The story of “super-frog saves Tokyo” reminds me of the
episode of Futurama called “Godfellas” where Bender is drifting in space and
small creatures inhabit his body. Bender becomes a god and the creatures who
worship him ask him for help. Eventually rival factions start and a nuclear
holocaust kills most of them. Bender doesn’t know what to do to remedy the situation
and becomes frustrated. Eventually Bender meets what appears to be God and gets
help being reunited with Fry and Lela.
It seems like Katagiri is in the same situation. He is just
drifting in life and tries to help people as best he can like his siblings with
their college educations. But Katagiri never gets any recognition and
especially at his work, where he is apparently excellent at collecting unpaid
loans. This appears to be the reason Frog selects him to help save the city. If
the city knew that Katagiri helped save the city would they care? Or perhaps he
is just insane altogether. The parallel is that in Futurama Bender is
eventually saved by God and Tokyo is saved by a random debt collector. Perhaps
it was fate or maybe just happenstance? Whatever the case, I agree with the
ending of the Futurama episode: “When you do things right, people won’t be sure
you’ve done anything at all.”
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