Taranochi

Not to be confused with the current name of Northern El Kadsre, Taranotochi.

Taranotchi (Japanese: タラノチ; Hepburn: Taranochi, Arabic: تارانوتشي; Romanized: Tārānūtšī) is the name given to the famous El Kadsreian-Neon Districian-Moroccan anime franchise created and distributed by El TV Kadsre. Neon Radio and Television Network and the National Company of Radio and Television (SNRT) alongside Ryu Hamasaki Releasing and Toho EKI. Taranochi spanned through it's 1992 - 1995 anime show that aired on El TV Kadsre For Kids, a movie released in 1996, 3 reboots from both 1998, 2007 and 2020, video games, board games and more released throughout it's 30-year-long run. Taranotchi was sponsored by Alfaris, another El Kadsreian energy drink that was sponsored by a famous El Kadsreian show. Taranotchi, despite being mostly made in the El Kadsreian Islands and East Asia, was considered the world's first and only Middle Eastern anime, as it was heavily worked on by the SNRT, the national television network of Morocco, owned by the 'Alawi dynasty.

It was originally planned with El TV Kadsre after the Vlokozu Union split up on March 29th, 1989 named "Taranoch: The Great Warrior", before consulting Radiodiffusion-Télévision Marocaine and Toho EKI on the project in 1990. A pilot first aired in Janurary 1991 on El TV Kadsre 1's El TV Kadsre For Kids programming block and on NRTN 1's KNRTN Funteve programming block.

The debut episode first aired on Janurary 17th, 1992 and was named "A Young Knight and His Quest". By the end of the 1st season, the show was airing all across the El Kadsreian Islands (including Seahaus, too.), and by the end of the 2nd season the show was gaining popularity in the Middle East, Central, South and East Asia and South America.

U.S. syndication rights for the TV series and movies of the franchise were first held by The Program Exchange, and are currently held by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

Overview
Taranotchi, a small knight that wears his helmet all of the time, is given a quest to defeat evil reptile lord Bizaboro, who is planning to overthrow the absolute monarchy of Maokaku. Taranotchi agrees to the quest and ends up meeting new friends such as Kitsu, a cat mage, Takkuni, a tanuki cleric and Jokage, a dragon archer. Together they fight enemies and attempt to get to the destination of Bizaboro's lair, to defeat him once and for all.

Development (1989 - 1992)
Moroccan El Kadsreian Ixfensen Azzouzi grew up in the Vlokozu Union as a child reading magical and folklore stories. His father lived in the People's Democratic Republic of Neon District, which he was not allowed to travel due to sanctions between the two countries at the time. Azzouzi was 25 years old when the Vlokozu Union dissolved and he suddenly gained El Kadsreian citizenship, and was allowed to visit his father. He decided to join El TV Kadsre as a show director. Some former Neon Radio and Television employees had moved to El Kadsre for business, in which they also joined El TV Kadsre. He conducted a team of 8 employees, 4 of them being El Kasdreians, the others being Neon Districians. They wrote down ideas for animated shows and Azzouzi's idea "Taranoch: The Great Warrior" was the most well-recieved out of all of them. Concepts for characters were set up and eventually by late 1990 "Taranoch" had become "Taranotchi". A pilot consisting of Taranotchi's daily life in the kingdom's army of knights was animated between December 1990 - Janurary 1991, and premiered on Janurary 17th, 1991. The pilot was well-recieved and the first example of "Godzilland artstyle", which appeared in the franchise of the same name just a year later, because Taranotchi was also animated by Toho.

The initial era (1992 - 1993)
Taranotchi first premiered on Janurary 17th, 1992 on El TV Kadsre's El TV Kadsre for Kids and NRTN's KNRTN. The first episode, "A Young Knight and His Quest" shows the introduction of a young Taranotchi, who lives in the capital city of Maokaku, Shutohan, where Bizaboro is also revealed, the quest is given to him, and Taranotchi steps his first steps into adventure, coming across his first athletical obstacle, fighting his first enemy, and eventually making it to a nearby village. The first episode was recieved well, mostly by children aged 7 - 13, the main demographic of this show. More episodes were made, and the 3 main sidekicks of Taranotchi were introduced. Some earlier episodes include Taranotchi getting stranded by accident, leaving him to fend off on his own before finding his sidekicks again, such as "Three Heroes Are Better Than One" which premiered April 27th, 1992, where he gets cornered by four angry sentient giant trees before taking them all out and reuniting with his pack. By the end of Season 1 on episode "Bizaboro's Demise/A Journey's End" which premiered on December 26th, 1992, the anime was broadcasting in all countries of the El Kadsreian Islands.