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Note that you need a Hexbear account to use Blorptube. You may wish to use a VPN as well. Note that we're starting half an hour earlier than usual because we're watching one more episode than usual. Next week we'll finally start Once Upon a Time... Life, which, unlike ...Space, I actually watched as a kid.

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

By the way, the same applies for Once Upon a Time... Life!

What are we watching?

Episode titles: "The Humanoids" — "An Hostile World" — "City in Flight" — "The Great Computer" — "The Battle of the Titans" — "The Infinity of Space"

Series description: Once Upon a Time... Space tells about the confrontation of many big galactic powers. Among them there is the Omega Confederation, of which Earth is a member; the military republic of Cassiopeia led by General The Pest; and a powerful supercomputer which controls an army of robots. The show follows the adventures of space police members Pierrot and his friend Mercedes ("Psi") and adapts elements of Greek mythology and other mainly European folklore. Some episodes concern topics such as the balance of political power; man vs technology; and the existence of God.

We're watching the official YouTube uploads of the English dub, I should mention. It's got pretty bad audio mixing at times, and only automatic captions. Thankfully, Once Upon a Time... Life evidently has much better audio mixing, so you can look forward to that next week!

Content warnings

This show is said to contain "little to no violence" except against wild animals, but from the track record of what we've watched so far, it's also got some questionable handling of race and class, like one of the episodes we watched basically had robot drapetomania.

The previous show in this series, Once Upon a Time... Man, for which Space is technically a continuation, had the following content warnings, if nothing else: Death incl. murder — sexual assault — nudity — animal gore — disease — racist caricatures — religion presented as fact — Eurocentrism