Gudetama, the Incredible, Miserable Egg

In “Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure,” a new live-action and animated series on Netflix, an ambitious television producer thinks he’s stumbled onto the perfect subject for a show: a sentient egg and a relentless chick on a journey to find their mother. That egg is Gudetama, a cartoon that skyrocketed to international fame after Sanrio introduced the character in 2013, not long after Hello Kitty, its biggest star, started to underperform.

Gudetama is a genderless egg with a sad face and a shiny yellow butt. They want nothing and they do nothing. They laze around, complain and feel very little besides emptiness and ennui. Gudetama is essentially a burnout, a slacker, a malingerer, crushed under the weight of their own melancholy.

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