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Aug 24, 2009 10:11 AM
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Human Zoo? It really seemed more like a hate short against men! XD
May 4, 2010 11:59 AM
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For some reason those sounds made me think of a keyboard.
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Jun 21, 2010 11:28 AM
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this was bad... seriously bad
Jul 9, 2010 2:34 PM
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..ok ... now we know the guy who did this didn't like his wife ..... >_>
Oct 1, 2010 6:42 AM
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^ so you're the alwaysbored who wrote the comment on YT? xDD. mitsuketa ^^

I gave it a 5. Beside the fact that guy probably had some problems with his wife, it might show some actually real stuff. (not just a short against man, but a short that shows that there are some scary women too ^^")

( But that's just my idea.)
Oct 18, 2010 9:36 PM
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I can honestly say that was the most productive two minutes of my life ever spent.
Oct 25, 2011 11:34 AM
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An idea that is not interesting, a joke that is not funny, a message that is not relevant. Yeah, really great. I wish I could enjoy the extended version of this short film, +3 hours of hilariously repetitive bits of women treating their husbands like dogs.

Serious masterpiece material, nuff said. 0.5/10
Mar 2, 2012 7:48 PM
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Ok, so the dude has problems with his woman. Who doesn't? Not a terrible short, but nothing groundbreaking either. 5/10
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Mar 4, 2012 6:25 PM
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Anyone giving this anything except for a 1 is a pretentious hipster who wants to be cool by liking something obscure and different.

It's pure trash. Deal with it.
Mar 5, 2012 12:45 PM
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THIS MAKES NO SENSE. 1/10. Don't try giving this a hidden meaning, there isn't any.
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Sep 14, 2012 8:54 AM

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skutieos said:
Anyone giving this anything except for a 1 is a pretentious hipster who wants to be cool by liking something obscure and different.

It's pure trash. Deal with it.


Seriously this x100. I see the "2deep4u" tag too often, here is the last place it should appear.
Mar 30, 2013 2:46 AM

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I think most people "got it" the first time you saw the woman sitting on the man, as well as other things. I have no idea why the director thought it was a good idea to repeat it for two minutes.
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Apr 24, 2013 6:49 PM

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I have no idea what I just watched whatsoever. I'm not even sure how to feel after that...
Apr 27, 2013 1:48 PM

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This was trash. There was potential in the title, but it was anti-feminism or masculinist or anti-abusive wives or some theme that is totally indistinguishable. For a human zoo, I was expecting, The recycled seven-second clip that took three seconds to animate.

If more time and thought was put into it, it could have had some kind of value to it, but as it stands now, there was no reason to watch it (even to make fun of it).
Aug 23, 2013 12:05 PM

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What the heck!!!?

Just checked it out out of curiosity due to only being 2 mins long but even that was a complete waste of time.
Nov 26, 2013 2:26 PM
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best shit ever.
Nov 26, 2013 2:26 PM
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This is some disturbing shit here.
Jan 17, 2014 1:53 AM

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WTF.
Feb 4, 2014 4:18 PM

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Wow, this is bad, like really bad. Even Inferno Cop is better than this.
Feb 20, 2014 4:09 AM

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Hipster trash.
Apr 30, 2014 8:15 PM

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i cry evertim
Jul 4, 2014 8:57 PM

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I would give this a 1 but I laughed my ass off, so 2/10
Jul 17, 2014 8:16 AM

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Anybody who likes this pretentious piece of garbage is simply placing more meaning on something than there really is.
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Dec 11, 2014 5:26 PM

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To be fair, this was made in 1962. Were you all expecting Ghost in the Shell levels of artistic genius or what?

I mean, I don't even care about the message but this is definitely getting more hate than it deserves for a short that old.
Apr 26, 2015 1:16 PM

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Muh symbolism.
May 19, 2015 5:10 AM
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Best 2 min of life spent 5ever.
Jun 18, 2015 11:15 AM

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Hm i didn't like it, it was pretty disturbing.
Jun 24, 2015 8:33 AM

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Am I the only one who didn't think this was that bad? I just thought it was more dumb than outright bad.

