Email this postI was walking through my den the yesterday and caught site of what my son was watching, SWAT Kats. For those of you who don’t remember or don’t know, SWAT Kats was a animated series that once ran on TBS and was about this crime fighting/heroic duo of anamorphic felines (called kats) who were junkyard owners when not saving Megakat City. A pretty standard action cartoon that ran from 1993 to 1995 that had an interesting way of animating the characters. It is not to say that the animation was all that good, it was fairly standard type of animation for its time, it was the difference in how the genders were animated. All of the male cats were almost regular cartoon cats that walked on two legs where as the female cats all look more or less human. In fact, if you didn’t know the females were supposed to be cats you would swear they just had bizarre skin colors. Which leads into what I saw last night.
I never paid much attention the show when it first aired and only caught a few episodes. It seems the one that aired last night I missed entirely. The episode featured a female villain by the name of Turmoil, a character bent of world domination with her ship full of female soldiers.
As you can see, Turmoil is quite an attractive (by anime standards) platinum-blond female at looks nothing like a feline. What you don’t see (I don’t have a screen grab of) is the quasi-Nazi uniform she is wearing and the fact that she has porn star body proportions (big boobs, wide hips, tiny waist, and about 70% thin legs). For a moment there I thought I was watching a lost scene from Heavy Metal. And yes, she had the sexy commanding voice. Did I mention that the uniform was skin tight? Anime-uniform-furry fetish people would go nuts over this character. I can just image the volume of animation porn centered around the character Turmoil. And with a ship full of similarly uniformed females. Yep, I think some animators were sneaking in some cheesecake if not downright erotic fantasies.
Luckily my son is too young to really notice how provocative the character is drawn.
And now that I have ruined your childhood……