'The Drillimation Anime' (Japanese: ドリメーションアニメ, Hepburn: 'Dorimēshon Anime'), 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
Broadcast networks
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
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
Russia
- Channel One
- NTV
- Disney Channel Russia
Iraqi Kurdistan
- Kurdsat
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.
External links
- The map on 29travels.