Dress up time: Fairy Princess Mammoth

It's dress up time here at RatCat & Friends! Everybody's dressing up like the Fairy Princess Mammoth. Some like dressing up more than others do...

RatCat and the Big Fat Friendly Butterfly are always up for a costume party. The basics for the FPM look are a pink tutu, pink wings, and a tiara or crown. The BFFB also got some mammoth tusks.

Minion likes dressing up. 

  

Evil Space RatCat didn't want to wear a tutu, but he made a cool belt buckle. Not sure if he's looking bad-ass or just p*ssed off.

Count Slugula isn't too into this, I think...

Colorful kittens like to dress up. Well, at least some of them do. This chubby one certainly does.

While you might not know it from the look on her face, Lucy actually really enjoys dressing up.


What do you think of  Fairy Princess Mammoth dress up time? Who looks best in it?

Lucy Chinese Zodiac: the Snake

I already posted this on Facebook and Tumblr a little while ago, but forgot to put it here!. So here it is, the next Lucy von Fledermaus Chinese zodiac animal: the snake.

I went somewhat Greek mythology with this one.

Until next time! =^o,,o^=

Monthly Mustache Mania: August

A little late, but here are all the Mustaches (as posted on the RatCat & Friends Facebook and Tumblr) of August!

We have a RatCat Mustache made out of RatCat's with mustaches; RatCat making a mustache out of his tail; FPM in a mustache-ish outfit holding a mustache; and finally we have "Pierre the Pear" and "Monsieur Croissant Cat".

Until next time! =^0,,0^=

Lucy star signs: Taurus

Another astrological sign represented by Lucy von Fledermaus. This time: Taurus.

 

Until next time! =^o,,o^=

Lucy Star Signs: Aries

I've fallen a bit (more than a bit...) behind on the Lucy von Fledermaus star signs, but after the Capricorns, Aquarius, and Pisces, it is now time for Aries!

Until next time!

Monthly Mustache Mania! July

Here are all the mustaches (posted on Facebook and Tumblr) of July!

Lucy Chinese Zodiac: the dragon

Time for another animal from the Chinese Zodiac. Lucy von Fledermaus style. This time it's the dragon:

Until next time, RatCatonians! =^o,,o^=

(late) Monthly Mustache Mania: june

I have to admit that I've been using the RatCat Facebook and Tumblr more actively than this blog lately...I feel like more people see what I do there than what I do here. Sorry blog! So a little late, here are all the mustaches from last month:

The Faces fof RatCat #3

Here are some more "faces of RatCat"

Lucy Chinese Zodiac: the rabbit

Time to continue the Lucy von Fledermaus chinese zodiac series. This time, it's the rabbit:

Until next time!

The end of Japan month

May is at an end and so is Japan month here on RatCat and Friends. I thought it'd be pretty awesome to see a compilation of all the drawings I've made this month. So here it is (notice that Daruma RatCat now has two eyes):

Not until tomorrow! (but soon) =^o,,o^=

Japanese horror movies

Japanese cinema knows many great and not so great horror movies. Some have seen an American re-makes (the ring, the grudge, to name a few). Somehow when I think about Japanese horror one of the things that comes to mind is long black creepy hair on a creepy ghost or whatever. RatCat is trying out the look.


Tomorrow is the last day of May which means Japan Month is coming to an end. So, until the end! =^o,,~^=

Japanese school uniforms

In Japan it's quite common to have a school uniform. The best known school uniform (for girls anyway) is the sailor uniform. An example:

Apparently one of the reasons the sailor-look was chosen for girls school uniforms, was because it's easy to sew.

Here we have a kogal way of wearing the uniform. Kogal is a youth subculture and the term comes from the Japanese for high school (which starts with ko) and the word gal (as in, she's such a swell gal). Mini skirts and loose socks are one way of kogalling your school uniform.

Finally, here are a few other type of school uniforms.

