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werewife
Since: May, 2016
16th May, 2016 10:52:15 AM
Bump
"Books and food, food and books: both excellent things." - Gertrude Stein
Andariel
(Long Runner)
22nd May, 2016 03:33:30 AM
Bump, because I'm now curious too
livewithstyle
Since: May, 2016
22nd May, 2016 08:24:35 PM
The second one seems to describe "Ogon Bat." No mentions of the kids on Wikipedia, but google images shows your golden skeleton with a cape and cane.
I'm looking for the English and original titles for two anime I used to watch in Peru in about 1972-75, dubbed into Spanish. The first featured a handsome hero who traveled a magical world in the company of an old professor-type and an anthropomorphic dog who wore clothes and a pince-nez. They were constantly fighting against a mace-bearing villain who looked like a traditional Japanese ogre and whose sidekick was an anthropomorphic cat. One important element: The hero was armed with a knife that, when drawn, turned into a full-length straight longsword.
The other show featured a professor with two kids, boy and girl (there may have been more characters in the central group) in a modern urban setting. They were constantly fighting a villain with four eyes and catlike ears who was permanently embedded in some sort of columnar structure (never saw his body below the waist) and had a huge army and lots of fancy tech at his disposal. Whenever said villain was about to win (near the end of every episode), the little girl would clasp her hands and pray for help ... whereupon there would appear a golden bat, soon followed by, I'm not making this up, a skeletal Grim Reaper, except with a gold-topped cane instead of a scythe, wearing a big cape; it would then do away with the entire army of henchmen. This show used to freak me out on a regular basis, but like a traffic accident, it was hard to look away!
Thanks very much to all the anime experts out there.
Edited by werewife