Adventures of the Little Koala
| Adventures of the Little Koala | |
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コアラボーイコッキィ (Koara Bōi Kokki) |
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| Genre | Comedy, Adventure, Education |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Takashi Tanazawa |
| Produced by | Yoshihiro Osada (OSADA Co.), Daisaku Shirakawa (Hakuhodo), Toru Hara (Topcraft) |
| Written by | Ken'ichi Ogawa, Kiichi Takayama, Mamoru Kanbe, Nanako Watanabe, Naoko Miyake, Riki Matsumoto, Toshiaki Imaizumi, Toshiro Ueno, Tsuyoshi Yatsuki, Yoshiaki Yoshida |
| Music by | Kunihiro Kawano |
| Studio | Topcraft |
| Licensed by | Tohokushinsha Film, Cinar Films, Viacom |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
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| Original run | October 4, 1984 – March 28, 1985 |
| Episodes | 52 |
Adventures of the Little Koala (コアラボーイコッキィ Koara Bōi Kokki?) is an anime television series produced by Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. It aired originally in Japan on TV Tokyo from October 4, 1984 through March 28, 1985, and then aired in the United States on Nickelodeon (until it moved to the Nick Jr. block in 1988) dubbed in English from June 1, 1987 until April 2, 1993. It also aired in Greece, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, in the Arabic-speaking world and other countries, but its biggest success by far was in the United States on Nickelodeon. Production of the English and French versions of the series was done by the Canadian studio Cinar Films. The storyline revolved around Roo-bear Koala and his friends and their utopian village in a fictional version of New South Wales Australia, within the shadow of a real rock formation known as The Breadknife.
In 1984, the Tama Zoo in western Tokyo welcomed its first koala, and the government of Australia sent six koalas to Japan as a token of goodwill. As a result, according to The Anime Encyclopedia by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, Japan went into a koala frenzy and anything to do with koalas became very popular. It was during this "koala-mania" that The Adventures of the Little Koala was made, as was another anime on Fuji TV, Nippon Animation's Fushigi na Koala Blinky, which would later be broadcast alongside Little Koala on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in 1988, as Noozles.
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