Dooly
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| Dooly | |
| Gender | Male |
| Color | White Tummy and green skin |
| Eye Color | Pure Black. |
| Genus | Ceratosaurus Ceratosaurus Ceratosaurus meaning "horned lizard", in reference to the horn on its nose , was a large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period , found in the Morrison Formation of North America, in Tanzania and Portugal... |
| Species | Dinosaur |
| Birthday | Unknown (April 22 in his Korean resident registration number) |
| Height | 4 feet 6 inches (excluding tail-length) |
| Weight | Unknown |
| Address | Ssangmun-dong, Dobong-gu, Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world... , South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south... |
| Occupation(s) | Family pet (but Go Kildong considered his party as parasites) |
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| Family | |
| Pets | None |
| Ancestors | Other Dinosaurs |
| Descendants | Doly and Oly (in the comic 'Baby Saurus Doly' in 1995) |
| Friends | Park Hee-dong, Douner, Ddochi and Michol |
| Boss | Go Kildong |
| Enemies | Go Kildong |
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| Interests | |
| Favorite TV Shows | |
| Favorite Foods | Anything edible, not dangerous or yucky. |
| Favorite Holiday | Children's Day Children's Day "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation... . |
| Awards | Won Karaoke Karaoke is a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol,... contest in Episode 5 of the 2nd Season. |
Dooly the Little Dinosaur(아기공룡 둘리) is a 1983 Korean manhwa
Manhwa
Manhwa is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons . Outside of Korea, the term usually refers specifically to South Korean comics. The term, along with manga, is a cognate of the Chinese manhua...
and animated film created by Soo Jung Kim.
History
Dooly was first created when its creator Soo Jung Kim issued the manhwaManhwa
Manhwa is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons . Outside of Korea, the term usually refers specifically to South Korean comics. The term, along with manga, is a cognate of the Chinese manhua...
under manhwa japji named Bo-Mool Sum (Treasure Island). It was first shown in the first week of April, 1983, finished about ten years later. There are two spin-offs
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
of the manhwa, one of which is still being aired today.
The original animation and airing was done by Korean broadcaster
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
KBS. When it was first broadcasted in 1987, there were only six episodes, with seven more later added during the second season. A video cassette was released in 1989, and re-broadcasting was first done in 1990.
This show was rebroadcast again in 1993, 1996 and 1998, but due to awkward broadcasting dates (usually done on Sunday), its ratings were critically low until 1998. However, after realizing the increased viewership in October 1998, the time was changed to 5:30 PM starting May 12 through June 23, 2003, Monday and Tuesday (known as the 'Golden Viewing Time'). With more people watching the show, its ratings improved. A new version of the TV series, which began broadcasting in late 2008, is currently shown Monday through Friday, at 4:00 PM on the Korean Animation channel Tooniverse
Tooniverse
Tooniverse is an anime channel broadcast by CJ E&M in South Korea.Tooniverse started airing in 1995 and is currently one of the leading anime channels in South Korea...
, Korea's first all-anime/manhwa channel.
The cartoon was once reported to the officials as a bad example for children, just because of the using of Dooly's care-giver's name in a friendly fashion. Koreans usually speak to adults with respect and with the use of proper additions in speech done so specifically for adults by younger people. This was seen as hazardous for the basic thinking of the children who watch it.
Tooniverse also released an educational video relating to English in 1995, and full-theaterical release came out in 1996 under Dooly Nara (Dooly Nation).
Appearance
Standing 4 feet and 6 inches tall, Dooly is a CeratosaurusCeratosaurus
Ceratosaurus meaning "horned lizard", in reference to the horn on its nose , was a large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period , found in the Morrison Formation of North America, in Tanzania and Portugal...
with an oversized head, meant to draw attention toward the character's facial expression, which he rarely changes. He has a tail as long as his height, and he sometimes uses it to make himself look taller than other characters, usually Kildong Go. He displays many human-like characteristics, including a habit of sticking out his tongue.
His underside is full-white, as are his hands and feet. He has three toes per foot, and has five fingers on each hand, unlike a real Ceratosaurus
Ceratosaurus
Ceratosaurus meaning "horned lizard", in reference to the horn on its nose , was a large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period , found in the Morrison Formation of North America, in Tanzania and Portugal...
which has four. As well as shiny white teeth.
General
Dooly is a baby dinosaurDinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
that was kidnapped by aliens, who had been experimented to give him magical powers. When he returned to Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
, he was trapped in the ice glacier
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
causing him to faint during the Ice Age
Ice age
An ice age or, more precisely, glacial age, is a generic geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers...
. About 10 million years later, one of the glaciers broke off and he came to Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
. He is like a typical kid who likes to eat and play all the time, but he can come across as being somewhat audacious, living the life of an orphan. Behind his thoughtful words, Dooly is just another baby dinosaur who misses mother dinosaur.
