Adventures of the Little Koala (known in Japan as Koala Boy Kockey
(コアラボーイコッã‚ã‚£, Koara BÅ i 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 (later
moved into the Nick Jr. block upon its launch at the start of 1988)
dubbed in English from June 1, 1987, until April 2, 1993. The
storyline revolved around Roobear Koala (voiced in English by former
child actor Steven Bednarski, now an award-winning medievalist and
historian at the University of Waterloo) and his friends and their
utopian village in a fictional version of New South Wales, Australia,
known in the Japanese version as Yukari Village, within the shadow of
a real rock formation known as the Breadknife.Production of the
English and French versions of the series was done by the Canadian
studio Cinar Films.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.Adventures of the Little Koala was made as Japan was in
the midst of a koala frenzy along with another koala themed anime
titled 㠵㠗㠎㠪コアラ ブリンã‚ー (The Wondrous Koala
Blinky), which would later be broadcast alongside Little Koala on
Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in 1988, as Noozles. According to The
Anime Encyclopedia by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, Japan's
koala frenzy was sparked by the Tama Zoo in western Tokyo receiving
their first koala as the Australian government sent six koalas to
Japan as a token of goodwill, but in actuality, the Tama Zoo as well
as other zoos in Japan got their koalas because Japan was craving
them, and Little Koala and Noozles had already been airing when the
koalas arrived in October 1984.
(コアラボーイコッã‚ã‚£, Koara BÅ i 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 (later
moved into the Nick Jr. block upon its launch at the start of 1988)
dubbed in English from June 1, 1987, until April 2, 1993. The
storyline revolved around Roobear Koala (voiced in English by former
child actor Steven Bednarski, now an award-winning medievalist and
historian at the University of Waterloo) and his friends and their
utopian village in a fictional version of New South Wales, Australia,
known in the Japanese version as Yukari Village, within the shadow of
a real rock formation known as the Breadknife.Production of the
English and French versions of the series was done by the Canadian
studio Cinar Films.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.Adventures of the Little Koala was made as Japan was in
the midst of a koala frenzy along with another koala themed anime
titled 㠵㠗㠎㠪コアラ ブリンã‚ー (The Wondrous Koala
Blinky), which would later be broadcast alongside Little Koala on
Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in 1988, as Noozles. According to The
Anime Encyclopedia by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, Japan's
koala frenzy was sparked by the Tama Zoo in western Tokyo receiving
their first koala as the Australian government sent six koalas to
Japan as a token of goodwill, but in actuality, the Tama Zoo as well
as other zoos in Japan got their koalas because Japan was craving
them, and Little Koala and Noozles had already been airing when the
koalas arrived in October 1984.
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