yuletide | 2022 Yuletide Promo Post

Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign-ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

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Title: Sand Whale and Me (TV)

Media: TV "hybrid micro-series" (five episodes that are five minutes each)

Approx length: 25 minutes

Where to find it: All episodes are free to watch on adultswim.com's website. If you have Roku you can add Adult Swim as a channel and watch it there too.

What is it, in summary?: In 2017, for Toonami's 20th anniversary, director/writer Mamoru Oshii (Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, Assault Girls) was commissioned to make this... a CG/live-action "hybrid micro-series" called Sand Whale and Me. The official summary says it's about "a female paratrooper in the distant future who is stranded in a vast desert." In order to survive she must catch and eat a Sand Whale. However, it soon becomes clear that we're viewing some kind of constructed reality, with a video-game-like third-person POV and status bars on the screen showing the main character's health & experience levels.

What do you love about it?: It's typical Mamoru Oshii-- thought-provoking, minimalist but expansive worldbuilding, sometimes silly or surreal, sometimes brutal and dark, and generally just weird. There are so many questions that could be asked. Has the main character KFC been uploaded to a virtual world? Is she a video game avatar who has escaped the from the actual game she was supposed to be in? Who named her "KFC"?

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: A typical day for KFC? A more interior POV exploring the things she's thinking and experiencing? Exploring the world she came from, where she was apparently some kind of mecha pilot? Will she ever escape the planet she crash landed on? Is she an isekai heroine who's landed inside a video game? Etc.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Not really, it's 25 minutes long.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Some uncanny valley-ish facial animations, violence against sand whales, video-game type violence and physical distress that kind of hits different when it's happening to a live-action actor

Edited 2022-10-02 21:01 (UTC)