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How can you like this garbage?


Seriously? I mean I watched the first episode, expecting it to at least be viewable. I mean, hey anime steriotypes, how bad can it be? Let's start with the theme song shall we? Ummm some J-rock impersonation with lame lyrics. I mean "Hey look that man is Kappa Mikey!" is not a line I want to hear in a theme song. Next let's go with the characters...

Mikey: Ok... WOW how can they have a main character that is so unlikeable? He's like not even the least bit likeable at all.

Lily: Annoying like Kagome and dressed like her too.

Mitsuki: The only bearable one.

Gonard: Ok so Gonard was bearable too.

Guano: Not cute, not funny.

The animation is very very bad... Geeze the way they move, it's like.. jumpy. I've seen better moving (and funnier) amature flash videos.

Overall, not a very good show at all.

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I just watched a little bit of it on Youtube. Holy *beep* This show sucks. it actually makes me ASHAMED to be an anime fan. How can anyone like this show? It doesn't parody anime, it makes fun of it. Anime already has enough critism as it is. Now it's just going to get more because of this horrible show.

BURN IN HELL, KAPPA MIKEY!!

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"This show sucks. it actually makes me ASHAMED to be an anime fan"
...How did that shame never arise before?

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How can we like it?

Simple.

We keep an open mind.

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I'm pretty open minded when it comes to ANYTHING. I like anything, really. But this show sucks. Honestly.

I watch it one day while cleaning cause nothing's on. Mikey is trying to steal a videogame from people. What do you know. "IT'S THE GREATEST GAME EVER CREATED." . . . And Gonard is taken by pirates. Everything is so weak. . .

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How can YOU SAYY THAT!!!!!

The Lord be with you and also with you

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I set my fingers on the homerow of the keyboard and type away. You read the message. I don't say it.

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You act like this story was to have a serious plot. You need to look at the show the same way one would look at Family Guy and Futurama.

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Its Lighthearted fun

The Lord be with you and also with you

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I know it doesn't have a serious plot. But it's like the show is TRYING to be funny. Even shows like Family Guy and Futurama have more interesting plots.

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That's just what I love about this show. It's so... random. Random-ness galore!

And the fact that they make fun of Anime as well. I like the art of Anime, but sometimes it gets on my nerves. Its fun to see them make fun of Anime shows.

And all the chibis. Gotta love the chibis.

That's just my opinion, though. Everybody is allowed to have their own, and if some people hate the show, well... what can I say? It's a fun show. Maybe you should try to watch it one more time, but instead of trying to find all the faults, just lay back and at least try to have fun watching it. If not, oh well. Kappa Mikey is kind of an "aquired(sp?) taste".

"All it took was the brains, the courage, the gun... Well, I had the gun."

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FINALLY! I thought I was the only one who hated this crap.

Armed and Dangerous

~Tremors~
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While it's hardly going to win any awards for anything, it is a funny show. It's clearly made by people who know anime pretty well, which is why it's so effectively able to satirise it, which is probably why the otaku droves are so annoyed by it. As for that person who this show makes ashamed of being an anime fan, maybe you should be more ashamed that you've got nothing better to do than actively go to a message board of a cartoon you were not forced to see, just to let everyone on the internet know that you don't like it.

Bloody godawful animation, though.

The rain was coming down like all the angels in heaven had decided to take a piss at the same time.

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Jesus, wtf is everybody complaining about? Kappa Mickey doesn't try to have a major storyline or something. They just try to amuse, and they do it by great random jokes and fast-paced dialog. I, for one, love the show. I think it is about the best cartoon brought out in the last couple of years, after Avatar ofcourse.

"Maybe there is more to him than meets the eye?" "No there is less."

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I hate the stupid show, the graphics annoyed me when I first saw it on TV. Same with Perfect Hair Forever. I was like, WTF is this crap?

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it IS a comedy....

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the thing is... i actually hate anime.... but i like Kappa mikey

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im really not fond of american cartoons but i know a good animation when i see one.
invader zim is superb, i have to admit i saw a few episodes of ben10 and the fight scenes is really well made that it can rival anime. these are very good examples of american cartoons
but Kappa Mikey is really, really not well done, its like its been rushed and didnt put a lot of effort in it. so its best for nickelodeon to dump this show while they're still ahead.

