Aachi wa Ssipak

Story: The story makes sense while you watch it, but if you think about it too much it begins to seem kind of stupid. So my suggestion is don't overthink it. There was one continuity error, but it's only noticeable if you overthink it. The ending is a bit weak too, but I am almost never satisfied with endings so that probably doesn't mean much coming from me.

Art: The visuals are stunning! Have to see it to believe it. The 3-D meshes with the 2-D in a way that no other anime really accomplishes. (For example, the 3-D in "Last Exile" or "Ghost in the ... Shell" are good, but a bit too distracting.)

Sound: The soundtrack is really neat, from the background music to the SFX to the character's voices. The only quibble I have is I didn't really like the sound of the opening narrator's voice, but luckily you don't ever have to hear it again.

Character: All the characters are great! From the chibi-SD girl who is the "Chief", to the android policeman, to the Diaper King (who manages to be really badass even though his name is "Diaper King"), to the quirky porno director, etc. etc. The characters don't have much backstory, but, again, that's only a problem if you over-analyze it.

Enjoyment: Extremely high rewatch value. Watch it by yourself or with friends, or both!

Overall: This Korean movie is a weirdly kickass piece of work that rivals much of the cliche'd series that come from Japan.

An amazing film, very speedy, much violence, sick and outstandig crazy story.

Blue little mutants try to get their "juicies".

Humans get this juices/drugs for shitting. Think this will say enough?

Hard stuff ( 18+ ) , but this one is a "must see" on every plan to watchlist.

While the storyline is strange beyond all reason involving carpping drug addicted blue midgets. it offered a very innovative animation style and storyline.

Lulz……This movie really gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “Shit Happens”

Storyline - (Another crazy one)

In the future due to an energy crisis the government has found a way to make people’s sh*t into a viable energy source…so to that end the government enforces a law where every citizen must have an ID chip placed inside their anus for monitoring purposes and to reward people for contributing their sh*t for fuel the government hands out extremely addictive, popsicle-like "Juicybars", which in turn also makes people constipated.

Our two lovable characters Aachi & Ssipak are essentially street punks who rob people for their Juicybars whilst ... trying to get rich but through this initial misadventure they get caught up with a violent gang of mutant rejects, a beautiful yet aspiring porn actress and a crazy cyborg police officer

Hmm…..so what’s missing here

oh lets not forget to throw in tons of toilet humor and make a bunch of Hollywood movie jabs

Sounds like a good time to me.

Animation

The animation had a hint of the studio 4oc style imo but really reminded me of how Studio Gonzo like to do things where their character designs are purposefully drawn lazily but the backgrounds and surroundings are quite beautifully animated…and that’s where this show falls into.

Not to take anything away from the Korean animators mind you…I’m just drawing some parallel’s

Anyhow…

There’s a ton of violence and quite a few cool action scenes which feature a crazy cyborg police officer that really stands out each time he has a scene.
Overall the animation is pretty hectic in terms of movement but ultimately I was impressed with how it all came together to compliment the style of this movie

And hey aren’t those little blue mutants the same imaginary creatures in Welcome to the NHK…maybe it’s just me….@_@

Sound

Absolutely forgettable to be honest, and I just finished watching it. BGM is un-noticeable imo and the only standout things are the voice actors who play these zany characters…and that they do pretty well

Characters

Well overall I’d say all the characters are likeable in this twisted reality. From our bickering two main characters to the porn director to the entire crazy mutant army and of course our silent but deadly robot super soldier…err I mean cyborg police officer.

All the characters are pretty humorous and play well off each other, so overall I’d say they were all quite likeable

Enjoyment

At first I thought this was going to be a run of the mill toilet joke movie with little substance…but to my surprise they kept things going with a albeit crazy but central storyline, funny toilet humour, extreme violence and a bucket load of sexual innuendos.

I found the more I watched the more I was enjoying it!

