Zukkoke Knight —Don De La Mancha (ずっこけナイトドンデラマンチャ,Zukkoke Naito Don de ra Mancha,lit. 'Foolish Knight —Don of La Mancha ') is a Japanese anime television series based on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote . The 23-episode series was directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and was first broadcast on Tokyo Channel 12 in 1980. [1] [2]
The series was also dubbed in Italian under the name Don Chisciotte.
Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally published in two parts,in 1605 and 1615. Considered a founding work of Western literature,it is often labelled as the first modern novel and one of the greatest works ever written. Don Quixote is also one of the most-translated books in the world and one of the best-selling novels of all time.
Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman,music by Mitch Leigh,and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I,Don Quixote,which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his 17th-century novel Don Quixote. It tells the story of the "mad" knight Don Quixote as a play within a play,performed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. The work is not and does not pretend to be a faithful rendition of either Cervantes' life or Don Quixote. Wasserman complained repeatedly about people taking the work as a musical version of Don Quixote.
La Mancha is a natural and historical region in the Spanish provinces of Albacete,Cuenca,Ciudad Real,and Toledo. It is an arid but fertile plateau that stretches from the mountains of Toledo to the western spurs of the Cuenca hills,bordered to the south by the Sierra Morena and to the north by Alcarria. The La Mancha historical comarca constitutes the southern portion of Castilla-La Mancha autonomous community and makes up most of the present-day administrative region.
Dulcinea del Toboso is a fictional character who is unseen in Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quijote. Don Quijote believes he must have a lady,under the mistaken view that chivalry requires it. As he does not have one,he invents her,making her the very model of female perfection:"[h]er name is Dulcinea,her country El Toboso,a village of La Mancha,her rank must be at least that of a princess,since she is my queen and lady,and her beauty superhuman,since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her;for her hairs are gold,her forehead Elysian fields,her eyebrows rainbows,her eyes suns,her cheeks roses,her lips coral,her teeth pearls,her neck alabaster,her bosom marble,her hands ivory,her fairness snow,and what modesty conceals from sight such,I think and imagine,as rational reflection can only extol,not compare".
Rocinante is Don Quixote's horse in the two-part 1605/1615 novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. In many ways,Rocinante is not only Don Quixote's horse,but also his double;like Don Quixote,he is awkward,past his prime,and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.
Juan Guillermo Aguirre Mandiola,better known as «Memo Aguirre»or «Capitán Memo»,is a Chilean singer and musician famous for performing the opening and closing themes of several Animated series during the 1970s and 1980s.
Yoshinori Kanada was an influential Japanese animator originally from Nara,Japan. He is best known for his popular 1984 work Birth,one of the first original video animations released in the market. Though he did not create many character designs,he was famous for his character animation skills. His work on Galaxy Express 999 (1979) and Harmagedon (1983) were very influential to an entire generation of animators in Japan. These two works also served as partial inspiration for Takashi Murakami's Superflat art movement. During the 1980s and 1990s,he worked closely with director Hayao Miyazaki on several movies from Nausicaäof the Valley of the Wind to Princess Mononoke. He was also known for breaking down the directorial system in animation,allowing individual key animators to exert their own style into a particular work. He died at the age of 57 of a heart attack on July 21,2009. His works inspired the art and works of animators such as Hiroyuki Imaishi,Masahito Yamashita,Akira Amemiya and Masami Obari. The final episode of Panty &Stocking with Garterbelt was dedicated in memory of him,and his influential work garnered special praise from many industry figures,such as Hayao Miyazaki.
Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda is the pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Cervantes' Don Quixote,before Cervantes finished and published his own second volume.
Mutsumi Inomata was a Japanese illustrator and animator.
Don Quixote,fully El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha,is a classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,originally published in two parts,in 1605 and 1615.
Tadao Nagahama was a Japanese director of both puppet shows and animation.
Jacob Two-Two is a series of children's books written by Canadian author Mordecai Richler:Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975),Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur (1987) and Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case (1995) written by Mordecai Richler,and Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas (2009) written by Cary Fagan.
Ashi Productions Co.,Ltd is a Japanese anime studio,located in Suginami,Tokyo,Japan,known for its four magical-girl anime,especially Magical Princess Minky Momo. It was established by Toshihiko Sato and other artists on December 20,1975,as Ashi Productions. It changed its name from Ashi Productions to Production Reed Co.,Ltd.' on November 1,2007. On February 12,2019,the company changed its name back to Ashi Productions.
Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman,with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion. The musical was suggested by the classic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes,but more directly based on Wasserman's 1959 non-musical television play I,Don Quixote,which combines a semi-fictional episode from the life of Cervantes with scenes from his novel.
JinzōToriumi was a Japanese screenwriter who first began his career during the "revolutionary era" of Japanese animation on Mach GoGoGo,Science Ninja Team Gatchaman,and Yatterman.
Don Quixote or Don Quixote de la Mancha is the first sound film version in Spanish of the great classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It was directed and adapted by Rafael Gil and released in 1947. A huge undertaking for Spanish cinema in its day,it was the longest film version of the novel up to that time,and very likely the most faithful,reverently following the book in its dialogue and order of episodes,unlike G.W. Pabst's 1933 version and the later Russian film version,which scrambled up the order of the adventures as many film versions do. Characters such as Cardenio,Dorotea,and Don Fernando,which are usually omitted because their respective subplots have little to do with the main body of the novel,were kept in this film.
ZIV International was an American production and distribution company founded in 1971 by Irv Holender. In the late 1970s and early 1980s,it distributed Americanised versions of European animated cartoons and Japanese anime series,and produced and distributed celebrity biographies. WorldCat recognises 83 works in 97 publications.
Donkey Xote is a 2007 3D computer-animated children's film produced by Lumiq Studios. A co-production between Spain and Italy,the film is directed by JoséPozo and written by Angel Pariente,based on the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote,and features the voices of Andreu Buenafuente,David Fernández,Sonia Ferrer and JoséLuis Gil. The film has gained notoriety as a mockbuster as the lead character Rucio bears an intentional resemblance to Donkey from the Shrek film series,along with the poster having the tagline "From the producers who saw Shrek".
Spanish animation refers to animation made in Spain.