The most obscure cartoon EVER: Blue, the Earth Child

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So, I'm back again. Just here to report that, 6 years after creating this thread and mentioning that other cartoon I couldn't remember, the one with the episode I thought was called 'Akeala and the Beast'? Yeah, tonight My brain finally remembered it properly at random. It was really called 'Arkana and the Beast' and the show it's from has already been mentioned in this thread by Hextar Vigar. Only they called it by its original French title, 'Les Mondes Engloutis.' Which to the dozen or so English speakers who actually saw and remember this show is 'Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.' As previously mentioned, the show is about an ancient civilisation that lives in the center of a planet, powered by an artificial sun which is about to kick the bucket and go out. Some kids somehow manage to sneak into the city's super-secret repository of information and create an artificial avatar named Arkana, who they send up to the surface to somehow go find someone who knows how to fix an artificial sun, preferably before everybody dies.

Episode in question has Arkana getting captured by some giant monster who looks like a King Kong sized humanoid mole-beaver thing with one of the most nails-on-a-chalkboard ear bleeding roars I've ever heard. Only he's friendly, but that doesn't stop her friends from trying to kill him, until they figure out that he's good, just dumb and violent. Then she gets rescued and leaves the big monster with a dummy version of her, which he's presumably too dumb to notice never moves or speaks like the real Arkana did. Also the show has a bunch of punk pirates who seem like they're the recurring antagonists.

So yeah, major nostalgia points for finally remembering the episode and character's name correctly. I have no idea where I watched this, it looks WAY too early to be on Nickelodeon (the show does actually have a wikipedia page which says it first aired in 1985, but I thought it was from the 70's from looking at it), but for some reason it stuck in my head deep enough that I remembered it but couldn't pull out the memory until 2021. Maybe it's Arkana's design, she looks kind of like Storm from the X-Men wearing a big white headdress, and I watched a LOT of the X-Men animated series back in the 90's. The show seems enjoyable enough though, the animation is primitive and the dubbing is laughably bad at times, but the premise itself is pretty awesome. I'll probably end up trying to dig up more episodes. Dunno if I'll watch it all, but this was a fun little nostalgia trip for me regardless.

Anyone who remembers this, if you can tell me which channel this aired on in the UK some time in the 90's it'd be appreciated. Because I have no idea where I saw it.

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EDIT: So maybe I should read all of a wikipedia article about an obscure show before I ask questions about it. The wikipedia page says it was on Cartoon Network in the UK. And it was probably around 1991, which means it's literally about as far back as I have coherent memories of. Damn. Now I feel old.

EDIT x2: Cartoon Network first aired in the UK in September 1993, so not quite that far back. Still would have been 8 years old though.

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Edited by OmegaKross on Dec 18th 2021 at 2:30:27 PM