Value

As far as one off movies go this is pretty good. I mean it’s not all that long, has great visuals and definitely kept me entertained…so yeah…if you like dark twisted toilet humour and can take a lot of violence up in your face……I think you’ll like this

FUN FACT: According to Twitchfilm.net MTV has licensed rights to adapt this movie into a series…..will it actually happen tho..who knows but yeah an English dub would make this particular title all the more better if you ask me…it’s pretty much in the same vein as P&S and Dead Leaves for that matter so yeah there’s certainly an existing fanbase for these kinds of titles….so again I’d say check it out if you like this kinda thing

Planet Tyro Rating: High Watchable

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AVGN aside, I was never much of a fan of toilet humor and lost almost every piece of appreciation for it when I passed my 13 years or so, which translates to me, now, not liking Aachi & Ssipak for most of its duration, but that does not mean that I hated the movie since it also packs a lot of something that I definitely enjoy since I was a kid, long and frenetic action scenes.

The movie does not hold back when it comes to that, lots of chase scenes full of gun fire and lots of splatter, and since the protagonists can’t defeat any ... of their enemies by their own, they have to make every little dirty trick and use whatever shit they can find on the nearby to even start thinking of fighting against deformed gang members and a cyborg police officer, all while defending a porn actress. Combine all that with a fast pace and the splendid animation and direction and you assured yourself a fine brainless action flick if that is all you want.

Now that I mentioned that, let’s talk about the production values. Starting with the obvious, despite being on every major anime database, this is a South-Korean film, which means no generic character designs at all in the medium it belongs to, two ugly punks, a deformed woman, a transvestite, a cute little girl with a fucked up look for a Mayor, and some Smurfs-like creatures for antagonists, oh, and the cyborg, who surprisingly has the least interesting design in the whole movie. All of which made on purpose to look cartoony, creepy and, yeah, ugly. But it does not stop there, at all; the place where the story takes place is also a completely rotten country that looks crude, ugly, broken and dirty, while also having lots of references to Hollywood movies thrown-in there. But what good would all of that be in an action film if it doesn’t have fluid motions? And it does have it, starting with the vivid expressions and movements of the characters and finishing with the crazy but no random camera movements during action sequences; add to it references to Hollywood iconic films and a nice blend between 2-D and 3-D and you got one of the most remarkable visual departments in anime.
But just like it happens with A Kite, the sound department is not as good, the sound effects are awesome, as they are reminiscent to Hollywood action films sound effects, but the voice acting and music aren’t special, despite being extreme and fitting with the setting and tone, too much superior competition out there when it comes to this (you know, Panty and Stocking, Dead Leaves, Redline).

Speaking about the setting, I realize I didn’t even mentioned what the hell this movie is about, well, take this, a future where natural resources are gone and the government of a certain country uses the excrement of its citizens as an energy resource, while giving them candy-like drugs to people as a reward for all their shit. There, our two protagonists, the ones that give the movie its title, steal and sell said drugs, which ultimately results in them being chased by the police and a terrorist group composed of those people that consumed so much of those candies that they became addicted to them and transformed into some weird creatures…whatever. As you can imagine, the plot is stupid and an excuse for the action BUT is not crap. Is not really evident but the film is actually a satire of post-apocalyptic, action and political films, making fun of all of it clichés while making them into something completely amoral, hell, even the premise is making fun of those titles, a typical post-apocalyptic premise where everything went to shit, low resources, social control from the governments to people, social critique about the greediness of capitalists societies…and everything is literally about shit. I said before that the film references Hollywood action films but forgot to say that does not references only that, but also ideological movements as well, but it does not just show or mention them, but presents them as the worst thing ever.

Even the cast is atypical; they try to make a living in this rotten world just like in lots of post-apocalyptic stories…by stealing and selling drugs and being completely unlikable assholes that all they want is money and would betray even their partners for that. You don’t really want them to succeed, but seeing that their enemies are worse, what other option is left to you?

And above all that, despite its relatively short duration, it managed to bring a closure to every plot point it presents, not in a really solid way, since the film is still a brainless action flick with lots of bullshit unrealistic things; but a serviceable one.

