Taotao (anime)

Tao Tao Ehonkan

Screenshot from Taotao
タオタオ絵本館
Anime film
Shunmao Monogatari Taotao
シュンマオ物語 タオタオ
Released December 26, 1981
Anime television series
Directed by Shuichi Nakahara
Tatsuo Shimamura
Studio Mushi Production, Studio Cosmos
Network TV Osaka
Original run October 7, 1983 – March 30, 1984
Episodes 26
Anime television series
Directed by Shuichi Nakahara
Tatsuo Shimamura
Studio Mushi Production, Studio Cosmos
Network TV Osaka
Original run October 9, 1984 – April 9, 1985
Episodes 26

Taotao (タオタオ絵本館 Tao Tao Ehonkan) is an anime series aired for 26 episodes on TV Osaka from October 7, 1983 through March 30, 1984. A second series with the same title was aired from October 9, 1984 through April 9, 1985. Prior to the TV series, an anime film was released on December 26, 1981.They were produced as a Chinese-Japanese joint venture and directed by Shuichi Nakahara and Tatsuo Shimamura.

The series is about the eponymous Taotao, a small panda. In the stories, Taotao has adventures with his animal friends and listens to the stories of his mother, the mother panda.

The theme music of the series was composed by the Czech Karel Svoboda.

International broadcast

The series has been shown in Finnish on the Yleisradio channels. The series was narrated in Finnish by Inkeri Wallenius over the German soundtrack of the Austrian ORF television channel.

The series was also broadcast in Israel where it was dubbed into Hebrew and its theme was sung in Hebrew by the singer Ilanit.

In Greece, the series was broadcast in the 1980s on the TV channel ET1 in Greek.

In the late 1980s it was broadcast in Afrikaans in South Africa. The anime was also broadcast in the early 1990s multiple times as تاو' تاو' and is still popular in the Arab world.

The series was also broadcast in Albania in the late 1980 and early 1990. Meanwhile Albania's communist prime minister Adil Çarçani was informally referred to as Tao Tao by the Albanian dissidents during the protests leading to the fall of communism in Albania.[1][2]

DVDs

In popular culture

The Finnish band Guava published the Taotao theme music as a single in 2003.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-adil-carcani-1236337.html
  2. ↑ http://www.shekulli.com.al/p.php?id=17676

External links

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