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
Original network	TV Osaka
Original run	October 7, 1983 – March 30, 1984
Episodes	52
Anime television series
Directed by	Shuichi Nakahara Tatsuo Shimamura
Studio	Mushi Production, Studio Cosmos
Original network	TV Osaka
Original run	October 9, 1984 – April 9, 1985
Episodes	52

Taotao (タオタオ絵本館^?, Tao Tao Ehonkan) is an anime series aired for 52 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.

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.