So, in the end, is a satire of post-apocalyptic films with lots of gross humor and very little critique to capitalism shown in the most ugly, stupid and unrealistic but also the most creative, unique and entertaining way. Leave it or take it as it is.

For something similar you can check out:

-Dead Leaves (Another dumb but very creative action flick with a unique art-style, fast pacing, and toilet and sexual humor).
-Redline (Another fast paced movie set in a post-apocalyptic setting that only wants to show incredible animation and action with cartoony characters while not caring much about making sense out of its story).
-Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (A very creative series with cartoony art style full of stunning action, sexual humor and cursing).

Aachi wa Ssipak is something I wasn't quite sure about when initially deciding to watch it. I figured that while it had a ridiculous premise when analyzed, I shouldn't put that up for scrutiny - after all, it's not like some of the stuff I like is high art in and of itself. Unfortunately, while Aachi wa Ssipak (which I will from now on be calling AWS) has some things I really had fun with, the majority of it was rather disheartening and had some problems that prevented it from being something that I would highly recommend.

As I watched it - I couldn't help but ... make parallels between it and one of my favorite works - Hiroyuki Imaishi's Dead Leaves. They're both ridiculous, over-the-top action stories about criminals who solve problems with hyper violence with a unique art style to them, after all. So, in this review, I'm going to be talking not only about AWS itself, but comparing it to a work that does what it attempts to do in a way that I would think is better, and why I think AWS falls short of that.

STORY - 5/10
AWS has a rather interesting concept to it - in a world where defecation can be used as a source of energy, how would you gain a reliable source of energy? That's simple - by creating a reward. In this world, that reward is Juicy Bars, which a group called the Diaper Gang has become addicted to, as well as the many people on Earth. This creates a sustainable source of energy in their society, but also causes a ridiculous amount of addiction, which makes the world fall into chaos and disorder as people try to get their hands on this addictive substance.

However, this is only the backstory of the true plot. The plot itself is rather generic, and the biggest problem with it is that the two main characters - Aachi and Ssipak, of course - have no ability to act on their own in the grand scale of the plot. It feels like everything in this world is happening TO them or AROUND them. Neither Aachi or Ssipak themselves are the ones who impact the plot in a way that is relevant or memorable. This causes the story to feel aimless at times, and annoyingly contrived at others, with things just so happening to work out in a way that benefits Aachi and Ssipak without they themselves doing anything to create this sort of impact on the world.

To top it all off, this is a full-length movie - an hour and a half long. The silliness of the scenario and the loud and bombastic stupidity of the world that they live in gets sort of grating after a while, and due to the fact that Aachi and Ssipak don't really do much themselves, it leads to an hour and a half of contrivances and random happenings that just so happen to benefit our protagonists. This also leads to there being, surprisingly, big problems with pacing. For some reason, the movie felt it was a good idea to put what felt like an entire music video into the movie at one point, which really felt odd when compared to some moments where we suddenly cut to big climactic areas or cut back to plot points that feel out of place during the finale.

To compare this to Dead Leaves, the latter is half of AWS' runtime. While it's similarly batshit insane when it comes to the choreography of combat, the ridiculousness of the plot points, and the strangeness of the world, the 45 minute runtime makes it so that it doesn't get annoying like AWS does. In return, Dead Leaves has a much less developed plot than AWS does, but in return for this the main characters themselves are the driving force of the story. The characters in Dead Leaves always felt like they had a purpose, a goal, a destination, or a strength, while the convenience-filled plot of AWS makes it feel like the characters have none.

ART - 7/10
Definitely the most striking part of AWS is its art style, and it's what I enjoy the most about it. The strange proportions, street aesthetic, ridiculous moments of squash and stretch animation during intense combat scenes, and bright neon characters against dingy greys and browns of a dystopian world make this movie pop. It makes the movie quite fun to watch even if it has some plot problems, but unfortunately it doesn't really have a 10/10 look to it.

