#kany

Name: Craby

Debut: Kirby's Return to Dream Land

Yeah, baby! It's Craby! Craby has a funny name. Does it rhyme with "baby"? Or is it supposed to be like "crabby"? I don't know. There is no official voiceover of the Japanese-derived name for this minor enemy. Maybe it's even pronounced with a new, secret, third way to pronounce the A sound! Exciting creature for linguists!

Craby is an exciting creature for ME because it's a weird little ambiguous invertebrate. Its name implies crab, but its claws are bulbous and four-lobed, and its body is a blob. It looks a lot more like a Pibby! And it's time for you to Learn.

I've long thought of Craby as a delightful abstraction. One similar to Walf, from the very same game! I thought of them as friends. Two sea creatures that aren't really like any one animal. A delightful duo! But a dear friend- in fact, Mod Sockop of this very blog- has long asserted that Craby is barnacle-like. As a barnacle fan myself... I just could not see it. Until!

I was thinking of the Buoy Barnacle! As I do! This is a stalked barnacle whose cement glands, unusually, produce a buoyant, foamy substance! They'll cover some floating debris with this stuff, and then live their lives floating the open sea! It's an utterly fascinating species in an already utterly fascinating group! And is it just me who sees the resemblance here?

Craby's claws can be interpreted as stylized stalked barnacles, much more easily than as crab claws, if you ask me! And... mobile, stalked barnacles, attached to a blob-like surface? Craby's body is like a living barnacle secretion! The most magical cement glands of all birthed this beautiful beast!

The crabbiest thing about Craby is that it's an adaptation of Kany, a much earlier enemy! This one is very much simply a crab. Not that I find crabs boring- heavens no!- but this is much more basic and boring than the lovely little lump we know today. Both crustaceans move back and forth, with the ability to extend one claw diagonally upward as an attack. A crab could not stretch like that... but could a goose barnacle's fleshy stalk...? (please don't pull on any barnacles. Be nice to them)

Choreographer Kany about working with SHINee "As a SHINee fan, I was so honored and so blessed to work with every SHINee member. As you guys know, I’ve already worked with KEY on Gasoline so I had a first approach to work with Key, but I had the honor to work with the other members."

"TAEMIN is one of my favorite K-pop artist. I think he’s just one of a kind, he’s really a legend he’s making. He has that very easy way to execute and to understand right away the essence and the textures. He would literally work and repeat on the steps until he gets it, until it’s his own. I was just blown away the way he was like *snaps fingers* going that fast."

"MINHO is always the champion. I call him the champion. I remember the first day, I actually asked him “Should we change or adapt it?”, he was like “No no no, Kany, that's fine, we can do it and we're going to kill it”. I love the fact that he will, he's never giving up until he gets it. On the shoot, he was just so amazing, I could feel the flame on him and the charisma that he has is just amazing."

"ONEW, our leader. I love Onew, oh my God. He always have that positive spirit, always going through it. As I said, even if it was not like their style, but he was just here, I remember he was like “Let me just practice on my own” then come into it and the next day, he literally gets it, that was his strength. And that's what I love about SHINee. It's just about the consistency of that."

"And last but not least my amazing KEY. KEY is a star. I think he has a certain easiness of my style personally, that he would gets and he would literally do it better than me whenever I see him on his body which is amazing."