SpongeBob Showing Patrick Garbage Meme... AGAIN! But With This Time, It's About Niches.

 Or at least the good kind of niche stuff that I'm into (for the most part).

But before I explain what exactly these things are within the meme, this comment right here gave me the inspiration as to why I made this meme (that I've tried to restate their comment within the first panel):

Like, really? You think Animaniacs is niche?! To me, I really don't think so. And I get it it's not as very popular as it is today compared back in the 90's, but it's still a show that some people (including me) tend to talk about to this very day. And that's also like saying "This [insert popular 90's cartoon here like Rugrats, Tiny Toon Adventures, Ren & Stimpy and etc.] is a niche thing!" compared to other cartoons that also came out during the 90's that weren't as popular or were just forgotten about.

As for the 2020 reboot, though... I think it's starting to age like milk ever since it came out and the more it aged rottenly in my brain (despite wanting to like the reboot at some point). And recently, one of the VAs spoke about it in a negative light:

Man, if this is actually true, then please give me that video footage! Because I so wanna see it if that's really the case.

Plus, there's also this right here:

Yeah, not a great sight to see whenever you have people on a platform that I don't like complain about the reboot to this day.

With that said, let's get on to the rest of the meme starting off...

1.  Punirunes and other virtual pets that aren't from Tamagotchi.

Keep in mind that I'm not talking about the Tamagotchi knock-offs that are the low-quality types, but to focus more of the unique kind of virtual pets like Punirunes as I think it's starting to become less niche than how it was in the early 2020's. But still people would likely find Punirunes to be niche, I guess? Or heck, stuff like back in the late 2000's there was "My Meebas" that's actually more niche than Punirunes as for it's own unique feature out of it was, once it becomes an adult that's too big to fit on the screen, a "surprise plush" will come out as if you help to pull it up on the tube so your friend/pet can get out of there as if it was greeting you in the real world.

And if you want more info about My Meebas, than here's this blog post about 'em done by this guy! 👇

https://rossmadeablog.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/my-meebas-a-valuable-virtual-pet-toy/

Anyway, onto the next section!

2. MC Skat Kat & his Stray Mob

Well, if you're already familiar with the whole "Opposites Attract" song done by Paula Abdul, there's no introduction to be needed there! But what not many people talk about is MC Skat Kat's own crew AKA the "Stray Mob". As MC Skat Kat was getting more popular back in the early 90's, he had more of a crew than just the three members appearing in the OA MV as only Taboo [the cat wearing the yellow shirt], Fatz [the cat wearing the glasses] and Micetro who was the silent one that never sung until the "Skat Strut" music video came out as he was lip-syncing a part of the sampled "Let's Groove" bit as that was Earth, Wind & Fire's song).

As for the other members of the group, there was Leo (the big guy) and the two girls out of the group that are Katleen and Silk.

And if you wanna know more about 'em, well here's this site to guide you as I can move on to the next section!

3. Obscure or "Unpopular" anime from the 2010's!

Believe it or not, I actually got a few of them on DVD as they're "Nurse Witch Komugi R" and just recently "Seiyu's Life!"... As for NWKR, I think it was an alright reboot for what it was (and it was much better than Animaniacs 2020 imo) and as for Seiyu's Life, I haven't gotten able to watch it yet as I was writing this out, but I've heard the songs were good! Aside from watching a few clips as well. And as for the other two things that are also shown in the fourth panel are Hacka Doll and Etotama! As for Etotama, I just realized that all the episodes are up on YouTube as of October 2024! And no one ever told me that. As for Hacka Doll, though... I was able to watch all the episodes once back like in the 2010's that I thought it was decent. Still gotta watch it again someday! Even I don't have to buy any of the expensive Etotama physical media out there (especially on Amazon).

Note: This is my first time talking about Hacka Doll and Seiyu's Life on my blog.

4. Luminary Tears (AKA Mahou no Lumitear)

As for this one, I already explained a bit of it in my "Top 3 Niche Things That I'm Into" post. And like the other anime being previously mentioned, this also had one too! But I didn't get to watch all of them (as I was writing this out), though... At least I find it okay.

5. Lady Unicorn (by Marco Albireo)

Oh yeah, if you want a magical girl who's an adult that also goes by solo, then this is something for you! And hopefully, this can get an English translation someday! Well, if not, if not. Still a great concept, though.

6. Finally, Susumu FREAKIN' Matsushita!

OH YEEEAAAHHH! If you're into characters that aren't in the style of today's cartoons (especially American ones), then take these American-inspired Japanese toons done by this guy! And if you can tell from my blog by now, you can tell who my favorite is. Even I also mentioned his stuff in that one post that I previously mentioned (you know, "Top 3 Niche Things That I'm Into").

