Pandalian
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Pandalian (or PandaMonium) is a multinationally developed animated series, with characters created by the Taiwanese company named TVbean, animation produced by Fuji Creative Corporation and Planet Inc. (called PLANET ENTERTAINMENT Inc. starting 2005-9-1) in Japan, with Nelvana and FUNimation jointly control sales, distribution and merchandising rights outside of Asia. On 2004-10-05, Nelvana announced the production of the series.
The series first Taiwanese broadcast in 2004-12-19 on TTW. First Japanese broadcast started in Animax on 2005-01-08, followed by Tokyo MX TV in 2005-4. The series premiered in Canada on YTV on July 5, 2006. A clip of the first episode can be viewed on ytv.com.
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[edit] Story
It follows the story of a fairy named Mi who is sent to Planet Pandasia to warn the residents about a great evil that threatens to destroy Pandasia. She chooses a heroic panda named Toby to defeat Gold and Silver, two villains who want to collect the seven Beans of Power and rid Pandasia of its colourful, beautiful environment and replace it with a dark wasteland.
[edit] Versions
[edit] Japanese version
- Toby: Yumiko Kobayashi
- Love: Akiko Kawase
- Cool: Bakuromi
- Max: Takashi Nagasako
- Oscar: Takurou Nakakuni
- King Audie: Nishimura Tomomichi
- Silver: Nagasako Takashi
- Gold, Panno: Wataru Takagi
- Abby: Yu Kobayashi
- Yubby: Higa Kumiko
- Galoo: Shibata Hidekatsu
[edit] English version
Between May 2005 and December 2005, Nelvana Limited Completed re-packaging 26 episodes of Pandalian for the North American Market. This included new voice talent, story adaptations and new music underscore and theme.
- Julie Lemieux: Toby
- Stephanie Mills: Mi
- Lyon Smith: Cool
- Jamie Watson: Oscar, Silver
- Terry McGarrie: Max, Yubby
- Dwayne Hill: Gold, Abby
- William Colgate: King Audie, Panno
- Peter Cagno: Galoo
- Neil Parfitt: Composer (Theme and Underscore)
- Arlene Bishop: Lyricist (Theme)
- Rob Tinkler: Writer
[edit] Promotions
In 2004-11-22, Taiwan Post Office released 3500 stamps based on the television show.[1]
Between 2004-12-13 and 2005-1-30, TTW hosted 7 prized quiz games, with prizes given to winners correctly answering all 15 questions within 30 seconds.[2] A second series of quiz games were held from 2005-7-11 to 2005-8-8.[3]
TVbean held a lucky draw of 200 museum tickets between 2005-9-23 and 2005-10-5.[4]
[edit] Novels
Novel version of Pandalian was authored by Mami Watanabe, published by JIVE in 2005/6.
[edit] External links
- Official Japanese Pandalian page
- Official Chinese Pandalian page
- TVbean official site
- TTW Pandalian page
- Tokyo MXTV Pandalian page
- YTV Pandalian page
- Nelvana's announcement of Pandalian