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SayaAensland
Since: May, 2009
15th May, 2018 10:40:45 AM
Never mind, it's The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee, it's from the 70s.
I honestly cannot remember if it was a Western cartoon or an anime (maybe it was one of those European-Japanese co-productions), I can't even remember if it was a movie or the pilot episode of a series.
But it was about a honeybee. The show begins with a swarm of hornets or wasps attacking a hive of honeybees. The queen flees crying as she witnesses the wasps eating her eggs. After the attack, a bumblebee mother stumbles upon a single egg laying in the grass and takes it back to her hive, alongside her own eggs. The honeybee egg is the last to hatch, and reveals the derpiest looking honeybee, with droopy eyes and buckteeth. I've forgotten the middle section entirely, there was something about general "why am I not like my siblings" angst? And in the end, the bumblebee admits that he's a honeybee, and he flies off as the narration yams about "somewhere out there his real mom was waiting".
The version I saw had a Swedish or German voicetrack with Finnish subtitles. The main character was named Hans, but that might've been a product of a dub. It was NOT Maya The Bee, no matter how Google keeps suggesting it.
Edited by SayaAensland