The Adventures of the Little Prince - Nick Knacks Episode

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After the success of Belle & Sebastian, Nickelodeon went looking for another Japanese anime adaptation of French literature about boy cross the European countryside. We explore The Adventures of the Little Prince, from it's origins as a book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, to its rough journey to animation, and finally its hack-and-slash English localization.
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@jbanks979 4 года назад

Considering GoLion infamously has a lot of death (including a suicide) and these were all retconned into “she fell directly onto a pillow factory” and “I have to go to the hospital now goodbye forever” The bear business doesn’t surprise me

@playfulpanthress 2 года назад

Hey! That is blasphemous! It was SPACE Hosital, I’ll have you know! But you’re right, Beast King was SUPER violent. Princess Romelle was raped by Lotor, and I was NOT ready for that. Or Nanny and Coran. Or Sandy. Damn, almost everybody died on that show! I still love it though.

@TackyRackyComixNEO 4 года назад

It's really disappointing to see how poorly this show was handled. I would love to see a full television adaptation of the book that captures the essence of it, all of its melancholy and wonder, all of its nostalgia and harsh reality. I've heard the animated film adaptation from a few years ago is really good, though.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

The film adaptation kinda goes it's own way but is quite well received.

@kristincantor4254 Год назад

I watched this show when I was my daughter's age. I loved it!

@RoyStorey 4 года назад

YURI: i must go, my musician owner needs me [NOTE: Yuri was healed by a doctor on his way back]

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

Sometimes the best method is always the simplest solution!

@ItsThatRetro 4 года назад

"Look! I can see Yuri's parachute. He's okay!"

@Kolbatsu 3 года назад

It's okay! Yuri went to a hospital planet along with Sven.

@christopherbubb2890 2 года назад

Fun fact... Little Prince had the same character designer as Chargeman Ken - Eiji Tanaka, who also worked on Speed Racer. And none other than Yoshikazu Yasuhiko also did character design work, apparently in between working on Zambot 3 and Gundam. A lot of the voice actors in the English dub worked on the Christian radio drama Adventures in Odyssey as well - it's easy to hear "Connie Kendall," "Mr. Whittaker" and "Tom Riley" in some of the voices.

@dngillikin 4 года назад

Not having watched this show when it aired on Nick, as you described the localization, I had a feeling Jameson Brewer's name would show up. The "pretending Earth of a specific time period is many other alien planets" and pretending deaths didn't occur and changing plots in ways that ran counter to the animation was an approach he took when localizing Gatchaman for Sandy Frank as "Battle of the Planets."

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

Yep, that show was pretty much ripped a new one with what Brewer brought to the table. A lot of violence removed and often scenes were padded out when they cut them so short. Unlike The Little Prince, Battle of the Planets had the luxury of new crappy animation inserted to show us a new character who acts as narrator and scenes of the crew in a rec room doing pointless things!

@ChuckD79 3 года назад

Looks like Sandy Frank's people had a hand in the localization of TLP, as well...associate producer Irving Klein and production manager Kenneth Urheim had previously worked on Frank's early 80s musical game show, Face the Music.

@RainbowMilk1996 4 года назад

14:08 Japan sees nakedness as a sign of innocence I guess? They do that a lot

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

That is pretty true, and it happens to a lot of animated films and series over there. Dragon Ball isn't the only one.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@@matthewdaley746 True there.

@bluebaron6858 Год назад

@@ChristopherSobieniakI think it's happened much less in modern times

@ChristopherSobieniak Год назад

@@bluebaron6858 Oh I'm sure, Japan getting a clue and all.

@GeorgeNoiseless 3 года назад

Ah, Knack! The studio who's legacy will live on forever, in its most infamous work.

@ChristopherSobieniak Год назад

Get the Knack! letsanime.blogspot.com/2011/10/get-knack.html?m=1

@thepantweaver 4 года назад

Note: Yuri survived on the way back to his home planet.

@Cameroo 2 года назад

Hanging out with Sven from Voltron I'm sure!

@DixyRae 4 года назад

As much as I'm a fan of good animation, there's just something about the aesthetic of cheap, janky animation I can't resist.

@TackyRackyComixNEO 4 года назад

Rife for pillaging for vaporwave videos.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

It was an era of suddenly seeing these shows starting to get produced by the dozen year after year and more and more companies followed suit. For every big major work like one Toei put out, there was always going to be these lesser known outfits trying for the same pie.

