Tea-Time on Cybertron

Hot on the heels of "The World Sinks Except Japan" comes director Minoru Kawasaki's latest, a parody of the Transformers... I think.

Tongues are lodged so firmly in cheek it's kinda tough to tell what exactly is going on, but it appears to be a collection of ultrashort parody skits being released direct to DVD this December from Tornado Film. The one thing that does seem clear is the title: "Ochanoma-Transformation" (literally "Tea Room Transformation," though it's colloquially more like "Living Room Transformation.") They hammered home the joke with a faux press conference in Shibuya featuring a random gaijin who sorta-not-really looks like Steven Spielberg.

What's it all mean? Beats the hell outta me, but the ironic thing is that the transforming keitai phone in the first clip posted online is actually kinda cool. In keeping with the oh-so-crazy marketing schtick, it's incogruously titled "part 7."