The biggest problem is that, in the latter half of the film, there were a LOT of uses of 3D. This 3D is poor. Really poor. My immersion got sucked out of the movie as I saw set piece after set piece of 3D backdrops that were obviously CG, and looked too generic and ordinary behind the interesting and stylish look of everything else. There's also notably poor animation in moments that aren't combat scenes - they obviously blew their load in this department, because outside of the action scenes AWS has a lot of moments that feel stuff or uninteresting visually.

I don't even think I need to bring up Dead Leaves in this topic - Imaishi's art style is too striking, beautiful, and enjoyable to watch to even compare to AWS.

SOUND - 4/10
I will say right now that I watched the English Dub of AWS because it was the easiest thing for me to get my hands on, and let me just say if I were to put that as a point here on my score it would probably be closer to a 2 or 3. The dub is notably poor - even if there are moments where a joke or two may make you laugh in the dub, that doesn't excuse the absolutely terrible attempts at lip sync in the movie, and the majority of the jokes in the dub fall flat. There's a lot of puns about poop and crap and butts, and that's about it.

The OST is also pretty boring as well. While the first 10 minutes or so get you hooked with an intense action scene and a banging dubstep song to bring you into the insane dystopia of this setting, the problem comes when you watch further into the movie. AWS' soundtrack feels like it's only one or two songs. If there are multiple dubstep songs in the movie, they all sound practically the same, and it gets kind of boring, especially when two tracks begin back to back - at this point I am literally giving the movie credit that they were multiple songs, because they all sounded the same to me.

In Dead Leaves, there's a slew of multiple different types of music that back it during it's half of a run time. While it is mainly electronic, the OST can be somber, quiet, or even a short and chill rendition of an opera track! This gives the movie itself more of a pop as it continues to change and introduce new songs as the movie plays, unlike AWS which plays a slew of songs that all sound the exact damn same song.

CHARACTER - 1/10
These characters are the worst. There's nothing enjoyable at all about the ridiculously unfunny, annoying, and irredeemable characters in AWS. They start the movie bickering and they bicker throughout the whole movie. I never felt a sense of camaraderie between them. These characters were absolutely annoying to follow because they never seemed to give a shit about anything but themselves. While the side characters may seem to have interesting quirks, they quite frequently are brushed aside or turned into one-note jokes that get old the first time they happen.

Comparing this to Dead Leaves, while the characters are similarly irredeemable criminals in jail for a nonsensical crime spree, what's important is how these characters interact. They grow closer, get feelings for each other, fight to save a group that's behind them, and most importantly they feel like they can do things themselves. It's not like in AWS where the protagonists are strung along by conveniences for an hour and a half.

ENJOYMENT - 5/10
There were some issues I had with the editing and some times it felt a bit nonsensical and poorly focused at times, I did really, REALLY enjoy the animation during fight scenes. That, and there were some times when visual gags or jokes were legitimately funny to me, so it wasn't all bad. It just had a problem with pacing, escalation, and character urgency that I couldn't shake.

Dead Leaves is one of my favorite works of all time. Again, why would I need to even talk about it in this section?

OVERALL - 5/10
It isn't a total crap-chute. There are times when it can be funny, and the animation is really enjoyable in the action scenes. The world that has been built is interesting and fun as well. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, though. It has a lot of problems with pacing, its tone gets grating after too much run time, the characters are annoying and lack agency, and the soundtrack is pretty repetitive. If you think you can enjoy an hour of crude jokes for 20 minutes of cool animation, you should probably go watch Dead Leaves instead because it's way more enjoyable than this for a multitude of reasons. However, if you're really starving for hyper-crude and hyper-violent animation, you MIGHT want to look into this.

its very stupid. you're not suppose to really care much at all about the story which is fine, id you're looking for good writing and story telling this aint it. the characters can be entertaining sometimes and you would like it if you like watching stupid people. character designs and overall art direction is very unique. it has a good style and good uses of colors and the animation lets it excel at it. The animation in general is also Very good. good angles good articulation creative action scenes, it has its moments and those moments are very enjoyable. The dialogue and writing between ... the characters can also be enjoyable also but there are just lot dumb moments where it feel like it's too forced. It's a movie that's memorable in it's weird way and a movie that should be enjoyed for the sake of entertainment.

