OOC WARNING: The anime contains flashing images that may trigger photosensitive reactions, consider if you want to watch it with that in mind if you have story of photosensitiveness
Imagine yourself in the dumps, fired, wife cheats on you, son hates you because you are boring, zero friends, only thing left to happen is a dog dropping on you and a piano peeing on your shoes, you could get a cold one with the few money left in your pocket, not realizing a kind man has been watching you, when you try to get some liquid confort, a man with a wide red lipped smile an goofy looking eyes shows you his card, he is not a vendor of most stuff, he sells favors, favors to in his own words "fill the void in people's souls", most people reasonably will run in the general opossite direction of the man, but he allures you into a sense of safety, after all he is offering you the chance of getting a good life, also there is nothing wrong with a man that looks like this
RIGHT???
The laughing Salesman is possibly Fujiko A Fukio's darker works, and if the name rings bells, yup, the same man that brought us DORAEMON THAT ONE!, while most of Fujiko's works deal with whismical chilhood fantasies with plots involving a kid or group of them being helped by the Doraemon reskin be slice of life stories of wacky and lighthearted adventures, this one is both aimed and focused on adults, thus focused on more home hitting themes, like loneliness, addictions, struggles with adulthood... yup, this time no holding back in the grittyness, but hey, this is still Fujiko A Fujio, so there must be the magical creature that solves problems somewhere with miraclous superpowers, ¡ENTER MOGURO FUKUZOU!
The titular Salesman, like both the anime and this article's intro explains, he is a salesman, but not one that puts the price of his product, helping people in Yen, but rather in helping people, doing so out of altruism... and i have a flying horse called George
Of all the red flags didn't tipped you, Moguro isn't exactly trusworthy, come one, the attached photo of him? THAT IS HIS FACE 24/7, never drops his smile, the closest being in a funny scene where he eats a customer's wife cooking which is so bad whatever the hell Moguro is couldn't stomach it, he seems to appear from anywhere yet never is noticed for anyone, always knows what his "Client" wants, can drink booze like it was water and has tanked damage anybody could be either in the hospital or flatout DEAD like it was nobody's business, his "Favors" having a simple rule that must be followed, if you know this kind of stories you know how it will end
Now , the basic formula of the episodes are as it follows
The client gets a curse, now the blessing is a curse
The most iconic part of the anime being those curses, they range from the bad but still plausible (Like a man being stuck with debts with mafia due to breaking the oauth of not betting anymore) from the light but still horrific (A man obssesed with gourmet gets driven mad by the curse and we see him EATING FROM THE TRASH OF SAID RESTAURANT) to flatout nightmarish (A woman who was told to never date a man is to put it kindly HANGED BY HER SCARF), sometimes the victim gets just deserts for being a dick, sometimes is a sour ending for a man whose only crime was being miserable and meeting with Moguro, who will then quip about the client's case and gives his signature laugh... can we get back at Nobita creating a tornado because he sucked at math or something?
The original Manga can be considered Lost Media, that or i suck looking for things online, since there is only a chapter, but the manga is easly findable online, lasting for 90+ epísodes, not all of them, but most of them even subbed, the usual chapter last 11 minutes while some special OVAS clock at 30, it got an point-and-click adaptation of three chapters of the anime in Mega CD, an Live action adaptation that is also Lost Media, some commercials and PSA's against piracy, yup, the man that no sane person wants to make a deal selling my product (Fittingly, liquor), to say Moguro was popular was a undestatement...at first anyway
In 2017 a Remake of 12 episodes following the two shorts format was released, i liked it, but Japan was not as fond of it, be the OG fans deeming this Moguro a softie (The harshest curse he plants is making a guy unable to take a Oni mask off, driving him to commit crimes) compared to OG Moguro, the famous DOOOOOOOOOOON feeling dull and overall not felling as memorable and new gen audiences not caring for a simplistic story about a creep that gives you stuff that ruins your life
The show may not be for everybody, the formula may wear down since absolutely NOBODY gets a win over Moguro's curses, innocents even the ones outside of the victim gets hurt and the grittiness may be more boring than foreboding, but if you want a break from feel-good animanga, well, My name is Moguro Fukuzou, i can fell that void in your Weeb Soul
HOHOHOHOHHHHHHH
Imagine yourself in the dumps, fired, wife cheats on you, son hates you because you are boring, zero friends, only thing left to happen is a dog dropping on you and a piano peeing on your shoes, you could get a cold one with the few money left in your pocket, not realizing a kind man has been watching you, when you try to get some liquid confort, a man with a wide red lipped smile an goofy looking eyes shows you his card, he is not a vendor of most stuff, he sells favors, favors to in his own words "fill the void in people's souls", most people reasonably will run in the general opossite direction of the man, but he allures you into a sense of safety, after all he is offering you the chance of getting a good life, also there is nothing wrong with a man that looks like this
RIGHT???
