Sanrio had this anime boy stand-up comedian mixed media project called Warahibi! (Straw crack! in english), 12 characters in 6 duos.
The official website doesn't work anymore, when you click on it all it says is "This page is no longer open to the public. Thank you for your patience ."
A crunchyroll news article said "Warahibi! will appear on-stage at the Animate Girls Festival 2019 event, which runs from November 09 - 11, 2019, in Ikebukuro. At Animate Girls Festival 2019, all six teams will compete for the "Amusing Poll Grand Prix" prize, which is awarded by popular vote from the audience members." The crunchyroll article also has a video embed at the end, but it has been privated.
An anime news network article talks about promotional videos featuring each duo which were uploaded on the Warahibi! official youtube channel, but those videos are privated. The youtube channel doesn't even seem to exist anymore?
I discovered this through a twitter bot that tweets obscure sanrio characters (it also tweets the popular characters so it's a misleading name but i digress), the tweet linked to the official japanese sanrio website but that link didn't work either.
I wanted to share this because i like sanrio and I found this to be interesting
Post by ChimerianIdiot on Sept 25, 2022 2:36:07 GMT
The Warahibi page was archived by the Wayback Machine, and it's almost 100% functional (the only thing that doesn't work are the embed YouTube videos). Here's one of the most recent archives. Exploring the page reveals that all of the 6 duos' character pages were also archived, here's the one for the Asayake Rangers as an example (if you scroll down you can also find links to the other duos' pages). An interesting thing is that all of the character bios also have three voice lines you can listen to, but there's this weird glitch that makes two instances of the audio play at once, creating a weird echo effect. The YouTube channel was also archived, but there's not much to get from it other than a few video titles. I did get one of the videos to play through WBM (this one, specifically). I'll see if I can find any others that work as well.
Update, I managed to find a few more videos that were archived. Here they are:
An important thing to note is that all the videos with うらばなし (urabanashi) in the title are kinda like mini-podcasts and don't contain any animation like the skits or the introduction PV. I don't speak Japanese but judging by the titles and context clues, those "urabanashi" videos are just the characters talking about what happened in one of their skits.
Update 2, found three more videos. These are rather interesting as they feature the real people that play the characters. Also, the first one is a livestream VOD so it's pretty long: