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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.

peter-280

Prince Planet - Domo Arigato to the producers and animators

As a boy growing up in Melbourne, Australia in the 60's / 70's, probably the best shows on TV I remember were Prince Planet, Astro boy and Marine Boy. Nothing comes even close to it these days ( except for the digitised Starship Troopers chronicles. When I was in Japan in '97, I came across a T-shirt store in Tokyo that had a picture of Prince Planet on its T-shirts. I'm kicking myself that I didn't buy a half dozen or so to bring back to good old Oz. Japanese animation has always facinated me. Prince Planet was one of the best in those early days. The theme song is still in my mind, as well as the lyrics. One of the local video stores here has some early Japanese animation. Prince Planet and Astro Boy are part of their collection.The good old days....................

Capuchin

Anyone remember this show?

I used to watch this show on channel 44 in Chicago, first at noon right after Kimba in '72, and then around 4pm. I loved this show and would really like to have it on video. If someone knows of a source, please post it.

gkjjehunter

need remastered on DVD

If someone knows a producer or someone who can find the original film negs for 'Prince Planet', I would love to buy it if no one is going to put it on DVD. Please someone find the original and put it on DVD! I loved that show. watched when i was 5 in coco beach, Florida. the song, the stupid little flying kid with the medallion that needed recharged. silly, but good memories along with speed racer, i dream of Jeannie, batman, get smart, mission impossible, and Kimba the white lion. they may not seem important now, and maybe too few people care now, but if marketed as vintage rare and coveted cartoons of childhood long forgotten, i think people would grab them like ice cream from an ice cream truck on a hot Saturday afternoon.

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.

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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.