GUDETAMA: AN EGGCELLENT ADVENTURE
Piyo!
Oh.
Are you all right, Shakipiyo?
Now we're not ever gonna find our mommy.
We're stuck in here.
We're never getting out.
I'm going to grow up and live my whole life in a cage.
Isn't that kind of what happens with most chickens though?
Shakipiyo, tell me something.
What would you do if and when you ever… did find your mom?
Huh?
I really haven't thought about it.
I just wanted to see her.
But if I do ever find her,
I'm going to get her to teach me how to fly!
Sounds nice.
Yeah, doesn't it?
Then Mommy and me will fly all around in the big sky!
-We'll go everywhere together! -I don't think chickens can fly.
You don't know that for sure!
You've just got to believe. That's all.
You can't ever give up hope.
That's right.
And maybe you should try heeding your own advice.
Isn't it a little soon for you to be giving up on ever getting out of here?
-Huh? -Huh?
The boss is here.
Boss?
The Egg Mafia's big boss.
I've heard rumors.
They say that gloopy red sauce
is the blood of all the eggs that got in the big boss's way
and were bumped off.
Huh?
It's just an omelet.
-Not just any kind of omelet. -Huh?
I'm Sicilian style!
What'd you expect from the Egg Mafia?
Anyone who messes with the big boss ends up as part of the omelet.
You've got some nerve thinking you can come in here and steal our stuff.
But we didn't steal anything!
That's a lie!
And not even a very good one.
Do you want to know how many eggs I've already put in my omelet?
Not really, no.
Hm, hm.
-Let me ask you something. -Huh?
If we stole your stuff, then why don't we have it?
Where is it?
That's true.
What the heck?! Where are you going?
How did you get out?
-I don't know. -Hey!
-Who or what is it pulling Gudetama?
Oh.
I think I know.
That's who it is.
Well, go on! Get 'em!
Follow 'em, and maybe you can find out who really stole our stuff.
But… But…
I'm scared!
Okay, you're fired.
I'll find somebody else to do it.
Oh, I am bushed.
All right, here's the deal.
If you three can find the real thief and get back the stuff,
then you're off the hook.
I'll let you all go.
But if you run away, I'll track you down wherever you go
and make you a part of my ever-expanding omelet.
Mm, nice crispy chicken.
Hm…
I'll even find someplace for you in there.
I wouldn't recommend it.
I'm starting to rot.
Piyo!
Gudetama!
Rolling. Rolling, rolling, rolling. Rolling.
What'll happen, I wonder.
Omu-omu.
It was here, right?
Where someone said they saw the talking egg?
Yeah, I think so.
-Huh? -What is that?
Ah!
Piyo!
Oh, hey!
There's something up there in the gutter!
Piyo!
A Chinese restaurant.
What is this place?
Stay on your guard!
Just as I thought.
We've found the culprits.
Century eggs.
An ancient Chinese delicacy.
This gang is even darker than the Egg Mafia.
Oops, I forgot something.
Hey, come back here!
Huh?
Does it have to be so bright in here?
I'm translucent, so you could see right through me.
It's embarrassing, you know?
They're not so scary.
Oh, don't let 'em fool you.
These little stinkers are the ones who stole the stuff
and left us to take the fall!
What stuff?
Oh.
Oh, you mean that stuff over there?
Ah!
Oh, that's so soothing.
So relaxing.
I feel like I'm melting.
So you century eggs like that stuff enough to steal it, huh?
It's a desiccant.
It preserves us.
We don't just like it.
We love it!
Gudetama?
This is nice.
Get out of there!
Stay in there for forty days, and you can be a century egg too.
Jeez!
And I thought my boiling time was long.
We don't get out much.
We're shut-ins.
I don't want to grow up.
I'm with you there.
You are?
All that responsibility is a drag.
It is?
And growing up really only means you're oxidizing, you know?
-Yeah? -Yeah?
In the end, it's all way too much work for me.
-Yeah. -You said it.
That's just how we all feel!
-Mm-hmm. -Amazing.
Well, that's nice.
But if we don't get that stuff back to the big boss,
we're going to be in big trouble!
Oh, is that so?
-Well, in that case, we'll give it back. -Uh-huh.
-Yeah. -You could have it.
-What?! -Huh?!
We got your stuff back.
Nice work!
Can I ask you a favor?
-Oh! -Can I have one?
Um, can you make it two?
Sure, help yourselves.
Really?
-Yay! -Ah!
With this, I won't rot anymore.
Soy sauce!
-I don't think that stuff works that way. -Huh?
It's for absorbing moisture.
It's used to keep things dry,
like roasted seaweed and aspirin and stuff.
What?!
If you think it'll keep you from rotting, it won't.
That was just a line we came up with.
We'd sell more if people thought it would make them live longer.
No way!
Soy sauce!
-Look! It's better already! -Huh?!
You mean it's actually working?
Hm. They do say sickness is mostly in the mind.
You learn something every day.
Well, see you around, Gudetama, Shakipiyo.
It has truly been a night to remember.
Huh.
You know, I'm not so sure that stuff worked so well on Hard-boiled.
Huh?
There it is.
Gudetama!
This is that egg, the one that moves and talks.
Uh… It's not…
Wait. It's not just a raw egg?
Look at it.
Oh… Sh…
Sh…
Now can I finally go home?
Uh, let's go straight to the office.
Ugh.
Come on! Come on!
No, no, wait! Gudetama!
Gudetama, come back!
Come back!
Oh no! Where is it?
The secret code to find Mommy!
I wonder if I…
I must've dropped it somewhere along the way!
I've gotta go back!