@DixyRae 4 года назад

@@ChristopherSobieniak I don't mean to pick on cheap anime specifically. The worst of Filmation and Hanna Barbera does it for me too. And even the good shows from this era have a really satisfying tactile imperfection that's been lost in the move to digital compositing. I love that I can see the mispaints and dust on the cels on the Gundam 0079 blurays

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@@DixyRae That is fun when they leave them in like that. That is real art right there!

@DixyRae 4 года назад

@@matthewdaley746 Yea but 70s style science-fantasy weirdness wins a lot of good will from me and Filmation was kinda the last holdout before that really fell out of fashion. He-man gets all the retro glory, but I personally feel cheated that I missed out on Bravestarr as a kid.

@katherineperrin4817 4 года назад

That episode with Yuri gave me Star Blazers flashbacks. "Knox Got out just behind you!"

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

That was a big deal for fans, and Star Blazers wasn't quite as bad as Little Prince in how that series was handled but it always had these moments that felt like someone breathed down the editor's back whenever it got a little too intense.

@andrejg4136 4 года назад

@@matthewdaley746 that was part of the problem with assuming all animation was suitable for 10s and under. The base series for Robotech were all 12 and ups suggested age v range to me.

@rmyers99 4 года назад

I can't believe I hadn't heard that about Voltron. I didn't watch the Little Prince as a kid but I watched Voltron ALL THE TIME. I had no idea until this moment that it was changed so much. Looking forward to episodes on Spartacus and the Sun Beneath the Sea and the Mysterious Cities of Gold, hopefully in the future though!

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

I watched all these shows back then! It was an interesting time to be a kid and be immersed in these foreign works that weren't quite in the mainstream enough.

@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat 4 года назад

Janet Waldo as in the Original Judy Jetson, Worked on Dub Version of this Anime.

@jonathanstern5537 Год назад

2 things. 1. Wilder is always great. Any time you see Wilder in a movie, you're guaranteed one great performance, and any time you see Wilder and Pryor in a movie, it's guaranteed to be hilarious. 2. The Neverending Story reads/views differently as an adult than it does as a kid too.

@flamerunnerreviews1163 4 года назад

Huh, dubbing and censoring an anime by coming up with ludicrous workarounds of death and violence for children. This sounds familiar. 26:07 I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!

@ericariley1696 4 года назад

I don't get why adults treat kids like they're stupid, just because they're not old enough to learn certain things yet, especially when it comes to animation, like the "Little Prince" anime. I mean adults always teach kids to respect their elders and authority figures yet some of them think it's okay to disrespect a child or the children's intelligence.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

It seems like we never really learn that lesson well, and it repeats over and over. I now think of that moment from The Simpsons and it's Roger Meyers chewing out on a group of kids in a test screening over their silly ideas.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yGsHq-mZI8U.html

@adamnedeff3102 4 года назад

"I don't go into these videos with the intent to ruin your childhood." Good to know...well, I think I'll watch the episode about "You Can't Do That On Television" now.

@cpaliulis 4 года назад

It's really good.

@FollowMe4REP 2 года назад

Note: Your childhood was found by a doctor in the middle of the night. It’s going to be okay! Your childhood is going to be totally okay!

@BlackCanary87 4 месяца назад

But first, why don't you take a long, slow sip of coffee...

@stephenholloway6893 4 года назад

Hal Smith was also part of the cast in this version of The Little Prince.

@sandradermark8463 Год назад

In the Japanese version, the focus was on the old man. In the Jambre version, they thought Yuri the bear would have more appeal to children (young kids care far more for a cute baby bear than for a bearded old man, right?), and God forbid he died during the episode, so the focus is on Yuri the bear, and his death was retconned by the dub/localization. "The village children the Little Prince fetched to the gravesite took him to the vet" is the best thing you can say to appease the young audience!

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

Though not a lot is known of Jambre Productions, I suppose the name itself is really based on the first three letters of the first and last name for Jameson Brewer, producer and writer for the dubbing of The Little Prince. I'm guessing this was his company he founded at the time and the type of people he worked with (the voice cast weren't nobodies in the field so he had credentials to hire what he thought was the best). Jameson Brewer previously worked on Battle of the Planets, that show was the nadir of how far an Americanized take on a Japanese property could be when an earthbound team can fly through space and battle an alien army without even fighting. I could see how he honed his skills on adapting a Japanese cartoon in the manner he saw fit than to rely on accuracy or sticking to the script.

