The Moomins / Mumintroll

Its the best show ever and it starts out cute but stuff gets real fast. It's an emotional roller coaster.
Also I found a Moomin plush at some random anime convention and basically lost my mind and bought it instantly. I dont think most people even knew what it was.

 

Moomins sleep a lot and I really like sleeping.

 

I used to love that show when I was younger! The Moomins are super adorable.

Are the books the show's based on worth reading? I never read them as a kid so might try and find them as an adult.

 

I love Moomins.

I've got a Moomin t-shirt from Uniqlo

Yes, they are good books & still in print.

 

The Finnish Embassy mails all your visa paperwork in a Moomin envelope. That was when I was first exposed to them. Then I showed up at Helsinki...

They had just released a movie. Muumin in the Riviera, I think.

 

Indeed they are. I have three of them and they're the kind of books I would have liked as a kid - but, well, they're obscure as hell in America so I had to discover them as an adult.

Jansson also did a comic strip that's also very good - it's sort of Pogo-esque in its social satire.

 

You're lucky to get exposure that way. We Americans had hardly any of it, the cartoon certainly didn't air on Nick Jr.

I once found a copy of one of the Moomin books at a Goodwill in the late 90's or early 2000's and didn't think to buy it.

Here's an excellent doc. on Tove Jannson.

How it was for most of us.

That strip came about due to a sudden interest in the property over in the UK I've heard, as it was published first in a paper there. Tove initially did it and then her broher Lars took over the strip. I sorta look at the strip as Finland's version of Peanuts.

 

I'll see if my local library has copies I can borrow then or something.

 

Several US publishers have picked up the rights to publish the Moomin stories/comics at present.
http://us.macmillan.com/series/moomins/
www.drawnandquarterly.com/author/tove-jansson?shop_item=37
https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/author/lars-jansson?shop_item=36

 

On a similar thought, aside from the popular animated series mentioned before, there was also the one made back during the late 60's/early 70's as well. It was originally done at TMS but then production shifted over to Mushi Productions after Tove Jansson saw what they did to her creation (since they had no idea what Moomins were).


http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-troubles-of-moomin/

Here's the first episode!

 

He knows his stuff!

Speaking of Moomin, an Indiegogo campaign is at hand for a new TV series being planned, I figured I might as well link it here before it's too late!


https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/moomin-animation--3#/

 

This is the show that has the creature where, literally, everything it touches dies, yeah? As in, the path it walks turns into dead grass/soil?

 

Yep, that's The Groke, basically she freezes things she touches.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Groke

 

When i read the tittle of this i thought it was going to be a racist term for Muslims. