We are moved to tears by the cleanliness of it
March 23, 2015
2:01 am
Between finishing boards on the last show I was involved with and doing that Steven Universe comic I didn’t get to go to sleep earlier than 5AM a single day last week but I still managed to pull off an update so wooooo.
Ah, Katamari Damashi, the Widget game of the century.
What about Nobi Nobi Boy?
Nobi Nobi Boy didn’t spawn a franchise or make nearly as much of an impact on gaming in general.
This NEEDS to happen in real life.
Well, one thing did happened to me: When i was 10, mom told me to pick up my stuffs off of the floor, or else she’ll sweep it to the trash bin ^^;;
Mine did that too, except it was that my dad would come in with a trash bag and throw everything away.
So I just picked up everything I wanted to keep and got a free room cleaning.
Lucky(?) you XDDDDD
My dad’ reaction is more strict: “CLEAN UP YOUR GODDAMN ROOM OR YOU’LL GET THE BELT!!”.
My dad wanted to be like that, but mom wouldn’t let him and then we got big enough to kick his ass up and down the street like a tin can.
I would call that more extreme or more violent, not more strict.
Don’t mess with that janitor or he will come back with an even bigger ball, roll you up in it, throw you into space, and crush you till it initiates nuclear fusion…
…and he’s union…
Not to mention he’s also Prince of the Cosmos. He’s probably a little peeved that his job description is ‘vacuum the floor’.
Even if no one pisses him off, with the amount of junk that’s possibly on the floor, maybe they might want to evacuate. No one wants to be grabbed by that ball.
Eh, even the son of Zeus is in there and he’s just another guy with rage issues. Ganondorf’s a conqueror-king who owes them for his cushy office job.
I can go on and on.
And there’s the song again. Dammit, I love it but it takes an act of god just to get that shit out of one’s head. Coelasquid, can I borrow Kratos for a bit?
Na Naaaa nanananana Na Na Katamari Damacyyyy!
Because everyone should share the earworm :p
Na naaaa na na na na na na na
na Katamari Damacy…
I always remember “Katamari on the Funk” and it’ll always have a special place in my heart.
Don’t worry. Do your best.
[inaudibly high frequency squeals of joy]
Well, I guess that answers which guy is going to just snap off, come back to the office and murder everyone else. Strange that it isn’t Kratos.
Kratos versus the Katamari needs to be a thing
No contest…
*pic of Kratos stuck face first to a Katamari ball*
*if only I could draw*
https://40.media.tumblr.com/fcf5f0570dea382814ac0c8237cc9a21/tumblr_inline_nltgk7iT451r6v3w2_500.png
I have a wombat at my place, it’s like a little robot lawnmower.
I’m assuming you mean Roomba, but the thought of having a robot wombat is too beautiful to fault you for.
It’s a real wombat not a robot, but the way they eat grass is pretty much random like a roomba.
… How will he get it out the door? And how will he avoid picking up furniture? Or the carpet? Or the walls? Or the neighboring buildings?
I imagine they’d use multiple katamaris- at least one for each room. So they’d never get big enough to pick up really inconvenient things.
Simple. He’s a professional.
Just got Katamari and Nobi Nobi for my kids, among with other games in a PS3 flash sale. Kid #2 was impressed to learn that the two games were by the same author: “this guy must be a genius!”.
You are an amazing parent.
Y’know, I’ve watched Katamari being played a few times but never picked up the controller for it myself. Nice to think I’ll probably soon look back and realize this comic was the final nudge to change that.
It’s like Jared has never seen a Harp Seal before.
http://resources.news.com.au/files/2012/01/13/1226243/386315-harp-seal-1.jpg
Those dead, bleak, empty eyes. That stare. That ungodly stare. The gaping maw, stretched as if to devour the world itself. Breeding like a plague, soon to engulf the sea, and then the land. All will fall to the white tide.
Hakapik it. Hakapik them all.
The Seven Seals of Satan.
A sequel to http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/images/guests/gueststripnamitsuki.png – there’s room for the Katamari crew there after all, once creative thinking is applied.
This is glorious.
Commander lookes pissed in this. Also celosquid at first I thought you were a dude but then I saw that someone refered to you as she. I think it’s awesome you’ve played all these games and then created this comic. Not many females I know would play any video games let alone all of these. (Ps im a dude just in case you are wondering.)
I have no idea why this posted here and not at the bottom of the comments section….
Ah, the Prince. Truly a paragon of manliness. Cleans up after his drunken jerk of a dad. Winner of Formula One races. Alpha Male to both cows AND bears. Conquerer of zoos. Giver of free lunar family vacations. And he owns a sweet guitar, too.
Wow, tough week >.< Otsukaresama!
The Prince’s mistake is assuming Jared is in any way professional.
Remember, just because someone has “professor” in their title doesn’t mean they’re professional.
Looks like someone got in on the Playstation Store flash sale this weekend.
KD for a dollar was fantastic, even though I already own the disc, and I’ve never played Nobi Nobi Boy.
Prince of the Cosmos is manliest of them all!
Nerd Confession: I play Katamari Damacy tracks in my car, and my kids sing along on the way to school. Ba! Ba! Bah! Ba Ba Ba-da Baah!
Huh, what a coincidence. I’ve never played that game, but I just bought a copy of it yesterday.
I gotta say, I love the fact that it’s the Prince and not the King of the Cosmos who gets a cameo in MGDMT. Then again, I don’t know how the King would fit into one of the comics…
drunken party, perhaps?
Archive-binging here. What I had meant was, I don’t know how the King of the Cosmos would physically fit in the same panel as anyone else.
Royal Rainbow Cleaners (R)
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And now I know why the massive merged threads on single topics in the Star Citizen forums are tagged with [Katamari Damashii] at the beginning of their thread titles.
I can just imagine his tiny little record-scratch voice.
IIRC Mappy the animated series on YT did the same joke and made a recurring character out of Prince. But it was pretty niche.
Never heard of it
Exactly.
Think Harvey Birdman but Namco instead of Hanna-Barbara and “Building Security” instead of “Defense Attorney.”
It was actually a pretty funny show, made by the guys who made “Blamimations” (Kris Straub and Scott Kurtz) and the couple who made Baman Piderman (Alex Butera and Lindsay Small), in a kind of semi-animated style. The spring cleaning episode was probably the best, especially the interaction between Mappy and Dig Dug. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Bph4ebSaU definitely the best of the Shifty Look shows, despite being the least “polished” in its animation.
Cleanliness is next to godliness!
That is so appropriate it’s painful.
Let’s hope Jared doesn’t try to catch a Katamari in a Pokéball.
Would the pokeball catch the katamari? Or would the katamari catch the pokeball?
I think that’s a divide by zero kind of situation.
Jared doesn’t use Pokeballs.
Fairly sure Jared wasn’t being patronizing (does he even know what that means?)
Basically me every time I clean a stranger’s house tbqh
Okay okay but what if he builds up a ball so big that he can’t fit it through the door? Is he cooperating with Kirby maybe? He gather, Kirby… “disposes of”? Or maybe he gets a ball, then rolls it out the door and starts making a new one?
And now that damn catchy song got stuck in my head and I want to play it again.
na na na na na na na na na na katamari damacy*
*not really sure how many “na na”s belong there**
**by definition, I think, pretty much all of them
I should print this off and give it to my dad for his work’s lunchroom.
That ball is gonna be 90% cat hair, whether cats live there or not.
I think that is Canadian Guy’s chest hairs. Just as bad as a cat.
Not just Canadian Guy’s. There is a lot of chest hair in that agency.
Why doesn’t the Prince stick to the ball while he rolls it around?