The PD novels of the world

Here are the upcoming animated adaptations to the public domain novels of the world. 

The Legend of the Green Atlantis: (aka The Secret of the Two Oceans) by Grigory Adamov - The son of an exiled Jewish diplomat, Pavlik, a fourteen year old boy, finds himself in the sea due to a shipwreck in the North Atlantic and gets on board the (looted) submarine Green Atlantis. This fairly unique boat, which has absorbed almost all the best achievements of a dying mermaid kingdom’s science and technology, is sent from near Gotland (via St Petersburg/Leningrad) to the Pacific Fleet, in order to counterbalance the ever corrupt naval power from the legendary DP (a thinly veiled version of DuPont). The submarine follows around Cape Horn, has its crew almost dying in the Antarctic sea, is attacked in the Pacific Ocean by the naval cruiser DuPontia and destroying it with an ultrasonic beam. One of the crew members turns out to be a traitor and damages the boat, but the crew repairs it on the ocean floor near Easter Island, neutralises the saboteur and, finally, successfully brings Green Atlantis to Vladivostok.

The novel mentions numerous fantastic scientific and technological innovations used on the Green Atlantis. The hull of the submarine is made of heavy-duty alloy, which allows it to dive to any ocean depth. The submarine's energy source is a thermocouple, the ends of which are at different depths. The resulting electricity is stored in super-batteries and used to electrolyze water. The resulting hydrogen and oxygen are used in a pulsed detonation jet engine. In addition, it is possible to heat the hull skin to the boiling point of water, which makes it possible to reduce the resistance to movement (steam lubrication) and develop a speed at which the voyage from Easter Island to Vladivostok takes four days (i.e. more than 92 knots). The boat is equipped with a deployed sonar system capable of providing an image, and an unmanned vehicle with a video camera operating in the infrared range is launched into underwater and surface navigation and into flight. The boat is armed with an ultrasonic emitter, leading to the "destruction of the molecular bonds of matter." The crew of the boat can go overboard to the seabed in diving suits of unique strength, autonomy and swimming speed. Pistols are attached to them, operating on the same principle as the main weapon of the boat. To unfasten the suit, an electrode-needle is used, which must be drawn along the seam, which causes it to disintegrate.

The Brutality of General Winter by Grigory Adamov: 1978. Border outpost fighters catch defectors from behind the cordon. The outpost is inspected by Comrade Major Komarov of the MSS. One of the detainees attracts the Major's attention. The defector Cardan is kidnapped by four armed masked men during transportation and taken in the Odessa-Kyiv express train, however, in the Voznesensk area, Cardan jumps off the train. Pursuing him, Major Komarov finds himself on a sperm whale-shaped passenger helicopter "Dedalus", the next flight to Nikolaev-Sverdlovsk. In Voronezh, Cardan descends to the ground and stops at the apartment of laboratory assistant Zammel. Then Cardan flies on a helicopter to Moscow. Meanwhile, in the north of the Soviet Union, "Arctic construction" is underway under the auspices of the Ministry of Great Arctic Works (VAR). The young hydrogeologist Sergey Lavrov comes to visit his friend Irina Denisova and, in the presence of Nikolai Berezin, who also came to her, outlines the idea of raising the temperature in the Arctic Ocean in order to organize year-round navigation and turn the Soviet Arctic into an oasis (much to the locals’ lament). To badly implement this idea, Lavrov proposes to direct the Gulf Stream towards Taimyr.

