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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985), the sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam (1979), and the series that made Gundam into a national phenomenon. Expect a whole lot of robots fighting each other and war melodrama resulting thereof, as a task force assigned to clean up the remnants of an evil empire turns evil itself. Still considered one of the best Gundam series of them all. Episodes 37 through 42 tonight.

After that is Leafie, a Hen into the Wild (2011), a Korean animated feature about a hen who escapes from her farm and hatches a duck egg, adopting the baby and adapting with it to life in the wild. Together, they must avoid all sorts of hazards, such as hungry weasels, as their familial bond grows. Birds rock. This is one of the highest-rated Korean cartoons on Letterboxd, and it looks adorable. Director Oh Sung-yoon also did a feature called A Dog’s Courage (2018), which is like this film, but with a dog; we might have to check that one out too.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam:

  • Sexual innuendos.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Explosions.
  • Nudity.
  • Death of child.
  • Death of parents.
  • Deaths by crushing.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Profanity.
  • Smoking.
  • Alcohol.

CWs for Leafie, a Hen into the Wild:

  • Cruelty to animals.
  • Deaths of animals.
  • Animal corpses.
  • Carnism.
  • Child endangerment.
  • Deaths of parents.
  • Eye injury.
  • Blood.
  • Death by falling.
  • Profanity.
  • Terminal illness.

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