{"id":119509,"date":"2020-10-18T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/random_sakurais_cat_is_also_curious_about_mario_kart_live_home_circuit"},"modified":"2020-10-18T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T08:30:00","slug":"random-sakurais-cat-is-also-curious-about-mario-kart-live-home-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/18\/random-sakurais-cat-is-also-curious-about-mario-kart-live-home-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Sakurai&#8217;s Cat Is Also Curious About Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/57f6dfb12abd5\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/57f6dfb12abd5\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"18\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b2f066608c813\/18.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 506'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b2f066608c813\/18.900x.jpg\" alt=\"18\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Legendary game designer and director of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super_smash_bros\">Super Smash Bros.<\/a><\/strong> series, Masahiro Sakurai, has been playing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_live_home_circuit\">Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit<\/a><\/strong> this weekend, and like other cats, his own seems to be equally as intrigued by Nintendo&#8217;s latest release.<\/p>\n<p>He shared the following image over on his Twitter account yesterday. This cat in the world of Mario Kart takes on the form of &#8220;demon beast&#8221; according to Google translate, so we&#8217;re guessing it&#8217;s not going great. <em>Maybe this feline thinks the kart is a mouse!<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u9b54\u7363\u3042\u3089\u308f\u308b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarioKartLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarioKartLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jtyKaZt97f\">pic.twitter.com\/jtyKaZt97f<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u685c\u4e95 \u653f\u535a \/ Masahiro Sakurai (@Sora_Sakurai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sora_Sakurai\/status\/1317280271054434304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The real name of this cat is actually called Fukura. It&#8217;s not the first time it&#8217;s been sighted, either. In fact, Source Gaming has an <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/sourcegaming.info\/2015\/04\/30\/sakurais-cat-fukura\/\">entire page dedicated to this cat&#8217;s history<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s a female Scottish Fold.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see more cats reacting to Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/random_yep_cats_really_arent_liking_mario_kart_live_home_circuit\">check out our recent round-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of all these cat and animal-related reactions to the new Mario Kart game? Have you been playing this new game yourself over the past few days? <em>Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary game designer and director of the Super Smash Bros. series, Masahiro Sakurai, has been playing Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit this weekend, and like other cats, his own seems to be equally as intrigued by Nintendo&#8217;s latest release. He shared the following image over on his Twitter account yesterday. This cat in the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}