THE MYSTERIOUS CITIES OF GOLD
First broadcast: 1984
Number of seasons: 4
Creators: Jean Chalopin, Mitsuru Kaneko, Mitsuru Majima, Sōji Yoshikawa
Synopsis: From the four corners of Europe, gigantic sailboats set out to conquer the New World.
On board these ships, men, eager for dreams, adventure and space, in search of fortune.
I'm rewatching the first season of
Magical for me at the time, The mysterious cities of Gold rocked my childhood like a whole bunch of cartoons from the time. Today I would raise her to the same rank as Captain Flam or Ulysses 31. Because mixing mysteries, enigmas and many other exciting things.
Several editions were started for DVD releases, and if you are still nostalgic for this flagship series of Franco-Japanese animation, I would advise you, before buying it, to refer to the very complete test of the different editions offered by Internet user :
In summary, don't buy the Blu-ray version, even the collector's version, you would lose a lot of detail.
Several decades later, new seasons were produced from 2012. But just by seeing the drawing style of the trailer, I was already quickly disappointed. The new seasons are available for free on France 4 as Goldorak, Tom Sawyer And many others.
The colors and drawing style are no longer the same, making everything much less natural.
After seeing season 1, I wanted to see the following seasons. So I did some research and came across the commentary of Eric Malbos psychiatrist who has a fairly good analysis of the seasons following that of 1982.
Reading this article, I realized one thing: times change as do everyone's precise goals.
But when I think about it, that hardly surprises me. It started in 1982, then it started again in 2012. We took a formula that worked in its time and we made a sequel which no longer really corresponds to the original work, riding on the nostalgia of a prosperous era but gone.
