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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 7 through 12. 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 James and the Giant Peach (1996), a stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel of the same name, from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Coraline (2009) director Henry Selic. A young orphan boy escapes his wicked aunts by going on a voyage to New York inside a giant peach filled with giant sentient bugs. Pretty awesome aesthetic in this one, so let’s check it out.

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

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: https://letterboxd.com/film/nadia-the-secret-of-blue-water/
• James and the Giant Peach: https://letterboxd.com/film/james-and-the-giant-peach/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096591/parentalguide/
• James and the Giant Peach: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/14732

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 James and the Giant Peach:

• Child abuse.
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Torture.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Deaths of parents.
• Destruction of child’s toy.
• Spitting.
• Copaganda.
• Claustrophobia.
• Broken fourth wall.
• Fat jokes.
• Honking horns.
• Screeching tires.
• Car crash.

Links to movies:

• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 7: https://tankie.tube/w/bVSLYFYw9WnWazqUVKjrpa
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 8: https://tankie.tube/w/7NSb3bC7X5BX8aG4UobBfe
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 9: https://tankie.tube/w/1W6C1ahFBuT1nvB5xuTMdT
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 10: https://tankie.tube/w/oyTkZgHAbaqbmjmzv86vND
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 11: https://tankie.tube/w/2CL7H4nZX8qAMS2XwrDrnX
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 12: https://tankie.tube/w/raovY3hcRVm2bh2oY1ZB7o
• James and the Giant Peach: https://tankie.tube/w/fuqd86Sni1R4AdyM7VLtRU