintama fans who stayed quiet back then, thinking "well, if some people are enjoying it…," are now using this moment to pour out all their pent-up frustration with the live-action Gintama and with Fukuda.

  当時は、楽しんでる人達がいるなら…と沈黙してた銀魂ファンが この機会に一気に実写銀魂・福田への不満が噴出してる

  — @poko50685 likes

• I didn't really know much about Shun Oguri, so finding out he's the type to say stuff like this dropped my opinion of him.

  小栗旬さんをあまり知らなかったから、こんなこと言う人なんだって好感度が下がりましたね。

  — @東雲アカツキ18 likes

• The producer's looking more and more like the real culprit here……

  プロデューサーが戦犯疑惑出てるな……

  — @腰をフルシチョフ45 likes

• I mean, even if the producer signed off on it, there's still a limit to how far you take it.

  いうてプロデューサーがOK出したからって限度はあるやろと

  — @泉阪口10 likes

• If you can't be the brakes, you're nothing but dead weight.

  @泉阪口ブレーキになれないなら無能以外のなにものでもないぞ。

  — @noname-wb9ob16 likes

• The most to blame is the production side for hiring someone like Fukuda to direct in the first place. The most he's cut out for is TV directing. The fact that a guy who isn't up to the job still gets offered films — the low ambition of the Japanese film industry is just depressing.

  1番悪いのは福田なんかを監督に起用した制作側だと思う 福田なんかせいぜいテレビ監督が関の山。その器に無い様な人物に未だに映画監督のオファーがあるんだから、とにかく邦画制作側の志の低さに泣けるよ

  — @tama202733 likes

• How many times is this director going to make the worst movie ever?

  この監督史上最低を何回やるねん

  — @gkfw484290 likes

• Never thought a director worse than Takashi Yamazaki of Your Story or Mamoru Hosoda of Belle would be born… At this point Fukuda is a special-grade cursed object of the film world.

  ユア・ストーリーの山崎貴や果てスカの細田守を超えるクソ監督が爆誕するとはな… 最早映画界の特級呪物だよ福田は

  — @流星野郎-h2d18 likes

• Worse than The 100 Days Crocodile movie, I'm dead lol.

  100日間生きたワニ以下で笑った

  — @BLACKCK-u6i12 likes

• There's flaming and then there's flaming — if there were at least some dumb or funny bits it'd be one thing, but this is the kind where no matter which part you cut out it isn't funny (it's not entertaining, and the problems are no laughing matter)…

  炎上は炎上でも、いわゆる馬鹿馬鹿しかったり笑える部分も有るならまだ良いけど、ひたすら何処を切り取っても笑えない(面白くないし、問題点が冗談では済まない)方の炎上なのがね…

  — @唐揚げ好き-w6j16 likes

• I figured a smash hit like a certain detective anime movie was obviously off the table, so I lowered the bar and went in expecting maybe a B-movie at best — and somehow it came in even below that…

  某探偵アニメ映画のような大ヒットは流石に無理だろうから、せいぜいB級映画を観るくらいのつもりで期待のハードル下げて観に行ったのに、まさかそれすらも下回ってくるとは…

  — @yuki1026umare12 likes

• I was hoping for something like episode 100 of the Keroro anime — Giroro's brother's squad pushing the Keroro Platoon and Pekopon into a corner, and then Fuyuki and Keroro, Natsumi and Giroro pulling through on friendship for a moving finish… If it's like this, maybe I'm better off not going.

  アニメのケロロ１００話目のように、ギロロの兄チームがケロロチームとペコポンを窮地に陥れて、 冬樹とケロロ・夏美とギロロ…と友情でピンチを乗り切り感動するような内容を期待していたんだけど… これなら観に行かない方がいいかな。

  — @森のこねこ53 likes

• One of Keroro's all-time best episodes — the vs. Garuru arc — and this Fukuda vanity-project movie couldn't be more polar opposites…

  vsガルル編とかいうケロロ屈指の良エピソードと今回の福田私物化映画は対極にも程があるな⋯

  — @ねこまっしぐら-j5b14 likes

• Even I got sick to my stomach over this, and I drifted away from Keroro ages ago — so for fans who've followed it the whole time this must be like torture……

  ケロロから離れてだいぶ経ってた自分ですら胸糞悪くなってるから、ずっと追ってるファンには拷問みたいなもんじゃろ⋯⋯

  — @ねこまっしぐら-j5b57 likes

• First One Piece, now Keroro — the memories from back then keep getting tarnished, one after another…

  ワンピースといいケロロといいあの頃の思い出がどんどん汚されていく…

  — @アルテラマン97 likes

• It's not nostalgia goggles — it's "the old days were genuinely better" in the literal sense, which is exactly why it can't be turned into a joke and isn't funny…

  @通りすがるぼっちさん 思い出補正じゃなくて、言葉通りの意味で｢昔は良かった｣だから、ネタにならないし笑えないんだよ…

  — @唐揚げ好き-w6j37 likes

• Same as Higurashi Gou/Sotsu, Re-Core, and the One Piece Elbaf arc — why does the Reiwa era keep trying to tarnish the classics of the Heisei era?

  ひぐらし業卒や復コアやワンピエルバフ編もそうだけど、何で令和は平成の名作を汚そうとするんだ

  — @シュープリン13 likes

• I just wish they'd treat the work with more care. They picked the wrong collab partner and the production side took the bit way too far. It could've been the perfect fresh start — older fans getting to feel nostalgic while having fun, and a younger generation getting to discover Keroro.

  もっと作品を大切に扱って欲しいよね。コラボ相手間違えてるし、制作側は悪ノリが過ぎる。楽しみつつも大人世代は懐かしんで、子供世代はケロロについて知れる最高のスタートダッシュ切れたはずなのに。

  — @npc02825 likes

• I went and saw it, but fans, you're better off not going. Even if you do watch it, a stream will be out soon, so just wait for that.

  見に行ったけどファンは見に行かないほうがいいよ 見るにしても配信すぐ来るだろうからそれでいい

  — @アーロンマスク-z4i71 likes

• Honestly I think even a stream is doubtful. They pushed ahead with it even after the Attack on Titan side flat-out said no.

  多分配信も怪しいと思うよ。 進撃の巨人サイドからNG出されてたのに強行してんだもん。

  — @meipuru89921 likes

• I am never, ever forgiving director Fukuda or the producer for this.

  絶対に福田監督もプロデューサーも許さないからな

  — @ペルシコスなイブラブ13 likes

Why are Japanese fans angry about the new Sgt. Frog movie?

Because the film — the first in 16 years and the original voice cast's final outing — is seen as director Yuichi Fukuda's personal vanity project. The top comment, saying fans "have every right to be angry," drew 150 likes, and "Seriously, someone go apologize to the voice actors" drew 100. In the comments, fans noted the narrator is a comedian from Fukuda's regular troupe and that his past works were crammed in without even interacting with Keroro.

Are Japanese fans recommending the movie?

Mostly no. A 71-like comment from someone who actually saw it tells fans they are "better off not going" and should just wait for streaming. That said, another commenter claimed even a stream is doubtful, alleging the production pushed ahead despite objections from the Attack on Titan side (21 likes).

What was this movie supposed to be for the voice cast?

It was meant to be the original cast's graduation piece before a full voice-cast change. In the comments, fans called it "the Keroro Platoon's graduation ceremony" (62 likes) and mourned that the cast's send-off was fouled — that grief is at the core of the backlash.

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