The Challenge
Foreign titles: Kum Kum (French), Kum Kum (German), Kum Kum Il Cavernicolo (Italian), As Aventuras de Cacá (Portuguese)
Series title: わんぱく大昔ク
- Studio
- ITC Japan
- Animation studio
- Sunrise
Synopsis
Roman, while innocently clearing land for planting crops, destroys all of Butterfly's favorite spring flowers. The gang becomes so incensed at Roman's disregard that they start to harass poor Roman to death! Kum and the kids do not let up, and they finally send Roman a challenge to meet Kum one on one in battle. In trying his best not to harm Kum, Roman not only gets his pride hurt, but just about everything else, to boot! Ouch!
Characters
Kum-kum, Furu-furu, Chil-chil, Mochi-mochi, Aron, Butterfly, Littlerock, Bumbles, Strong Arm, The Wise One, Jumbo, Waterlily, Wildflower, Roman, Dark Eyes, Tum Tum
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Rintaro, Noboru Ishiguro, Wataru Mizusawa
- Director (English Version)
- Phil Judd
Producing
- Producer
- Phil Judd
- Executive Producer
- Banjiro Uemura
Writing
- Writer
- Eiichi Tachi, Keisuke Fujikawa, Yoshiaki Yoshida
Animation
- Animator
- Rintaro, Noboru Ishiguro, Minoru Tajima, Akio Sakai
Voices
- Voice
- Barbara Frawley, Ray Hartley, Noel Judd, Beryl Marshall, Derani Scarr, Keith Scott (English Voice Cast)
Music
- Music
- Masami Uno
Crew
- Creator
- Madoka Akitsu
- Art Director
- Katsunari Nakaba
- Design
- Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
- Script Supervisor
- Noel Judd
- Recordist
- Phil Heywood
- Mixer
- Phil Heywood
- Post-Production Coordinator
- Santo L. Bernardo
- Post-Production Advisor
- Mike Policare
- Assistant Film Editor
- Al Perez
- Paramount Production Executive
- Bruce Gordon
Production notes
This TV series ran for 26 episodes.
Created by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko.
The airing of this series on British children's TV in the early 1980s was the first English-language broadcast of work by Yasuhiko. The show was a surprising success, perhaps because its hero didn't wear any pants.
This series was bought by Paramount for import to the United States, but there is no indication that it was ever televised there. The series was dubbed into English in Australia using a voice cast of Australians, along with Australian technical crew.
Created by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko.
The airing of this series on British children's TV in the early 1980s was the first English-language broadcast of work by Yasuhiko. The show was a surprising success, perhaps because its hero didn't wear any pants.
This series was bought by Paramount for import to the United States, but there is no indication that it was ever televised there. The series was dubbed into English in Australia using a voice cast of Australians, along with Australian technical crew.