Unico ('80s film versions)
Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:11 amEven though my current Tezuka obsession is Black Jack, my introduction to him (well before I was conscious of the man's name) and my all-time sentimental faves are the Unico movies from the 1980s. (Well, I was a Hello-Kitty-loving grade-schooler, what do you expect? 
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I recall these airing (in dubbed English, of course) on the Disney Channel around '89-'90, but for years afterward I didn't know what they were called, and could only remember bits and pieces of them. I knew one revolved around a little cat-girl-witch (Katy, in my avatar :3) who ran away from the old crone she lived with and got slipped a magic roofie by a really hot but evil prince (actually a Baron); and the other had a girl whose parents were turned into living puppets. Who were UNGODLY TERRIFYING. I was scared to death of their blocky paper-cutout bodies and kept imagining the same thing happening to my parents (hey, I was an overly imaginative seven-year-old).
Nobody else knew what I was talking about when I mentioned these, so for a long time I began to think I had completely imagined them as well. Fortunately one of my friends remembered the entire scene with Unico and Beezle from the second movie, so I could finally stop thinking myself insane.
Since then I've been prowling the few static fansites for these and reveling in the nostalgia (good GOD, I did not remember Baron DeGhost being so hot! It's like BJ and Kiriko went "FUSION HAAAA!" and combined to make one foxy villain.)
I would give anything for these on DVD. Er, legit DVD, that is. I'm a bit iffy about getting the fanmade stuff on eBay.
Okay, my fangirl rambling is done; anyone else remember watching these?
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I recall these airing (in dubbed English, of course) on the Disney Channel around '89-'90, but for years afterward I didn't know what they were called, and could only remember bits and pieces of them. I knew one revolved around a little cat-girl-witch (Katy, in my avatar :3) who ran away from the old crone she lived with and got slipped a magic roofie by a really hot but evil prince (actually a Baron); and the other had a girl whose parents were turned into living puppets. Who were UNGODLY TERRIFYING. I was scared to death of their blocky paper-cutout bodies and kept imagining the same thing happening to my parents (hey, I was an overly imaginative seven-year-old).
Nobody else knew what I was talking about when I mentioned these, so for a long time I began to think I had completely imagined them as well. Fortunately one of my friends remembered the entire scene with Unico and Beezle from the second movie, so I could finally stop thinking myself insane.
Since then I've been prowling the few static fansites for these and reveling in the nostalgia (good GOD, I did not remember Baron DeGhost being so hot! It's like BJ and Kiriko went "FUSION HAAAA!" and combined to make one foxy villain.)
I would give anything for these on DVD. Er, legit DVD, that is. I'm a bit iffy about getting the fanmade stuff on eBay.
Okay, my fangirl rambling is done; anyone else remember watching these?