@ChuckD79 2 года назад

Amusingly, Jambre's reworking of the premise (having TLP travel from his home planet in each episode, then return home at the end) directly contradicts the lyrics of the American closing theme: "He comes from somewhere/A world way out there/And he hasn't been back since..." (perhaps the lyrics were written with the original Japanese plot in mind?)

@ChristopherSobieniak Год назад

Bad American dubbing!

@MissAshley42 4 года назад

"Hey, does this tree look familiar to you, Swifty?" That Nickelodeon narrator is something else. His voice keeps making me think I might have seen things that I probably didn't. I want to say that Little Prince promo is familiar, but I'm not sure. I know I never watched the show, but I'm not sure if I missed the promos, too.

@Soul_Devour Год назад

I can't believe the first thought I had upon seeing Chargeman Ken was "oh hey, it's that old show that had a couple songs in Chunithm!"

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

Another mention might go to the show's character designer, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, probably best known for his work on Sunrise's famous Mobile Suit Gundam (UC Timeline). Other noted works include Crusher Joe, Giant Gorg and Venus Wars. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshikazu_Yasuhiko

@CaptainBZarre 4 года назад

Worth noting - the National Education Association also endorsed “Adventures in Wonderland” on The Disney Channel, which was... well, a far better show.

@ChristopherSobieniak Год назад

They endorsed a lot of kid shows like The New Zoo Revue and HBO's Braingames program.

@Lynn17 3 года назад

"You're hurt bad, bear! There's a doctor in the village!" "Get me there fast." (25 episodes later) "I am alive and back, but the village was attacked and I was forced to carry lumber until a female bear rescued me. I'm staying in the woods with her!"

@PinkieLopBun 4 года назад

I watched this show recently (bought a season pass on Amazon Prime) and thought the scenes with The Little Prince and Swifty were a result of Knack being cheap, but that was Jambre using the same scene over and over again? Man, I hope you can still get that interview you wanted to get. I’d love to know why all these changes were made.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

It makes watching this on Crunchyroll seem like a better idea to get around that inane editing.

@Elementa2006 4 года назад

7:23 cool that you showed an Arabic translation of the book, Arabic translations don't get enough attention when people talk about how popular a book is worldwide. Also now I know the name of the studio who gave us Chargeman Ken and Astroganga, Astroganga is actually quite popular in Arabic countries after it was dubbed in the 80s, which was distributed to capitalize on the popularity of Toei's mecha anime series UFO Robo Grendizer, Grendizer was a major phenomenon and helped popularize the Anime genre in the Arabic part of the Middle East.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

I recall noticing how big Grendizer was over there so I wouldn't doubt bringing over Astroganga might've seem like a good idea to capitalize on that.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@@matthewdaley746 Well, they tried. They wanted another giant robot but probably were too cheap to get a better show like Getter Robo.

@medaizeh2401 4 года назад

im dying for an astroganger sub of the whole show, but nobody really seems to be up for it.

@BlueSpiceSpace 2 года назад

This video helped me get final jeopardy right the other day!

@nephrenqayin254 2 года назад

A childhood favorite of mine.

@justinstewart8954 4 года назад

I watched it before I was 10 quite a bit but even then I thought it was saccharine. I wouldn't have suggested it to my friends or tried to get them to watch it with me. One theory about why they changed the story to make the little boy be on a series of round trips: He had a romantic relationship with the other person his planet, right? Part of the drama was to see if he'd still want to come back to her. Even if she was some supernatural rose who had a face.

@Dinobolt1 3 года назад

17:10 and 21:02 Oh hey it's Hal Smith using his Flintheart Glomgold voice from Ducktales. Judging from what you have shown that was the best performance in the show. Not that it's a high bar to go for, but I think he's a great voice actor and I always love hearing that voice of his.

@meyerj75 2 года назад

This show would pop up on Sunday mornings on Nickelodeon. Kids were tired of Davey and Golitah, Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello and all the dull black & white junk at that time. The Little Prince would fill that 30 minute gap that would make Sunday mornings exciting along with Danger Mouse & Belle and Sebastian.

@nancyking 4 года назад

The lady in the rose on The Little Prince reminds me of Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina.