Rate of 5
Seen via English Dubbed and Japanese audio versions
Censored for both

2 Warnings
1. censored is for the most part on a guy's groin. Which appears a couple times in the showing. So, nothing is really missed.
2. Time. There is a huge different in time and placement depending what version you see. It is supposed to run for 1h. 28m. you can find a dubbed version that is 1h. 22m. or so. It is not a matter of scene(s) missing some moments are just seen earlier than others. Also You get slightly longer clips and a slight bonus ending moment with the Japanese (original) version. If ... you have questions feel free to message me and i will explain further if needed. For the most part the scene is there but if you care about watching in order and the entire film i would stick the original.

Story
Interesting,different and confusing. It was bad enough there is more than three fractions involved but to throw the twists they did made me want to grab an aspirin.

Art/audio
Aside from using different spoken words the video was slightly rushed in certain areas in effort to match the character's lips to the words which was slightly annoying. On a good note both versions has good casting choices.

Character background
For the amount of material and players involved they did a wonderful job in detailing out each one.

I wish I haven't watched this.

Extremely vulgar, childish, and hilarious is exactly what it is, and its exactly what Aachi wa Ssipak trying to be. You can tell the writers took the stupidest storyline imaginable and "made it good" by adding genuinely good plot twists and jokes. Dare I say even the characters were likable to a degree. Once you accept the fact that you are watching this hideous abomination, you can begin to appreciate how beautiful this gem actually is. It is perfection in the story it is trying to tell. The art and surprisingly well written scenarios were just some added ... bonus stuff that earned this masterpiece a perfect 10 (although for sheer lack of wanting to feel like I'm bias, I'll give it a grand ol 8).

I will never recommend this to anyone I know.

To clarify a few things about this film, it's Korean, and the art is done in the style of comics found in Korean newspapers. And not the crime/police serials either, more in the style of the humorous cartoons, which are closer to mad magazine, Ren and Stimpy, or decent web comics in terms of content.

With that out of the way, the story is alright, it's not a masterpiece but it's fairly serviceable and fits the story and design of the entire film very well. The character's aren't that deep, and are in the style of the comics I mentioned earlier, but the suffice and are ... fairly humorous.

Where this movie shines are the visuals. Good God, the visuals to this movie are stunning. Even with simplistic character design, the backgrounds are amazing, and watching what are essentially smurfs engage in an epic and cinematographic gun fight is a spectacle to behold. While the film drags a bit at the end, it does so just barely.

One final note is that this film also makes references to alot of american movies, and aachi and ssipak are the two generic curse words in the Korean language.

Aachi and Ssipak (SS Overview)

SS Overview means – Short and Salty Overview btw

Do you like human waste? Do you like waste in general? Are you into scat?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then fair play everyone has a fetish mate, do you think you’re special or unique because of it? Sod off.

High octane poo inspired action with entertaining animation, quite a unique way of implementing excrement into the story with a kick-ass soundtrack to boot. Which Korean madman made this? Because even though the whole premise is around s*** the way it’s done is surprisingly good.

Like crazy over the top strangeness involving ... adult themes and childish fart jokes? Then you may like this.

Aachi and Ssipak – 8/10 Not enough poo.

In the future, after humanity exhausted its energy resources, humans developed means to be the source of energy supply in the newly found metropolis. The new government decreed that every citizen should be registered, and for their efforts and contribution to society, they would be rewarded with a new highly addictive drug. The result, not surprisingly, was a drug epidemic that led to violence, gangs, and mafias. What was not expected, however, were the awful mutations said drug generated on a portion of the population, now no longer able to generate energy but craving the reward for it more than ever. The already oppressive police ... state had to develop a new type of agent for that matter.

Aachi and Ssipak are two street hoodlums who, by a sequence of random events, get a hold of a way to cheat the system and acquire the drugs in huge amounts, making them a target for the government, the mafias, and the mutants.

