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The Fuccon Family
Yesterday I bought the Fuccon Family DVD!
The Fuccon Family was a pre-"Oh! Mikey" series, featuring the same three main characters: Mikey and his parents James and Barbara.
The DVD includes 3 series of several episodes, each series begins with the Fuccon Family moving to Japan, and ending with them going back to America. In each series they even live in a different house, always in one a bit nicer than the previous series (in the 3rd series they live in a Japanese style home!).
The stories are quite funny, and its humor is quite a bit more black than "Oh! Mikey" which is a bit tamer.
Most of the episodes are centered on the family, without featuring many other characters. The topics include a lot of fighting and cheating, James and Barbara both having affairs, Mikey running away from home. Mikey even catches fire a few times! It's also funny to see the whole family together in ofuro.
Some voices are different from "Oh! Mikey", at least James'. And everything looks a bit more amateur too, but still very entertaining. English subtitles are included, and there's an interview with the director and some "making of" scenes from "Oh! Mikey".
Since I had pre-ordered the DVD at HMV, I got an original Mikey box for storing the DVD's! Now I need to get "Oh! Mikey vol.4" to complete my Mikey series, and there will still be room for another DVD (perhaps meant for other Vermilion Pleasure Night stuff, like Color of Life).
By the way, I just received the Oh! Mikey newsletter, and it says that Mikey has now moved to HMV Shibuya!
Posted on January 24, 2004 at 13:02 | Tweet
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That sounds great! I hope you'll want to drop by my place some night to watch it...
Posted by Jean on January 24, 2004 at 22:13
Of course! :) How about early next week? Let me know what day is ok and I'll drop by!
Posted by Patrick on January 24, 2004 at 22:20
By the way, the OH! Mikey DVDs are in stock at J-List.
http://www.jlist.com/SEARCHES/oh_mikey/
We even have disc 4, which just came out today.
Posted by Peter Payne on February 5, 2004 at 02:30
Thanks for clearing some info about this dvd,Im just starting to get into oh mikey! and i was starting with "the fuccon family" and i was going to move on into oh mikey! it looks awsome :-)
Posted by myron on August 17, 2004 at 03:19
It is! I hope you'll enjoy it. :)
Posted by Patrick on August 17, 2004 at 07:45