Calimero (partially found original Japanese version of anime series; 1974-1975)
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, with one of the rarest being the first Japanese anime series made by Toei Animation, which ran from October 15th, 1974, to September 30th, 1975.
Episodes dubbed in European languages as well as in Arabic can be found online, but the series' original Japanese version is much harder to find. Unlike the second anime series made in 1992, there are no known VHS or DVD releases of the 1974 series in Japanese. There were 45 episodes made for the show. In September 2018, a user known as "Yuriko o" uploaded episodes 17-19 and later various others in Japanese on YouTube. Sometime between September 2018 and March 2019 his channel was terminated, making the episodes no longer available. However, they were all saved and re-uploaded on OneDrive by the Wiki user KristoHam. 24 of 45 episodes are currently found.
Episode 1: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKolDc2_eTjDf9CpwBI?e=wgeG6Q
Episode 17: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKoswf4_EaKm2ccZjJ8?e=wo5puH
Episode 18: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKoswoyxqx6pmom8gsB?e=7gkJXM
Episode 19: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKoswuKOxLq4mZ0KbUP?e=KheOJm
Episode 21: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKoswzdtFzhuqF271wk?e=Adz0BA
Episode 22: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosw1pmaBJEzzSNbKv?e=0eos2B
Episode 23: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosw9Z9O8z6VbAzP0Q?e=Ktqlou
Episode 24: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosw4ob1Ji0gxY27Br?e=YfktFE
Episode 27: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxBVmyd25mR4v4M0?e=5hBh8b
Episode 28: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxETsVYBFO9YMfUd?e=n7Edk4
Episode 29: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxKa9AFVJu9NiC0X?e=9NwQKA
Episode 33: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxMCmuvRzFTyD7eW?e=eVRhBX
Episode 34: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxRw1XLVEX3bVLMP?e=1Hfgq0
Episode 35: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxW7KEqT8wXDo17r?e=Cu02IH
Episode 36: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxbysRoSj3Huw3p7?e=ZllfWn
Episode 37: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxeWx4-974mHMU5L?e=KGooYX
Episode 38: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxg34DgfI8oRcfGB?e=6ojS0E
Episode 39: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxlV6SyvdTXeQmMJ?e=J1Xq68
Episode 40: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxpqi1YFcPwqlsjs?e=bQT3bh
Episode 41: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxtCg7e21sTiftEP?e=tGY1Rq
Episode 42: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosxwt9qDFe3lK39VZ?e=XNv5GT
Episode 43: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosx2EZM_pTRowUt-3?e=eVZ7gc
Episode 44: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosx_caX-7iuPVzkYz?e=hwVU0c
Episode 45: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqsjLYEl7OKosx4AsUhIPTloMxTp?e=C323Tw
Folder link to all the found episodes: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqsjLYEl7OKolDVD-sVoJqRC-YEJ?e=h8I7Rc
External Links
- A list of 45 of the episodes with Japanese titles. Retrieved 04 Nov '16
- The opening and ending of the original Japanese episodes. Retrieved 04 Nov '16