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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 31 through 36. 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 Wrinkles (2011), a Spanish dramedy centering on an old man in a nursing home who try to prevent the new resident, another guy in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, from being transferred to the dreaded “lost causes” floor. Lucky that the protagonist is a retired con-artist who knows a few tricks of the trade. Dudes still rock, even when they’re old. Based on the Spanish comic book of the same name. This is the only feature-film to date of director Ignacio Ferrars; he is a one-hit wonder.

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

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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 Wrinkles:

  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Dementia.
  • Elder abuse.
  • Profanity.
  • Smoking.
  • Car crash.

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