Animation Kikō: Marco Polo no Bōken (1979)

Original title

アニメーション紀行 マルコ・ポーロの冒険

Genre

animation

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 43 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Marco Polo travels from Italy to Asia and encounters different cultures and landscapes. The series mixes animation with real documentary footage from the places he visits.

educationalleisurelyinformativenostalgicadventurousgentlecurious

What happens

Animated Travelogue: The Adventures of Marco Polo (アニメーション紀行 マルコ・ポーロの冒険, Animēshon Kikō Maruko Pōro no Bōken) is a Japanese anime television series that aired in 1979 and 1980 in Japan and in the early 1980s in Italy and Portugal, based on The Travels of Marco Polo. It is accompanied with documentary footage from the visited locations. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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