Since I was a kid I've been a fan of the 90s Moomin cartoon series and I have been meaning to buy this series on video. Theres only been two DVD releases so far in English, in the UK the 5 episode 'Moomin Mania' which is now out of print and very hard to obtain and in the US the 4 disc 12 episode boxset priced at over $40. The former i can't seem to find and the latter is very expensive and can only be found on the US Amazon website.
So I am very happy that Stax Entertainment will be releasing the DVD set Moomin: Series 1 in March, 14 episodes split across two discs for measly sum of only £9.99 (the same price of Moomin Mania). Hopefully the 'Series 1' part implies further releases soon afterwards. Heres a tiny picture of the artwork:
There has been many adaptions of the Moomin novels since the 60's, in many forms of animation such as the Polish stop motion series and the Soviet cut out films. The 90s cartoon series is the third Japanese-Finnish co-production anime which was dubbed by the BBC and shown in the UK in the 90s. Tove Jansson never liked the Japanese versions for being slightly departed from her original books but the series has always had a place in my heart so i am very excited about this release and only wish it was sooner!
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