Re: Anybody here watch anime?
It was an accident, but everytime I tell guys about this cartoon they laugh at me.
The year was 1999. It was 3:30am on a Saturday morning. I didn't have cable so I clicked the remote to channel surf.
And that's when I saw this cartoon about a flying house! Well, what would you do? I laughed outloud. Then I settled down and started paying attention.
The name is, of course, "The Flying House" and it was released back in 1982 in Japan. The show found a home in the USA at the Christian Broadcasting Network, CBN; and on Trinity Broadcasting Network, TBN. The story is about three friends that stumble upon a house in the woods, where they meet an absent-minded professor and his robot helper. An accident sends the house into the air where it begins flying through both space and time to land in the Middle East during biblical times.
This has to be the most improbable animation idea I've ever encountered - And It Works!
No joke! Since 2001, "The Flying House" has caught the fancy of anime fans around the world. Like a photograph, "The Flying House" somehow captured the special vibe of the early 80's with its "interesting" dialog and "80's period-piece" background music all combined with that wacky way Japanese sometimes translates into English.
The three children, Justin, Angie and Corky are absolutely adorable. They spend most of the series talking about food, dreaming about food, searching for food or actually buying food. During their grocery shopping adventures the kids run into Jesus from time to time. The interactions usually go something like this:
"Hey Jesus . . . got anything good to eat?"
Poor Jesus, after he feeds the children they always ask for more to take back to Professor Bumble. Sorta like a smaller scale version of the miracle of the loaves and fishes.
But seriously, if you're an anime fan "The Flying House" is a real gem of a cartoon. This series has a sweet, gentle spirit. The children are a delight and the conversations are sometimes unbelievable!
What seals the deal for me has to be the awesome intro theme song. Once that theme song stuck in my head I had to wake up early every Saturday Morning to catch the cartoon from the beginning.