Paul's Miraculous Adventure

Paul's Miraculous Adventure (ポールのミラクル大作戦) is an action-adventure anime television series created by Tatsunoko Production in partnership with Topcraft. The series was broadcast on Fuji TV and various other local stations across Japan from October 3, 1976, to September 11, 1977, and lasted 50 half-hour episodes. The series director was Hiroshi Sasagawa, of Speed Racer and Tokimeki Tonight fame.

Story
On his birthday, Paul receives a stuffed dog as a gift from his parents. While Pakkun appears to be a fairly ordinary stuffed toy, he in reality is the keeper of the portal between Earth and an alternate dimension known as the Land of Wonders. Paul and his best friend Nina explore the alternate universe until Nina is kidnapped by the demonic ruler of this dimension, Belt Satan. After making an unsuccessful attempt to save Nina, Paul and Pakkun are forced to return home to Earth, where Paul is confronted by Nina's parents, who blame him for her disappearance and accuse him of murdering her. Paul returns to the Land of Wonders with Pakkun and Nina's dog Doppe in tow, fighting monsters with his powerful yo-yo in order to defeat Belt Satan and save Nina.

Distribution
The series has been dubbed into several other languages including Italian (as Il fantastico mondo di Paul, 1980), Spanish (as Las aventuras de Paul), Korean, Polish (as Fantastyczny świat Paula), Bulgarian (as Вълшебният Свят на Пол) and in English in the Philippines (as Paul in Fantasy Land).

In the late 1980s, Saban Entertainment planned to produce an English dub of the series titled Pauly's Mad Mad World. The dub was never released.

Staff

 * Director: Hiroshi Sasagawa
 * Episode Direction: Mizuho Nishikubo, Hidehito Ueda
 * Screenwriters: Jinzo Toriumi, Yu Yamamoto
 * Planning: Jinzo Toriumi, Shigeru Yanagawa
 * Created by: Tatsuo Yoshida
 * Character Designs: Akiko Shimamoto, Mitsuki Nakamura
 * Art Director: Mitsuki Nakamura
 * Animation Director: Hayao Nobe
 * Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
 * Animation Production: Tatsunoko Production, Topcraft
 * Production: Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. / Fuji TV

Cast
Filipino Characterization (in English)
 * Paul: Sumiko Shirakawa
 * Nina: Keiko Yokozawa
 * Pakkun: Yoko Asagami
 * Belt Satan: Toru Ohira
 * Doppe: Isamu Tanonaka
 * Paul       - Paul
 * Nina       - Nina
 * Pakkun     - Moses
 * Belt Satan - The Black Giant
 * Doppe      - Bernard