Marco Polo's Adventures · review
A journey through Madhouse episode #6: the first stumble of the road. I can't say much about Marco Polo no Bouken simply because most of its episodes are Lost Media today. The episodes are so damaged that not even NHK has been able to do restoration work on them. An Italian television station also had the rights to broadcast them but today not much more than a dozen episodes are preserved. There should be VHS tapes of this anime that were sold at the time, but today no one has been found who preserves these tapes, making the preservation work difficult. I think the concept of theanime was a bit ambitious for the time, since it made a combination of animation with footage of the real locations through which Marco Polo passed on his travels. The quality of the episodes that have been saved is minimal, sometimes you can't even see what is happening on screen.
I just wanted to leave this review as proof of this trip, that the effort was made to see everything available about this work and to attest that I have not missed any stop on this trip.