@RirseDeBlood 4 года назад

Fits they also did Voltron since that series also covered up a major death by saying they are recovering elsewhere.

@Rmlohner 4 года назад

Which actually ended up working out for the best, as in the original show the dead guy was later replaced by his never before mentioned twin brother, which is just as stupid as it sounds. But the dub was able to just have the same guy recover and come back.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@@Rmlohner At least they had that opportunity to save it.

@randolphburces1623 8 месяцев назад

UPDATE: Regarding on where you can watch the original anime, Knack Productions has uploaded all of its episodes in HD on their official channel.

@ChristopherSobieniak 7 месяцев назад

Nice.

@johnnyb325 4 года назад

Yuri is well, he'll be back! Yuri is well, he'll be back!

@stranger59 4 года назад

Great news, Duke's come of out his coma!

@ItsThatRetro 4 года назад

@@stranger59 Turns out Yuri was in Arlong's dungeon this whole time.

@jenniferschillig3768 4 года назад

@@stranger59 Oh man, the story behind that. Of course they had intended to kill off Duke--G.I. Joe's audience had always been a little older than Transformers', and even if they couldn't get away with killing anyone off in the show, they at least tried to show the consequences of war and battle as far as they could. But then Transformers decided THEY'D kill off their good-guy leader--and it traumatized so many kids (after all, the TF cartoon audience was younger) that Hasbro told the makers of the G.I. Joe movie they weren't allowed to kill off Duke, hence the awkwardly dubbed-in dialogue.

@jenniferschillig3768 4 года назад

@@matthewdaley746 Yeah, I caught it on TV and wondered if I'd missed the theatrical release or something.

@Tacom4ster 4 года назад

I watched the Netflix movie (which you oddly didn't mentioned) but missed the doc, will probably watch it later, thanks

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

That movie deserverd a chance but Paramount backed out of giving it a theatrical release.

@yayforeffort 4 года назад

At 12:47 there is a board from shin chan. That show has such a distinct style I recognized it instantly. It's cool that she worked on it.

@markjeffries3684 4 года назад

I'm surprised you didn't mention that Jameson Brewer was a major figure in one of the first American localizations of anime, "Battle of the Planets" (known in Japan as "Gatchaman"). Like "Little Prince" and "Voltron," it was writing new scripts for the animation (and adding new animation with the 7-Zark-7 character because Sandy Frank wanted his own R2D2).

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

God 7-Zark-7! You just know something really good was cut out of Gatchaman in order to keep him on screen!

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

Jameson Brewer certainly came from a background of marketing and it shows in how successful Voltron did. Viewing acquired productions like Little Prince was nothing more than a business venture than out of respect to its source.

@tjzambonischwartz 4 года назад

I enjoyed this cartoon when I was little, so my parents bought me the book and it made me FEEL THINGS MAN. I kinda forgot about the cartoon for a long time and the book took over in my imagination. Years later I was kinda surprised to learn it was really crappy anime. My favorite video game of all time is Super Mario Galaxy, largely because of how much artistic inspiration it took from The Little Prince (the book), both in art style and its solemn, melancholy tone.

@darktetsuya 2 года назад

not one I ever really watched back in the day, but I can totally appreciate the 'euro-centric anime' history lesson... if you're familliar with daft punk's 'discovery' and the companion anime interstella 5555 I remember hearing in a documentary on it that they were big into anime growing up, so I guess that explains why!

@cyberdraco001 2 года назад

Didn't know that some of the people in the localization in the Little Prince were also on Voltron.

@vgtrp 4 года назад

I found a VHS copy of this series at antique mall, it was okay, though it did have the chimney sweep "father" episode and learning what the actual relationship is makes it awkward now. Also, the series is also available on Amazon Prime at the time of this comment. Finally, one of the voice actors in the sun is Janet Waldo who's done a lot of voices for Hanna-Barbara.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

These weren't complete nobodies the slightest, another name I spot is Hal Smith, who did all sorts of voices as well as a few live-action roles like Otis the Drunk on Andy Griffith. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rlC1PbY6EoU.html

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

I wouldn't doubt whoever wrote the chimney sweep episode probably thought the guy looked older and wrote it that way without obviously checking the script (since he didn't). Again, it shows what happens when you don't try to be faithful to these things.

@vgtrp 4 года назад

I'll give Jambre this, they did manage to get a pretty good voice cast for this dub.

