Marine Boy (1966)
- Genre
- science fiction anime and manga, adventure anime and manga
- Country
- Japan
- Length
- 1 season, 78 episodes
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 4.9 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A boy named Marine has underwater adventures. He uses special gadgets and a flying submarine to fight villains and explore the ocean.
energeticwhimsicalretroadventurouslightheartedbrightfast-pacednaive
What happens
Marine Boy is one of the first color anime to be shown in a dubbed form in the U.S., and later in Australia and the United Kingdom. It was originally produced in 1965 in Japan as Undersea Boy Marine (海底少年マリン, Kaitei Shōnen Marin) by Minoru Adachi and animation company Japan Tele-Cartoons. It was sold outside Japan via K. Fujita Associates Inc., with Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Television handling worldwide distribution of the English-language version. The series was distributed in syndication in the United States starting in 1966. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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