For this Saturday Anime Night, 9PM EST, it’s Toei’s The Little Mermaid (1975) and human-meets-goblins comedy A Letter to Momo (2011)! (CWs inside)
For this Saturday Anime Night, 9PM EST, it’s Toei’s The Little Mermaid (1975) and human-meets-goblins comedy A Letter to Momo (2011)! (CWs inside)
For this Saturday Anime Night, first up is Toei’s The Little Mermaid (1975), adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale. A mermaid gives up her voice to pursue a human prince. Surely she will live happily ever after, right? I guess we’ll find out. We are inching ever-closer toward seeing every anime feature film released before 1980; there are not that many left. After that is A Letter to Momo (2011), from director Hiroyuki Okiura (Jin-Roh), concerning a preteen girl who befriends a trio of goblins to cope with her dad’s death. Hijinks ensue. Looks pretty cool, and reviews everywhere are great, so let’s give it a whirl.
We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- The Little Mermaid: https://letterboxd.com/film/hans-christian-andersens-the-little-mermaid/
- A Letter to Momo: https://letterboxd.com/film/a-letter-to-momo/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- The Little Mermaid: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/11971
- A Letter to Momo: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB. The movie is rated PG.
CWs for The Little Mermaid:
- Deaths of dogs.
- Nude mermaids throughout the movie, but their chests are drawn in a vague Barbie-doll way whenever their hair doesn’t cover them.
- Suicide.
- Blood.
- Sad ending.
- Death of child.
CWs for A Letter to Momo:
- Death of parent.
- Depression.
- Cartoon violence and mischief.
- Farting.
Links to movies:
- The Little Mermaid: https://vimeo.com/851969806
- A Letter to Momo: https://vimeo.com/851970719