I just discovered The Mysterious Cities of Gold and I'm hooked. Are there any other (potentially rare) animated series with a similar vibe?
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Time Jam: Valerian and Laureline?
Are you actually going to watch the entire thing?
The old Season 1 from 1982 AND the new Seasons 2-3-4 from 2012-2020?
That's 117 episodes.
As near as I can tell, there were only 39 episodes, the English dubs of which aired between 1986 and 1990.
I just discovered it like, 4 years ago. Feels weird not growing up with something like this, that I really should have grown up with
the continuation series was okay, it didn't have any casual incidental nudity but it did have a bit of implied nudity, i'll take it. Unfortunately, as far as I know, they stopped dubbing it at a certain point
wait so that's over? well I guess I didn't think it would last forever.. didn't think it'd take 8 years to make 3 seasons though
>wait so that's over? well I guess I didn't think it would last forever.. didn't think it'd take 8 years to make 3 seasons though
The big finale of Season 4 felt pretty anticlimactic, to be honest.
I only found out how it ends by reading a google translated of the French wik.
I love the old show but I can't watch the new seasons. The animation is just too terrible.
it's quite unique. the only other example is Ulysses 31, another French-Japanese coproduction from the 1980s created by the same French guy.
I always associate Galaxy Express 999 with Ulysses 31
I’m annoyed the person who did an English sub for the French language version only did the first three episodes as a project.
An anon on Cinemaphile was subbing the French version of season 2 when it was new as well but stopped a few episodes short of the end of the season. DVDs were only in English OR French so there was no way to finish the season in French with English subtitles. I'm still salty lol
This show was a big part of my very early childhood, which should tell you how old I am. In 2019 I watched it again from start to finish and it held up very well. It was like returning to an old memory.
Ulysses 31 I only learned about a few years ago, and I haven't watched the whole series, but the vibe is very similar. A lot of the same people, same general time period. Similarly likeable characters. I should sit down and watch it in full.
I used to watch a block with this, and Sparticus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.
On Nickelodeon.
>On Nickelodeon.
Probably, yeah. Hard to remember because my parents pirated satellite TV so I watched a lot of obscure channels as a kid but that sounds right.
Tintin
Uncle Scrooge
Ulysses 31
Les Maîtres du temps
The Courageous Princess
Jonny Quest
The live action TV Japanese Journey To The West, Monkey.
I dunno maybe look into other french-japanese and italian-japanese co-productions
Do Euro-Japanese co-productions like these still happen these days? Are any of them even remotely similar to Mysterious Cities of Gold's vibe?
It's anthology rather than serial, but I'm now re-watching Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, and it's efficient and compelling storytelling from a similar era/vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvtqBMFlziB73OOAblJXMZxX7o7_BmXt2
Watching Moomin with my son on YouTube. Shits nuts.