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Note that you need a Hexbear account to use Blorptube. You may wish to use a VPN as well. Also, don’t use a cartoon from the 1980s as medical advice, not that I was expecting you to.

Also, if you use an anime tracker like Anilist or MAL: Once Upon a Time… Life is listed in a number of anime databases due to being a Japanese co-production.

What are we watching?

Episode titles: “The Tiny Platelets” — “The Heart” — “Breathing” — “The Brain” — “The Neurons”

Series description: Once Upon a Time… Life teaches about the human body and its various systems using the same characters from the other Once Upon a Time… seasons. The “good guys” (such as Pierrot and Mercedes from Space) represent the cells of the body’s defense mechanisms, and the “bad guys” (including the “red-nose guys” as one of our regulars calls them) represent the viruses and bacteria.

We’ll be watching the English dub, which this time around has pretty decent audio mixing, though we curiously can’t figure out who the heck actually did the voices. They’ve got British accents if nothing else.

Content warnings

If you’ve got like trypophobia or don’t like looking at landscapes made of cartoon human flesh, then this show might be a problem for you. Children get serious illnesses; a character dies of old age at some point I believe; there is some nudity in the opening; the immune system is presented as cops; and some cells are very occasionally presented as caricatures of e.g. “cowboys and Indians”.