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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Dirty Pair (1985), the Sunrise anime adaptation of Haruka Takachiho’s 1980-2018 light novel series of the same name. It follows the wacky spacefaring adventures of Kei and Yuri, the “Lovely Angels”, a pair of lady bounty hunters willing to do just about any job for a quick buck. Hilarity ensues as their escapades inevitably end in the inadvertent destruction of whatever places they visit. It is pretty much Barbarella (1968), but animated; alternatively, it is Charlie’s Angels (1977) in space. The anime’s showrunners also worked on others 80s classics like Armored Troopers VOTOMS (1983) and They Were Eleven (1986). Episodes 19 through 24 tonight.

After that is Grandma and Her Ghosts (1998), a Taiwanese animated horror-comedy about a five-year-old boy who is left with his grandma for awhile in her small fishing village. Uh-oh, he accidentally releases an evil spirit that posses his cat, and then kidnaps his grandma, who is secretly a shaman who wards off ghosts. He has to rescue grandma before supernatural forces take advantage of the sudden lack of anyone who can resist their influence. Hilarity ensues. This is the best-known and best-regarded work of director Wang Hsiao-Ti, and has received great reviews, so let’s check it out.

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Letterboxd:

• Dirty Pair: https://letterboxd.com/film/dirty-pair/
• Grandma and Her Ghosts: https://letterboxd.com/film/grandma-and-her-ghosts/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Dirty Pair: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/835620?index1=-1&index2=-1
• Grandma and Her Ghosts: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.

CWs for Dirty Pair:

• Objectification of female characters.
• Sexual innuendos.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Misogyny.
• Deaths of animals.
• Sexual assault: Men attempt to grope women without their consent.
• Animal corpses.
• Gun violence.
• Explosions.
• Shower scene.
• Flashing lights.
• Fat jokes.
• Misgendering.
• Antisemitism.
• Nazis.
• Nudity.
• Car crash.
• Blood and gore.
• Child endangerment.

CWs for Grandma and Her Ghosts:

• Chila abuse.
• Ghosts.
• Child endangerment.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Corpses.
• Kidnapping.

Links to movies:

• Dirty Pair ep. 19: https://tankie.tube/w/iTopXdHd7arSRei2bKxRWz
• Dirty Pair ep. 20: https://tankie.tube/w/kbVZYAmGJoEgnximrPAR9Z
• Dirty Pair ep. 21: https://tankie.tube/w/1TfsurUUP4D9QPrhcGhguY
• Dirty Pair ep. 22: https://tankie.tube/w/tM6Ghu2pYBAgYZg4invAjm
• Dirty Pair ep. 23: https://tankie.tube/w/tqpC1mheMNqRj4WNzaVVWU
• Dirty Pair ep. 24: https://tankie.tube/w/bBBdf9yefva6TZVYQw98UN
• Grandma and Her Ghosts: https://tankie.tube/w/iF1ECbSi6kHTrhwaqG9Sn6