For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 37 through 42 of the 1992 series, the definitive magical-girl anime. This is the completely unabridged, unexpurgated, uncensored, Japanese version of the show, including everything that the English dub butchered, altered, and/or cut, which is quite a bit. Tonight’s episodes see Sailor Venus’s backstory revealed, as the season’s narrative builds toward its finale. After that is A Town Called Panic (2009), a Belgian slapstick stop-motion comedy about a universe of sentient toys. The two main characters, a cowboy and his Native American buddy, want to celebrate a horse’s birthday, but their plan goes awry, and slapstick antics ensue. Pretty much a feature-length Robot Chicken sketch, but less crude, and in French. Rave reviews for this one; it is currently ranked #95 on Letterboxd 100: Animation. It looks neat, so let’s watch.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Sailor Moon: Sorry, not on Letterboxd. Here’s the MAL page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/530/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon
• A Town Called Panic: https://letterboxd.com/film/a-town-called-panic/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Sailor Moon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• A Town Called Panic: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/8564

CWs for Sailor Moon:

• 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 A Town Called Panic:

• Slapstick violence.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Stereotypical depiction of Native American.
• Shower scene.

Links to movies:

Forthcoming. I have the files, but the most convenient way to upload them is to replace one of the earlier videos while a later video is playing.