Mr. Deniroo in Henteko Mushi

One of my most favorite works from Momen Tatsushi. Tatsushi was interested in puppetry, and he intended for Mr. Deniroo to be the next Sesame Street. He debuted Mr. Deniroo as plenty of kids were growing up, that was his whole market, even if Sesame Street is not watched much nowadays either. This was his best 8 minutes of directing. Mr. Deniroo, the main character is a puppet so it curiously wanders the street. He got banged by a car and is still not hurt because no matter how beat up it gets, puppets are given life by the director. Then it gets to a ... scene where he bullies a caterpillar with a stick and start talking an English Japanese mix jibberish. At this point the caterpillar hated his new friend so he released poison gas. Mr. Deniroo was attracted to the caterpillar's shyness so he sticks around. A cat enters the scene wanting to scratch up the caterpillar, a sad scene happens as it knocks out Mr. Deniroo overnight for butting in. And so the finale Mr. Deniroo who is not dead, looks up to what happened to the caterpillar. He gleams as the caterpillar has now become a butterfly. And so Mr. Deniroo now understands nature. Tatsushi took this mastery onto his blog, website, and while not a commercial success, it remains another fine work left on myanimelist.