The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee
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The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee, or Honeybee Hutch, is an anime
cartoon series
produced by Tatsunoko Productions. The cartoon features the adventures of a young bee
named Hutch : the son of a Queen bee
, Hutch is separated from his mother when his native beehive
is destroyed by an attack of wasp
s. The series follows Hutch as he searches for his missing mother, in the midst of a frequently hostile nature.
After being broadcast in several Europe
an countries, the show was translated into English as Honeybee Hutch, and re-edited in the 1990s for the Anglo-Saxon market, by Saban Entertainment. A sequel, New Honeybee Hutch
or The New Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee, and numbering 26 episodes, was produced in 1974. The original series was remade
in 1989 under the same Japanese title, Konchū Monogatari: Minashigo Hutch.
The original show (1971) is notable for its frequently sad and cruel scripts. In many episodes, Hutch would befriend another insect, only to see his new friend die a violent and painful death. The 1989 remake, however, featured completely new episodes and a much more light-hearted story. On 31 July, a 2010 remake of show was released in Japan titled Hutch the Honeybee
.
and Quebec
(Canada) starting in 1979, under the titles Le Petit Prince Orphelin (The little Orphan Prince) and Hutchy le Petit Prince Orphelin. The re-edited Saban version was broadcast in 1997, under the title Micky l'abeille (Micky the bee), with a new French dubbing
.
In Italy
, the show was broadcast as L'ape Magà (Magà the bee), a title similar to the more popular Maya the Bee. In the Italian dubbing, the male
character of Hutch was turned into a female
bee like Maya, which created some awkward moments in the translations, such as in the episode which depicts Hutch falling in love with a female butterfly
. The Italian dialogue sometimes left the character's gender unclear, generating some confusion..
In Latin America, the show was broadcast as Josemiel in the 1980s, for Mexico, the original edition was sent in 1984 to be transmitted by Televisa and Canal 6, got a lot of appreciation by their fans due to the dramatic script and the not-translated Japanese intro and ending. Some years later, the remake named Las Aventuras de Hutch were transmitted also by Televisa, but as being adapted from the American version of the animation it got less popularity than the original series.
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
cartoon series
Cartoon series
A cartoon series is a set of regularly presented animated television programs with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes typically share the same characters and a basic theme...
produced by Tatsunoko Productions. The cartoon features the adventures of a young bee
Bee
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila...
named Hutch : the son of a Queen bee
Queen bee
The term queen bee is typically used to refer to an adult, mated female that lives in a honey bee colony or hive; she is usually the mother of most, if not all, the bees in the hive. The queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed in order to become sexually mature...
, Hutch is separated from his mother when his native beehive
Beehive
A beehive is a structure in which bees live and raise their young.Beehive may also refer to:Buildings and locations:* Bee Hive, Alabama, a neighborhood in Alabama* Beehive , a wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings...
is destroyed by an attack of wasp
Wasp
The term wasp is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant. Almost every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that preys upon it or parasitizes it, making wasps critically important in natural control of their...
s. The series follows Hutch as he searches for his missing mother, in the midst of a frequently hostile nature.
After being broadcast in several Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an countries, the show was translated into English as Honeybee Hutch, and re-edited in the 1990s for the Anglo-Saxon market, by Saban Entertainment. A sequel, New Honeybee Hutch
New Honeybee Hutch
is an anime cartoon series and a sequel to The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee. In this new series Hutch is struggling with married life.-Cast:*Hutch: Yoko Kuri*Queen Mama: Haruko Kitahama*Aya: Yoshiko Yamamoto*Tenten: Junko Mori...
or The New Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee, and numbering 26 episodes, was produced in 1974. The original series was remade
Remake
A remake is a piece of media based primarily on an earlier work of the same medium.-Film:The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a second, later movie based on the same source...
in 1989 under the same Japanese title, Konchū Monogatari: Minashigo Hutch.
The original show (1971) is notable for its frequently sad and cruel scripts. In many episodes, Hutch would befriend another insect, only to see his new friend die a violent and painful death. The 1989 remake, however, featured completely new episodes and a much more light-hearted story. On 31 July, a 2010 remake of show was released in Japan titled Hutch the Honeybee
Hutch the Honeybee
is a remake of the 1970s show The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee it was released on31 July 2010. Hutch debuted at No.6 at the Japanese Box Office.-Cast:*Ayaka Saitō*Ayaka Wilson*Naoki Tanaka*Jun Komori*Eiji Bandō*Kōichi Tsutaya*Yui Aragaki...
.
