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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 79 through 84 of the 1992 series, the definitive magical-girl anime. This is the completely unabridged, unexpurgated, uncensored, Japanese version of the show, including everything that the English dub butchered, altered, and/or cut, which is quite a bit. Tonight’s episodes see the continuation of the Black Moon Clan arc, including the demise of third-in-command Esmeraude, and the formal introduction of Sailor Pluto.

After that is The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975), a stop-motion Norwegian racing film about a bicycle repairman who decides to beat a former friend in a car race after said friend steals his plans for a new vehicle. Hilarity ensues. It remains, to this day, the most-attended movie of all time in Norway measured by number of tickets sold, and is considered one of the best Norwegian films ever, being endlessly replayed on TV and such; it is director Ivo Caprino’s only feature-length movie. Rave reviews for this one across the board, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Sailor Moon: Sorry, not on Letterboxd. Here’s the MAL page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/530/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon
• The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-pinchcliffe-grand-prix/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Sailor Moon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/470254

CWs for Sailor Moon:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix:

• Car crashes.
• Cartoon violence.
• Ethnic stereotypes.

Links to movies:

• Sailor Moon episode 79: https://tankie.tube/w/ttzjKnNpdMHfsV1vRNihVC
• Sailor Moon episode 80: https://tankie.tube/w/pTTtENUAU18Eyj5XsHNEu4
• Sailor Moon episode 81: https://tankie.tube/w/1MZRcaZYdupwqAKWittHQF
• Sailor Moon episode 82: https://tankie.tube/w/bh5tZptvozq9pPVNS4aGNo
• Sailor Moon episode 83: https://tankie.tube/w/hrkbvouTSJfHZFT6T5CkS7
• Sailor Moon episode 84: https://tankie.tube/w/rswx2MN7YUsRjRsa6eSpnK
• The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix: https://tankie.tube/w/pZPpsadaNzNs9UakrJEidk

:space-hamas-sickos:

I suddenly understand what Mark Fisher was yappin' about with Hauntology.

The show is like carbon monoxide. It's very peaceful.

a: if the rights holders had wanted to they 100% had grounds to sue, and they would have probably won

b: the getter emperor is so cool! and someone should have told the people at gainax "if you're going to do getter emperor, the manifestation of colonialism and genocide as the natural extremes of directionless shonen hotblooded spirit and humanities endless potential for evolution, you need a stronger argument than "nuh uh" when saying 'actually this is a good thing. it's good to forever grow and become more powerful and kill everything in your way'"

if i ever rewatch it i'm not going to be able to see team gurren as anything other than evil. seeing kittan's sacrifice and shaking my head like "he succumbed to the corruption of the getter. sad!"

or maybe i'm wrong and it has a satisfying response that goes beyond "actually i'd just be chill about this whole thing," but i really don't remember that

This anime is as bad as its music is good

Yang is so transparently wish fulfillment for 30-somethings who hate their jobs. It's beautiful lmao.

i hear that's pretty good, i'm gonna start reading it tonight

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Gushing over Magical Girls sold 8.114 BD's in it's first week. That makes it the highest-selling anime of Winter 2024, surpassing even Frieren's BD sales.

A second season is guaranteed at this point.

I don't think I've seen one of these threads in a minute, so why not?

Here's what I've had going on -

Completed:

Good:

Giant Robo: the Day the Earth Stood Still - Great OVA! I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys G Gundam since the first few episodes of this essentially helped Imagawa get the job as the first non-Tomino TV Gundam showrunner. From what I know, they didn't license the actual stories from the manga, so Imagawa and crew made shit up whole cloth and use characters from miscellaneous Yokoyama manga. It gives it this really manic energy when guys with random super powers and Romance of the Three Kingdoms characters are all fighting each other like a kid playing with a box of their parents old toys. Very light on actual robot fights, but the animation is gorgeous.

Getter Robo: Armageddon - More 90s super robots. I didn't like it as much as Giant Robo, but this goes pretty hard and was enjoyably edgy as fuck.

Rose of Versailles - Delightful 70s classic. It has me wanting to watch more Dezaki stuff - maybe Space Adventure Cobra will work its way in soon.

OK:

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2 - Wasn't bad, but it just didn't have enough to interest me.

.hack//Sign - This was a favorite of mine back in the old days. It's good for an advertisement/prelude for the PS2 games, but I don't think I would recommend it otherwise. I also watched the Intermezzo and Unison OVAs - they're eh.

Kill La Kill - I watched this on a whim after watching Cutie Honey (1973). It's not bad, it's just not really my thing.

Musha Knight Commando: SD Gundam Scramble - Probably cool if you were like 10 in Japan in the early 90s.

Bad:

Cross Ange - Please check CWs before considering this, but wow is this an interesting train wreck of a show.

Ongoing:

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - 30/110 so far. Still liking it a lot, but I'm just slowly working my way through this one. I couldn't imagine binging through it.

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I actually kind of like subs like this though, I like learning words

Still a shame the anime never got picked up for another season.

Tfw you get into an anime with only one or maybe two seasons

The story is incomplete.

The last season was a decade ago or more, a new season has become a running joke among people who like it too.

The manga is there, but it's unfinished and progresses at a glacial pace.

I'm talking of course about Kaiji, but the show from the picture is also a victim (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun). Something like Interviews with Monster Girls at least has the manga be complete, even if you can read the last volume only in Spanish if you don't speak Japanese.

Alas, big booba waifu shows with the level 99 elves, a wish fulfillment loser to gigachad main character will be more profitable, helping self-reinforce the unsavory parts of weeb culture. :)

Anyways if you missed my previous thread I've revealed the answers now in a spoiler