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Hare + Guu Box Set
Anime DVD Review
Welcome to the jungle, the peaceful home of fun-loving ten year old Hare who lives with his single, hard-drinking mother in a hut. One day he is sent to get some bananas and fruits and has a frightening experience of being eaten by a monster. Returning home he finds that his mother has taken in an appallingly cute little girl who goes by the name of Guu.
Wait a minute... Wasn't Hare eaten by a monster?
 Hare senses something is not right about this little girl, and the next morning she looks like a completely different person, no longer quite so "cute". Now she's just bizarre and creepy, morose and lethargic. The strange thing is only Hare seems to notice. But the big surprise is yet to come — this "girl" can apparently consume anything, and what she eats is transformed into an extra-dimensional world inside her belly.
Was she the monster that ate him?
Along the way despite instigating an endless amount of trouble, Guu eats, and later spits out, various animals, Hare, Hare's classmates, the better part of an ocean, and a number of other (strange) things. She also seems to have other "powers", such as she always seems to know what's going on, and the ability to charm anyone by instantly changing her face to that amazingly charismatic little girl. She may look like an innocent orphan girl to everyone else, but only Hare knows that Guu is really a pan-dimensional, mind-reading, magic-using monster with a sarcastic wit and unlimited appetite!
And she might have eaten him.
There is simply no way to describe this extraordinary anime series. It's like a Tex Avery cartoon on crack. It's a Warner Brothers Road Runner cartoon taken to a ridiculous extreme. It's Dr. Slump, Pataliro, and BoBobo all mashed together and turned into an incoherent frenzy. Only the Japanese could have come up with something this... weird.
The episodes get funnier and funnier, as bizarre wackiness becomes even more insane with the introduction of other "unique" characters. And Guu just eats EVERYTHING — nibbler from Futurama appears to be a good example. If you enjoy the 100-mile-per-second off-the-wall wit of FLCL, then Hare and Guu is for you. Fluff up your chest hair, hide your elephants, and prepare yourself for more comic insanity than you ever imagined.
Reviewed by Brian Cirulnick, August 2007
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