Cast
- Chieko HondaChieko Hondais a Japanese voice actor.-Notable voice roles:*After War Gundam X *Akihabara Dennō Gumi *Bosco Adventure *Devil Hunter Yohko *Dragonball *Dragon Century...
as Teru - Haruko Kitahama as Mama
- Junji Chiba as Piccolo
- Masako NozawaMasako Nozawais a Japanese voice actress and actress affiliated with Office Nozawa. Her pet name is Mako. Her husband, Masa'aki Tsukada is also a voice actor....
as Bunkichi - Minoru Midorikawa as Water Scorpion
- Takeshi WatabeTakeshi Watabewas a Japanese voice actor. He was born in Kōchi Prefecture. He usually played villains and performed the voices for many anime characters and tokusatsu villains. He is most famous for voicing Kaminari in Doraemon...
as Kamakiri - Toshiko SawadaToshiko Sawadais a Japanese voice actor who works for Haikyo.-Anime:*Appleseed *Minky Momo *Maison Ikkoku *Minky Momo Tabidachi no Eki *Mobile Suit Gundam...
as Narrator - Yoshiko Matsuo as Flower
- Yoshiko SakakibaraYoshiko Sakakibarais a Japanese voice actress.-Direct-to-video animation:* 1983 Dallos - Melinda Hurst* 1985 Greed - Mimau* 1985 Area 88 - Yasuda* 1985 Cream Lemon – Rio* 1985 Megazone 23 – Reina* 1985 The Karuizawa Syndrome - Kaoru Matsunuma...
as Queen - Yoshiko Yamamoto as Aya
- Youko Kuri as Hutch
- Yuuko Maruyama as Apachi
English dub cast
- Joshua SethJoshua SethJoshua Seth Freedman is an American entertainer and voice actor. He was born in Kent, Ohio and attended the New York University film school. He has voiced dozens of well known anime characters and is sometimes credited as "Jeremiah Freedman", but has retired from voice acting in 2005...
as Hutch - Mari DevonMari DevonMari Devon is an American voice actress who is also known as Jane Alan.-Anime roles:* 8 Man After - Sachiko* Babel II - Juju* Battle B-Daman - B-DaMage* The Big O - Vice-President Mari Devon (born 1960) is an American voice actress who is also known as Jane Alan.-Anime roles:* 8 Man After -...
as the Narrator - Edie MirmanEdie MirmanEdith S. "Edie" Mirman is an American voice actress best known for the voice of Fujiko Mine from Tales of the Wolf, and also for both Miriya Parina Sterling and Nova Satori from Robotech. She is also the voice of Teryx in Dinosaucers and Gatomon and Angewomon in the Digimon series. She is credited...
as Honey Queen Bee - Heidi LenhartHeidi LenhartHeidi Noelle Lenhart is an American actress, best known for her role as Jenny Garrison in the American TV series California Dreams and Jenny Caldwell in the Au Pair films....
as Haley - Frank CatalanoFrank CatalanoFrank Catalano is an American jazz musician living in Chicago, Illinois.-Biography:Frank Catalano began playing the saxophone at age 7. His right middle finger was severed while working on a car engine when he was 16, but following reconstructive surgery, Catalano forced his hands to relearn...
as Hutch's Evil Twin Brother - Dorothy Elias-FahnDorothy Elias-FahnDorothy Ann Elias-Fahn is an American voice actress who is the wife of Tom Fahn . She is also known as Dorothy Melendrez and Annie Pastrano...
as various voices - R. Martin KleinR. Martin KleinRobert Martin Klein is a voice actor who is known to play characters in Japanese animation and video games. He is also known as Bob Marx...
as Dan Dan - Melodee SpevackMelodee SpevackMelodee M. Spevack is a voice actress and vice president of the Nevada-based Voxworks voice-acting corporation. She is also credited as Sonja S...
as Hutch's Mother
Other foreign versions
The original series was broadcast in FranceFrance
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
(Canada) starting in 1979, under the titles Le Petit Prince Orphelin (The little Orphan Prince) and Hutchy le Petit Prince Orphelin. The re-edited Saban version was broadcast in 1997, under the title Micky l'abeille (Micky the bee), with a new French dubbing
Dubbing (filmmaking)
Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the original shooting. The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers, who may be...
.
In Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, the show was broadcast as L'ape Magà (Magà the bee), a title similar to the more popular Maya the Bee. In the Italian dubbing, the male
Male
Male refers to the biological sex of an organism, or part of an organism, which produces small mobile gametes, called spermatozoa. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete or ovum, in the process of fertilization...
character of Hutch was turned into a female
Female
Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova .- Defining characteristics :The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male...
bee like Maya, which created some awkward moments in the translations, such as in the episode which depicts Hutch falling in love with a female butterfly
Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
. The Italian dialogue sometimes left the character's gender unclear, generating some confusion..
In Latin America, the show was broadcast as Josemiel in the 1980s, for Mexico, the original edition was sent in 1984 to be transmitted by Televisa and Canal 6, got a lot of appreciation by their fans due to the dramatic script and the not-translated Japanese intro and ending. Some years later, the remake named Las Aventuras de Hutch were transmitted also by Televisa, but as being adapted from the American version of the animation it got less popularity than the original series.