bizarre

One of my friend's has recently moved to Australia. He is living in Perth at the moment where the local university has an anime club he has been attending on a Saturday afternoon. They show a variety of different anime, have some live action stuff and a bit of cosplay. (people getting dressed up as their favourite cartoon/ computer game characters is cosplay) In order to try and make sure they are showing the series people are most interested in they passed out a questionnaire for people to fill out.

Here are some of the brief descriptions of the shows from that questionnaire:

Bamboo Blade [School,Kendo club, girls]
Blue Dragon [Kid,Totem,Evil Empire]
Ghost Hound [Kidnapping,Visions]
Monster Princess [Guy dies - resurrected as servant]
Moyoshimon [Boy sees microbes]
Murder Princess [Princess,bounty hunter,body swap]
New Giant Robo [Daiskue,ruins,Giant Robo]
Pumpkin Scissors [War relief efforts]
Rental Magica [Rent a Magician]
Sky Girls [Young female test pilots]
Touka Getten [Fantasy,Many Themes,Weirdness]

I am intrigued by Touka Getten. A lot of anime is pretty weird so to have weirdness in the description it must be exceptionally weird.

And Moyoshimon - Boy sees microbes might also be worth a look. Looking it up on google brought me to this strange episode description.

The kiviak bit just sounds bizarre. If you can't be arsed to read the link the episode involves the boy who sees microbes following mirobes to a dead seal buried in the ground. Basically, if the cartoon is right, the kiviak is a fermented food eaten by inuits. They bury a seal in the ground filled with birds, leave it for ages and suck the juices out of the fermented birds through their anuses. Surely people can't eat something like that. An internet search for kiviak brought me this description...

"Kiviak is a gastronomical Christmas treat from Greenland which, for some reason, hasn't been adopted by many other nations. It's made from the raw flesh of an auk which has been buried under a stone in sealskin for several months until it's achieved an advanced stage of decomposition. Apparently, it smells like old blue cheese and tastes very pungent."

nothing about sucking the juices out of the birds asses though. There are other sites discussing its presence in the cartoon but i could find nothing definitive. It was mentioned that the best site about it is in Japanese, which is of no help to me as we are yet to learn the words for fermenting dead birds inside seals yet. Who first came up with the idea of fermenting dead birds in a seal carcass anyway? Seems a repulsive thing to try and then continue to do...