What A Cartoon! - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water "Marie's Island"
Added 2019-09-30 04:01:00 +0000 UTCBefore Neon Genesis Evangelion changed the anime landscape in the mid-'90s, the animation studio GAINAX had their first stab at a full TV series with Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. Based on the remnants of an old pitch by none other than Hayao Miyazaki himself, Nadia came into being as a highly troubled production, fraught with many difficulties, including some serious internal drama at GAINAX. Despite these issues, Nadia stands as a fascinating series with a seemingly lighthearted exterior that masks some serious darkness within. On this installment of What A Cartoon!, we take a look at an episode where the tone shifts from Ghibli to Evangelion: "Marie's Island."
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Here in italy all the World Masterpiece theatre series have been dubbed and played on national tv starting with Fables of the Green Forest in 1979 up to the most recent one in 2009. Heidi was a big part of my childhood! Nadia meanwhile got his first run in 1991 and was reaired at least until the early 00s since that's when i remember seeing it. Unfortunately i never got really into watching it but after listening to the episode i'm gonna get on that.
ThePich
2019-10-05 14:56:07 +0000 UTCThis is another case of me not knowing anything about the show before watching it for the podcast, and this was GREAT. I didn't expect it to get so serious/depressing so that turn was crazy and really goes to show how well anime holds up compared to a lot of counterparts from American cartoons of the same era.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2019-10-02 01:10:33 +0000 UTC