The laughing Salesman is possibly Fujiko A Fukio's darker works, and if the name rings bells, yup, the same man that brought us DORAEMON THAT ONE!, while most of Fujiko's works deal with whismical chilhood fantasies with plots involving a kid or group of them being helped by the Doraemon reskin be slice of life stories of wacky and lighthearted adventures, this one is both aimed and focused on adults, thus focused on more home hitting themes, like loneliness, addictions, struggles with adulthood... yup, this time no holding back in the grittyness, but hey, this is still Fujiko A Fujio, so there must be the magical creature that solves problems somewhere with miraclous superpowers, ¡ENTER MOGURO FUKUZOU!
The titular Salesman, like both the anime and this article's intro explains, he is a salesman, but not one that puts the price of his product, helping people in Yen, but rather in helping people, doing so out of altruism... and i have a flying horse called George
Of all the red flags didn't tipped you, Moguro isn't exactly trusworthy, come one, the attached photo of him? THAT IS HIS FACE 24/7, never drops his smile, the closest being in a funny scene where he eats a customer's wife cooking which is so bad whatever the hell Moguro is couldn't stomach it, he seems to appear from anywhere yet never is noticed for anyone, always knows what his "Client" wants, can drink booze like it was water and has tanked damage anybody could be either in the hospital or flatout DEAD like it was nobody's business, his "Favors" having a simple rule that must be followed, if you know this kind of stories you know how it will end
Now , the basic formula of the episodes are as it follows
- Moguro presents the vict...emm, "Customer", a troubled adult
- The customer is shown having a rough deal
- Moguro, not before appearing out of thin air to spy on our poor sap sometimes, show and presents his deal, the customer accepts and is given either a miraclous object or some way to improve the situation at hand
- The Client accepts the deal, with Moguro offering a rule that the client must follow
- Client gets to enjoy the cool stuff given for free, forgetting about the rule in the process
- Alternativelly, the client uses properly the thingamajig, but the tragedy that made him make the deal in the first place gets worse to the point that the client says "Fuck it" and breaks the rule
- Moguro shows up, usually after the rule breaking makes the customer even worse that as he started
- The iconic scene (And the reason the warning is here, since it uses flashing images) where Moguro reads the riot card at the customer, points at him and...
The client gets a curse, now the blessing is a curse
The most iconic part of the anime being those curses, they range from the bad but still plausible (Like a man being stuck with debts with mafia due to breaking the oauth of not betting anymore) from the light but still horrific (A man obssesed with gourmet gets driven mad by the curse and we see him EATING FROM THE TRASH OF SAID RESTAURANT) to flatout nightmarish (A woman who was told to never date a man is to put it kindly HANGED BY HER SCARF), sometimes the victim gets just deserts for being a dick, sometimes is a sour ending for a man whose only crime was being miserable and meeting with Moguro, who will then quip about the client's case and gives his signature laugh... can we get back at Nobita creating a tornado because he sucked at math or something?
The original Manga can be considered Lost Media, that or i suck looking for things online, since there is only a chapter, but the manga is easly findable online, lasting for 90+ epísodes, not all of them, but most of them even subbed, the usual chapter last 11 minutes while some special OVAS clock at 30, it got an point-and-click adaptation of three chapters of the anime in Mega CD, an Live action adaptation that is also Lost Media, some commercials and PSA's against piracy, yup, the man that no sane person wants to make a deal selling my product (Fittingly, liquor), to say Moguro was popular was a undestatement...at first anyway
In 2017 a Remake of 12 episodes following the two shorts format was released, i liked it, but Japan was not as fond of it, be the OG fans deeming this Moguro a softie (The harshest curse he plants is making a guy unable to take a Oni mask off, driving him to commit crimes) compared to OG Moguro, the famous DOOOOOOOOOOON feeling dull and overall not felling as memorable and new gen audiences not caring for a simplistic story about a creep that gives you stuff that ruins your life
The show may not be for everybody, the formula may wear down since absolutely NOBODY gets a win over Moguro's curses, innocents even the ones outside of the victim gets hurt and the grittiness may be more boring than foreboding, but if you want a break from feel-good animanga, well, My name is Moguro Fukuzou, i can fell that void in your Weeb Soul
HOHOHOHOHHHHHHH
