The confrontation between Machu and Nyaan ended up being kind of a nothinburger, and Machu easily succeeded in awakening Lalah. So what did that do? As we discovered later in the episode, something. Maybe the third impact again. We can never have enough of those, I suppose.

Enter Char.

The final confrontation with Kycilia happening on a theatre stage was a forceful, but still pretty good visual symbolism. As they have their talk, the play is crashed by the MCs of the show, who take the wheel in the usual search of Mr. Walking Plot Device, who sheepdogged them back into Lalah's presence. Kycilia gets unceremoniously dispatched as not relevant anymore to the plot, and both Chekov's guns go off, not at who'd you'd expect.

Char getting subconsciously magically dressed into his uniform by Lalah was utterly hilarious and blatantly a "hey guys its me, the guy from the merch" moment.

And while the battle outside rages on, we discover - Mr. Walking Plot Device is... from the UC, and might be, if I interpreted the scene correctly, Amuro Ray - here to destroy the G-Spam timeline.

Queue the late 80s Album Oriented Rock / Synthpop blend, it's Beyond the Time time, and time to bring back the RX-78-2 to the fight for the cool of it. Gonna buy the merch yet?

My cynical commentary aside

Any thoughts on the episode? I liked most of it, beyond the quick dressup scene I mocked and the finale. Lalah as a world ending threat (or is she? that's actually a question that remains unanswered and is interpreted differently by characters!) was probably an inevitable plot development, in a society that knows only the apocalypse and status quo (I'm talking to you liberals), and Char vs Machu vs Nyaan could have been a decent final battle for it.

However, the ending was just awful imo. If that is Amuro in the graffiti man's soul, or inside that Gundam, then any conflicts from the G-Spam universe become completely meaningless.

It all becomes background noise to Amuro vs Char, because Tomino wrote so in 1979 and 1988.

I'm reading the manga and the little story about the punk being car sick had me laughing out loud. Shit, love it. I haven't laughed at a manga since Dr. Slump.

G Gundam. I don't remember shit about it besides it being some kind of glorified tournament arc, the Japanese protagonists cockpit being wild looking to me, and one of the episodes with the American Gundam having some women sing "America the beautiful" while the u.s pilot was getting his ass beat I think.

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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 25 through 30. 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 Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018), an English-language Hungarian animated feature about a psychotherapist who recruits his patients for art heists, becoming a wanted fugitive in the process. Can he dodge the cops and make a killing from his thievery? I guess we’ll find out. This is the only feature film to date of director Milorad Krstic. Its most remarked-upon aspect is its Picasso-esque modernist visual style, mixed in with surrealism. Looks pretty neat, and reviews are great, so let’s give it a whirl.

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/
• Ruben Brandt, Collector: https://letterboxd.com/film/ruben-brandt-collector/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096591/parentalguide/
• Ruben Brandt, Collector: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6241872/parentalguide/

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 Ruben Brandt, Collector:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Hand trauma.
• Stabbing.
• Biting.
• Fistfighting.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Honking horns.
• Screeching tires.
• Profanity.
• Gun violence.
• Alcohol.
• Smoking
• Mental illness.
• Therapy scenes.
• Nightmare scenes.
• Blood and gore.

Links to movies:

• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 25: https://tankie.tube/w/3iuzgmtAQxua2bhWGTeken
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 26: https://tankie.tube/w/pX4pLL47de7CuxFajvGj9F
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 27: https://tankie.tube/w/pe8b7MYiTrQVj8o5QpXoj2
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 28: https://tankie.tube/w/sQ1mzn9QAvQSTdDp61GYGJ
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 29: https://tankie.tube/w/hEb8FNTZrLcHwGPaHsCfxe
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 30: https://tankie.tube/w/1qk59ZuH1cVedQAmmmHH1E
• Ruben Brandt, Collector: https://tankie.tube/w/tAhzR61Rs15VeKr43UNUKc

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5262608

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Description

Project A-Ko: Blue Side (1990 / 52 mins):

A-ko and B-ko are bounty hunters in an untamed world. When a young heiress, C-ko, falls out of the sky and into their hair, they find themselves battling space pirates and galactic police. Turns out the high-pitched, hungry C-ko holds a secret —the spirit of an ancient evil— and is the center of a plot to destroy the universe!

NB: Blue Side is the second of two parts, collectively known as either A-Ko The VS, Project A-Ko: Gray Side/Blue Side, or Project A-Ko: Uncivil Wars. If you use an anime tracker, you'll find it under one of those titles.

Olsenbanden: Operasjon Egon (1968 / 79 mins):

Egon Olsen has been behind bars for some time, but that hasn't stopped the criminal mastermind from making a plan to steal a very valuable golden statue and to never land behind bars again. So as soon as he gets out of prison, the first thing he does is contact his old associates, and together they prepare for one of the most daring, and hilarious, robberies Norway has ever seen.

