Speedoru

Speedoru (born: ), formerly SpeedoSausage, also known as Speedo, is an Irish YouTuber, animator, artist and voice actor. He is best known for his colorful, stylish, and often nonsensical animated shorts, adult cartoon material, and animation for music videos influenced by Japanese pop culture.
Speedoru is the creator of several original YouTube web series, such as Super Booby Greasy Warriors for Machinima Happy Hour, Bear and Bunny Boo, and PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER!. 
==History==
===Early career===
Under the name "SpeedoSausage", Speedoru joined both YouTube and Newgrounds on March 16, 2012, and his first Adobe Flash animation was titled "Jewish Vampire: On Ice!", created within three days to test his abilities in the program.https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/592129 While attending high school, Speedo began posting animated shorts with absurd, risqué humor on YouTube and Newgrounds around the same time, while collaborating with other animators and channels that hosted exclusive shorts and series.
One of Speedo's earliest works, the 2014 "Happy Hour" web series Super Booby Greasy Warriors, was an animated series made for the now-defunct network Machinima. Speedo acknowledges that this early period of animations, while finding his footing, involved getting "as grotesque as possible".
===Super Booby Greasy Warriors===
Super Booby Greasy Warriors was an animated series uploaded to Machinima's Happy Hour animation channel in 2014. The show follows an overweight boy named Klyde, a dimwitted otaku, who is believed to be one of the "chosen three" born with powerful, indestructible implants. Along with two weapon-wielding women named Mimiko and Sakura, Klyde teams up and lives with them.
Originally, the series was devised as an entirely different show centered around video games to be completed within a year. However, when the first episode's file corrupted with four months left to deliver five, Speedo decided to scrap everything involving these plans, devising a more risqué series that was easier to animate. The episodes had been lost due to Machinima's termination until they were reuploaded.
===Bear and Bunny Boo===
In April 2014 and June 2015, Speedo also attempted two episodes of another bizarre and action-oriented original series named Bear and Bunny Boo, starring the titular purple bear and pink rabbit playing cute, innocent games, contrasted by the two dueling in violent battles.
===Parodies===
The mid-2010's saw Speedo continuing to release shorts, particularly absurd parodies. Videos such as his animated parody of 2013 anime Kill La Kill, Kiss La Kiss, riff on Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator, To Goof A Predator, and Naruto parody, Naruto: The Final Episode (LEAKED), gained Speedo more subscribers. These animations were praised for risqué absurdity contrasted with sleek and "endlessly pretty" artistry. Speedo cites this as a shift in work ethic in "making things people will actually enjoy looking at".
In the 2020s, Speedo created other short-form cartoons such as a parody of the 2021 Netflix series Squid Game, squiggame, and a parody of the Tekken game series starring Kazuya and Heihachi, Tekken - The Mishima Hairline.
===Japanese music videos===
==== Snail's House ====
In 2017, Speedo found work as an animator and frequent collaborator with Japanese electronic musician, Ujico*, known professionally as Snail's House. Speedo was contacted by Ujico* after the release of a video on his channel titled WAVE RACER - FLASH DRIVE EP, a fan-animated music video mixing together snippets from multiple EDM songs released by Australian musician, Wave Racer, with animated visuals provided by Speedo. Created in his spare time, the music video synced his animation to Wave Racer's music, stringing together a story about a young woman experiencing surreal, bombastic gaming and 80's new wave-inspired hallucinations at an arcade.https://youtu.be/M38nFbhd_Xw?si=dzLsmmxZOURfFNG_
The first video to come out of these collaborations was released October 24, 2017. Snail's House - Pixel Galaxy (Official MV) is a music video with visuals provided by Speedo and a few other close associates in the field of online animation, alongside Snail's House's Pixel Galaxy song which was released earlier in the year that April.
The next video was released October 23, 2018, Snail's House - Snailchan Adventure (Official MV). This time the song was released to coincide with the video. Another video was released May 23, 2020, Snail's House - Twinklestar (Official MV). These music videos have reached millions of views, with Pixel Galaxy standing at a view count of more than 100 million.
==== Wienners ====
Released in August 2021, Speedo also animated the official music video for the song GOD SAVE THE MUSIC by Japanese punk rock band Wienners, as well as designing LINE stickers and merchandise like acrylic stands of the band's members after the video's release.
===Phoenix Wright animation===
On June 23, 2022, Speedo uploaded an animated parody of the Ace Attorney game series by Capcom, named Disgraced Attorney: Phoenix Wright, depicting a humorous court case.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVAHr53KoBQ An appearance by fan-favorite suspect Geiru Toneido doing her signature “suspender snap” motion, and use of the term "Clussy" from Miles Edgeworth, reignited interest in "clown girls" and spawned fanart of the character herself based on her depiction in the short.
=== PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER!===
PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER! is an animated YouTube web series created by Speedoru, with several collaborators. On July 16, 2023, Speedo uploaded an original animated pilot called PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER!, inspired by and parodying 90's shounen anime.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ndBoc6R8_A The show follows an 11-year-old martial arts prodigy named Gogo Matsumoto, accompanied by her older half-sister; Nono, mother; Mama, and pet frog; Coolfrog.
Gogo competes as a lone human in a tournament against supernatural demon opponents who have emerged from another realm, to be rewarded with a magical wish from their emperor, Koro. Throughout, she continues to battle other demons and monsters. The short was met with widespread acclaim for its VHS flair, and Japanese dubbing combined with goofy jokes and signature cartoon humor. Speedo alluded to the fact that the pilot was the first episode of a series.
The pilot episode of PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER was shown at several Newgrounds events shortly after its release in 2023, including theater screenings of classic and modern animations posted to the Newgrounds Flash portal, and Pico Day meetups, celebrating Newgrounds culture and characters, with Gogo being added to several site banners.
The second episode, subtitled as My Little Slasher, was released on June 15, 2024.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5DkKJdJs9Q It features Gogo fighting a psychotic masked girl named Geiko while camping with her family.
===Present===
In January 2017, Speedo launched a Patreon as a main source of income alongside being a freelance artist, currently dabbling in NSFW animations and art posted to social media. Speedo is commissioned for idents, promo art, and visual work for a multitude of other popular creators and musicians. Notably Twitch streamers and other Japanese artists. 
In April 2022, Speedo released a nine-minute NSFW animation on Newgrounds titled Lithica: Succubus Conquered, an ambitious project which had taken him a year to complete. 
==Trivia==
*Speedo cites the piece of media that inspired him to start animating was the 2008 Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
*The reason for a change in username from SpeedoSausage to Speedoru came about in 2018 when Speedo revealed he was tired of having a dick joke for an alias, wanting to make the switch since 2014.
==Subscribers Milestone==
==References==
Category:Irish YouTubers
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Art YouTubers