Opening A Day
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the suitably odd opening of the odd 1982 TV series Pataliro! The opening theme is “Pataliro!” sung by Fusako Fujimoto.
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Is this the Journey to the West Adaptation? Looks like the same main character.
This is one of the oddest things I’ve seen, and the OP is just as strange. The first ED is excelent too, super weird and a great example of 70’s shojo aesthetics.
Patarillo is an old show based on a long running manga. It’s about Patarillo, the ruler of a fictional European country, and his adventures with Bankoran, the MI-6 agent forced to work with him. It’s noteworthy for the fact that it’s technically a shonen-ai anime in which nearly every character is male, but the art style makes it hard to differentiate male from female anyway. It’s filled with gags about what happens when a heavily irresponsible young ruler subjects his subjects to absurd whims, yet occasionally gets his act together to stop criminals.
If you’ve seen Level E, it’s kind of like the scenes where the Prince is a dick to people because there’s nothing they can do about it. The difference is that Patarillo isn’t exceptionally mean, he’s just a kid put in charge of a country at a very immature age.
My anime club has watched a number of episodes over the last eight or so years. It isn’t really for me, but it goes over well with the right audience.
Just for clarification, the Pataliro cast came back in the 2005 Patalliro Saiyuki! television series that did adapt the Journey to the West story.
Ah, thank you.