I'm impressed by the humans. It takes stamina to live the way they do.
Pom Poko quotes
Page 2 of 2I'm starting to get nervous. What if our little pranks aren't doing any good at all? What if the humans leveled the entire forest? Then where are we gonna go? Maybe Gonta's right. The only way to stop them is to get violent. I don't want to have to hurt any more humans. It just doesn't seem right to me. But what if they won't stop? Then what? "To be, or not to be?"
Lesser forms of transformation, such as changing color, can be achieved by chameleons, for example. But the true art of transforming can only be practiced by foxes, raccoons and a few cats. [Gonta's loud snoring disrupts Oroku's lecture] Gonta! [The red army leader, who is sitting in the front row, wakes up startled and sits upright, assuming the clothes of a police officer. His position is tense and his fur stands on end] The fact that you were able to change your appearance like that means you've already mastered the rudimentary techniques of transformation. [Gonta relaxes, changing back into his normal form, as though exhaling, and sits in embarrassed silence, blinking dumbly at Oroku]
One day, an urgent report interrupted Gonta's training at headquarters. He hurried home to the Takaga Woods to face tragedy. [Gonta arrives at the edge of a hill, and is greeted by the sight of miles of barren wasteland, with only a bulldozer and an excavator sitting where the woods had been] More than half his childhood home had already been ravaged by destruction. [Gonta stares in horror. He lets out a howl of despair] Gonta went mad with grief.
Raccoons! This war has just begun. We won't stop attacking until we've battered, pulverized and squeezed to death every last human in Tama Hills! [He emphatically crushes and twists his empty beer can and hurls it to the ground]
The forests of Tama Hills are our home. So you can't keep destroying them all! This plea is from every living creature in the forest.
The world is crawling with humans! Like roaches! We need to destroy as many as we can!!
They used their balls as weapons in a brave kamikaze attack.
What good did it do? You idiots. You think that will stop the developers? Don't just frighten them. We need to hurt them. Inflict some serious pain! [He waves his arm around, forgetting it's still injured, then stops and doubles over in pain]
When I said go out into the world and make some money, I did not mean it literally!