Irina, with whom both Lavrov and Berezin are in love, enthusiastically accepts this idea, which was soon supported at the highest state level. Tormented by envy and jealousy, Berezin, who apparently also supported Lavrov's plan, comes into contact with correspondent Eric Goberti, who explains that the northern sea route is of concern to Western business circles because of the threat to the profitability of the Suez Canal. The first underwater thermal mine of a grandiose (Soviet conceived) construction site is being drilled at the bottom near Rudolf Island. In the underwater village of the builders of the "Deputy Minister of the VAR", Lavrov tells Goberti about the features of Arctic construction. Meanwhile, an accident occurs in shaft number 3 due to a defective piston, which may be sabotage or sabotage. One of the workers is arrested and dies in a "pre-isolation house" until the investigation is completed. However, the Chapaev icebreaker explodes in the ice near Cape Zhelaniya. Major Komarov, chasing Cardan, miraculously survives, but finds himself in an all-terrain vehicle on an ice floe with hummocks in the middle of the Kara Sea, where he and his companions have to shoot back from a polar bear. With the help of a spacesuit, he heads to mine number 6. Meanwhile, the miners come across a magma vein, which causes another accident at mine number 6 on October Revolution Island, not far from the Shokalsky Strait. Komarov discovers a camp with a foreign aircraft and gets involved in a shootout, during which he manages to capture Cardan (Konovalov, aka Kurilin). Komarov meets Lavrov, who is in charge of the liquidation of the accident in the underwater village. During the interrogation, it turns out that Cardan is the 45-year-old son of the white emigrant Konovalov (and a female sexual violator), who was born in Germany on the eve of the Nazis coming to power (thus, the novel takes place no later than 1978). The threads of the conspiracy led to the management of the Suez Canal Company. Upon learning of the failure, Goberti takes potassium cyanide. Berezin was convicted for insider trading and is serving his sentence to die there in Yakutia. During the detention of the saboteurs, Major Komarov dies, but the electric ship is named after him. Lavrov opens the golf stream track and columns of underwater steam break the ice, opening the Northern Sea Route. Irina becomes his wife.

Yukiyoshi Hane: In It For The Money

Dear a majority of anime fans the world over, I am telling you an abridged version to the story behind one of the anime industry’s own shrewdest and most astute ever freemium lancers, Yukiyoshi Hane. 

Not everyone knows about him before he began his career as a troubled but brilliant business minded animator. However, he began his career by animating a shit ton of scenes for the Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon Orochi. 

Finally, he got his big break near the end of 1972. It was when he was animating and character designing two very different shows, one a relatively much lighter and softer adaptation to Osamu Tezuka’s Triton of the Sea, and the other being a considerably much wackier yet more merchandise-driven adaptation to Go Nagai’s brilliant but long-troubled Mazinger Z. But midway through season 2’s airing schedule, he awkwardly but slowly got replaced as a character designer by a dude called Keisuke Morishita, himself an otherwise mediocre animator on his own. Although he initially did not get along well with his replacement, their relations have slowly eased through time anyway and it helps that the last two seasons of said show have much better artwork, which is thanks to Keisuke Morishita and his much craftier acquaintances. 

Hopefully, he did not run out of money for a long while, but that’s up until the 90s were coming to a close. In the 1980s and 90s, he worked for a lot of anime films and tv shows by animating some of their scenes, just without anyone noticing. At the end of the 1990s however, he unceremoniously ran out of money and temporarily became a hobo looking for something to work with. 

But said thing turned out to be an infamous cult called Happy Science, Known as HS for short. Thus he had to keep on catching some of the money that he needed for his own retirement, mainly by animating a lot of scenes for a few of the cult’s own otherwise entertaining Golden Laws franchise of animated films. After that, he animated certain scenes for a shit ton of tv shows and movies in order to retire comfortably. 

The lesson turns out to, in other words, to be something else entirely. In order to retire comfortably, just deal with any and all of the most dangerous risks in a constantly messed up industry. 

 

 

Disorders, Disputes and other factors in Star of the Giants

Disorders in Star of the Giants are mostly ambiguous and not much realistically representable, partly due to one of its two fairly infamous creators trying not to offend his audience and partly because the true scope of an actual disorder is so hard to comprehend with. 