@DF-cg2dy 4 года назад

Great Cartoon back then,great book also.

@ShadowWingTronix 4 года назад

A book I hope you're using for the Star Trek cartoon review in addition to anything related to Trek is Lou Scheimer's autobiography "Creating The Filmation Generation". It's the history of Filmation from his own words. I need to finish reading that.

@nakiacole-brooks1711 Год назад

Loved this show when I was a kid❤😊

@Lynn17 3 года назад

Also: >dub changes a romantic plotline to having the characters be related, changes none of the animation and body language Did some of the writers for this dub go on to work at Cloverway? XD

@SlapstickGenius23 3 года назад

The Pucchi Puransu anime is made by the studio behind Ninja The Wonder Boy and Robby the Rascal.

@ChristopherSobieniak Год назад

Also a animal series called "Don Chuck" about a beaver! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Chuck_Monogatari

@CrowRider1999 4 года назад

This show looks pretty interesting. Talking about adulthood and childhood, it’s definitely something to look at. Also, Netflix STILL does the DVD thing?! I thought they tossed that into the bin in exchange for streaming! This is a shock...

@KKAkuoku 4 года назад

The English theme song is honestly a downgrade from the original Japanese which, for me, is one of the most somberly beautiful anime themes I’ve ever heard.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

The Japanese end theme's not bad either, though it does have little naked babies dancing about! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l0CdKn2dDGc.html

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@@matthewdaley746 That's always the case.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@@matthewdaley746 I suppose hiring a translator for the song or anyone to write lyrics to it, not to mention finding someone to sing it wasn't in Jambre's wheelhouse.

@alessandro1662 4 года назад

*raises hand* I still get Blu-Ray discs in the mail ... It's the only way to get the titles that aren't available from Netflix via streaming, plus sometimes you get lucky and get the non-rental discs with all the bonus content/delete scenes!

@meravl7615 4 года назад

Ummm... At least the bear didn't run away to live on a farm?...

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

Perhaps, though it would make the last section weird all it's own with the kids showing up.

@Cameroo 2 года назад

I do remember growing up with this. But yeah it's indefensibly bad most of the time. The Voltron pedigree is interesting. Both shows pulled this weird switcheroo when a character canonically died in the plot. Very weird.

@FollowMe4REP 2 года назад

I was blowing my nose and thought that “chimney sweep who has a crush on a ballerina” was “chimney sweep who has a crush on a bounty hunter”.

@DLZ2000 4 года назад

Of course I still have a Netflix disc account. It's the only way to get lots of old films. Speaking of Netflix, no mention of the recent feature film adaptation. I thought that I started watching Nickelodeon around 1988 or 1989, but I could have sworn watching the premiere, as well as remembering the episode with nudity. Maybe Nickelodeon was just doing a marathon and promoted it well.

@snowpeck 4 года назад

They only had 26 episodes, so they showed them over and over and over and over.

@nonenone4560 4 года назад

Are you really that confused about why they changed the premise in the dub? It's because the original really didn't have any recurring characters beyond the Prince himself, any recurring locations, or really much else to sell the show on (the other show at least had a dog they could use as a selling point). Adding that bit of the Prince on his planet at the beginning of every episode suddenly made the whole show much more fantastical and easier to market, especially for kids who could only watch the show spontaneously and would never get to see the first/last episode. I'm not saying they SHOULD have done it, but the reasoning makes sense.

@thepantweaver 4 года назад

I agree. Plus, I can't say if the original version had any continuity, but making an opening to each episode where the Prince leaves for Earth (or Earth-like planet) basically means they can air them in any order.

@SavageBroadcast 3 года назад

19:27 If i had to guess why, it was probably for syndication reasons so Nick could air the episodes in any order and not confuse the kids. Not saying it was the right call, but I imagine that was the reasoning.

@kevinalford 4 года назад

Just a spitball here, but, is it possible that those added bits of going to and from his planet were added because the original show had to be edited a certain way? Japanese commercials are generally shorter and fewer than US broadcasts, so perhaps they needed some way of consistently altering the length of each airing?

@codyssmith73 4 года назад

And that's the 2nd youtube channel I watched who mentioned the CED is a thing in 2019. (The other being Technology Communications, whose a fun watch.). Also, I knew of Knack.... but had no idea they did stuff before they became a hentai studio.... >.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

Hentai does pay. But yeah, it can seem sad when the original intentions of a studio fade away.

