Gaki Attack is a 24-hour game of tag, filled with ninjas and other truly bizarre encounters, but it's also a twitter application you can use to attack your friends. It's also, maybe, a kind of variety show including other bizarre events.
The show, available on Hulu, follows several men as they embark on a quest to play tag for 24 hours straight. They can't leave, and ninjas and other (I guess) "taggers" randomly pop up and start chasing them around. As weariness settles in, the running becomes a bigger drain.
In the grand tradition of really crazy Japanese game shows, Gaki Attack is a sometimes whimsical, often unnerving trip through the bizarre. If you're caught by a tagger, you aren't out, you're "punished." Muddling through 24 hours of this, and the hilarity definitely ensues... well, it sort of leans against the bleachers with half-interested look in its eye, but it's more or less there.
As mentioned, Gaki Attack is also an app for Twitter. In something like Facebook "Poking" style, you can send ninjas after your friends with a variety of weapons. Japanese Fan, Wonton Noodle, Candle Tortue, and Picture Card Show, just to name a few. It's a fairly humorous addition to the Twitter arsenal.
If you've ever gotten anything from a Japanese Game Show, you've got to check this one out.
Here's a trailer for the series, and the first episode.
Watch Gaki 24 Hour TAG | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
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