Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 24, 2017 11:36:53 GMT
Now THIS is an obscure piece of lost media
So I remembered this old cartoon I used to watch when I was a kid, it was called "Pelezinho", and, as the title suggests, the titular character, Pelezinho, is based off the famous brazilian soccer player Pelé, and it was about Pelezinho being super good at soccer and... Honestly that's all I can remember, I was around 6-8 years old when I watched this, although I do remember that the plot was way more complex than just Pelezinho playing soccer (with that said, the plot wasn't complex at all, actually it was kinda dumb for what I can remember)
I can't find literally any information about it on the internet, not even a Wikipedia page, the one that I found is for the series of comic stripes called Turma do Pelezinho, but the art style is quite different from the cartoon, so I don't even know if the cartoon is an adaptation of the comic or if they just share the name, actually I don't even know if the cartoon is a brazilian production, I assume it is for obvious reasons but I don't even know that
The only character I can remember besides Pelezinho is his dog Rex (although I remember very clearly that in one episode they called him "Rexina" on a flashback episode when he was a puppy), and that's about it
As for the episodes, the only one I can remember was about some dude who was super tall so he used to play as the goalie, and I remember a scene where a player from the rival team was approaching him and he was just relaxing, drinking a soda or whatever while singing in his head "this soda is so good" or something among the lines
I checked Doblaje Wiki (a wikia which documents everything related to mexican and latin american dubs in general), but it has no article, the only mention of Pelezinho I could find was on the article of mexican voice actor Iván Bastidas, apparently he dubbed Pelezinho and some other character called Cana (only on the episode 4, apparently). With that said, I remember clearly that the dub I watched was from Spain, not Mexico. Also, according to this article, Pelezinho was broadcasted on Discovery Kids at some point, though there's no year or literally anything else
Lastly, the only piece of video I could find is the intro on a extremely shitty quality on YouTube. According to the uploader, a total of 26 episodes were made, though I still need to confirm that. Here's the video:
I checked the comments to see if there was anything useful and, besides a bunch of people saying "this cartoon is shit" (though I'm not surprised, like I said it was kinda dumb and overall it's clear how little budget it had), there's a comment in english of someone claiming they want to watch it, and another one from apparently a mexican guy, claiming that the show didn't last long in Mexico and that the dub they broadcasted over there is the one from Spain, so probably the mexican dub wasn't distributed widely
So I remembered this old cartoon I used to watch when I was a kid, it was called "Pelezinho", and, as the title suggests, the titular character, Pelezinho, is based off the famous brazilian soccer player Pelé, and it was about Pelezinho being super good at soccer and... Honestly that's all I can remember, I was around 6-8 years old when I watched this, although I do remember that the plot was way more complex than just Pelezinho playing soccer (with that said, the plot wasn't complex at all, actually it was kinda dumb for what I can remember)
I can't find literally any information about it on the internet, not even a Wikipedia page, the one that I found is for the series of comic stripes called Turma do Pelezinho, but the art style is quite different from the cartoon, so I don't even know if the cartoon is an adaptation of the comic or if they just share the name, actually I don't even know if the cartoon is a brazilian production, I assume it is for obvious reasons but I don't even know that
The only character I can remember besides Pelezinho is his dog Rex (although I remember very clearly that in one episode they called him "Rexina" on a flashback episode when he was a puppy), and that's about it
As for the episodes, the only one I can remember was about some dude who was super tall so he used to play as the goalie, and I remember a scene where a player from the rival team was approaching him and he was just relaxing, drinking a soda or whatever while singing in his head "this soda is so good" or something among the lines
I checked Doblaje Wiki (a wikia which documents everything related to mexican and latin american dubs in general), but it has no article, the only mention of Pelezinho I could find was on the article of mexican voice actor Iván Bastidas, apparently he dubbed Pelezinho and some other character called Cana (only on the episode 4, apparently). With that said, I remember clearly that the dub I watched was from Spain, not Mexico. Also, according to this article, Pelezinho was broadcasted on Discovery Kids at some point, though there's no year or literally anything else
Lastly, the only piece of video I could find is the intro on a extremely shitty quality on YouTube. According to the uploader, a total of 26 episodes were made, though I still need to confirm that. Here's the video:
I checked the comments to see if there was anything useful and, besides a bunch of people saying "this cartoon is shit" (though I'm not surprised, like I said it was kinda dumb and overall it's clear how little budget it had), there's a comment in english of someone claiming they want to watch it, and another one from apparently a mexican guy, claiming that the show didn't last long in Mexico and that the dub they broadcasted over there is the one from Spain, so probably the mexican dub wasn't distributed widely