Look at Hyuma Hoshi’s dad, Ittetsu Hoshi from Star of the Giants; he might have been a Cold Heartedly Scary Dude by 60s anime and manga standards at least in the first part (and probably one of the most complex parents in postwar manga and anime history), but he did have good intentions in mind. It’s mostly due to the fact that, even though he’s often manipulative and cold (the chances are likely that he was raised mostly by his horrible former friends, who probably didn’t even care about him for the most part), he’s trying to stay alive due to how WW2 seriously affected his life, and often in a rather bad way. His son isn’t always the all time best and could indeed be mentally traumatised when his father’s tactics went too far, but his chances of survival are still not as bad (along with his older sister), since one part of which is due to himself being quite a rebel; although another thing is that his brain is surprisingly resilient given the rather sour initial tone of the home situation. 

However, there are much worse parents than the still complicated Ittetsu Hoshi. As South Korea wasn’t truly a modern and mostly independent country until the summer of 1948, I think it’s very likely that he was a half-South Korean born at the very end of World War 1 in November 3 1918, a decade before Osamu Tezuka was also born. 

Even before that, Hyuma’s own plausible paternal grandmother would have made Kill La Kill’s Ragyo Kiryuin proud on her part. Named Yui Akimoto, she was born in 1876 and was killed by rats in 1933. She’s such a monster that her Japonified (but otherwise South Korean born) Yakuza boss, Ittetsu Kan, had to flee her wrath at the beginning of the Taisho period. 

But 1912 was itself only a few years before she also met Ittetsu’s actual South Korean born father (who’s her ex boyfriend’s youngest employee). Said father was poor old Sanpei Nohara, a former prostitute who did his best to protect his only son from her attacks at all costs, mainly during his first 14 years of existence in this super horrible world. Unfortunately, Sanpei also became a yakuza member and it was his son who left him in 1933.

While Star of the Giants is a very sad yet rather touching story about familial dysfunction junction, it is also a part of a plausible dynastic saga, which would’ve been fully finished when the very troubled Ikki Kajiwara (aka Asaki Takamori) was still alive (albeit sometimes in prison for a crapload of infamously troublesome conflicts, raging mental health outbursts and many other agitating factors) until 1987, which was when he took his own life, much to the increasingly retroactive dismay of almost everyone in parts of sub-Siberian Asia. But a decade after that, something way (too far) worse came through; his half-Taiwanese Hokkien daughter, with the sometimes controversial Ms Pai Bing Bing nonetheless, had her own life cut short in 1997. 

The infamous kidnapping, torture and forced passing of a dastardly ballsy manga writer’s own daughter, by a really depraved dude, was a major reason, though not the only one, for the death penalty’s infamously complicated reintroduction into Chinese Taipei, which is mostly out of apathy (though there are other reasons, such as most criminals, although bad in their own right, being not as ridiculously depraved) and still continues to this day.

Newfound ideas for such a saga can be plausible, but both the Takamori estate and Kawasaki Pro are still trying to mend their sometimes troubling differences in the present day, mainly for the better. Also complicating the long but rather recent situation is the introduction of yet another estate, which is that of Ms Pai Bing-Bing’s. I also think the lack of good enough, canonically official follow ups being made is somewhat of a hindrance, but they can still be produced nonetheless. 

Now these are amongst some of the numerous factors which explain why only Ikki Kajiwara’s writing for Star of the Giants will simply become public domain in 2058 for almost all the world’s nations. 

The Big Eagle Comics Greats

Eagle comics seems to be one of the most iconic comics mags in Britain and Northern Ireland. 

The only known Eagle comics great distantly related to Mazinger Z is Dan Dare. 

Fraser of Africa seems to be a loose spiritual British adaptation of Kenya Boy in many ways.

Disorders in Dexter’s Lab

The characters of Dexter’s Lab are so relatable to the public, despite the show’s apparent values dissonance. 

Even though the writers of this show didn’t intend her to be more than just depicting her as a comically inexperienced lass, Dee Dee is actually one of the characters who most accurately represent certain variants of sociopathy and/or secondary psychopathy, period. She is my first retroactive female soft crush mostly because she does feel some guilt and isn’t clearly raised well. 

ManDark is also not raised well, even though he’s more of a cold hearted jackass. He’s my first retroactive male soft crush partly due to the possibility of him having (well meant if really screwed up) plausible adoptive parents, as well as having an equally intelligent little sister who’s also from the same plausible birth family as him. As I figure out, he’s implied to be an irreligious adoptee from somewhere near Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh city) in Vietnam. 

My fan theory is that ManDark’s southern Vietnamese birth parents would have been war scarred and middle aged when both of their youngest children were born years apart. He and his little sis are implied to have about three much older brothers. Said older brothers have different body types; the eldest one is a workplace bully, the second one is a moody dude with tanned skin, and the third one’s a critter lover. 

Dexter is implied to show signs of classical autism and a variant of ADHD, as well as having OCD tendencies. While he does show various other emotions, he’s mostly depicted as a cackling, budding antihero scientist to be. 

Mother India voice cast

The potential voice cast for Mother Rajasthan, the animated adaptation of Mother India. 

The directing rights for both Aurat and Mother India are becoming both copyright free and public domain for Indian viewers in January 2025. The rest of the world will follow ten and twenty years later. They’ve been public domain in South Africa for nearly a decade now. The parts of both screenplays written by Wajahat Mirza will have to wait until 2041, 2051 and 2061. 

Even though there were two popular golden age Bollywood actresses (Sardar Akhtar and Nargis) who played Radha in the past and who preceded Sonal Kaushal by decades, they’re just as legendary as her. I am slowly discovering her huge talent as both a voice actress and a dubbing artist (since she’s responsible for voicing Doraemon in the Hindi dub of the character’s eponymous show, Chhota Bheem and others.), thus I strongly respect her body and mind as well. 

Mother Rajasthan

Change No. 1: Despite (clearly) being set in the far east of what would become Rajasthan, the serial will simply shy away from revealing its location as something not too far from what would become the Sariska Tiger Reserve, at least until the very end. 

Change No. 2: Instead of Radha originally ageing from a young adult to a senior, she’ll be ageing from a superstitious youth to a middle aged ex-spinster, perhaps making more sense for most contemporary viewers with a good historical research record. She’ll still lose a couple of family members and friends not just to diseases, but also to various conflicts, whether look/caste/ethnicity/class/religion/skin colour related or not. Unlike her live action incarnations, she somehow has considerably more heroic morals, even though she can maim (but not directly kill) bad people who aren’t her friends or siblings, mainly in the worst scenarios. Still, she may witness one of her late friend’s brothers, a cop without empathy killing his nightmarish mum just near the end. 

Change No. 3: Radha has a family of siblings to look after since her parents are often workaholics. 

Change No. 4: The roles of Radha’s parents are greatly expanded. Despite being mere newfound friends before, both were somewhat forcibly married at the uncomfortable ages of sixteen and seventeen. While they do mean well for their offspring, they don’t like each other.  

Wild Fisted Champion: Characters

The characters of Wild Fisted Champion 

Hero 

Kensaku Imano (今野健作): After his adoption by an ApeWoman and an Apeman, he is raised by them. As a result, he is very strong for his age and is quite a tough teen who sometimes pounds his chest to look bigger than the beasts who frighten him. His true place of solace is in the Mitumba rainforest, whom he calls his adoptive homeland. The tale would also reveal that his birth parents also live in the jungle, but as reclusive feral people who escaped a negligent prison. His alias is Kuman (クマン) when he is with his adoptive tribe, although its source word means ‘germs’ in Indonesian. 

Ken’s Friends 

Patrice (パトリス): A reluctant convert to Catholicism, he is one of his entrepreneur parents’ surviving older children. 

Tatsuo Kamachi (鎌池辰夫): Masao and Hiroko’s father. 

Masao Kamachi (鎌池正夫): Hiroko’s older brother. 

Hiroko Kamachi (蒲池ヒロコ): Ken’s first friend in years. He first met her when she was washing the dishes.

