Prince Planet (1965)

Original title

遊星少年パピイ

Genre

science fiction anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 52 episodes

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy from another planet comes to Earth to check if the world can join a galactic union. He takes the name Bobby and teams up with friends to fight evil forces from space and from Earth.

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What happens

Prince Planet is the English-language title given to one of the earliest anime television series, Planet Boy Papi (遊星少年パピイ, Yūsei Shōnen Papī), when it was transmitted on American television in the United States in the mid-1960s. It did run on "The Works" television network before it ceased operations February 28, 2017. A 52-episode monochrome anime series, it tells the story of a member of the Universal Peace Corps, originally from the planet Radion, coming to Earth on a mission to determine if this world meets standards for membership in the Galactic Union of Worlds and assist its inhabitants during his stay. While on his mission, Prince Planet adopts the identity of an Earth boy named Bobby and gains comrades who work together alongside him fighting forces of evil, both alien and terrestrial. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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