Adventures on Rainbow Pond

Adventures on Rainbow Pond
Original Title	けろっこデメタン Kerokko Demetan
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Intersound, Inc.
Voice Director 1	Dave Mallow
Voice Director 2	Doug Stone
Translation & Adaptation	Dave Mallow Doug Stone
ADR Production
Recorded	1989
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	39
Year	1973

Adventures on Rainbow Pond, originally known as Demetan Croaker (けろっこデメタン Kerokko Demetan) is a 39 episode anime series by Tatsunoko Productions first aired in 1973.

Synopsis Jonathan Jumper is a poor young frog living in Rainbow Pond with his mother and father, who becomes friends with a popular and sweet girl named Hilary Hopper, despite the differences in their social standings. Hilary is the daughter of the leader of Rainbow Pond, Mayor Maxwell, while Jonathan and his parents are tree frogs, which them automatic outcasts in the community. Together, Jonathan and Hilary enjoy many adventures.

Dubbing History

Demetan Croaker was translated into the English language on two separate occasions by Harmony Gold. In 1985, two feature-length movie adaptations, edited from the TV series, were produced by Harmony Gold. The two movies, titled The Brave Frog and The Brave Frog's Greatest Adventure, tell the entire storyline of the series in heavily condensed form. The first movie was released on videocassette in 1994 and on DVD in 1999.

In 1989, Harmony Gold also translated the 39 episodes into English under the title Adventures on Rainbow Pond. This version featured different name localizations from The Brave Frog films, such as renaming Demetan to Jonathan Jumper, as well as a different voice cast. It was sold for syndication by Harmony Gold, though failed to sell to any American stations. Despite this, various dubs in other languages, including Latin Spanish, German and Portuguese used the dub as the basis; while the English dub is known to have aired in the Middle East.

Cast

Character	Original Name	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Jonathan Jumper	Demetan	Yuko Hisamatsu	Dave Mallow
Hilary Hopper	Ranatan	Mari Okamoto	Julie Maddalena
Mayor Maxwell	Lord Gyata	Kōsei Tomita	Michael McConnohie
Narrator		Haruko Kitahama	Doug Stone

See Also

• The Brave Frog
• The Brave Frog's Greatest Adventure

External Links

• Adventures on Rainbow Pond at the Internet Movie Database
• Adventures on Rainbow Pond (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia