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The Mike Toole Show - Dark Side of the Moomin

Didn't the original author of Pippi Longstocking despise Hayao Miyazaki because he tried making an anime adaptation?

I know Ursula K. LeGuin hates the Earthsea anime film.

... You'd think that the studio would heed the wishes of the original creator and relent, but that's not exactly how it went down. This is one of those legendary backroom stories of the anime business—a combination of Jansson's pointed objections and TMS having a new project, Lupin the 3rd, coming up and distracting some senior staff, actually resulted in their Moomin contract being cancelled after 26 episodes and production getting moved over to Mushi Productions, ...

NearEasternerJ1 wrote:

Yuri Fan wrote: Curiously, most people here in Finland have watched Moomin when they were young, but dislike anime. Little do they know that they had watched anime way back when! Ah, the irony... Ah, but Moomin is of FINNISH origin. Liking a Moomin anime=/=liking anime, because of said nationalistic sentiment. What's more ironic is that most Finnish cannot speak Swedish to save their lives, even though Jove Jansson was a native Swedish speaker.

That, and Swedish is one of our official languages. But hey, who am I to complain? I can't speak Swedish at all. Then again, I've lived most of my life abroad.

Sorry for the off-topic.

Yuri Fan wrote:

NearEasternerJ1 wrote: What's more ironic is that most Finnish cannot speak Swedish to save their lives, even though Jove Jansson was a native Swedish speaker. That, and Swedish is one of our official languages. But hey, who am I to complain? I can't speak Swedish at all. Then again, I've lived most of my life abroad.

I remember seeing posters and flyers for a Moomin exhibition in Osaka last year, and they were peppered with random slogans in Finnish. I was thinking "Um, that's not the language the original books were written in..."

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I'm also left wondering if we'll get more Moomin anime down the road.

Maybe not anime, but something else is on the way: https://www.moomin.com/en/blog/filmlance-international-to-develop-new-moomin-animation-series/

Quoting from the link:

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Filmlance International today announced it has entered into a licence agreement with Moomin Characters and Bulls Licensing to develop the new Moomin animation series.

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Attached to direct is Steve Box, Academy Award winner for Best Animated Feature for Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Strange as to why Nippon Animation only sold their stuff to Europe. A partnership with Disney back then (as a predeccesor to Ghibli) would of made sense I guess.

GOTZFAUST wrote:

Strange as to why Nippon Animation only sold their stuff to Europe. A partnership with Disney back then (as a predeccesor to Ghibli) would of made sense I guess.

Then-Disney was a different beast to the Disney we know today.

Also, they had their own storm brewing that almost crashed the whole company, around mid-80s to beginning of -90s, roughly the timeline between The Black Cauldron and The Little Mermaid. Very much doubt they had any prospective interest or time in a foreign property that directly competed with their own, at that point in time...

The JET TV Anne of Green Gables dub was pretty good, IIRC. Sounded like it was done in Canada, which is appropriate for the story.

Tove Jansson and Astrid Lindgren most likely knew of each other. Tove, hailing from Åland Islands, certainly had strong connections to Sweden, both authors of children's books writing in the same language and giants in their own trade, it would have been stranger if they weren't acquaintances at least.

I think Europe tends to be gullible enough to pay the high prices they asked for, or have already been in bed with them for along time not to say no. These companies of course manage to get these things total exposure on national TV in a way only America could dream of (due to limited channel availability).

fuuma_monou wrote:

The JET TV Anne of Green Gables dub was pretty good, IIRC. Sounded like it was done in Canada, which is appropriate for the story.

Someone who uploaded many shows on YouTube last year that got removed recently (much to my chagrin) had quite a lot of unique stuff like Maya the Bee, Vicky the Viking, Alice in Wonderland (an anime version done by Nippon Animation) and a obscure Aussie series called "The Zoo Family" (if anyone watched that on Nickelodeon). They had the English dub of "Anne of Green Gables" and I thought it was OK though I thin the dubbing was handled in the UK (people who commented on the first episode complained at how British the people sounded). It's only a shame I didn't save those episodes before they were taken down (I didn't think the guy was legit given the way he had a few US-related stuff up there). Perhaps he should've used Dailymotion instead.

although the translation named the characters Moomi-trolls instead of Moomins for some reason