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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.

What are we watching?

Episode titles: “Shipwrecked in Space” — “The Giants” — “The Incas” — “In the Land of the Dinosaurs” — “The Rings of Saturn”

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 English dub, I should mention, which has some pretty bad audio mixing at times.

Content warnings

This show supposedly contains “little to no violence” except against wild animals.

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

Some of the episodes we watched last week were kinda white savior-y and one of them even featured basically robot drapetomania, so… yeah. France in the early 1980s, everyone!