P.S. I know I haven't talked about some of the stuff like the anime much that you can probably look that up on your own like on my blog or from other websites. And as for the My Meebas thing, I think the concept was cool, but never owned one at all... Speaking of MM again, I think I saw a commercial on it back in the day (but I dunno on how many times when I saw it as my memory being much younger back then isn't the best at times). Plus, as to why the post's title has the "AGAIN!" part, as I made another version to this prior.

Other sources:

1. https://x.com/hassledvania/status/2046207716427723070

(I know I think I already stated that I wasn't gonna post anymore Twitter links on my blog, but here we are in a rare case that probably I'm not gonna post anymore Twitter links again... Until another rare moment again).

2. The one fanart made by Annalise Becerra (that you gotta go down to the comment section to see on where I screenshotted).

Bonus Art Stuff from the OG NWK DVDs!

 And this is the first one that features the character list on the back! (The back not pictured for this post since I thought it would be hard to capture all of it within a single shot as it would be hard to read in its entirety unless if I could do it within close-up shots onto each character).

And this is from Volume 2!

The backside for this one:

Boy that main tagline (aside from what the show is about) is cheesy and would've sound creepy on the R version of Komugi (as she's 14 within that version)... But of course, Komugi's 17 within the OG show as the tagline isn't that creepy for somebody who's about to hit 18. As I'm writing this out, I'm still planning to watch this soon!

✨ My Nurse Witch Komugi DVD Collection ✨

 Since I already saw the reboot like a few years ago, why not get the original too? And it could've nice if they touched upon Z (AKA the last few episodes of the OG NWK) but I already talked about that enough on this post here: 

https://zanyogwarnerfansfanartandmore.blogspot.com/2025/01/nurse-witch-komugi-chan-magikarte-z.html

Anyway, this is my collection so far!

And here's the DVDs for the OG show without the reboot in the way:

Even here's some more pics!

Oh, should I mention that both of these come with a special art sheet on the front while as it also has the character list on the back? Perhaps I should post about that next time... Aside from that, I'm glad on how these two were well cared for as I got them on Amazon as one of them was in "Very Good" condition and the other one was "Like New". And I highly recommend that you buy used stuff that way if you want it for a bit of a cheap price (depending on how the item is) within the best quality as possible. Especially that I find the "Good" and "Acceptable" conditions to be quite iffy as heck at times that I'm not a fan of buying items through Amazon like that. After all, I can't wait to watch this show as I already got 'em! Even I already watched that Tenacious D movie recently (as I'm writing this out) as I thought it was a good watch for a silly movie about two guys who wanted to be "rebel but metal".

Edited on Feb. 5th since I checked again as it's the character list and not the episode. And I feel like I won't be able to catch it all within a single shot though.

Nurse Witch Komugi R DVD Pics From 2023...

 These pics were originally posted in a much private way through FB back then, but I decided to post them here now for some reason...

Originally written on FB as I had to copy and paste this statement here: "I had to do two shots of Komugi here... and keep in mind that this Komugi is 14 unlike the OG Komugi who was 17... And not to mention that they're both idols and have a friend who's also an idol (Cocona/Koyori)."

Another copied and pasted statement here: "Had this DVD just to pair up with the PriPara nendoroids since this anime likes to reference it from time to time alongside referencing the OG Nurse Witch Komugi."

And two another copied and pasted statements here...

For the one up top: "Tsukasa, Komugi, and Cocona and Magical Sister (Tsukasa's alter-ego)."

And for the bottom one: "Cocona, Lilla's bear that got redeemed in the end (and its basically spoilers that I've said) and Komugi as an idol."

And of course, there's idol Cocona at the end here.

P.S. DO NOT STEAL PLEASE! Or even use them without crediting me.

Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Magikarte Z Needs a (Western) DVD Release!

A western release with the English subs, that is since ADV Films never touched the last two episodes AKA 6 and 7 out of the whole OG NWK series before the R reboot came out. Heck, even Sentai Filmworks (that they did continue with Nurse Witch Komugi R on giving that a western physical release onto both DVD and Blu-ray), as they didn't continue on on translating the last two episodes unfortunately (most likely due to the poor sales that ADV Films was having trouble with that could've caused on why the last two episodes being left out as untranslated by them).

But I still wanna see the last two episodes getting this kind of treatment like the rest of the OG series had (even without an dub that's attached to it this time around).  And while I still haven't seen the OG series (but I'm planning to watch it someday), I did see the R reboot that I felt like I talked a little bit about that on this blog before as I thought it was a decent reboot on its own that made me more interested to watch the OG series. Even I'll certainly talk more about the R reboot on my blog one of these days (despite I already watched NWKR back like in 2023 though).

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