History Anime / MiimuIroIroYumeNoTabi

The second series introduces, as a regular part of the setting, something it calls "the INS" (short for "Information Network System") -- in other words, the Internet -- the depiction of which, despite a few [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Jetsons]]-esque flourishes, hits far more often than it misses; indeed, it's quite jarringly uncanny to watch it now.

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* LostInTranslation: None of the foreign dubbed versions released in the '80s and '90s kept the name of the title character -- not French ("Ordy"), German ("Lexi"), Dutch ("Slimpie"[[note]]It means "Smarty"[[/note]]), Arabic ("Labiba"), or Spanish ("Mim" -- close but no cigar, the Spanish word for "meme" is actually "mem"). Apparently no-one could quite get their head around this business about people discovering a [[MemeticMutation "meme" on the "Information Network System"]].

''Miimu Iro Iro Yume no Tabi'' (''Miimu: The Various Dream Journeys'') is a 1983 educational cartoon made by Creator/NipponAnimation and aired on the [[Creator/TokyoBroadcastingSystem TBS]] network, similar in many ways to the contemporary ''[[WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois Once Upon a Time... Man]]'' and, to a lesser extent, ''Anime/{{Superbook}}''. Every week a strange creature called Miimu[[note]]"Miimu" is the Japanese interpretation of the English word "meme", meaning a "unit of cultural information".[[/note]] is summoned out of a personal computer to narrate the history of an invention or scientific discovery. In the first series, set in the [[NextSundayAD "present day"]] (for 1983), she is called on by a a pair of constantly quarreling siblings, from the second series and onward, set [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture about a generation in the future]] (again, from 1983), she appears to the members of a Little League baseball team.

''Miimu Iro Iro Yume no Tabi'' (''Miimu: The Various Dream Journeys'') is a 1983 educational cartoon made by Creator/NipponAnimation and aired on the [[Creator/TokyoBroadcastingSystem TBS]] network, similar in many ways to the contemporary ''[[WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois Once Upon a Time... Man]]'' and, to a lesser extent, ''Anime/{{Superbook}}''. Every week a strange creature called Miimu[[note]]"Miimu" is the Japanese interpretation of the English word "meme", meaning a "unit of cultural information".[[/note]] is summoned out of a personal computer to narrate the history of an invention or scientific discovery. In the first series, set in the [[NextSundayAD "present day"]] (for 1983), she is called on by a a pair of constantly quarreling siblings, from the second series and onward, set [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture about a generation in the future]] (again, from 1983), she appears to the members of a Little League baseball team.

* LifeImitatesArt: The "INS", in second series. Computer monitors in the second series all have built-in "webcams", but are [=CRTs=] and not flatscreens.

''Miimu Iro Iro Yume no Tabi'' (''Miimu: The Various Dream Journeys'') is a 1983 educational cartoon by Nippon Animation, similar in many ways to the contemporary ''[[WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois Once Upon a Time... Man]]''. Every week a strange creature called Miimu[[note]]"Miimu" is the Japanese interpretation of the English word "meme", meaning a "unit of cultural information".[[/note]] is summoned out of a personal computer to narrate the history of an invention or scientific discovery. In the first series, set in the [[NextSundayAD "present day"]] (for 1983), she is called on by a a pair of constantly quarreling siblings, from the second series and onward, set [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture about a generation in the future]] (again, from 1983), she appears to the members of a Little League baseball team.

''Miimu Iroiro Yume no Tabi'' (''Meme: The Dream Journeys'') is a 1983 educational cartoon by Nippon Animation, similar in many ways to the contemporary ''[[WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois Once Upon a Time... Man]]''. Every week a strange creature called Meme is summoned out of a personal computer to narrate the history of an invention or scientific discovery. In the first series, set in the [[NextSundayAD "present day"]] (for 1983), she is called on by a a pair of constantly quarreling siblings, from the second series and onward, set [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture about a generation in the future]] (again, from 1983), she appears to the members of a Little League baseball team.

* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: Averted in the second series premiere--the very first thing Meme does, on appearing to the Little Leaguers, is explain to them that their plan to use the INS to improve their strategy is very unlikely to work, as Little League players generally don't have published stats.

* LostInTranslation: None of the foreign dubbed versions released in the '80s and '90s kept the name of the title character -- not French ("Ordy"), German ("Lexi"), Arabic ("Labiba"), or Spanish ("Mim" -- close but no cigar, the Spanish word for meme is actually "mem"). Apparently no-one could quite get their head around this business about people discovering a [[MemeticMutation "meme" on the "Information Network System"]].

* ReTool: The second series starts over with an entirely new cast save for Meme herself.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Happens quite a lot, to the point of absurdity in the case of ThomasEdison, who comes across as a meek and put-upon inventor rather than as a cutthroat industrialist.