Marine Boy

Marine Boy
海底少年マリン
(Kaitei Shōnen Marin)
GenreAdventure, science fiction
Anime television series
Dolphin Prince
StudioTerebi Doga
Original networkFuji TV
Original run April 4th, 1965 April 18th, 1965
Episodes3
Anime television series
Hang On! Marine Kid
Music bySetsuo Tsukahara
StudioTerebi Doga
Original networkTBS
Original run October 6th, 1966 December 29th, 1966
Episodes13
Anime television series
Undersea Boy Marine
Music bySetsuo Tsukahara
StudioTerebi Doga
Licensed by
Original networkFuji TV
English network
Original run January 13th, 1969 September 22nd, 1969
Episodes78
Video game
CR Marine Boy
PublisherNewGin
GenrePachinko
PlatformArcade
ReleasedOctober 2006

Marine Boy is one of the first color anime to be shown in a dubbed form in the U.S., and later in Australia and the United Kingdom. It was originally produced in 1965 in Japan as Undersea Boy Marine (海底少年マリン, Kaitei Shōnen Marin) by Minoru Adachi and animation company Japan Tele-Cartoons. It was sold outside Japan via K. Fujita Associates Inc., with Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Television handling worldwide distribution of the English-language version. The series was distributed in syndication in the United States starting in 1966.[1]

  1. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 525–526. ISBN 978-1476665993.