Underplayed Gems

The Adventures of the Little Prince (1978)

The Adventures of the Little Prince poster
Original title
星の王子さま プチ・プランス
Directed by
Takeyuki Kanda
Genre
adventure anime and manga, fantasy anime and manga, Adventure
Country
Japan, Canada
Length
1 season, 39 episodes
Rated
L
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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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.

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How it feels

A young prince travels from asteroid to asteroid meeting strange adults and learning about life. He visits Earth where he befriends a pilot stranded in the desert.

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What happens

The Adventures of the Little Prince is an anime series based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Made by the animation studio Knack Productions, the series, originally titled The Prince of the Stars: Le Petit Prince (星の王子さま プチ・プランス, Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu), aired in Japan on the TV Asahi network from July 1978 to March 1979. Dubbed into English, the series premiered in the United States in 1982 on ABC, eventually being rerun on Nickelodeon from June 1, 1985 to December 29, 1989. It was also broadcast on TVOntario throughout the 1980s beginning in 1985, a station that would later pick up the dub of the 2010 French adaptation. Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, of Mobile Suit Gundam fame, was involved in this series as a director. In total, there were 26 episodes aired in English, with 39 episodes made for the original Japanese run. Discotek Media picked up the North American license for the anime in 2017. In May and December of that same year, Discotek Media uploaded a Japanese language (with English subtitles) of the first episode on YouTube, and all 39 episodes of the Japanese language version (with English subtitles) on Crunchyroll. According to The Anime Encyclopedia by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, only the first 35 episodes were actually aired on Japanese TV; the remaining four episodes were unreleased until the series was reissued on video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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