While in Seoul, he was found by a girl who named Younghee (영희), and took him home with her elder brother Chulsoo (철수), because Dooly was mistook for a doll, and makes him live with her as pet. However, her father Kildong (고길동) hates Dooly and just beats him up whenever Dooly is annoying.
He has super powers that he received from an extraterrestrial, but doesn't know why. He doesn't quite know how to use it deliberately but in times of danger he somehow manages to use the power.
He points his right finger and yells 'Hoihoi!' He is always biting his tongue and looks silly, but he is mischievous and loyal. Once in a while he'll resist, like when he turns Kildong into a dinosaur and sends him to the Amazon
Amazon River
The Amazon of South America is the second longest river in the world and by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined...
, but when he does it always turns against him.
Dooly's name, according to the cartoon, is a pun
Pun
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic,...
. His older sister - Dooly called 'brother' because he confused that exact nominal - is named Hana, meaning One or First while Dool, or Dul mean Two in Korean and y or ei mean the same thing in Korean Traditional-Chinese
Hanja
Hanja is the Korean name for the Chinese characters hanzi. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation...
, making him the Second. This is mentioned around the end of then 2nd set of episode, or 6th episode, but it is not certain if this is true in manhwa canon
Canon (fiction)
In the context of a work of fiction, the term canon denotes the material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe's fan base. It is often contrasted with, or used as the basis for, works of fan fiction, which are not considered canonical...
due to the anime and manhwa
Manhwa
Manhwa is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons . Outside of Korea, the term usually refers specifically to South Korean comics. The term, along with manga, is a cognate of the Chinese manhua...
having many storyline differences.
While Dooly is having adventures in Seoul or having fun, he met some three friends who Kildong hates too and beat up except Heedong (희동).
Heedong (희동) came to live with Uncle Kildong after his parents went abroad to study. He misses his mom everyday, but feels utterly entertained by Dooly the Brother. Thanks to the excessive amounts of time he spends with Dooly, he isn't afraid of anything. He is also really good at biting someone or scratches them when they make him mad. He has broken Douner's Time Cosmos' Spaceship
Spacecraft
A spacecraft or spaceship is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration and transportation of humans and cargo....
Douner (도우너) the Prince of Planet
Planet
A planet is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
'Kanttappia' makes an emergency landing on the planet Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
due to the malfunctioning of the 'Time Cosmos' Spaceship.
His head may be really hard and his thoughts very simple, but the word "loyalty" was made for Douner.
He can travel back and forth in time and space in the Time Cosmos Spaceship which looks like a violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
.
Ddochi (또치), the Ostrich
Ostrich
The Ostrich is one or two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member of the genus Struthio. Some analyses indicate that the Somali Ostrich may be better considered a full species apart from the Common Ostrich, but most taxonomists consider it to be a...
that successfully escaped from a Las Vegas
Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada; adjacent to, but outside the city limits of Las Vegas proper. The Strip lies within the unincorporated townships of Paradise and Winchester...
circus
Circus
A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...
troop, always insists that she used to be a noble mistress from Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
. She is a little bit selfish, and little bit shy, but Ddochi is the most softhearted ostrich that anyone will ever come across. She also insists on calling herself a girl. Ddochi has many talents as she learned from the circus
Circus
A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...
Michol (마이콜, pronounced as "Maikol") is aspiring singer who lives next to Kildong feeds on his passion for dreaming, though he may lack the necessary talent. He is quite lost most of the time, but he does know how to take care of himself. Seeming differently, his nationality is Korean. His surname is Ma. According to his name, his role model is Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
. Dooly once gets into a band with Douner and Michol.
Controversy
- When Dooly was first created as a TV animation, it received much criticism from Korean Catholics, Korean public citizens, and the governmentGovernment of South KoreaThe Government of South Korea is divided into executive, judicial, and legislative branches. The executive and judicial branches operate primarily at the national level, although various ministries in the executive branch also carry out local functions. Local governments are semi-autonomous, and...
. Reasons cited included the fact that the animation was a bit violent, which was oppressed by Korean Government, and the adult general public was angered due to its character's attitude of disrespect towards elders. However, this was when freedom of speechFreedom of speechFreedom of speech is the freedom to speak freely without censorship. The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used...
was not taken seriously into account. Generally speaking, the younger generation has fond memories of this series and find that the violence is actually a quite realistic portrayal of family dynamics in contemporary Korea.
In culture
- Dooly is one of the most respected and commercially successful characters of Korean animationAnimationAnimation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
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- Dooly became the first manhwa character to be featured on a stamp. It was printed in 1995 in South KoreaSouth KoreaThe Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
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- Dooly actually has a resident registration card, which means he is a citizen of Korea.