Audio Audities

    Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time took the world by storm in 1992.   At least that is what it seemed like to me. Like many 80s and 90s kids, I loved dinosaurs when I was young. One thing I did not love was the way media would often show humans living at the same time as the dinosaurs as if that actually happened in the past. Dinotopia, like The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tries to come up with a plausible explanation for how humans and dinosaurs might live side by side. Then it brings that world to life with some truly beautiful artwork.

  The early years of a big franchise like My Little Pony are interesting to go back to after several toy generations have passed. After all, there is no guarantee that a toy franchise will have staying power even after a handful of successful years. The concept behind the franchise was a little more rudimentary, and the stories were a little different from what would become the norm later on.

  Let’s dive into the next four entries in Nippon Animation’s World Masterpiece Theater series. Keep in mind that, since not every entry received an English dub, I will not be covering all of the different book adaptations that they made. Sadly, many entries have no English dub or even a hint that an English dub ever existed.