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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more magical girls, and so, we’re going to continue with what is arguably the most acclaimed magical-girl anime of all time, Revoutionary Girl Utena (1997). Think Sailor Moon, but a bit more highbrow, and a bit more gay. Episodes 37 through 39 tonight, followed by the finale movie, Adolescence of Utena (1999). Yep, we’ve reached the end.

After that is Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be (2022), a French animated comic adaptation/biopic blend about real French cartoonist Rene Goscinny (also one of the creators of Asterix) creating a cartoon character named Little Nicholas, who then comes to life on the page and starts getting up to all sorts of mischief. Fantasy and reality begin to meld from there as the film switches between telling the author’s story and the story of Nicholas, the character. This is the best-known and best-regarded work to date of directors Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre. This looks pretty precious; let’s check it out.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Revolutionary Girl Utena: https://letterboxd.com/film/revolutionary-girl-utena/
• Adolescence of Utena: https://letterboxd.com/film/revolutionary-girl-utena-the-adolescence-of-utena/
• Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be: https://letterboxd.com/film/little-nicholas-happy-as-can-be/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Revolutionary Girl Utena: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/11039
• Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.

CWs for Revolutionary Girl Utena:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be

• French people.
• Bullying.
• Slapstick violence.
• Child endangerment.

Links to movies:

• Revolutionary Girl Utena ep. 37: https://tankie.tube/w/81pZyEqagNf6MaZYdwLyrp
• Revolutionary Girl Utena ep. 38: https://tankie.tube/w/gVirWt6W2Dfv6AP9Mr1Cxf
• Revolutionary Girl Utena ep. 39: https://tankie.tube/w/anUeY3C8qhjWuc6WhkzoB9
• Adolescence of Utena: https://tankie.tube/w/tFzW9ZoxYCXqmYrbKSNwD2
• Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be: https://tankie.tube/w/7c994GYqjQdFr7Zk9hX9SN