Something happier from my childhood this time...

[thisbluespirit]

I found someone had made a lovely fanvid for The Mysterious Cities of Gold! \o/

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If you don't know, Mysterious Cities of Gold was an epic 1980s French-Japanese cartoon in about 40 episodes that was literally a year of happy obsession when I was 9 or 10. (We all loved it; it was one of those things.) Anyway, I'm not entirely sure I'd want to risk a proper revisit - but a well-done fanvid that captures the characters, the quest, the mythology and the sailing ships, the path of the setting sun and the golden condor is a very nice way to explore the memories without spoiling the nostalgia.

It had this intro. (You can't talk about it without the intro. Or singing this a lot.)

Anyway, the fanvid is cute and very well done. You should all go watch now. ;-)

Comments

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhh, Cities of Gold! ♥ That was Must See TV for me and my brother as kids - I've actually got it on DVD now, but damn it goes on forever! Maybe one day I will finish that rewatch...

Can still sing that theme tune word perfect, even now. *G*

[seriesfive.livejournal.com]

Cute! ;) I never saw it. I believe it didn't air in Germany. But at 9 or 10 I would certainly have loved it...

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Have to confess that I've never heard of that one...

[pedanther]

Ah, memories. I was a bit surprised how much of that intro was familiar, considering I was seeing it for the first time in at least 15 years. (I also tend toward being unwilling to risk a revisit. My brother, on the other hand, bought the whole series as soon as it came out on DVD.)

[scifi-mel.livejournal.com]

LOVED that show too. Started off as such a normal historical cartoon and ended up with the giant golden condor! And of course Philip Schofield singing along with the theme song!

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Da-da, da-da-da-da, da-da-da-daah etc.

Ah, memories... I remember that, like all of those epic cartoon series like Willy Fogg etc, it was quite hard to get back into if you missed just a week or two, such was the pace of the story etc. I remember I had to go away for a week for some reason, maybe a family holiday, and when I was back home again there was this...Condor thing suddenly flying about?! ;D

[thisbluespirit]

I had to write what happened to my friend when she was in hospital. You should have made similar arrangements, clearly! ;-p

Cities of Gold was especially epic and addictive, though, I think. Probably because it wasn't based on anything (as far as I know) so it was a big mystery.

(I hear they're actually making a sequel as we speak as well - twenty years later, they make it to the second city of gold! LOL)

[thisbluespirit]

Ha! Yes. I love how everyone (here, anyway) remembers Philip in the broom cupboard almost as much as the cartoon.

The golden condor was great. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, me, too. On nearly everything there, except about your brother, obviously. :-)

The fanvid is a very nice compromise to have, and I'm so pleased somebody made it.

[thisbluespirit]

It was this epic one season, all one story thing, and they showed it over here about 1987-ish, I think - so it could be easily missed!

It was rather a nice, imaginative thing to have on TV as a child - something a bit different, so we all got a bit hooked at the time.

[thisbluespirit]

:-) Glad you thought so!

I don't know? When I was looking for the intro on YouTube, there were comments on one version of it from someone who said they'd watched it in Germany as a child - but it could shown have been any time, if it actually was. It was made in 1982, and we got an English version over here about 1987, so who knows? And as it was one long story, it wasn't one of those things they could re-run odd episodes of - it was all or nothing!

[thisbluespirit]

\o/ Haha, yes, I'm not entirely sure I'd want to rewatch, so the fanvid was a lovely compromise - it was surprising how familiar it still looked.

And, yes. *sings along, only la-la-la-ing at some points*

[seriesfive.livejournal.com]

I looked it up at wikipedia. It aired in Germany in 1991. Being 21 at the time, I had slightly outgrown the target audience. :D

[pitry.livejournal.com]

The Mysterious cities of gold! I adored this one. :D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I guess my brother didn't watch it - and I was too old. (Although I was still watching Byker Grove and Grange Hill in my late teens!)

[scifi-mel.livejournal.com]

Has ulysses 31 come up yet? Philip also sang along very well with that! ;0

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, yes. I watched that, too. I missed the last episode. Twice.

I had a nostalgic broom cupboard post at one point last year and we all ended up linking to Philip Schofield singing and things. I'll have to find it for you...

(Oh... I can't find it yet. For a librarian, my journal's tags are absolutely atrocious. And I'm obsessively neat and organised with them when I invent comms. I suppose it's like having a tidy house and an untidy bedroom. Never mind.)

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, yes. It seems everyone who saw it at the time is the same! :-)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

That's cos it's ADORABLE! :D