Goodbye, Lara (Sayonara Lara) (2026)

“Hey Fred! Gimme a Little Mermaid taking place in the contemporary world, but hold the prince, we’ll make it so the mermaid won’t be in love with him.

Hold the prince?

And hold the evil witch, she’s not really gonna be evil but rather misunderstood.

Hold the evil w-?

Hey Jimmy! Gimme a Little Mermaid with nutn!

Nutting??

Ok no, truth is Sayonara Lara does keep the original story but rushes through it in its first episode, and to be honest it doesn’t do a bad job at it, keeping the basics and even featuring moments of silence, letting the visuals do the job. It’s not like it can’t be done in such a short runtime, Russia did it in the 60s with the most serious tone and the darkest aesthetics out of all the versions I’ve” read more