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A Sanrio Series About a Lazy Egg Is Eggzactly What the World Needs This Fall

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Published on September 26, 2022

Screenshot: Netflix
Screenshot: Netflix

Of all the trailers and teasers and first looks and date announcements Netflix put forth at Tudum, its awkwardly named fan event, this is the one I did not know I needed. A animated and live-action show about a lethargic Sanrio character that looks like a raw egg? Why?

The answer is right here. Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure has a precision-calibrated tone that lands somewhere between painfully cute and distressingly existential. Will Gudetama get anything done before going bad or being eaten?!??!

Gudetama is dragged from its lazy existence by a small bossy chick named Shakipiyo who proposes that they go find their mother. Somewhere along the way, a human decides he wants to capture the moving egg and the preposterously fluffy chick, which just layers threat on top of threat: getting stepped on! getting eaten! the horrifying threat of the expiration date! Troubles we all face, if you really think about it.

If, like me, you are tangentially aware of Sanrio characters but not up on the finer points of said adorable creations, well, all you really need to know is that Gudetama is a hugely popular lazy egg that has one million Twitter followers (and that’s just on one of its accounts). It posts very relatable content.

Side note: The Wikipedia description of Gudetama is weirdly disturbing: “Gudetama is normally a yolk of a raw egg with a butt crack with a darker yellow color. It has a head with no neck and a body with limbs, but no fingers or toes.”

The summary of Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure says:

A lethargic, empathetic road movie about finding one’s parents — for everyone who just wants to laze about!

Having resigned itself to the fact that it will just end up on someone’s plate, Gudetama just wants to be lazy all the time. But, swept up by the go-getting, overbearing chick Shakipiyo, it leaves the refrigerator and heads out into the world. Together, these polar opposites go on an adventure to find their mother!

This is the only thing I want to watch for the rest of the year. Gudetama premieres December 13th on Netflix.


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Molly Templeton has been a bookseller, an alt-weekly editor, and assistant managing editor of Tor.com, among other things. She now lives and writes in Oregon, and spends as much time as possible in the woods.
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