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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 1 through 6. 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 Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops: The New Age (2011), one of over 40 Doraemon theatrical features, and, according to many people, the best one of them all. Elementary-school student Nobita and his robotic-plushie buddy, Doraemon, find the pieces of a giant mecha and assemble them into a super-robot. Uh-oh, turns out it’s a doomsday weapon sent by an army of evil mechanical aliens who are coming to conquer Earth. Great reviews for this one, so let’s check it out. We have never watched anything Doraemon-related, and the series’ continuity is minimal, so we can just jump in here. Director Yukiyo Teramoto also worked on Monster (2003) and a bunch of other Doraemon movies.

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/
• Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops: The New Age: https://letterboxd.com/film/doraemon-nobita-and-the-new-steel-troops-winged-angels/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096591/parentalguide/
• Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops: The New Age: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1851909/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 Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops: The New Age:

• Nudity.
• Explosions.
• Child endangerment.
• Gun violence.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Death of animal.
• Destruction of city.

Links to movies:

• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 1: https://tankie.tube/w/8rMxZRBYXXS5kpfqKvkQfy
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 2: https://tankie.tube/w/m5RggEnumdtdFE6pPEk9HX
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 3: https://tankie.tube/w/h6QQwszH5XtDEJagk56dD4
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 4: https://tankie.tube/w/x1wx9jFrWym9f1BMo3cQSD
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 5: https://tankie.tube/w/1btHJJ5ni1pHiprbrnJvCU
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ep. 6: https://tankie.tube/w/dvqRn5hKs1ajoRZ8mmSRmE
• Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops: The New Age: https://tankie.tube/w/f2jswBqz9JcE4G4hzRoAcF