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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 19 through 24 tonight.
After that is A Whisker Away (2020), an anime feature about a teenage girl who discovers a magic mask that allows her to transform into a cat. She uses It to pursue her crush, who has yet to notice her, and to whom she is too shy to talk. Uh-oh, overusing the mask risks trapping her in cat form permanently. How will she resolve this conundrum? Guess we’ll find out. Directors Tomotaka Shibayama and Junichi Sato have both worked on a bunch of anime series, most notably Your Lie in April (2014) for the former and Princess Tutu (2002) for the latter, though neither have done much else in feature films. This movie is popular on Letterboxd, so let’s check it out.
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Letterboxd:
- Yuyu Hakusho: https://myanimelist.net/anime/392/Yuu%E2%98%86Yuu%E2%98%86Hakusho
- A Whisker Away: https://letterboxd.com/film/a-whisker-away/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- Yuyu Hakusho: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/22813
- A Whisker Away: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/232775
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 A Whisker Away:
- Child abandonment.
- Stalking.
- Kidnapping.
- Body dysmorphia.
- Depression.
- Bugs.
Links to movies:
- Yuyu Hakusho ep. 19: https://tankie.tube/w/oUbmWt1qTSnb7DwhbzwK4X
- Yuyu Hakusho ep. 20: https://tankie.tube/w/vjrzY98mjfD8aCCAKLjVus
- Yuyu Hakusho ep. 21: https://tankie.tube/w/7usa1mNKbQTwFw7rEdqozF
- Yuyu Hakusho ep. 22: https://tankie.tube/w/5ovvygiDWhvd4MqbjF8f34
- Yuyu Hakusho ep. 23: https://tankie.tube/w/fdqWZtLHRxtz37ZPzkaega
- Yuyu Hakusho ep. 24: https://tankie.tube/w/2AiNskhKjRFciCvvanmv9h
- A Whisker Away: https://tankie.tube/w/fFC65AiKcREp4D2tWU4trM
