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The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli’s on the Run

The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli’s on the Run (2030) is the Disney + (and direct to DVD/Blu Ray) anime sequel to The Jungle Book (2016)  Runtime: 106 mins  The story begins when Bagheera finally tells Mowgli that the little boy Nathoo was eaten by the late Shere Khan 3 years ago in the Savannah. He now has cubs with a normal coloured leopardess whom he’s in love with. Baloo, Bagheera and Mowgli will journey through the dry Savannah once more, which suggests that the original man-village has seen a decline in residents throughout his birth mother and birth father’s time. As a girl named Shanti escapes a depressed, aggressive golden jackal named Tabaqui (who instead works for Kaa the Python and the vultures in the upcoming film rather than for Shere Khan like in the Rudyard Kipling books), Raksha, Rama and Akela’s young cubs, Grey Brother, Akru and Sura, would then follow the footsteps of Hathi’s youngest son, the toddling Hathi Jr, into the limelight of the water truce along with...

Jungle Book dubbing

Jungle Book Soyuzmultfilm - Russian, English, Italian, German  (Das Dschungelbuch ), Portuguese (O Livro da Selva), Lithuanian ,  Spanish, Czech ( Kniha Džunglí),   Bulgarian (Маугли Момче от джунглата), Serbian   (Мовгли) , French  Nippon Animation's The Jungle Book: Shonen Mowgli - Japanese  ( ジャングルブック少年モーグリ ), Bulgarian  (Книга за джунглата), Czech  and Slovak  (Knihy Džunglí/Kniha Džungle/Kniha Džunglí), Cantonese, Serbian  and  Croatian (Knjiga O Džungli/Књига о  џунгли),  Spanish (El Libro De  La Selva /El Libro De La Jungla), Russian (Книга джунглей), Finnish ,  French (Le Livre De La Jungle), Japanese , Icelandic   (Skógarlíf), Italian  (Il Libro Della Giungla), Hindi ( जंगल की कहानी / मोगली ), Tamil ( ஜங்கிள் புக் ), Portuguese (O Menino Lobo/O Livro Da Selva), Malayalam ( ജംഗിൾ ബുക്ക് ), Faroese, Malay (Rimba Mowgli), German  (Das Dschungel Buch  - Die Serie), Tamil, Mandarin Chinese...

Taekwon V’s confusing legacy

In comparison to Taekwon V, Kinnikuman is crudely inspired by Indian Mythology, according to my surprise survey at USYD. 

The Shogakukan Lost Media index: Tropics and Woods

This is why only Shōnen Keniya, Shōnen Brooba, Shōnen Urufu and Shōnen Ōja are remembered. Picture story Prince of the Jungle (密林の王子)  Author: Hiroshi Yada (矢田洋)  Illustrator: Tatsuji Ishii (石井達治) aka Hideo Kikawa (木川秀雄)  Picture story Jungle King (ジャングル大王) Author: Toshihiko Miya (宮敏彦)  Illustrator: Tetsuya Fukao (深尾徹哉)  Picture story Angel of the Jungle (密林の天使)  Author: Ken Sawada (沢田謙)  Illustrator: Takao Hashimoto (橋本隆雄) Picture story Princess of the Jungle (密林の王女)  Author: Osamu Hashimoto (蓮本おさむ)  Illustrator: Omizu Suzuki (鈴木御水)  Picture story Children of the Forest (森の子どもたち) Author: Kiyoshi Shimizu (清水暉吉)  Illustrator: Goichi Yanagawa (梁川剛一) 

Light Novels; Kamen Rider Eve

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Kamen Rider Eve is a so bad it’s good marvel at how the universe of the Kamen Rider manga really works. It’s not completed for a generally good reason due to the lengthy development hell of its concept character as a Kamen Rider himself.  Otherwise he looks like Sōji Yamakawa’s Tiger Boy, especially the postwar version in illustrated story form. I'd review this book next time! 

I think we shall give a look at how flow animation was made!

There is no major way that the anime industry would debut 4 whole generations of innovators and influential animators, without Sakuga for money. It sounds like overwork and quasi-slavery in an unsympathetic light, but those workers remain smart enough to have gained tons of money, so I am deeply thankful that Tokyo is recovering slowly but happily from WW2.