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Urikupen Kyūjotai
is a 1974 anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production and directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa. The series premiered on Fuji TV on September 30, 1974, and ended on March 29, 1975. Much later in 1991, Saban Entertainment has licensed and adapted the anime series for a worldwide release outside of Japan under the name, ''Jungle Tales'' and has condensed the 132 5-minute (serialized) episodes into 22 half-hour episodes. The voice casting and the English language dubbing production was done in-house by CINAR Studios, Inc. in Montreal, Canada. It has been broadcast on YTV in Canada. Heavy changes were made to the adaptation dub of the series. One being such is a new music score that was all digitally composed and sampled with an E-mu Proteus 2 Orchestra synthesizer. Other changes involve different character names used and gender changes for two characters. At the end of each condensed episode, a 3-minute music video was added to summarize the episode's plot. Many forei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Sasagawa
is a Japanese creator of several anime and manga series. His name is romanized in some sources as ''Hiroshi Sasakawa''. Sasagawa is better known for directing several anime series including Time Bokan, Speed Racer, The Genie Family, Ninja Hattori-Kun, and Tekkaman: The Space Knight. Early life After working as an assistant to Osamu Tezuka and then as a manga artist, he became active as a director from the founding of Tatsunoko Production. He was one of the key figures in Tatsunoko's golden age from the 1970s to the 1980s. His representative works include the '' Time Bokan series''. He handled many gag works and excelled at directing gags that utilized repetition. He was known as the "Emperor of Gag Anime" and "Kin-chan of the Anime World" (referring to Kin'ichi Hagimoto, a famous comedian). However, he himself reportedly preferred serious stories like '' Neo-Human Casshern''. From the 1980s to the early 1990s, after leaving Tatsunoko Production, he worked on many Fujiko Fuj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |