Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli

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name = Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli


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ja_name = ジャングルブック　少年モーグリ
ja_name_trans = Janguru Bukku Shōnen Mōguri
genre = Adventure, Action, DramaInfobox animanga/Anime
title =
author = Rudyard Kipling
director = Fumio Kurokawa
studio = Nippon Animation
first = October 2, 1989
last = October 10, 1990
episodes = 52
episode_list = List of Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli episodes

nihongo|"Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli"|ジャングルブック　少年モーグリ|Janguru Bukku Shōnen Mōguri is an anime adaption of Rudyard Kipling's original collection of stories, "The Jungle Book". It aired in 1989, and consists of a total of 52 episodes.

Music

The Japanese opening and closing themes, "GET UP ~Aio Shinjite~" and "Chikyuu no ko" (地球の子 lit. "Child of the Earth"), are sung by the Japanese vocalists Toshiya Igarashi and Hashimoto Shiori respectively. The English opening and closing themes, "Look Up" and "A Child is Learning", are both sung by the American vocalist Suzi Marsh. [ [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1722] ]

Languages

This is Japanese and English version Of Mowgli: The New Adventures Of The Jungle Book (Janguru Bukk Mowgli/Shonen Mowgli)

*English: "Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book"
*German: "Mogli: Neue Abenteuer im Dschungelbuch die Serie"
*French: "Le Livre de la Jungle"
*Italian: "Mowgli Il Libro della Giungla"
*Spanish: "Mowgli El Libro De La Selva"
*Dutch: "Mowgli: Jungle Boek"
*Norwegian: "Mowgli"
*Polish: "Mowgli: Ksiega Dzungli"
*Finnish: "Mowgli: Vidakkokirja"
*Swedish: "Mowgli: Djungelboken"
*Danish: "Junglebogen"

The Japanese anime was dubbed into Hindi and broadcast as "Jungle Book" by DD National in India during the early 1990s. The Indian version featured original music by Vishal Bharadwaj (with words by noted lyricist Gulzar), which made it quite popular that the time.

The Jungle Book: The New Adventures Of Mowgli DVD

Episodes 1-17

*1: "Mowgli is Born"
*2: "The Adventure Continues"
*3: "Mowgli Comes to the Jungle"
*4: "Alexander’s Son"
*5: "An Old Wolf’s Vist"
*6: "A New Friend"
*7: "Kichi is Alone"
*8: "A Devil in Mind"
*9: "More Important than the Law of the Jungle"
*10: "Sorry, Baloo!"
*11: "A Cold Fang"
*12: "A Thief in the Village"
*13: "Mowgli Goes Hunting"
*14: "Return of the Brave"
*15: "Chilly Woods"
*16: "Mowgli’s Journey"
*17: "A Trip of Adventure"

Characters

*Mowgli: The main character of the series. He is still a baby when he becomes lost in the forest of Seeonee. Alexander and Luri, both wolves, adopt him as a son and raise him as a wolf. Mowgli appears to be somewhere between the ages of 7 and 10 during the course of the show, though the first episode shows him as a toddler.
*Alexander: Mowgli's stepfather. Blue/black furred. He becomes leader of the wolf pack when Akela chooses to retire. He has a fight with Vermillion, despite not being willing to do so, to determine the successor to Akela's leadership, in accordance with the Law of the Jungle. During a fire that grazes the forest, Alexander dies defending his pack from Shere Khan.
*Akela: The leader of the pack, notably when Mowgli is first adopted into the pack and during most of Mowgli's younger days. He is very old but very knowledgeable, and is forced out of his retirement after Alexander died.
*Vermillion: Lala's father and Alexander's great friend. He competes with Alexander to be the next leader of the pack, when his father, Akela, chooses to step down. He acquires a scar on his left eye afterwards. His fur is red in colour. It is later revealed that they had also fought previously to decide which one would marry Luri. He later moves away, apparently leaving his daughter behind, and becomes the leader of a pack of wolves in a rocky desert area.
*Luri: Mowgli's stepmother. White in colour with brown ears. A very gentle mother, though strict enough for discipline. With Akela growing old, she replaces him as leader of the pack.
* Sura: One of Mowgli's stepbrothers. Dark-furred like Alexander, and generally a kind but serious wolf. Later in the series, he courts Lala. He is good-humoured, but very protective of his friends and family. By the end of the series, he becomes a father to two cubs.
* Akru: One of Mowgli's stepbrothers. Brown-furred. He is a bit more serious than his brother, Sura, and appears to be the dominant one of the two. Later in the series he courts a white/cream and gold wolf called Mackie. Many fans have made the mistake of thinking Akru was a girl in the Japanese version of the show, mainly because he appeared to be voiced by a woman. However, by the time Mackie was introduced, it was already firmly established that Akru was always intended to be a male.
*Shere Khan: A tiger, who is the main antagonist of much of the series. Cruel and cunning, he violates many Laws of the Jungle, including eating humans and cows, and over-hunting. The injury on his leg is dealt by Alexander in a fight.
*Bagheera: A black panther, and one of Mowgli's friends. He also serves as one of Mowgli's teachers, like Baloo, though he is more enthusiastic and has a gentler approach in some of his lessons. Bagheera spent part of his childhood in the care of an English family.
*Baloo: A bear, and one of Mowgli's friends. He is Mowgli's main teacher of the Laws of the Jungle, and is stricter than Bagheera. He is seen as a "de facto" member of Mowgli's wolf pack.
*Kaa: A python, and one of Mowgli's friends. He also serves as a teacher to Mowgli on a few occasions.
*Tabaqui: Shere Khan's sidekick. Unlike the other versions of Jungle Book, he is a bungling jackal who never seems to get anything right.
*Bacchus: A fat wolf who can never hunt properly. He is more fitted to babysitting the wolf cubs. He appears more often in the first half of the series, and is occasionally used for comic relief.
*Vargas: An old wolf who was saved by Alexander from a pack of wild dogs. He steals food from the pack's storage in his first few appearances.
*Lala: Vermillion's daughter and Akela's granddaughter. She has brilliant red fur, though slightly lighter than her father's. She acts like a tomboy early in the series, and refuses to accept Mowgli as a member of the pack. Later in the series, she grows to her teens and is revealed to be more fond of Mowgli. By the end of the series, she and Sura are the parents of two cubs.
*Kichi: Mowgli's red panda friend. Her parents are killed by humans. Later in the series she lives together with Mowgli in his hut. In the English version, Kichi is referred to as a male. In the German version, Kichi is called Kiki.
*Meshua: A girl to whom Mowgli takes a liking late in the series. She has a pet mongoose named Rikki Tikki, in honour of Rikki Tikki Tavi in one of the short stories in "The Jungle Book". Her grandfather originally found Mowgli when the boy was on his own from his wolf pack, saying the boy reminded him of his grandson. Though Mowgli chooses to remain in the jungle at this time, he does meet his human friend later, along with Meshua. Meshua's family later adopt Mowgli into their family as their new son, since their other son had died.
*Chill: A falcon who served as the messenger for Akela's pack and Hati, the great elephant.
*Hati/Hathi: The great elephant, who serves as the ruler of the whole forest of Seeonee.
*Sandah/Thunder: A young male wolf from Vermillion's pack. He is blue-black in colour. Sandah hates the humans after they killed his sister, and resents Mowgli for being a human. He eventually comes to terms with him, and even though he leaves with Vermillion and his pack, he and Mowgli appear to share a close camaraderie. Sandah seems to be a lieutenant, or beta wolf, to Vermillion.

Notes

ee also

List of Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli episodes

External links

* [http://www.dschungelbuch-die-serie.de/ Fan site (German language)]