Rice Cake Tank War Animation
Alright everyone – have we taken our meds this morning? Good. 
I don’t want any convulsing out there, and today’s Flash animation link provides just the right ingredients for some tongue swallowing.
Let’s see, we’ve got tiny tanks with eyes caught in a catastrophic war, some sort of custard or flan, little baby tanks with pacifiers, hungry kittens, tank-eating mosquitoes and a fruit stand. So you might want to bite down on a pencil or take a half-dose of a tranquilizer before watching ‘The Legend of the Yawaraka Tank, Chapter 1.’
It’s the creation of Webent (or maybe Jugongordie – not sure) who seem to have quite the following in Japan. I performed some translation of the Japanese text on their site, and I believe the small tanks are rice cakes. Now it all makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?
January 12th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
It’s actually yawaraka, not yawakara. The tanks in this animation are Japanese buns. You’ll see them eaten in a lot of anime (Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”, for example).
Cute animation!
February 6th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
It actually means soft or fragile tank, and it’s actually created by some dude who goes by rareko-sensei.