Butt-biting bug now even more ginormous in Japan

Remember that wack-ass animated children's pop song from Japan about the butt-biting bug? "Oshiri Kajiri Mushi" has since cracked the top ten list of pop singles in that nation, and Japanprobe points to a television interview with Uruma and Derubi, the married animator/songwriter couple who created it. Snip:

They claim the idea came to them one day while Derubi was doing some cleaning.

Uruma noticed that his wife’s butt was totally sticking out and told her, “Watch out! With your butt is sticking out like that, a butt-biting bug might come along and bite it!”

If that’s not a great way to think of a song, I don’t know what is.

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Previously: Japan: "butt biting bug" video is huge

[#1 posted by batesman , September 19, 2007 11:59 PM]

"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)"

Oh for crying out loud...

[#2 posted by andrewTee , September 20, 2007 12:23 AM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8HDlCQZV8A

[#3 posted by Gilbert Wham , September 20, 2007 1:41 AM]

Gah! It's just a song? From that headline, I was expecting either a giant blood-sucking insect, or at the very least some kind of new crowded subway fetish.

[#4 posted by Charlie Stross , September 20, 2007 3:15 AM]

As a point of note, I spotted a fair bit of butt-biting bug merchandise around Tokyo and Kyoto earlier this month; it's now a manga and anime series, as I understand it, and the song is a spin-off.

[#5 posted by Mnemesis , September 20, 2007 8:16 PM]

I live in western Honshu, which is quite a bit different from Tokyo--I've never seen or heard of this little guy except on the Net. Why is it such big news? Is it just another example of 'those wacky Japanese'?