> Would this be the show you're thinking of? Looks like the dub had a hell of a cast -- how many
> cartoons can boast both Frankie Avalon and Jonathon Winters? Oh, and read the viewer review on
> the main page, it's rather -- interesting. (With a title like "Like Mr. Hand said, 'Am I *hallucinating*
> here?'", you might suspect the writer has strong feelings on the subject.) What's really surprising
> is that it shares the same source material as Dragonball...
Yes! That is the first time I have seen any online (or offline) reference to it! Thanks!
I _think_ the title was "Alakazam the Great"...
I was also a fan of "Monkey", from the same roots, live action, when that appeared in the UK.
Apart from Alakazam, that was the only anime that I ever saw in general media, until the 1990s, and generally anime does not seem to have got to Britain until the late 1990s, unlike the US and Europe, and then mostly via Cartoon Network, and SciFi cable channel (Britain only got cabled in the mid to late 1990s).
Means we are culturally deprived (not depraved, as I might have suggested on occasion! [grin]).
Mention anything Japanese to some, and you still get comments about WWII... I have been known to make comments about the British Empire and the Opium Wars...
Still, that's getting far too gloomy!
Without the accident at the SF con, I think it unlikely I would have realised that I was an anime fan, until much later.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
> cartoons can boast both Frankie Avalon and Jonathon Winters? Oh, and read the viewer review on
> the main page, it's rather -- interesting. (With a title like "Like Mr. Hand said, 'Am I *hallucinating*
> here?'", you might suspect the writer has strong feelings on the subject.) What's really surprising
> is that it shares the same source material as Dragonball...
Yes! That is the first time I have seen any online (or offline) reference to it! Thanks!
I _think_ the title was "Alakazam the Great"...
I was also a fan of "Monkey", from the same roots, live action, when that appeared in the UK.
Apart from Alakazam, that was the only anime that I ever saw in general media, until the 1990s, and generally anime does not seem to have got to Britain until the late 1990s, unlike the US and Europe, and then mostly via Cartoon Network, and SciFi cable channel (Britain only got cabled in the mid to late 1990s).
Means we are culturally deprived (not depraved, as I might have suggested on occasion! [grin]).
Mention anything Japanese to some, and you still get comments about WWII... I have been known to make comments about the British Empire and the Opium Wars...
Still, that's getting far too gloomy!
Without the accident at the SF con, I think it unlikely I would have realised that I was an anime fan, until much later.
--
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind