I finally located that Sadako Flash cartoon I mentioned the other week. Thing is, I was googling all wrong. I had tried Ringu Cartoon, Sadako Flash, Ring Flash and all the permutations inbetween. Today at work I suddenly recalled where I had even heard of this flash cartoon in the first place... Insert Credit.com. So I tramped through their news archives until I found their original newspost about it.
Lie. I found the correct archive page on the first click, September 2003. My memory must be better than I remember. Regardless, their link was no longer valid. But they did mention the true title of the flash file, sada_end.swf. Googling that turned up the long lost cartoon, although a couple of the Google links were just as dead.
So I thought I'd host it as well, since it's worth viewing if you've seen Ringu. If you haven't, it's an interesting peek into Japanese fan culture. They (and I suppose by 'They' I mean the whole of Japan, *shrug*) have turned a spectral killing machine into a cute-as-a-button anime character! Set to music that IC speculates is from a Japanese commercial for an English language school, you have a unique little cartoon. Here it is, click to view.
It's probably un-internethical for me to grab the swf file like this. I know lots of Flash authors don't like seeing their stuff parading across crappy websites with no credit or linkback. So if I ever get told to drop it, I'll do so. Until then (or until I see my bandwidth exploding) I'll give it a home here for anybody else who may be lost, misdirected or mutilated in the searching.
That picture of Sadakitty is also from Insert Credit.com, while we're discussing me stealing things. (They do a great job over there, specializing in the Japanese game industry, and delivering some really great, non-traditional game reviews. Make sure you read this one, this one, and this one.) And you thought Sadako couldn't be any more adorable!