Content warnings

No CWs are available for Olsenbanden, and for A-Ko I can reprint the same CWs as the previous movies, provided by wombat two years ago:

• “Man in a dress” jokes. The aliens look like men who dress as women. The characters barely acknowledge this fact directly, but the depiction is still problematic.
• Bugs.
• Stalking.
• Mention of sexual assault (but no depiction).
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Kidnapping.
• Bath scene.
• Flashing lights.
• Plane crash.
• Gun violence.
• Nuclear explosion.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Panty shots of high-school-aged girls.

Think about it...

Jokes aside, it's sad how the genre has outright gone the way of the Dodo since like 2009.

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

You can check those posts for discussions and glosses of other anime, which might help you decipher these. Like the previous three parts, the plot descriptions here are based on those from Anilist, so consider using that site for reference. You can also use things like title structure, character names, and occasional numerals to help you figure things out, or you can ask me for hints, and I may or may not provide. I tried to pick fairly easy ones this time.

When you make a guess, please spoiler your answer. If you're right, I will reply with the Evangelion congratulations emoji and provide glosses. I can't guarantee that every translation is perfect, because despite inventing this language, it is still not my first language. C'est la vie.

Because we still have a few unsolved anime from previous posts, I will include them in this post with glosses of the words I've already revealed (or feel like I can say I've revealed).

Unsolved from previous posts

A few hints

With that out of the way, here are the three titles for this quiz:

1: Raykmaŕa Zed

G**ǒ byaḱot́a so yadravša dara G****a. No, lana zbat́eyv čuc̋uckey he, yőri xit́i. G**ǒ koto nǒney dum F***á, S**a, o Bő ňa šakruňet́eyde, šo ša : markeynav deska. Šasindet́ey yǒsavša, yasaýéyniya; šasint́ey eyniv ňeni dari; u, šǒdet́ey u rini u nǒni he, šǒdet́ey u yukeyni va drazet́a yǒynavša, so tavfat́a saýéynav sakraska dum buhspinska.

~~2: Riv 3-zaśki~~

~~Ót́! Yakina na abańa! Vure kot́ot́e keyn? YeRi!~~

~~S*****e, Y*ye, u K****é ňa lićkeyv yakina raňkaysulet́ey morǒy, so dot́i nǒni so yepedev yerinivńe. No yőrevńe nay yohkske, na fe, šo yepenǒnevńe S***ő — yabelilićkav sǒyrinska Uenǒ — sint́ey ńe so yamoḱavfa u yamoḱavfa.~~

~~3: N***é: yaMrav Azav Aza~~

~~Yežarev 1889-ske XYT : yapetav sindeyv xayey kedboniya yaLana, so yáyniya ňant́ey yelaxe. Nǒnav zura, G*****a, kotobuhet́ey moḱet́a yagirav yabzexetav atlanticka, so šazbat́ey yakexulavša va kǒyt́a yaLana. Nožev N***é laxoyt́i yaLana to G*****a u Dar-Atlantida, so yapedav humplamjaḱa Ž. H. H*****a, u yaštrav moroska N**ǒ, yaruňećkav yarekora N******e. Yacav yaroykeýavfa ňa yegunxule "na yaĹugav 2,00,00-ska re yaX́aza" ruždet́ade Žil-Vehna.~~

By Levya Eternal

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I'm glad my spontaneous decision to watch A-Ko with you all has been such a hit. The people want more A-Ko, so more A-Ko it will be! Apparently the fifth and sixth A-Ko movies are pretty disconnected from the first four, so that'll be interesting to see.

When wombat showed A-Ko some two years ago these were the CWs:

• “Man in a dress” jokes. The aliens look like men who dress as women. The characters barely acknowledge this fact directly, but the depiction is still problematic.
• Bugs.
• Stalking.
• Mention of sexual assault (but no depiction).
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Kidnapping.
• Bath scene.
• Flashing lights.
• Plane crash.
• Gun violence.
• Nuclear explosion.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Panty shots of high-school-aged girls.

I can't believe we went through all that build up just to off Gihren the same way Tarantino offed Hitler in Inglorious Bastards lmao.

One of the recurring themes in Gundam, as a franchise, has been about how the new world keeps getting strangled stillborn by those clinging to the old world, by the Oldtypes who keep forcing Newtypes into the pre-existing power structures and status quo, who insist on weaponising their abilities. That's kinda here in full force, complete with Chekov's guns and all. Kycillia's the usual fascist nonsense, but the show did a pretty good job of explaining it's allure through Nyaan's story- though it does make me sad to see home girl fall for it and pull the trigger on the Space WMD. Challia's perspective, at least, is grounded in his own personal trauma from having stared into the cold, unfeeling void of space- the closest to heroic we're going to get, he bequeaths on to Machu the freedom to act to prevent mass death. Beard Man is getting up there in favourite UC characters now.

(Khara you're not slick making the most queer coded guy in the show say that line. Subtext is for cowards, y'all better gimme sloppy Char x Challia make-out sesh by the finale)

Next week:

Im watching episode 1077 and luffy just beat the big bad of the arc

FUCKING EPISODE 1077 AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SANJI GETS A CIGARETTE WET

HOMIE YOUVE BEEN ON THE SEA FOR A THOUSAND EPISODES AND NOT A SINGLE WET SMOKE YOU MUST HAVE CRAZY FUCKING HAKI