@beejay271 4 года назад

Lol I forgot about this show. I feel old now😔😁

@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat 4 года назад

The Bear Lived, and So did Sven Member Of The Voltron Force, Yea Right Gotta love 80's & 90's Anime Lies, At least ROBOTECH Didn't Sugar Coat the Death, and Relationships.

@ChristopherSobieniak Год назад

Yes, poor Roy, didn't get to eat his pineapple salad quick enough!

@ryangrayson5958 4 года назад

I remember watching this back in the day. It's interesting to find out that this series first broadcast in Japan on the day I was born.

@ShieAyla 2 года назад

Well kids ARE stupid. I NEVER noticed the repeat scenes, or the backgrounds, and i never cared about the bad lip matching the words. I just loved this show. And the reason the Prince needs to go back home all the time is; the Prince had to go home to keep his promise to HIS ROSE! Duh. And I NEVER noticed that the father and daughter acted flirty or anything. I WAS A KID! Granted I wasn't a kid in 2003! I was a kid in the 80's. We fell for stuff kids nowadays wouldn't.

@ChristopherSobieniak Год назад

Yes, I was 6 in '83. The "kids are stupid!" really explains what execs. thought of us then when shoving toy-based crap like He-Man happened.

@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat 4 года назад

Yea The Chimney Sweep Being the Ballerinas Father. Makes as Much Sense as Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Uranus Being Cousins, when Their Clearly Lesbian Lovers.

@vanzy01 2 года назад

Take Yuri to the dungeon! #4Kids #Jambree productions

@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat 4 года назад

So The Book is Closer to the1974 Musical Film Adaptation, Than the Cartoon Adaptation.

@blacksunday7205 4 года назад

You forgot to mention the 2016 re-adaptation of the story on Netflix.

@ChristopherSobieniak Год назад

Good one. I also liked Will Vinton's version from the 70's.

@seanfulldark 4 года назад

And that good old American sensors! I wonder if this is brought to us by the same people who said we should totally make the lesbian couple cousins. This will totally not backfire & awkward at all?

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

No, that was someone else who did that.

@lainiwakura1776 4 года назад

What is it with localized anime for kids cutting out mentions of death in the US? 4Kids did the same thing with Pokemon and Yugioh.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

A lot of companies often followed these procedures, often due to concerns for parent groups or other organizations bitching about it later.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@Thomas' Reactions Certainly big factors at that.

@MegaSparkster 4 года назад

7:50 That film is Lithuanian, I had no idea my country made a little prince movie! I'm not too surprised that they kept the darker elements.

@Dr.Quarex 2 года назад

I can confirm I must have been a stupid kid, as I absolutely loved the show and never once noticed that same scene by the tree in half the episodes.

@good03boy 3 года назад

"This is Belle and Sebastian 2.0 aka The Adventures of The Little Prince."

@TigerNightmare 4 года назад

I remember this show came and went, but years later, I was flipping channels and there was a Spanish dub version of this playing. And it was that scene where the two boys were naked. Uncensored. Pretty startling to see animated boy peen on regular free FCC regulated TV.

@bluebaron6858 Год назад

The Spanish dubbers did not care! Look at how the old Doraemon series aired with shizuka in the water!

@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat 4 года назад

He Travels the Cosmos without a Space Suit.

@joncarroll2040 Год назад

Is it just me or does the Little Prince sound sort of like Jake Lloyd in Phantom Menace?

@Martialartfruituser 4 года назад

"Does Star Trek hold up well in animation?" Yes, yes it does. It's one of flimation's best works, accurate to the point one of the episodes was actually considered cannon to Spock's backstory (Yesteryear) and had some interesting new crewmembers like Mress and Atax. So yes, it holds up

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

That's "Filmation".

@bakomusha 4 года назад

Filmation had MUCH better work then STA, but where STA worked was plots you just couldn't do in live action. (Even with the janky cheap animation that some how still one them awards!)

@Martialartfruituser 4 года назад

@@ChristopherSobieniak WHOOPS! Finger slipped

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@@bakomusha It's often said the studio's strengths were in their writing.

@TheEman590 4 года назад

@@matthewdaley746 The background art in filmation shows were beautiful and the character designs weren't bad. But I agree that it was done on the cheap. Some more than others, but at least the shows were memorable like the Groovie Ghoolies, Tarzan cartoon, Space Sentinels, New Adventures of Batman, Flash Gordon, Fat Albert, all the way up to BraveStarr. And of course He-Man and She-Ra as well as the other Ghostbusters.

