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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Yuyu Hakusho (1992), one of the all-time classics of shonen anime, featuring a teenage boy who is killed by a car to save a child and then given superpowers in recognition of his selflessness. He goes back to Earth and fights bad guys. Expect a lot of glowing and powering up to defeat smug villains and the like. Episodes 85 through 90 tonight.

After that is Arthur Christmas (2011), a holiday-themed animated feature from British studio Aardman, the group behind such classics as the Wallace & Gromit series and Chicken Run (2000). Unlike those, this is a CG-animated feature, produced in collaboration with Sony. It follows Santa’s clumsy son, Arthur (James McAvoy), who sets out on Christmas Eve to deliver a present to a child that his dad missed. Will he succeed and prove himself worthy of being Santa’s successor? I guess we’ll find out. Excellent reviews for this one, so let’s check it out. Director is Sarah Smith, whose only other directorial credit is the boy-and-robot comedy Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021); maybe we’ll watch that sometime, too.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

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CWs for Yuyu Hakusho:

  • Child abuse.
  • Stalking.
  • Alcoholism.
  • Drug addiction.
  • Deaths of animals.
  • Animal corpses.
  • Death of dragon.
  • Spiders.
  • Bugs.
  • Someone is physically restrained.
  • Sexual assault: the protagonist gets handsy with a trans woman.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Squashed head.
  • Cannibalism.
  • Someone is burned alive.
  • Someone is buried alive.
  • Amputation.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Broken bones.
  • Finger mutilation.
  • Torture.
  • Eye mutilation.
  • Death by falling.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Death of child.
  • Sexualization of minor.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Ableist slurs.
  • Death of parent.
  • Kidnapping.
  • Clowns.
  • Possession.
  • Ghosts.
  • Audio gore.
  • Vomiting.
  • Spitting.
  • Needles.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Violent mentally-ill person.
  • Self-harm.
  • PTSD.
  • Eating disorder.
  • Suicide.
  • Claustrophobia.
  • Anxiety attacks.
  • Suicidal ideation.
  • Crying baby.
  • Flashing lights.
  • Broken fourth wall.
  • Babies.
  • “Man in dress” jokes.
  • Ableism.
  • Misrepresentation of minority.
  • Blackface-style caricatures.
  • Misgendering.
  • Implied sex.
  • Honking horns.
  • Screeching tires.
  • Car crash.
  • Someone is hit by a car.
  • Gun violence.
  • Nuclear explosion.

CWs for Arthur Christmas:

  • Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
  • Animal corpses.
  • Vomiting.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Screaming.
  • Explosions.
  • Panic attacks.
  • PTSD.
  • Destruction of priceless artifact.
  • Bugs.

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