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When Aer and I decided not to continue showing PONIES: the Anthology after number 7, I found myself with a few holes in my schedule to fill. And so I landed on the idea of doing a short break from the usual Saturday content for an “honorary Wednesday” today.

What’s the chef cookin’ tonight?

Overview

  • Reserved time: 180 minutes
  • Nuummioq: 100 minutes
  • Weeb’s Guide to School: 29 minutes
    • Each episode is ~10 minutes
  • TV☆3SIS flourishes: 8 minutes
  • Estimated door-holding: 15 minutes
  • Estimated slack: 28 minutes
    • If we have at least 10 minutes left at the end we’ll watch Joshua Jones episode 8.

The spoonful of sugar

Nuummioq

Nuummioq or The Man From Nuuk is a 2009 Greenlandic drama film initially directed by Otto Rosing, later directed by Torben Bech as Rosing’s depression left him unable to finish the movie. It is the first feature film produced entirely in Greenland[1], and it is also apparently the first Greenlandic movie to be shown in international film festivals. Its moody atmosphere has been compared to films of Ingmar Bergman, according to Danish Wikipedia. Producer Mikisoq Lynge stated in an interview that Nuummioq attempts to paint a more nuanced picture of Greenland than the movies about the country before it, which (according to Lynge) either romanticized the country as just being a bunch of noble hunters in kayaks surrounded by wide open nature, or portrayed Greenland as a country of lecherous drunkards or murderers and arsonists.

Plot description from English Wikipedia:

Malik, a 35-year-old construction worker from Nuuk discovers the love of his life at the time when he is diagnosed with cancer. He faces the choice of staying in Greenland with Nivi, the woman he has come to love − or leaving for Denmark in search of medical treatment.

The medicine

What is fanime?

A fanime (etym. blend of fan + anime) is basically when someone makes an anime-style cartoon show by drawing frames in MS Paint; compositing them in Windows Movie Maker with pirated music, stock sound effects, and dialog recorded in one take on potato microphones; and posting the result to YouTube. This isn’t necessarily accurate of all fanime, but the throughline is in any case that fanime is a form of democratized amateur animation combining anime aesthetics with “Internet Ugly”. The style is most associated with the Western anime fandom of the mid-2000s through mid-2010s, where it was often difficult to distinguish sincere fanime shows from parodies of the genre.

Weeb’s Guide to School

Weeb’s Guide to School is a 2018-2019 magical girl slice-of-life comedy fanime by SaltyArtsyBro. Marred by production issues, it ended up cancelled after three episodes, but what was made still looks like a good time. Plot description from Fanime Realm with a few typos corrected:

This series is about six students of Akoni Acadamy. Lavender and Kassidee have moved from Kobe to Aomori. There are shenanigans with Cole and Danny, with the latter receiving a job. Topaz has plans to welcome the new students while Akii is along for the ride.

Content warnings and accessibility

Audio description: Not available.

Sign language: Not available

Captions:

  • English softsubs (Nuummioq)
  • Not available (Weeb’s Guide to School)

Language of audio:

  • Danish, West Greenlandic (Nuummioq)
  • English (Weeb’s Guide to School)

Content warnings:

  • Animals killed during production: gory hunting scenes
  • Sex and nudity
  • Hospital scenes
  • Cancer

♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫

  1. Although some metropolitan Danes apparently contributed to its finances or acted in the film. Also, the first film entirely filmed in Greenland was Heart of Light (1998). ↩︎