I give it a 5/10, or 3/5 for the poll.
Dec 26, 2015 11:47 AM

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Idk what the hell this was.

1/10
Mar 5, 2016 2:12 PM

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Idk what the hell this was.

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some frustating dude draw something rant about how woman abused them and how society chained them to that women like a zoo that make them can;t do shit other thansubmassive with everything will happened. then repeated it for the whole 2 minute.
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Apr 2, 2016 12:35 PM

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Yes, this animation is VERY old, but that doesn't excuse it much. Animation was still a very new thing in Japan back then so I guess it's unfair to compare it to western animation around at the same time, but there still could have been at least a bit of effort put into it.

Drawing stick figures humping each other inside a few lines and recording whining noises over it is not deep or meaningful, whether you made it in 1962, 2016 or 100,000BC.
Jul 31, 2016 10:05 AM

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Human Zoo - What comedy is in the 1960's
Not comedy now just a elementary student's first time animating

Dec 2, 2016 10:08 PM

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A really weird one again :p you sure got to love the weirdness of Kuri Yoji :D
Jul 28, 2017 10:31 PM
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I...I don't know what to say and maybe that's the point. Guess this wasn't the golden era of japanese animation. I have now to question to humanity.
Sep 13, 2017 11:22 AM

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All these fucking casuals who don't understand the deep message of this anime. Kind of makes me sad that masterpieces like this go unnoticed because of retarded 12 year olds who can't understand true art and can only comprehend shit like Mario and SAO.
Dec 14, 2018 5:24 PM

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You can easily google search this but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUyKIMDSqWs

Jan 2, 2019 3:43 PM

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I don't know if that a was masochistic nature at its best or what?! All I can tell is that the creator sure has a weird fetish or he is conveying a message about the dominance of women over men. I think he is telling us how women can dominate men with their seductive nature and keep men at bay or zoo in this case.

3/10 5/10.
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Aug 30, 2019 12:42 AM

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a good comedy i laughed at least
Oct 1, 2019 2:35 PM

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Retro8bit said:
THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Human Zoo? It really seemed more like a hate short against men! XD


Funny, I interpreted as the opposite.

While I didn't like the short it wasn't because it was "too weird" or because "animation in the 60s was bad", and while I found the message of this film disgusting, I find this thread more so. I hope most of you are not over the age of 16.
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Oct 1, 2019 2:53 PM

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Gnk said:
To be fair, this was made in 1962. Were you all expecting Ghost in the Shell levels of artistic genius or what?

I mean, I don't even care about the message but this is definitely getting more hate than it deserves for a short that old.


It's not even the age, the users of this site seem to unfairly hate any experimental short. I'm not sure if it's just that I've been exposed to stuff like this from a young age from early cable television and people of younger generations haven't or what?
Dec 8, 2019 2:18 PM
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Yes sir, now I too can say 'I saw it!'.
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Oct 1, 2020 11:23 AM
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Interesting commentary on human relationships especially abusive ones.
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Feb 10, 2021 11:55 AM

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Seems like someone was tired of being treated like an animal by women in general, huh?
Mar 12, 2021 7:23 AM
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I was looking for something else and I found some random information about the creator and his work, for example, did you know that this short won 11 awards including third place in Venice Film Festival? He's now 92, he went to art school, his father was soldier and he grew up with his mother and sister (from his official website btw), he also made 40 short movies similar to this lmao
Mar 24, 2021 8:35 PM

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What the f*ck was that

Horrible
Jun 22, 2021 3:52 PM

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Not as good as I thought it would be, but I liked this.

7-8/10.
Dec 29, 2021 9:21 PM
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I have not watched this, but I feel like I’ve stumbled upon an obscure internet curse
Apr 30, 2022 12:29 AM

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i need to find the poem that was the instrument for making this film. welp, yet another misogynistic work of his.




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Jun 26, 2022 5:54 AM

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I can't believe somebody actually recorded their voice and did these sounds. I can't take it seriously.
Jul 30, 2023 5:47 PM
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I did laugh til it kept looping.
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