With its unique art style, awesome direction, insane scenes, absurd non-stop action, sarcastic pitch black humor, and sick and twisted story, Aachi and Ssipak is a breath of fresh air in animation, and doesn’t hold back to appease easily offended audiences.

A very out-there “anti-conformist punk” style movie that pokes fun at consumerism.

ART: I stepped on poop
- Very distinctive concept in artwork. Everything and everyone have a very humorous / creepy look that turns this feature into a memorable watch.
- The characters look like Saturday morning cartoons for kids but are in fact very sinister (part of the whole irony thing). The Diaper gang members look as sweet as the Smurfs, yet don’t think twice before chopping your head off and steal your wallet. The mayor of the city looks like a cute little girl but treats people as roaches. Very funny in a twisted way. ... A thing I didn’t like was that all the stunts in the film were identical, such as the police officers and the mutants. Almost clones of one another, I found it rather lame. If they were all different in some way, it would truly be a blast.
- Very detailed, with a constant “everything is rotten, society sucks” feeling. Even the use of 3D blends nicely with everything else.
- Frenetic animation in the least. Nothing seems to be able to stand still for over two seconds. During action scenes the camera keeps changing angles like crazy and the screen keeps getting filled with debris or some poor guy’s guts. It is depicted in a very cartoony way and does not really follow the laws of physics but does its job.
- The movie does its worst to be as pointlessly violent and gory as possible. It spares no one in terms of showing a gruesome amount of splatter, blood bath, butchering and blowing up pretty much every setting it features.

SOUND: Pull my finger
- The original version is in Korean, if you care about such things. Beyond that, all characters have distinctive amd exaggerated voices. The punks sound like the retards they are, the villains sound … villainous and the Diaper gang members sound like silly little critters.
- The words “shit” and “ass” repeat almost every 2 sentences, while dozens of other profane words are used. They are excused in such an anti-conformistic story and are in fact used in an ironic way most of the time. Still, you may want to keep the moral viewers away from it.
- Sound effects are very reminiscent of Hollywood action films, with some attempts at making some sounds artistically incorporated into the atmosphere of the story. Quite good but not great.

SCRIPT: We are in deep shit
- The story is practically a parody of idealistic scenarios and action films. Global energy resources have debunked to good old manure, which is why everything in the story revolves around shit and people are addicted to lax popsicles, offered by the merciless authorities when someone takes a dump. Mutants and gang members are stealing and trading with these Juicy-bars, so the whole fuss is about exploiting the system for making easy money … and blowing everything to Kingdom Come… The story is a very ironic depiction of today’s advanced societies and their capitalistic greed … and it is damn funny.
- For a movie feature, it packs a lot of events. It feels really long and has good pacing.
- There are dozens of Easter Eggs, in the form of references to famous Hollywood films and ideological movements. You are made to laugh at how the animators twist everything highly idealistic into a pile of amoral garbage.
- The conclusion is not a solid one but it leaves no unexplained loose ends, a thing most anime fail miserably at. Not great but decent.

CAST: A bunch of shitheads
- The cast is very funny as sons of bitches. Everyone’s motive is “easy money” but that doesn’t lessen their image as “the perfect idiots for the stupidest idea.” The small time criminal duo and their madonna are airheads but that is excused the way they grew up. Terrorists and the authorities are violent and too extreme at times to feel real but also manage to play their part properly.
- Backdrops are weak and there are no redeeming qualities. They are all selfish, greedy, and love being so.

LEGACY: Enjoy your Silver Lax, while taking a dump
The people who made this really had a lot of fun. Never before in a movie was the anus such an important part of the body. It is not famous, nor it left a legacy. The chances of a second view are high if you dig the whole fuss. Compared to the average anime flick it is remarkably different and entertaining. Annoyingly ironic, humorous and different, you may not like the general story but you will definitely love the general idea.

SUGGESTION LIST
Red Line
Dead Leaves
FLCL
Panty & Stocking