@gatorboymike 4 года назад

Soooo...when do we get to Count Duckula?

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

Probably another dozen or so shows.

@TheEman590 4 года назад

When he gets to 1988. The year of Don't Just Sit There, Kids Court Looney Tunes, and the inaugural year of NIck Junior, and the first annual Kids Choice Awards.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@@TheEman590 1988 will certainly be a big year for that.

@TheEman590 4 года назад

@@ChristopherSobieniak Yes, it certainly will. I was 3 years old that year, the perfect time for a preschooler to enjoy David the Gnome and Noozles, while waiting for the big kid shows like Double Dare and Inspector Gadget to come on.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@@TheEman590 I was 11.

@119Agent 3 года назад

I still have a “2 -at-home” subscription.

@bluebaron6858 Год назад

Anime hooray!

@michaelbuono4007 5 месяцев назад

😂14:20 if they did that now a days you’re going to jail or be on a list

@119Agent 3 года назад

I named by Great Pyrenees Belle after Belle and Sebastian.

@heidifedor 4 года назад

I just remember that it seemed depressing where this little kid lived.

@YouMookSaidOsmosis 4 года назад

12:47 - Did anyone notice the Shin Chan footage?

@devinsmith4790 Год назад

Man that incomplete background loop is distracting as hell once pointed out.

@Lurker1979 3 года назад

So, I did not imagine this.

@CinnamonGrrlErin1 4 года назад

I remember owning a VHS release that had, I think, the first couple of episodes on it. I didn't hate it, but I think I must have found it boring, because it was one we donated to our local library.

@jps8080 Месяц назад

What are you saying at 17:54? "since the Little Prince only catched x comet"? Or "catched a scomet" meaning you started to say an s but then tried to audible? Either way, it's "caught." No?

@bakomusha 4 года назад

Once I get done slowly building a new computer I'll throw money at the patreon.

@TheHeroOfTomorrow 4 года назад

I hate to quote this guy, but: “That’s a DICK!”

@Rmlohner 4 года назад

I still get DVDs from Netflix.

@TheEman590 4 года назад

So did I. I may consider doing it again as renting movies at 4 dollars a piece isn't cheap.

@RoyStorey 4 года назад

i used to too, but after they hiked up the price for a streaming+dvd account i had to stop. was a nice service though and they had a lot of rare stuff too.

@JasonStillwell 9 месяцев назад

netflix no longer mails dvds

@bradyanderson6311 4 года назад

You nick jr aired it too, right?

@juliamavroidi8601 3 года назад

*implies The Little Prince is nonreligious* 🧐

@ShadowWingTronix 4 года назад

Didn't they also make the flower a horrible...person I guess works in this case...by making her rude and demanding attention? I also noticed the name Julie Dees (aka Julie McWhirter), the voice actress who I believe was married to weekend radio host Rick Dees at the time. Oh, and advanced warning: As a defender of Filmation and seeing how many animation reviewers who didn't grow up with them treat their work I'm going to be very curious how you approach this. And as a Christian I'm curious about one particularly infamous episode that didn't belong on a 1970s Saturday morning show...at least not with the message as interpreted.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

I used to watch a lot of Filmation in my youth. People tend to say their strengths were in their stories.

@ShadowWingTronix 4 года назад

Exactly. What they might have lacked in animation (using as much stock footage and reused elements as they could get away with) their stories were great. They didn't talk down to kids but treated them as intelligent, knowing what they could handle and couldn't in their action shows, and had good messages while leading the way in the treatment of women and characters of color, something we supposedly still lack today.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 года назад

@@ShadowWingTronix Sometimes I wish we had a studio like Nippon Animation that did the sort of works America needed that was well written but perhaps also better executed.

@ShadowWingTronix 4 года назад

There are various shows that are underrated if they're mentioned at all (Mission America is a good example), although I can't think of one animation company or distributor alone who got it perfect, depending on your tastes and preferences.Come to think of it, there are anime studios that also can produce some clunkers among their hits or hits among their clunkers. We just usually get the better stuff now.

@ShadowWingTronix 4 года назад

I've heard of it but never saw it. I actually meant Invasion America, so I was still wrong. :)