Aki Yamamuro (山室亜紀): 

People from Hiroko’s School 

Kin Fubuki (吹雪金武): 

Yu Fubuki (吹雪ゆう): 

Shingo (慎吾): 

Shizuko Mitani (三谷静子): Hiroko’s friend from the same school. 

Kaori Murasame (村雨つのだ): 

Kana Konno (紺野華菜): Hiroko’s Friend who also begins life as a plane crash survivor.

The Makimura Family 

Yui Makimura (牧村優衣): Along with her intrepid explorer father, Yui had to survive in war crime ridden areas, such as those taken over (albeit temporarily, though still horribly) by the Imperial Japanese military! She is three years younger than Ken, being born on the 13th of October 1931. 

Shotaro Makimura (牧村章太郎): Shotaro is Yui Makimura’s rather unkempt explorer father. After his brothel master left him behind, he and his daughter travelled through Okinawa, present day Taiwan, central Vietnam, Aceh in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia and ultimately modern day Congo Kinshasa. 

The Kosugi Family 

Eisaku Kosugi (小杉栄作): Designated monkey Eisaku had to leave the workplace corruption himself, even though he couldn’t join the infamous military of the time due to being traumatised by another war.

Izumi Kosugi (小杉泉): Eisaku’s daughter. 

Jin Kosugi (小杉仁): Jin is a scientist, who likely is the middle one of about three surviving brothers. 

Bion Suzuka (鈴鹿美音): Jin’s fellow scientist wife and his closest confidante. Along with him, she was kidnapped by a Kaijin disguised as a giant Eagle. 

Yukiyoshi Kosugi (小杉幸義): Bion and Jin’s hapless older child and son. 

Kazuyo Kosugi (小杉和代): Yukiyoshi’s younger sister, Jin and Bion’s second child and daughter. 

Futaro Kosugi (小杉風太郎): Shingo is likely Eisaku’s and Jin’s younger brother. 

The Kutsuna Family 

Eizo Kutsuna (沓名栄蔵): Souji and Hanako’s father.

Souji Kutsuna (沓名惣治): the son of Michiru and Tomin’s guide Eizo. 

Hanako Kutsuna (沓名) Eizo’s daughter, who was five years old when she and Eizo found out that there were more mutinies in the Congo.

The Recurring Characters 

Yukihiro Hino (日野幸宏): 

Michiko Hino (日野道子): Yukihiro’s daughter. 

Yuki Tamura (田村祐希): Yuki is a member of Happei Komatsu’s entourage. 

Rumiko (るみこ): 

Masaharu (正治): Rumiko’s son, who also happens to be a member of Eiji’s entourage. 

Kotaro Takakura (高倉光太郎): 

James Simonson (ジェームス・サイモンソン): 

Sue Simonson (スー・サイモンソン): A long haired blonde from Bronx in New York, the US. She is pen friends with both Hiroko and Ken. 

Bruno Renier: A Walloon spy from Belgium, who had sex with the divorced Kei out of the fact that she was herself taunted and assaulted by members of the Japanese military. He had to see her die from war related wounds, even after birthing a daughter in secret. 

Elle Renier: Bruno and Rika’s daughter, who would live to embark on an adventure with her widowed father to find the treasure surrounding an abandoned town. 

The Boss’s family

Kinsuke Komatsu (小松金助): 

Happei Komatsu: Aka Hachihei Komatsu (小松八平), he is both Kyoji’s Nephew and the father of Ryuhei Komatsu. 

Chiemi (ちえみ): Happei’s wisecracking wife. 

Kyoji Komatsu (小松恭司): Mei’s husband and the father of Ryutaro and Uri. 

Mei Onodera (小野寺芽衣):

Ryūtaro Komatsu (小松龍太郎): He is the older brother of Misa and Ryuhei Komatsu’s uncle. 

Machiko (真知子): Ryūtaro Komatsu’s wife. 

Misa Komatsu (小松未紗): Misa is Ryūtaro’s sister. 

Ryuhei Komatsu (小松龍平): Happei Komatsu’s son. 

