Calimero (partially found English dubs of Italian-Japanese animated series; 1974-2009)

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Logo used in intro for English dub pilot.

Status: Partially found



Calimero (カリメロ Karimero?) is an Italian/Japanese cartoon about a charming, but hapless anthropomorphized cartoon chicken; the only black one in a family of yellow chickens. He wears half of his eggshell still on his head. Calimero originally appeared on the Italian television show Carosello on July 14th, 1962, and soon became a popular icon in Italy. The character has had multiple animated adaptations in Italy, France, and Japan. In 2020, a DVD with a pilot episode of an unreleased English dub of the 1974 anime series was found. The dub is based off the French dub and uses the French intro. It is currently unknown if more episodes were dubbed or if this is the only one. The DVD files were created in 2009, so the dub was most likely created in the mid-to-late-2000s.

The only currently known English dubbed episode from the 1974 series