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1965–1966
30m

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Prince Planet was sent from his home planet Radion to study the people of Earth and help them in their fight against evil. His power comes from a pendant he wears, which can only be recharge... Read allPrince Planet was sent from his home planet Radion to study the people of Earth and help them in their fight against evil. His power comes from a pendant he wears, which can only be recharged by energy transmitted from Radion.Prince Planet was sent from his home planet Radion to study the people of Earth and help them in their fight against evil. His power comes from a pendant he wears, which can only be recharged by energy transmitted from Radion.

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mortonja1

Prince Planet was my Favorite all time cartoon.

My Favorite all time cartoon was Prince Planet, with Astroboy a close second, then Marine Boy, 8th man. What I loved the most was that Prince Planet was innocent... Pure virtue and everything good. When a moral conflict arose where all options were less than perfect, he always chose the closest to perfection. Totally brave and sincere and only used his powers when needed even though in his heart he didn't want to use his powers, but instead he just wanted to be a boy. Now tell me, can you get anymore wholesome than that... Oh BTW! when he wanted to kick Butt, no one could stand in his way. He was awesome in battle. For those who don't know, Prince Planet is now playing online. I don't know if it's against the rules to post the site that plays movies online or not, but the site has been advertised on TV for awhile and is legit.

scarroll-2

Prince Planet Rules

Can anybody remember the way that Prince Planet's medallion would be so low on energy and that his ultimate destruction by his enemies was always narrowly avoided be the professor in some laboratory managing to re-energise his medallion and thus saving the day. I can also vaguely remember lightening,laser type bolts coming from the medallion. I'm not really sure if his opponents were killed or temporarily paralyzed. Could somebody please help me with this?

kumanoken

FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF IMPORTED ANIME

Unlike most of the anime that made its way to the states back in the 1960's, I never saw this one as a kid. I first saw it via a terrible quality VHS tape obtained at a convention in the 1990's and finally saw decent prints of it recently since a couple of episodes are included on the Something Weird Video STARMAN discs. Basically the adventures of a benevolent teen alien hero who has come to Earth to pretty much save us from ourselves, this series has a real charm which is sorely lacking in most cartoons produced nowadays. However, I have found that most of the old anime shows that we used to watch back in the days are simply too primitive to hold the interest of most contemporary children. Oh well, it's fun stuff, and now you know where to find a couple of episodes.

diva4jesus

I thought I was alone....

I remember Prince Planet on TV in Chicago in the mid-70s. My best friends and I were all in love with the main character. I have never met another person who remembers this show, so I'm glad to have found this information! I'd started thinking I was losing it!! :) I used to watch this along with Battle of the Planets and Speed Racer. I wish they would make some comebacks on Boomerang! these were great shows with good characters and usually some morally uplifting message. The Banana Splits were on around the same time, and those have started showing up on cable - Boomerang. I love to see those now and sort of relive the halcyon days of my childhood!

whiskeyhill

My first taste of Japanimation

Yes, WSNS TV-44, Chicago used to air this show (they also aired Speed Racer)in the early 70s. I was about six years old and can only liken the impression it had on me to the Power Rangers or Pokemon infatuation of today. The plot basically surrounded a young boy, Bobby, who (somehow) possessed a medallion through which he became the title hero. Of course his identity was secret and each week he would face his arch enemy. I do recall the very catchy theme song containing lyrics "...he fights bad guys, Prince Planet he's the best... Here comes Prince Planet! Yeah!" Really would like to see it again.

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One of many (and one of the first) Japanese anime television series that became popular beginning in the 1960's. Anime, based on the Japanese-style of manga comic books and novels, had a characteristic animation style that usually featured round faces, overly large eyes, choppy animation (apparently due to lower frame rates than 24 or 29.96 fps which is typical for historically smooth animation), inaccurate visual speech patterns, and unusual facial expressions that accompanied short vocal outbursts of surprise or anger. Anime, because it was Japanese dubbed into English, did not have well synchronized audio-video in its speech, similar to the soon to come at the time big martial arts movies featuring greats such as Bruce Lee. Other anime series from this time-frame that also share most if not all of the above animation traits include Astroboy, Speed Racer, and Kimba the White Lion, among others. Many of those same animation styles can also be found in Japanese-based video games including the Final Fantasy series of video games.