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A YouTuber that chronicles different shows that have aired on Nickelodeon in chronological order has done on recently for "The Little Prince". This was the era of Japanese cartoons I watched that weren't always presented the way they were intended, and it shows!
 
Trilby said:
A YouTuber that chronicles different shows that have aired on Nickelodeon in chronological order has done on recently for "The Little Prince". This was the era of Japanese cartoons I watched that weren't always presented the way they were intended, and it shows!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=o-nbUq-JYJk
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Oh yeah, I was wondering when he was going to upload another video. He's done a few of these already for those not familiar with the series.

Can't wait until he starts to talk about some of the later Nick acquisitions like Noozles and Maya the Bee (also curious as to his opinion on Filmation's Star Trek series next video)
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
Oh yeah, I was wondering when he was going to upload another video. He's done a few of these already for those not familiar with the series.
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We're starting to get to the part of Nick I'm sure many my age would remember well.

Can't wait until he starts to talk about some of the later Nick acquisitions like Noozles and Maya the Bee (also curious as to his opinion on Filmation's Star Trek series next video)
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Certainly would be curious on that as well. I do recall not being interested when the animated Star Trek episodes came on but I probably wasn't in the right age to be invested in a dialogue-heavy show yet.

Reminded episodes of Maya the Bee are on YT but are of the "South African" English dub that wasn't used in the states (as Saban made their own dub), yet I kinda dig watching this version anyway with the Karel Svoboda music.

David the Gnome would be another interesting one to review as well, given it's unique premise and facts about life that children should understand like death!
 
Trilby said:
I kinda dig watching this version anyway with the Karel Svoboda music.
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he also did the german version (which was the original). based germans co-produced two other anime back then, vicky the viking and piccolino, heidi etc were all done by the studio itself, back then with hajayo miyazaki.
had to look it up but calimero was co-produced by italians and another studio.
 
ZMOT said:
he also did the german version (which was the original). based germans co-produced two other anime back then, vicky the viking and piccolino, heidi etc were all done by the studio itself, back then with hajayo miyazaki.
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Heidi, along with Maya and Vicky were produced by a studio called "Zuiyo Enterprises", in 1975 the studio split in half and the animation part of the former company became "Nippon Animation" and continued to produce shows from then on, such as their "World Masterpiece Theatre" shows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Animation

had to look it up but calimero was co-produced by italians and another studio.
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Calimero has an interesting history as the character originated as an advertising mascot for a laundry detergent in the 60's.

The popularity of the character led to it's studio, Pagotfilm, to produce a series of animated shorts that merely recycle previous material from the animated commercials but now in full color (though Italy wouldn't see color TV until the late 70's). An English version was made of these and the cartoons were distributed throughout the world.

I assume they caught the attention of someone in Japan as an anime series was first made in the mid 70's by Toei Animation, though unlike the usual procedure, the original Pagotfilm footage was reused again, this time to lengthen the stories while new animation was produced to work around it (often the original footage had to be slowed down to match the Japanese frame rates). I couldn't find any English episodes of this but here's a bunch in French! The biggest change though was making Calimero less a loser who kept complaining about the injustice of the world and more a hero everyone liked.

Of course there were more Calimero shows that followed but this is getting long enough!

The world of these co-productions is quite large. Spain also followed suite with a company that had Nippon Animation produce several popular shows, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds and Around The World with Willy Fog.
 
jellycar said:
I wish Grimms Fairy Tales would be released uncut by discotek or something. They used to air it on Nickelodeon
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That would be a good one to get if they could pull that off. A lot of Nippon Animation's productions tend to be very pricey to license I've read. Getting it uncut would give us a chance to watch those moments Saban felt we shouldn't see like the wolf eating up Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother, the blood in "Bluebeard", or the brief shot of a nude kid in "Brother and Sister"! Then there's the unaired "Godfather Death". If I had a DVD company, I would so try to grab this for release.
 
Shit, I made the mistake of getting attached to the new character in ChainsawMan

When it was pretty clear she was either a secret villain or wouldn’t survive the arc.

And while I’m glad it’s not the former, it sure seems to be the latter
 
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I wish Grimms Fairy Tales would be released uncut by discotek or something. They used to air it on Nickelodeon
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God, Grimms' Fairy Tales was a fun watch, but it was such a pain in the arse to find certain episodes because not all of them appeared to have been found/rescued by subbers. "Blue Beard" was surprising in that the dub was pretty much uncut given the rest of the series (although it might've been a dub set to the original footage, was really flawless if that's the case), but that was great.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
God, Grimms' Fairy Tales was a fun watch, but it was such a pain in the arse to find certain episodes because not all of them appeared to have been found/rescued by subbers. "Blue Beard" was surprising in that the dub was pretty much uncut given the rest of the series (although it might've been a dub set to the original footage, was really flawless if that's the case), but that was great.
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It probably was a fan edit, that episode was often left untouched in other language versions, I know the YT version features a couple of moments like the title of the series in Japanese that appear in the end and start of the first and second acts, I noticed these on a Spanish-dubbed version elsewhere. I've seen similar fan-edits for other episodes as well in an attempt to come up with better copies of the show than the old VHS rips that have been around for years, often taking foreign language DVD rips and just adding the audio accordingly, not always perfect due to the extra editing for some episodes.

EDIT: Here, have a whole playlist of the series in Spanish!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyrb2sWTEX9LRLNve6o_M6zh8uIEDbFJL
 
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jellycar said:
I wish Grimms Fairy Tales would be released uncut by discotek or something. They used to air it on Nickelodeon
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Out of all the old Saban dubs I think they only had interest in Samurai Pizza Cats because that had a big cult fanbase.

They put out Goshogun but not Macron 1, though I think getting the rights to the other series they used and the pop songs they used would have been a barrier. Maybe that one should stay back in the 80s.

The old Saban dubs largely exist on VHS - and a lot of them on the Just for Kids label, whose tapes were never very-good quality... But that's no barrier if you want to really watch them.
 
I watched the season 4 premiere of My Hero Academia yesterday. T'was interesting.

Fairly filler episode recapping seasons 2 and 3. A reporter finds out Deku is All Might's successor by deduction, and questions him about it in the episode, which was kind of interesting. OP and ED were kind of forgettable, the ED less so.
 
Notgoodwithusernames said:
So I've been watching Gundam Wing. I know the show is rather divisive but so far I'm enjoying it. I just love how the main character is a fucking psychopath

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Funny scene from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
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All of the major characters are psychopaths but Heero and the acrobat are so cartoonish that they make normal psychopaths like the guy that unironically calls himself the god of death look normal and well adjusted.

I still like the designs of Gundam Wing's mobile suits the best of all non-G Gundam. The movie versions are a bit much though.
 
Kacchan said:
I watched the season 4 premiere of My Hero Academia yesterday. T'was interesting.

Fairly filler episode recapping seasons 2 and 3. A reporter finds out Deku is All Might's successor by deduction, and questions him about it in the episode, which was kind of interesting. OP and ED were kind of forgettable, the ED less so.
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Personally I can see why they’d start off with filler given the content of the Overhaul arc, but at the same time it felt unnecessary to recap previous seasons unless it’s for people who started watching MHA at S4 which is also pretty dumb
 
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