Sarasa Barasa!

Scott Willetts has already done his part to expose the deviantART community to this hideous mutation of all things good and holy, but no one man can truly bring this beast to justice. With that in mind, it is now that I do what I can to create awareness of this, the single most vile creation to have ever been spawned in the collective hive-like brain of Japan. The being known only as... BOOSKA!

Look at it! LOOK AT IT!!! It's hideous, isn't it? O, quake ye in fear, mere mortals, and know that there are Things among us! Great and Terrible Things that we cannot begin to comprehend!

My buddy Scott gave just a small explanation of this sick travesty of childrens' entertainment, but allow me to provide some more information and fun Booska Trivia!

(From "The Kaiju Art Collection")

‘Kaiju Buusuka’ or ‘Booska’ aired November 9, 1966 to September 27, 1967 and featured 47 episodes.

The comedy program was created by the visionary Eiji Tsuburaya & Tsuburaya Productions. Booska made another suitmation television hit for Tsuburaya just months after the popular Ultraman debuted in Color.

In the program, an iguana is fed an experimental herb called ‘Kuropara’ that transforms it into the forever grinning and pudgy Booska. Booska becomes the protector of his creator…a 10 year old boy named Daisuke Tonda.
Booska, who survives solely on ramen noodles (30 bowls a day!), has many wacky adventures with Daisuke, his friends, and family. Booska eventually acquires a sidekick during the show named Chamegon. Chamegon is made after a chipmunk is fed into one of Daisuke’s inventions.

(From "Metropolis")

The crown on top of Booska's head is called the "boo-kan" and is filled with "booskanium," the animal's source of energy. His powers include super strength, the ability to fly, super-sensitive hearing and eyesight, and invisibility. Booska's other notable feature is a voracious appetite for ramen. He has been known to eat thirty bowls of the stuff at one sitting, often leading to trouble in Daisuke's household. When hungry, the bucktoothed beast loses his strength and mournfully cries "shio shio no pa" (no energy). Other notable Booska-speak heard in the series is "sarasa barasa" when happy, "puri puri no kiririnko" (when angry) and "nai nai no pa" (when becoming invisible).

Tsuburaya Productions produced the series for NTV and it ran continually from November 1966 to September 1967. In the series, Booska was the protector of Daisuke and his friends and family. Romping through wobbly cardboard sets with cheesy special effects that made the original TV Star Trek look like The Matrix, he battled creatures from space and unfriendly kaiju such as the fearsome Imora from jigoku dani (hell valley) or the villainous Mechatoro, who wanted to capture and exploit Booska for his own purposes. Booska was last seen boarding a rocket to take him to the planet R-Star, ten light years from Earth, in search of the mysterious "Z-Energy" and promising to return one day.

(And, finally, from "The Kaiju Art Collection" once more)

<B>Booska Trivia!

* If you press Booska’s navel… he can’t stop laughing.

* Booska is said to have the intelligence level of a 6th grader.

* Booska has a girlfriend named Boosko…who is pink of course!

Now that you have been exposed to the evil that is Booska, be sure to create some artwork of your own to inform others of just what Japan is capable of! Without your valiant efforts, we will never be able to put an end to this evil!

Oh yeah, and here's this sickening monster's theme song.

Booska is ©Tsuburaya Productions. And they can KEEP HIM!!!