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Oct 16, 2008 8:00 AM
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I didn't know it's anime...I watched it when I was a little child (in Poland it's still on TV) and I loved it (oh..I still love it :) ) OP by Zbigniew Wodecki is great ^^
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Nov 16, 2008 10:40 AM
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Ha! Same here !! I didn't know it was an anime :P I also used to watch it when it was little ^__^ I really loved it too~

Oh well, I guess I'll have to add it to my "competed" list ;)
Dec 18, 2008 11:23 PM
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I same here i didn't even know it was an anime untill 5 months ago
Jan 14, 2009 10:13 AM
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I think the 90 % of people who watched it, dont know that was an anime create in Japan ;p
Mar 18, 2009 7:24 AM
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Kalbarr said:
I think the 90 % of people who watched it, dont know that was an anime create in Japan ;p

more like 99%.
Apr 28, 2009 3:52 PM
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this is anime @___@ omg.. my parents used to watch this xD
Jun 30, 2009 4:21 AM
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i tak 90% osób które to oglądała jest z Polski :) wiadomeee ^^
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Jul 1, 2009 10:03 AM
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omg this can't be... that's a shock 0_0
Sep 4, 2009 1:12 AM
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OMG! Its anime(i dont know this too, lol) from my deep childhood, brings back lot of memories.
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Dec 28, 2009 1:11 AM

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Lol, I didn't know this before, my friend told it to me O_O

Well, I have it on my Completed Anime List ^^"

Waiiii, I still have a CD of this >w<
Jan 18, 2010 3:00 AM
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Maya is an Japan/German/Austria production ;]

The most popularly in Poland XD
Oct 9, 2010 10:37 AM
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Pszczółka Maja!
Nov 24, 2010 7:54 AM

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Wow, I didnt know it was anime. I like polish opening, altrough I like czech opening sung by Karel Gott better. You can check it out on youtube, Karel Gott has awesome voice, opening is called "Včelka Mája", which basically means Maya the Bee in Czech :D
Apr 26, 2011 5:05 AM

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To be exactly, it's a Japanese-German-Austrian Jointventure with Character Designs by American Cartoonist Martin Murphy ("Mr. Magoo") like several other Series from that period including "Pinocchio"and "Wickie the Viking".

It seems like once these early WMT-(Euro-)Anime had proven successfull they were able to afford hiring "real" Manga Artists for the Drawing as you can see in other Classics like "Rascal the Raccoon", "The Story of Bannertail the Squirrel" or "Anne of Green Gables"
May 15, 2013 9:31 AM

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^what he said


Yeah it's an anime that airs here in germany, so i'm gonna watch it :D
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Jul 21, 2015 8:50 AM

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OMFG! I just learned that it's an anime O_o
I watched it as a little kid and loved it!

I should add it to my completed list but I don't remember it that well now.
Nov 30, 2016 11:17 AM

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Lol, same reaction.
Jan 14, 2017 11:37 AM
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I saw this as a kid dubbed in Italian, I never knew it was an anime until now. Brings back good memories.
Feb 25, 2017 1:33 PM
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Ishikatsu said:
Wow, I didnt know it was anime. I like polish opening, altrough I like czech opening sung by Karel Gott better.

Fun thing is that Karel Gott also made the German opening. I bet half the population could recite it.

Though today's kids grow up with a disgusting 3D-animated "remake" where the opening is sung by Helene Fischer, because apparently someone decided that all these old kid's shows needed to be stripped of everything that was good about them.
Feb 25, 2017 1:35 PM

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VikingGe said:
Ishikatsu said:
Wow, I didnt know it was anime. I like polish opening, altrough I like czech opening sung by Karel Gott better.

Fun thing is that Karel Gott also made the German opening. I bet half the population could recite it.

Though today's kids grow up with a disgusting 3D-animated "remake" where the opening is sung by Helene Fischer, because apparently someone decided that all these old kid's shows needed to be stripped of everything that was good about them.

WHAT ANIME ARE YOU SPEAKING ABOUT
Apr 2, 2017 1:54 AM

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kikyo1hinamora said:

WHAT ANIME ARE YOU SPEAKING ABOUT


Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken of course! It was aired in many countries in many languages~
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Apr 18, 2017 1:28 PM

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I could tell it was anime, but I had to look it up to make sure because I thought it might've just been anime-inspired lol. The art style and atmosphere is pretty anime-like, but it's also cartoony enough that I can see how it's hard to tell.
Aug 3, 2017 6:52 PM

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Nie wierze że to istnieje !! XDD





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Dec 5, 2017 4:18 PM

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lol this is my dads childhood
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Feb 28, 2018 10:16 AM

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This is the biggest WTF moment in my life! Czech here...
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Dec 6, 2018 1:40 AM

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Wow!
I was living in lie for so many years! I thought it was german cartoon but it's anime? Same as Moomins? Well I need to change my first anime (Pokemon) to these two then.
I watched the hell out of them and I still have Moomin book somewhere.
I need to re-watch them, seriously...
Dec 7, 2018 2:07 PM

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guulaash said:
lol this is my dads childhood
okay i made that comment a year ago but now i realize i can only find this anime with british dub
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Dec 10, 2019 8:54 AM

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Wow, the first anime for so many people and we didn't know it :D

Now, if you tell me "Ferdy the ant" was anime too...
Just checked - it wasn't, heh.
Dec 18, 2019 3:52 AM

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hmmm... lol
My mum's favourite cartoon from her childhood is actually anime x)
Jan 23, 2020 9:44 PM

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I used to sing the dubbed spanish Opening of this show when i was 2-3 years old back in the 80s. As many of you have commented, it's kinda mind-blowing to find out, so many years later, that it was our first anime. That explains why i remember it be so good, able to distinguish itself from others and become my first favorite show.
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Jan 31, 2020 7:10 AM
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When i was child I hate it
Jan 31, 2020 8:01 AM

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This aired in Canada on YTV as "Maya the Bee" back in the early-mid 90s, and I remember it well. I'm certain that I saw every episode, although it's been over 25 years since I've last watched it. I must admit, I didn't know that it was anime when I first saw it, but I certainly enjoyed watching it.

I'd love to see this get released on DVD or Blu-ray in North America, but sadly, the chances of it happening are slim.

Feb 11, 2020 12:43 AM

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I'd add this to my list, but I have no idea how many episodes I have seen. I used to watch it on VHS.
Apr 10, 2020 10:23 AM
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Pierwsze anime w polskiej telewizji
Jul 23, 2020 12:09 AM
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Damn this feels so surreal...I guess I technically watched this a lot as a kid in full..so uh, so..I guess I owe it a rating...wtf tho, this feels surreal, another Czech here who's been believed this was a Czech cartoon lol, pretty funny.

But it makes perfect sense, I remember that when I was getting into anime as a kid I was looking at some of the shots thinking they did look little anime-like but I was just telling myself I was being silly. This feels little surreal.
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Funny is many people in my country dont like anime because it is "chinese cartoons for kids". Then when i tell them bee maya is in fact anime i can clearly see their confusion because maya the bee is very popular here even amongst adults.
Oct 25, 2021 11:46 AM
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European version got edited and some scenes were removed especially in the first third of the series in order to be less dramatic and violent

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