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Post by edmonddantes on Oct 19, 2018 16:44:29 GMT -5
For the purposes of this thread, Anime does not count. Primarily because despite liking anime I would find it annoying to read a bunch of Japanese titles that'll invariably start to run together after about five of them.
But yeah... cartoons (primarily ones that exist in English). What is the most obscure one--whether it be a TV series or movie--you have personally seen?
This isn't "underrated" this is, "does anyone but me even know this thing exists?"
I'll start off... anyone but me ever hear of Sectaurs: Warriors of Symbion? or Spiral Zone?
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Post by lurker on Oct 19, 2018 16:57:36 GMT -5
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Post by edmonddantes on Oct 19, 2018 17:02:39 GMT -5
Oh fuck I remember that thing.
For some reason I now recall a similar cartoon in the late 1990s called "Happy Ness" or something like that which was about nessie-type creatures living secretly and plots would be about a human trying to find them or something like that. It played really early in the morning on weekends so I only saw it once.
As for whether Serendipity violates my rule... its kind of a gray area since I'm sure its English dub is heavily americanized. I just don't want to open the door up to post after post of "most obscure cartoon I saw was this anime that got simulcast yesterday" (which yes a show nobody has had a chance to hear of would indeed be "obscure"). I tend to be more a "spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law" kind of person, for what its worth.
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Post by lurker on Oct 19, 2018 17:09:08 GMT -5
It's also based on a series of books by Stephen Cosgrove, though I think the plot was manufactured for the series/OVA.
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Post by Woody Alien on Oct 20, 2018 16:23:25 GMT -5
I'll start off... anyone but me ever hear of Sectaurs: Warriors of Symbion? or Spiral Zone? I remember Spiral Zone, it was the one with the bad guys being those infected people with a leader looking kinda like Zombie Freddie Mercury, right? It was broadcasted here in Italy around the early Nineties but only very rarely and on some regional channels, still I managed to see a couple episodes. Hilariously the Italian title was "Captain Dick", since main character Dirk Courage's name was unheard of and so they changed it a little...
As for other obscure stuff, when I was a kindergartener I saw a few episodes of a creepy French cartoon called "Clémentine", with a girl on a wheelchair being indirectly antagonized by some sort of monstrous demon. Other kinda obscure kids' cartoons were "Penny Crayon", "Superted!" and other British productions.
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Post by edmonddantes on Oct 20, 2018 22:53:29 GMT -5
I think I used to have a tape of Clementine--in English it was called Clementine's Enchanted Journey, if we're thinking of the same show--she starts off in a wheelchair but some magic bubble or something lets her have adventures across all of time and space and also restores her legs or something?
Or is this a different show?
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Post by Woody Alien on Oct 21, 2018 5:29:21 GMT -5
I think I used to have a tape of Clementine--in English it was called Clementine's Enchanted Journey, if we're thinking of the same show--she starts off in a wheelchair but some magic bubble or something lets her have adventures across all of time and space and also restores her legs or something? Or is this a different show? It's definitely that one.
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Post by Snake on Oct 24, 2018 17:00:09 GMT -5
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Alien plant vehicles are the enemy.
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Post by surnshurn on Oct 25, 2018 23:25:24 GMT -5
One I recently bumped into at random while a friend was searching her streaming movie service
Interesting story - certainly far from modern conventional story lines. I haven't looked into its origins, but it seems late 60's british. The sound hardware reminds me a lot of the Peanuts holiday specials that I grew up with.
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Post by Weasel on Oct 26, 2018 0:17:26 GMT -5
While I certainly didn't see it when it was on, I have owned a few of those "50 classic cartoons" collections on VHS and DVD that have included Mr. Piper, a Canadian series from 1963 that retells classic fables with the help of a jolly opera singer:
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Post by chronotigger65 on Oct 26, 2018 6:22:12 GMT -5
Man there would be a lot to put here for me. For a movie, I'd say there's this one based on Gulliver's Travels that I saw as a kid. Turns out it's the second full length animate movie after Disney's Snow White.
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Oct 27, 2018 5:38:50 GMT -5
For me, I'd have to go with Tijuana Toads
one of the local tv stations used to show this as a filler between shows, during the mid nineties, and sometimes would show other shows by the same animation studio (The Blue Racer and The Dogfather).
Another one I really enjoyed as a kid during the 80s was La Linea
This was shown on ABC (the Aussie one, which is a government owned station.) Back then, they'd have kids shows on in the morning, and during the early part of the day screen educational shows, and La Line was another show that was used as a filler. What I liked most was how the "artist" would sometimes intervene and draw things for the main guy to help him, or punish him.
Lastly, a show I came cross (again on ABC) in the early 2000s was the Big Knights. The concept sounds goofy but damn if this show isn't absolutely hilarious! A complete classic:
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Post by GamerL on Oct 27, 2018 6:05:52 GMT -5
I remember seeing an episode or two of an obscure Klasky Csupo (The Rugrats studio) cartoon called Santo Bugito that didn't air on Nickelodeon (I think it was a saturday morning cartoon on one of the networks)
It was much like A Bug's Life but on a Mexican border town, so there's two Klasky Csupo cartoons similar to later Pixar films (the other being Ahhhh! Real Monsters)
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Post by windfisch on Oct 27, 2018 7:37:53 GMT -5
One I recently bumped into at random while a friend was searching her streaming movie service Interesting story - certainly far from modern conventional story lines. I haven't looked into its origins, but it seems late 60's british. The sound hardware reminds me a lot of the Peanuts holiday specials that I grew up with. "Vicky the Viking" is based on a swedish novel and was produced in Germany where it's known under the name "Wickie und die starken Männer". Animation was outsourced to Japan giving it an distinct Anime flair. It is a pretty good show for children (and I suppose adults, too). However, in Germany this hardly would count as "obscure" as it was and still remains hugely popular.
There also exist two live action movies (post 2000) - I've only seen the first, which was kinda okay, but way too Hollywood-esque and therefore lacking the appeal of the series. And apparently they also made a more recent CG-animated show - which seems to be closer to the original series, but I'm not 100% sold on the new look.
So those who are interested should probably just stick with the 70s original.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 27, 2018 20:07:06 GMT -5
I'll start off... anyone but me ever hear of Sectaurs: Warriors of Symbion? or Spiral Zone?
As for other obscure stuff, when I was a kindergartener I saw a few episodes of a creepy French cartoon called "Clémentine", with a girl on a wheelchair being indirectly antagonized by some sort of monstrous demon.
I think I used to have a tape of Clementine--in English it was called Clementine's Enchanted Journey, if we're thinking of the same show--she starts off in a wheelchair but some magic bubble or something lets her have adventures across all of time and space and also restores her legs or something? Or is this a different show? Looking up Clementine online, that is indeed very weird and kinda creepy, what's up with the people's faces? They each have like the same frozen expression.
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