Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli

The Jungle Book series title card
ジャングルブック 少年モーグリ
(Janguru Bukku Shōnen Mōguri)
Genre Adventure, Action, Drama
Anime television series
Directed by Fumio Kurokawa
Written by Kimio Yabuki
Music by Hideo Shimazu
Studio Nippon Animation
Doro TV Merchandising [1]
Original network TV Tokyo
Original run October 2, 1989 October 10, 1990
Episodes 52

Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli (ジャングルブック 少年モーグリ, Janguru Bukku Shōnen Mōguri) is an anime adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's original collection of stories, The Jungle Book. It aired in 1989, and consists of a total of 52 episodes.

The series, a compromise between the original Mowgli stories and the Walt Disney version, received international acclaim and was aired in different countries around the world.[2]

Plot

Mowgli is a man-cub who was raised by Akela's pack. He grows up in the jungle with Baloo, Kaa and Bagheera while ending up having to deal with the plots of Shere Khan and Tabaqui.

Characters

Main characters

Supporting characters

The family of the Seeonee wolf pack

Villains

Episodes

Release and air dates

Country Air Date Original Title Channel
Japan 2 October 1989 "Janguru Bukku shonen Môguri" TV Tokyo Original time : 10A.M- 11 A.M
India July 1993 "The Jungle Book" Doordarshan Original time : 12 P.M - 1P.M

Voice cast

Japanese

English

Hindi

Music

The Japanese opening and closing themes, "Get UP ~Aio Shinjite~ (Get UP ~I Believe in Love~)" and "Chikyuu No Ko (地球の子 lit. "Child of the Earth") are sung by the Japanese vocalists Toshiya Igarashi and Shiori Hashimoto respectively. Music from the Japanese version of Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics was recycled for the anime.

The French version features similar opening and closing themes. The English opening and closing themes, "Wake Up" and "A Child is learning", are both sung by the American vocalist Suzi Marsh.

The anime was dubbed into Hindi and was broadcast as "The Jungle Book" by DD National in India during the 1990s, from 1993 till 1994 throughout the run. The Hindi version of the title song, Jungle Jungle Baat Chali Hai (जंगल जंगल बात चली है), was very popular. It featured original music by Vishal Bhardwaj and lyrics by Gulzar.[4][5]

Languages

These are the Japanese and English versions of The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli (Janguru Bukk Mowgli/Shōnen Mowgli).

VHS and DVD releases

In 1990, Strand VCI Entertainment released only the first seventeen episodes separately on VHS under the title of "The Jungle Book". They were distributed by Nippon Video. They are now out-of-print. However, under its original title, the show has been released as a couple of DVD box sets of the entire series in its country of origin, Japan, and as select individual episodes on four DVDs (two episodes per DVD) in Australia. In India, the entire series has been released as an eight-volume DVD box set in English and Hindi separately by Eagle Home Entertainment. An Italian version was released on DVD on June 16, 2008. These are the few international nations (probably as far as they are known to date) in which the series has been brought to DVD. A couple of DVD releases in the United States by Shout! Factory, one a single disc under the title "The Jungle Book: Adventures of Mowgli-The Beginning" and the other a six-disc collection of the whole series titled "The Jungle Book: Adventures of Mowgli-Complete Collection" were released on June 18, 2013. They featured high quality recordings of the English dub.

Titles released on DVD in Australia include:

Titles to be released on DVD in America include:

UK VHS and DVD releases

VHS Title Release Date Episodes
"A Trip of Adventure and other Stories" 1992 A Trip of Adventure, Return of the Brave, Chilly Woods

References

  1. "Mondo tv S.P.A - LIBRARY The jungle book". Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  2. "A romp through The Jungle Book - IN SCHOOL". The Hindu. 2012-12-25. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
  3. 1 2 3 "Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
  4. Mishra, Ambarish; Devidaya, Namita (2009-02-24). "Gulzar: Man Of many seasons". Times of India. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  5. "On a new track". The Hindu. 2002-07-16. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
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