Line #21 Anime/HoneyBeeHutch


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3	''Konchu Monogatari Minashigo Hutch'' was an {{anime}} that ran from April 7, 1970 to September 8, 1971 on Creator/FujiTelevision for 91 episodes. A 26-episode sequel, with character designs by a young Creator/YoshitakaAmano, aired in 1974 on NET (now Creator/TVAsahi), followed by a reboot on [[Creator/NipponTelevision Nippon TV]] in 1989, with some details changed, and a film adaptation in 2010. It was produced by Creator/TatsunokoProduction, and is a very well-remembered anime in Japan.
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5	The story was about Hutch, a honeybee who was separated from his mother, a queen bee, when her hive was attacked by a swarm of hornets. The series followed him as he searched for his mother, meeting many insects along the way. The sequel four years later began with Hutch and his sister Aya being forced to journey in search of the Beautiful Hill, on which their kingdom may be reborn.
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7	Creator/SabanEntertainment adapted the show in 1995 for the Western world (as ''Honeybee Hutch''), cutting the 91 episodes down to [[SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon 65]]. This version ran all over the world, including Creator/FoxKids in Europe. The series also had had earlier Spanish and French dubs produced, with the first French dub, ''Le petit prince orphelin'' (Little Orphan Prince), also airing on Creator/{{TVA}} in Quebec. Perhaps the foreign market where the series was most successful was Italy, where all three TV series were dubbed.
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9	Compare to the considerably LighterAndSofter, and also iconic, ''Anime/MayaTheBee''.
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12	!! This anime provides examples of:
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14	* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Compare the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQ6_6pUyzc original theme]] to [[http://www.shukilevy.com/Shuki_Levy_Online/Honeybee_Hutch_Theme.html the dub's theme]].
15	** Averted with the original (1979) French dub of the 1970 series, which kept the Japanese score ''and'' theme songs.
16	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: As expected due to the fantasy-ish setting and heavy anthromorphization; for one, bee children look nothing like their adult forms, and all worker honeybees, and therefore most honeybees, are in fact female. Also, almost everyone is drawn with four legs. And in the first series, the species of Hatch's adopted family isn't even a real type of bee.
17	* ComingOfAgeStory
18	* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Hatch. It's even in the title, in the original French dub as well as in Japanese.
19	* ADogNamedDog: "Hachi" means "bee", and is a homophone for "Hutch" in Japanese.
20	* DubNameChange: Happened to a few characters in Saban's dub. In particular, Hutch's sister Aya became "Haley".
21	** Also, in the earlier (non-Saban) Spanish-language dub, Hutch is known as "Jose Miel" ("miel" being the Spanish word for "honey").
22	** In French, the main character is known as Hutchi, Micky, or Hacou, depending on which dub (and which series) you're watching.
23	** Hutch is named Magà in the Italian dubs of all three TV series. As if that weren't enough to create confusion with ''Anime/MayaTheBee'' (the series' titles are even almost identical in Italian - ''L'Ape Magà'' vs. ''L'Ape Maya''), Hutch's sister Aya is called Maya in the first dubs of the first two series. [[note]]The coincidences don't end there. Both shows had English dubs produced by Saban, and the second ''Hutch'' series and the first ''Maya'' series both aired in Japan on NET (TV Asahi) just a year apart.[[/note]]
24	* LighterAndSofter: The 1989 series, compared to the [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids rather dark]] 1970 series.
25	** Also, the Saban dub/edit tones down the dark elements of the original, cutting out a lot of the deaths and suffering.
26	* LostOrphanedRoyalty: Hatch is technically a prince.
27	* MosesInTheBulrushes: Hatch is left in the bushes before being found by his adoptive mother.
28	* NonMammalMammaries: Used quite often.
29	* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: When Saban got through with dubbing it.
30	* SkyFace: In the 1974 sequel series OP, Hutch and Aya see the face of [[spoiler:their mother, who is killed in episode two]] in the sky.
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