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I have to disagree, I believe family guy is one of the most overrated shows. I will admit the first couple episodes are pretty slow, but it picks up and gets better. I mean hell, look at the Simpsons, the first two seasons are almost unwatchable, but when that show picked up steam it's practically unstoppable. there are worse things out there worse than a little harmless fun like this show, like god look at tom goes to the mayor. shees. just keep and open mind about things, for the record season 2 of kappa mikey is pretty funny.

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"But it's like the show is TRYING to be funny"

well yeah...it's going to TRY to be funny. it should try to be funny if it's a comedy, yes? it can try too hard. but i don't really feel it does that very often. sometimes it does, yeah...but hardly ever.

it seems like most of the people who don't like this show are anime fans and...don't really get what the show is trying to accomplish. yah...it's making fun. of anime. and such. you take it too seriously...that's not good.

dead...grass?

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Totally agree with you. The only solution left is: LEAVE ANIME TO JAPANESE PEOPLE! Kill kappa Mickey, Hi Hi Puffy, Martin Mystery, Avatar, Teen Titans and all those american anime wannabe cartoons!

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I'll do an impression of the a-hole who owns Nick.

SO WHAT! WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO AND DON'T LIKE! WE HATED INVADER ZIM AND JHONEN VASQUEZ! WE CANCELLED IT, AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU MORONS CAN DO ABOUT IT!!!!! YES, KAPPA MIKEY DOES SUCK, BUT WHO CARES? WE'LL KEEP AIRING IT AS LONG AS WE WANT, ALONG WITH ALL THOSE OTHER CRAPPY SHOWS WE HAVE LIKE THE NAKED BROTHERS BAND, BECAUSE WE LOVE TO TORTURE OUR OLD FANS!!!!! KAPPA MIKEY FTW!!!!!!!!!!!

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I don't really think that sounds a lot like Phillipe Dauman, CEO of Viacom.

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I know. I just like to make fun of people, by making them say things they would probably never say. Like in a YouTube video I made, I had Alfred Kahn, CEO of 4Kids, admit he was previously in the KKK.

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"Totally agree with you. The only solution left is: LEAVE ANIME TO JAPANESE PEOPLE! Kill kappa Mickey, Hi Hi Puffy, Martin Mystery, Avatar, Teen Titans and all those american anime wannabe cartoons! "

Gosh, I hate it when people say that. I want to be an animator. And guess what, since I draw anime and I'm American I'm gonna have to work for an american cartoon company. Get over it.

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Like its too late 4dat man!

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um Martin Mystery is french o_0 not american

Ok I love cartoons but I really can't stand this one,I knw "its a comedy" or "it's suppossed to be random". But Random cartoons should be well written! Also the show really isn't a good anime parody hell Perfect Hair Forever was so much better then Kappa mickey.

The sad part is I thought this show would have been good but it's just a miss,even with the bad animation it would have been good if they just got better writters.

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You people all realize this show was produced by an american film studio, an an attempt to lampoon anime, right? It's supposed to be jumpy and low-quality, with cheap random jokes. It's making fun of the fact that many anime shows have these characteristics. I hate anime in general, which is why I love this show. It makes perfect sense, if you actually think about the show and not invariably denounce it because of a single assumption that you made based on one episode.

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i agree with grievingforgrace 100%

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I don't hate Anime, and yet I like Kappa Mikey...

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omg! i know! I HATE THIS SHOW!

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This isn't a parody of anime, nor is it trying to make fun of it. You people who claim that these writes know anime very well are wrong, because anime isn't just about overreacting face expressions and people with their KAWAII-problem.

Odd face expressions and huge boobs are comic reliefs to anime, and animes actually have story plots (most of the time). If these writes are trying to make fun of anime, then at least get it right. Crack some wit and sense of humor into it instead of trying to become some overdone anime series.

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I'm a big anime fan and I think this show is hilarious

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Anime is Forever

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i LOVE this "garbage" thank u very much. and p.s. Guano is the cutest character ever!! end of discussion. P.S.S. i have the DVD

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