Captain Planet and other Great Cartoons

"Captain Planet" was a cartoon created in 1990 by Robert Larkin III, with Ted Turner and media innovator Barbara Pyle. "By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet". Together they battle the eco-villains who are looting and polluting the earth. Another great cartoon series was the "Mysterious Cities of Gold" which premiered in Japan in 1982 (co-produced by Studio Pierrot, hq'ed in Mitaka City, Japan, about 20 mins from Shinjuku station (the busiest train station in the world) and also home of Ghibli Museum) and ran for 39 episodes. Set in 1532, it is the journey of Spanish boy Esteban, searching for his father and the lost cities of gold. He is accompanied by Zia, Tao and Mendoza (a Spaniard, navigator of the Spanish fleet). It is based on the 1966 book "The King's Fifth" by Scott O'Dell. Scott published his first book at age 26 called "Representative Photoplays Analysed". "What first step shall I take into the maze of the Minotaur", says Esteban in Chapter 1 of The King's Fifth. To learn more about the animators of MCOG, we must learn more about Japan. Shinjuku is an inland ward of Tokyo (one of 23 special wards). Nishi-Shinjuku is the skyscraper district of Shinjuku (see the pictures of skyscrapers with Mount Fuji in the background, one of the impressive skyscrapers is the Mitsui building, built 1974). The main campus of Waseda University is located in Shinjuku. It is home of one of the oldest karate clubs in Japan formed in 1931, one of the graduates was Shigeru Egami, founder of Shotokai style of karate, who stressed flowing, continuous movement and development of perfect kime, focusing all energy at one point). West of Shinjuku is the (also inland) Nakano ward (it was just a village in 1897). Minato ward faces the sea to the East. It is home to the Shinto Atago Shrine built in 1603 (a lot of climbing, one of the highest points in Tokyo!) Choshi City is to the east of Tokyo and is famous for the Inubosaki lighthouse that faces the Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the World, whose name was given by Magellan, and means "peaceful sea") Learn more about the surrounding Chiba area here.