The Tanaka Family 

Tomin Tanaka (田中冬眠): The husband of Michiru. 

Michiru (実千瑠): Michiru is a mad scientist in training. 

Eiji Tanaka (田中英二): 

Hiromi Tanaka (田中ひろみ): 

Mari Tanaka (田中麻里): 

Ken Onodera’s Found Family: The individuals are from the fabled Zalazugu (ザラズグ) tribe of hominids. 

Kinji (キンジ): Kinji is one of the ape men who raised Ken. He is both Akari’s son and a strongman amongst his peers due to his mad climbing skills. 

Kalaga (カラガ): 

Ombe (オンベ): 

Zongo (ゾンゴ): Ken’s workaholic, highly estranged adoptive father. As a well meant but overprotective apeman, he saw his older rival Akari being kidnapped in turn by a mad scientist. 

Kenkunga (ケンクンガ): 

Kiko (キコ): A friend of Ken since childhood.

The Named Animals

Vincent (ヴィンセント): Vincent, a dead young gorilla, was Pamela’s younger brother and her mum’s son with a silverback who got killed by poachers. 

Pamela (パメラ): Pamela is a Grauer’s gorilla who originally belonged to a troop which still eludes humans. She lost her younger brother to infanticide by the unscrupulous friends of her cheating mother’s then-new boyfriend. 

Fuwa (不破): Fuwa is an African forest elephant, who happens to be one of the fellow animals who raised Ken to become an animal.

Lilia (リリア): Lilia is a southeastern chimpanzee who happens to be Becky’s older cousin. 

Becky (ベッキー): The troublesome Becky is a young southeastern chimpanzee who would have left her maiden troop once she reached sexual maturity, if not for her capture by shipmates. Becky lives next door to the treehouse where the apeman couple raise Ken. 

Shizo (四三): Shizo is a black leopard whom Ken rescued from being snared at.

Fellas who Hunt for Money

Akio Kuromitsu (黒蜜昭男): Jin’s rather corrupt and negligent boss, who once enjoyed hunting too many endangered animals and has had a knack for trading things made out of them. However, he is a mere dragon in comparison to someone more corrupt than even him.

Sae Kuromitsu (黒蜜紗江): Akio’s daughter. 

The Anti Villains

Akari (あかり): Akari was an elder from the Zalazugu Apeman tribe. He was a well meant guy who lost his home to a mad scientist, who decidedly kidnapped him in turn along with an angsty Hiroko. 

Kei Yoshikawa (吉川恵): Kei Yoshikawa saw her estranged husband Akio abandoning Bion and Jin at their holiday house near Lake Tanganyika. She went mad from revelation but became a well intended mad scientist instead, freeing many of the needy wild animals from being caged for too long. 

Other Antagonists 

Rika Utsumi (内海): Being a bit younger than her husband, she was a serial divorcee of a pervert. In sexual matters, she preferred a certain Bruno Renier over him, even though the Japanese military still taunted her so often that she had to divorce him by fleeing the scene. Even by then, she ironically earned a bittersweet ending by distancing from it and then dying in another warzone.

Ken’s Birth Family 

Satoshi Imano (今野さとし) 

The Main Villains 

Kaginga (カギンガ):

Films and Tv shows of Tarzan and Mowgli competitors

The Tarzan and Mowgli competitors 

Baruuba: 7 books (with the first one of them all being a working draft), 11 graphic novels (with the first one of them all being a distillation of the first two books and two of them being kid friendly summaries of the Jungle Orphan story), 3 mangas (with one of them being related to Hideo Oguni’s Buruuba) and a film

Bomba the Jungle Boy: 20 books, 11 films, and a comic book 

Boy Champion: about 2 dozen graphic novels, 3 mangas and a radio drama

Kaspa: 6 books and a film

Kenya Boy: about 2 dozen graphic novels, 2 films, a manga, a tv show and a radio drama 

Tiger Boy: about a dozen graphic novels and 3 Kamishibai stories