Red Flood Lurjize
| Red Flood Lurjize | |
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| Мигулисм Лурж | |
| Genre | |
| Created by | Daritai Kutlugh |
| Directed by | Togh Yargai |
| Music by | Makar Cieraškovič |
| Country of origin |  Uulgadzar |
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| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 70 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Daritai Kutlugh |
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| Release | |
| Original network | Channel Uulgadzar |
| Original release | September 13, 1998 – June 17, 2007 |
Red Flood Lurjize (Uulgadzan: Мигулисм Лурж, lit. 'Miguelism Lurjize'), also known as Red Flood, was an Uulgadzan animated apocalyptic television series produced by Respublika Studios, animated by Dark Horse Productions, and directed by Togh Yargai. It was broadcast on Channel Uulgadzar from September 1998 to June 2007. Red Flood Lurjize is set in a post-apocalyptic world, primarily in Lurjize for the first season but expands into different regions of the world throughout the rest of the series. The protagonist is a Sequoyan boy named Wesa Basilia who is conscripted into the Lurjizean army for what the Lurjizean government calls the "Final Crusade" against large Miguelist countries that had conquered the rest of the world.
Red Flood explores the effects of war on civilians and the result of total control of a population by a totalitarian government. It draws strong comparisons between Romerism and Miguelism, especially through portraying Lurjize, a Romerist state, and the various Miguelist states of the world similarly, just with differences in economic policy. The politicization of religion and culture also plays a major role in the series. It portrays the Creeperian Catholic Church as an entity solely for the use of promoting Miguelism, similar to how it is used to bolster the credibility of the Romerist Creeperian government in reality.
Red Flood has received critical acclaim, and is generally considered one of the greatest animated series of the 2000s. It has received controversy regarding a perceived bias in favor of Romerism. This bias is less apparent in the earlier seasons, but it is considered that the last few episodes of the series where Miguelism is destroyed show a strong Romerist bias, as the comparisons made earlier in the series seemingly disappear. Red Flood is one of the most successful Uulgadzan media franchises of all time, grossing ₮150 million (₵20.7 million) by 2018.
