The Drillimation Series (anime)

The Drillimation Anime (ドリメーションアニメ), or just simply The Drillimation Series, is an Emmy Award-winning Japanese anime television series created and written by Hiroshi Takajima and is simply the collective term for six major anime series, all of which focus on the adventures of Susumu Hori and his many friends he makes as the series progressed.

The anime began airing in Japan in 1969 starting with the Angry German Kid anime and in North America in 1975 with a Drillimation anime produced specifically in North America called GoGang. Specifically, Hanna-Barbera, Lucasfilm, and Walt Disney Television obtained the license to dub the anime into English. Long before the term "anime" was coined in North America, fans of the series simply referred to the anime as The Drillimation Cartoon or The Drillimation Animated Series.

Characters

 * Main Article: List of Drillimation characters

Australia

 * ABC Me

Bangladesh

 * Channel i

Barokia

 * BBT Kids

Brazil

 * Rede Globo

Canada

 * Teletoon

China

 * CCTV-14 (CCTV Children)
 * Dragon Television
 * Zhejiang Television
 * Xinjiang TV Chinese
 * Xinjiang TV Kazakh

El Kadsre

 * ETVKK

United Kingdom

 * CBBC (2006-2009, 2014-present)
 * CITV (2009-2013)

Hong Kong

 * TVB Jade (Cantonese)
 * TVB Pearl (English)

India

 * Pogo TV

Ireland

 * RTE One

Italy

 * Rai Uno

Japan

 * Fuji TV
 * TV Asahi
 * NHK Educational TV
 * Chiba TV
 * Television Kanagawa

Mahri

 * 2k

New Zealand

 * TVNZ 1

North El Kadsre

 * EYE TV1

Philippines

 * TV5
 * ABS-CBN
 * Studio 23
 * Yey!
 * HeroTV
 * ABS-CBN Sports and Action
 * Hero Zone block on Jeepney TV

Piramca

 * Animax
 * Pira Kids

Russia

 * STS
 * Channel One
 * NTV
 * Disney Channel Russia

Sentan

 * STN 2

Spain

 * Neox

United States

 * ABC
 * Cartoon Network
 * Disney XD
 * NBC
 * Syndication
 * This TV

YinYangia

 * XCT Toonz4Kidz (Chinese)
 * Animax (Japanese)
 * PixelTV (English)
 * Yey! (Filipino; YinYangia)

Island of Sally

 * SBC2 (2002-2008) (English, Sallyish and French)
 * Disney Channel (2012-2016) (Sallyish only)

Megassa

 * Kids WB (1999-2004)
 * Fox Kids (2002-2007, 2014-present)
 * Cartoon Network (1994-present)

Latin America

 * Magic Kids (1995-2006)
 * Nickelodeon (1997-2008)
 * ZAZ (2009-2012)
 * Tiin (2013-present)

Mexico

 * Azteca Uno
 * Canal 5
 * Imagen Televisión
 * Multimedios Televisión
 * Canal Once

Argentina

 * The Big Channel (1990-1995)
 * Magic Kids (1995-2006)
 * Televisión Pública Argentina (2006-present)

Colombia

 * Citytv Bogotá
 * Caracol Televisión

Honduras

 * Telecadena 7 y 4

Venezuela

 * Venevisión

Portugal

 * Sociedade Independente de Comunicação (SIC)
 * SIC K

Crazyria

 * Toonami
 * Nickelodeon
 * Boomerang

Kazakhstan

 * Balapan

Middle East

 * Spacetoon
 * Space Power TV

Indonesia

 * Spacetoon
 * Space Shopping

Ukraine

 * 1+1
 * PLUSPLUS

South Korea

 * EBS1
 * Spacetoon
 * Tooniverse

Iraqi Kurdistan

 * Kurdsat

Iceland

 * RÚV

Puerto Chango

 * Puerto Chango 2
 * Puerto Chango 5
 * Spacetoon

Development
Before the anime was brought to the United States, Drillimation approached Hanna-Barbera with an offer to dub the Angry German Kid anime into English. Hanna accepted Takajima's offer and Hanna-Barbara began looking for actors to voice the characters in the dub. Charles Martinet, who voiced Igor in the GoGang anime, chose to voice Leopold and Jake. Hanna-Barbera decided to broadcast the anime on Saturday mornings, presumably when children were home from school.