# Odd 70's sci-fi foreign animated films

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 2, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-70s-sci-fi-foreign-animated-films/152243 "2003-02-02T04:41:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-70s-sci-fi-foreign-animated-films/152243/1 "2003-02-02T04:41:36Z")

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Ok, so we are watching Fantasic Planet, which I swore I had seen a couple of times before, but I seem to have conflated it with some film that reminds me a lot of it. . the film I am thinking of had a kind of war plot with semi-subterranean scenes and odd animals-- a very similar kind of film and a similar plot but not this one precisely. Am I going insane? The one I’m thinking of feels like it had more. . finished? artwork, and is perhaps less old. . . . . any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-70s-sci-fi-foreign-animated-films/152243/2 "2003-02-02T04:54:50Z")

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You’re not giving us much to go on, but are you possibly thinking of [Light Years](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095525)?

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**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-70s-sci-fi-foreign-animated-films/152243/3 "2003-02-02T05:51:17Z")

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Yes, that’s exactly it.  
Now how in the hell did I mix THOSE two up. . . Now I’m sort of embarassed.  
Thanks, Skeezix!

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**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-70s-sci-fi-foreign-animated-films/152243/4 "2003-02-03T08:36:42Z")

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Now, if only I could get Cecil or the Reader to pay me for remembering the oddest little details of _every_ lousy sci fi/horror/anime movie I’ve ever seen, I’d have found my dream job.

[sub]That, and I could afford to replace my umpteen thousand cable-taped bootlegs with DVDs…[/sub]

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**Author:** ![Pucky\_Schumer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Pucky\_Schumer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucky_Schumer)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-70s-sci-fi-foreign-animated-films/152243/5 "2003-02-03T17:41:48Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Skeezix \*  
> \*\*You’re not giving us much to go on, but are you possibly thinking of [Light Years](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095525)? \*\*

Did Asimov actually create a character named “Queen Ambisextra”?

And is this movie any good?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-70s-sci-fi-foreign-animated-films/152243/6 "2003-02-03T19:25:40Z")

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> Did Asimov actually create a character named “Queen Ambisextra”?

Remember, this is also the guy who wrote _The Illustrated Dirty Old Man_ and two books of dirty limericks.