Bosco Adventure

Oh this was nostalgic! I was 5 when I watched this with my sister, we cried so much at the end. Now I watched it again and I'm so surprised how much I still remembered the show. It's a kids show, no deeper meaning no food for thought just a fun adventure with anthropomorphic animals and a cryptic story, and comically incompetent bad guys. The story doesn't explain itself, many questions remain unresolved - what was Apri doing outside Fountainland at the beginning and what happens to her and the throne at the end? If the people of Fountainland are actual humans what are all ... the animals then, and how is Apri an elf? A breath of fresh air to watch an anime that doesn't have sex on its mind all the time - sure Apri and Damia both wear super short skirts but nothing happens in relation to that. I for one remembered all the mechanical gadgets - the whole show revolves around an airship! A log cabin with a balloon and propellers, all steam powered! It's just a classic kids adventure, can't beat those.

Short review.

Bosco Daibouken is another anime from Nippon Animation that adapts a western book. An anime focused on children where the focus is just being fun.

It starts with Princess Apricot already on a flying ship after being kidnapped, I suppose she escaped from Fountainland to get help, since she escapes from the villains in the beginning and gets help after Speak arrives in a village called Bosco.
The anime follows the same formula in basically every episode: The villain comes, tries to get Apri and gets screwed in some comical way and this builds up the adventure of the anime in various locations with various events. ... It's usually mini-arcs and rarely a single episode with the villains trying to get Apri. It's pretty repetitive, but it's fun.

The characters are cool, even more of Bosco.
The villains, Hoodman and his henchmen, get dumber and dumber with each episode and this makes for even more funny moments. They get even dumber when Damia, another villain, shows up. And I cannot forget that the comedy in this anime is really good and sometimes a bit cartoonish.
The main villain Scorpion has a good motivation, since he is of a race that goes from planet to planet devouring them into nothingness.

Bosco Daibouken is an anime that doesn't care about logic and just wants to be fun, and well, it is fun, however it got tiresome as the episodes went by.

The animation is pretty consistent and never has a static frame. It's a good production.
I don't pay attention to OST, so I don't even remember the songs, except for the opening and ending.

As a whole, it is a very nice anime to watch and it has a satisfactory ending and ends the anime well.