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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, we are beginning the classic Gainax series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990), covering episodes 25 through 30. Join a rag-tag group of unlikely heroes on a steampunk adventure to find and save the lost city of Atlantis from an diabolical organization determined to rule the world. Stargate (1994) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) pretty much ripped this series off. Oh yeah, and did I mention that Hayao Miyazaki wrote it, and Hideaki Anno was involved, too?

After that is Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018), an English-language Hungarian animated feature about a psychotherapist who recruits his patients for art heists, becoming a wanted fugitive in the process. Can he dodge the cops and make a killing from his thievery? I guess we’ll find out. This is the only feature film to date of director Milorad Krstic. Its most remarked-upon aspect is its Picasso-esque modernist visual style, mixed in with surrealism. Looks pretty neat, and reviews are great, so let’s give it a whirl.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

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CWs for Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water:

  • Voyeurism.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Nudity.
  • Sexualization of minor.
  • Bath scenes.
  • Gun violence.
  • Child abuse.
  • Child endangerment.
  • Explosions.
  • Cruelty to animals.
  • Electrocution.
  • Rude gestures.
  • Plane crash.
  • Animal corpses.
  • Suffocation.
  • Nuclear explosion.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.

CWs for Ruben Brandt, Collector:

  • Nudity.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Hand trauma.
  • Stabbing.
  • Biting.
  • Fistfighting.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Honking horns.
  • Screeching tires.
  • Profanity.
  • Gun violence.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking
  • Mental illness.
  • Therapy scenes.
  • Nightmare scenes.
  • Blood and gore.

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