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A discussed of draft designs leads to the team expressing their appreciation for Shimoda.

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God wants an animal suitable for Earth and Hell, that surprises even the angels.

The team considers dusting off the Tyrannosaurus, but goes with the Superb Lyrebird, whose mimicry makes the team think God is watching over their shoulder.

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Shenanigans leas to the team being regressed to children and left in a jungle infested by piranha and crocodiles. They get better.

While trying to invent a messenger demon for Hell, Unabara accidentally creates the rabbit.

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Shimoda tests a device that let's him experience animal society. The society of the Naked Mole Rat, that is. (Approved!)

A request for a regenerating animal leads to a discussion of how aging helps animal populations and the creation of the Immortal Jellyfish. (Approved!)

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A request for an animal that tickles the maternal instinct leads Meido to create Rhizocephala. Yuck.

Kimura and Unabara compete to design the penguin. Who will win? (God: por qué no los dos?)

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Attempts to rearrange rib bone structure lead to turtles on defense and the Iberian ribbed newt on offense.

An attempt to provide courtship behaviors that make your heart throb produces the Long Tailed Manakin, the Staurois frog, and the hooded seal.

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You know when it feels like you're being watched, but no one's there? Make that an animal. (Crocodile Icefish)

An attempt to decipher a child's drawing produces the tarsier.

Trying to make an animal with good hearing cycles through several awful goblins before making the owl.

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The team takes a vacation trip. Well, for those that aren't done it's a working vacation.

This give the opportunity for a hot springs episode, a sharknado parody and a murder mystery.

Animals accepted: flamingo, rattlesnake, California ground squirrel, hammerhead shark.

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Also, he wants a mascot for Hell.

Two designs are prepared: Cerberus, based on the wolf, and a Three-headed dragon, based on the crocodile. Yokota buys both.

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Discussions over lunch lead to the approval of the Lobster and the Sea Otter.

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Ueda was called away on a sudden business trip. Hell is, of course, other contractors. (Tell me about it.)

When she returns, she brings Yokota, who has design requests from Hell. He liked the multiplying pandas and would like the team's help designing zombies.

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A request for more striped animals get the zebra and the giant panda

The panda is accidentally crossed with the starfish leading to a swarm of duplicate pandas.

Ueda, personnel director (?) for the firm curses the pandas to deal with them and is sent to hell. (Is this a joke?)

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(The subs have changed everyone's names just to fuck with me.)

They try for the pegasus again, but this time Kanamori gets the design. She ends up making bats.

For follow-ups:

A brid that shines like a gem - the hummingbird.

A bird that makes gems - the ostrich.

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An attempt to make the dragon work fails, but at least they get the flying snake out of it.

The seahorse's sex gets mislabeled, but they make it work anyway.

God approves a child's scribble. The team invent the elephant to retrieve it, and the scribble becomes hallucigenia.

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A rash of interest in aquatic mammals leads to all kinds of dolphins being designed.

Meido is worried about her squids, so tries to upgrade them to giant size. Unabara creates super-sized whales to retaliate!

Tsuchiya gets the seahorse approved while no one else is watching.

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Can we get a viable unicorn?

What if the horn is hollow?

The brain uses a lot of energy, what if we make it really stupid?

Nothing works.

Unabara, finding a discarded horn from testing, attaches it to the narwhal and is instantly approved.

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Wanted: animals with cool weapons.

Tsuchiya tries to invent the Unicorn.

It gets osteoporosis from using all its calcium on the horn.

Kimura's Elk is much mor effective, due to its multiple stomachs increasing nutrition absorption.

You'd do much better if it was on a cow.

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God orders an animal that's "cute, but not cute"

How about a Koala? They eat poison and poop and the males have two penises. And it has a terrifying growl.

(Approved!)

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Unabara field-tests the anteater in the testing island in the Galapagos.

Kimura tries to make a living sausage. Unabara suggests adding defense and turns it into an armadillo.

Every so often they break the fourth wall for a guide to bizarre animals that actually exist.

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