Until tomorrow! =^o,,o^=

The islands of Japan

Japan is made up of a whole lot of islands (around 7,000 but only 470 are inhabited). The four main islands (from North to South, sort of) are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. Of these four Honshu is the biggest. Here are a bunch of RatCats in the shape of Japan (because, why not?):

Until tomorrow again! =^o,,o^=

Karaoke

Karaoke is a compound of the Japanese Kara, meaning empty (same as in Karate, remember), and the abbreviation of okesutora or orchestra. In Japan Karaoke isn't usually done in a bar where you sing in front of everybody who happens to be in the bar, but in a "karaoke box". It's a smaller room that you sing karaoke in either with your friends or alone (if you want) without any other people. Sometimes you get small musical instrument such as tambourines and maracas.

I wonder what song RatCat's singing...or what he sounds like. He usually doesn't talk.

Fairy Princess Mammoth is a little too shy to sing, but he likes to play the tambourine.

Lucy is also a little shy, but she's happy to hold the microphone for Count Slugula.





Do you like Karaoke? Until tomorrow! =^o,,o^=

Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji is Japan's highest mountain and active (!) volcano. It's last eruption was around 1707. Mount Fuji attracts many tourists (Japanese and foreign alike) and has often been the inspiration for paintings, poems, and other types of art. Here we have RatCat enjoying the (somewhat poorly drawn, my apologies, I never draw landscapes...) view of Mount Fuji:

  Until tomorrow again! =^o,,~^=

Dragon dragon ball, dragon ball Z

It's time for some Dragon ball Z! One of the most popular and well known anime. It's the sequel to Dragon ball and continues to follow the adventures of Goku and his friends, family, and frenemies.

One guy that goes from being an enemy in the Dragon ball series to a mentor to Goku's son Gohan, and ally is Piccolo (you might not recognize him straight away in this Evil Space RatCat version, but that's probably because his usual color is green...).

 Here we have Majin Buu (also known as fat Buu). He sometimes changes people into candy and eats them, but he also has a kind, sweet side to him.

Bulma (her natural color is blue) has been a friend to Goku since the Dragon Ball series and often helps with inventing awesome gadgets and space ships and time travel ships and a dragon ball locator and...well...basically without her they would all be dead and Vegeta would have died childless and alone.



Finally, we have the Fairy Princess Mammoth representing the Saiyans. They sure have pointy hair.

A little translation fun fact: In the Japanese version when Vegeta is taking a shower and Bulma gives him clothes to wear he's thinking about fighting Goku and get's very upset with the clothes because he's a warrior and should be wearing armor. In the American version, however, when showering he's thinking about what an enigma females are and get's upset because of the pinkness of his shirt (to quote: "I'm a warrior! Not a bouquet of flowers!").

Until tomorrow! =^o,,o^=

Domo-RatCat-kun

Although you probably never really wondered what a RatCat/Domo-kun fusion would look like, here it is anyway (if you don't know Domo-kun google image him or RatCat's squareness won't make any sense to you):

Domo-kun is the official mascot of NHK, Japan's national public broadcasting organization. Domo-kun can be seen in 30 second long stop-motion movies shown between programs. He also stars in a manga version and countless Domo-kun merchandise is available.

It's a-me, RatCat!

One of Japan's most famous video game characters is-a Mario! He first appeared in Donkey Kong in 1981. Back then he was known simply as Jumpman and was saving his girlfriend Pauline (who got dumped after he became Mario and met princess Peach). Since then Mario (often together with his brother Luigi) has starred in many, many, video games and probably isn't going anywhere any time soon.

Until tomorrow! =^o,,o^=

A bit about Kawaii

I wasn't really in the mood to draw today (it's really warm and it's making me sleepy), so I just made a small RatCat thingy. He's supposed to be kawaii. Kawaii generally means cute or cuteness (although it used to mean something more along the lines of pathetic and weak). Cuteness and cute characters (such as Hello Kitty) can be find all over Japan today. In the 1970s the cute culture began when high school girls developed a new way of writing with round characters, decorated with cute little flowers and stuff (it was pretty hard to read and a lot of schools banned this style of writing). It's also around this time Hello Kitty emerged and became popular. As the children and teens (who all the cute stuff was marketed to) grew up, cute merchandise for adults became wide spread. Anyway, here's RatCat:

Until tomorrow!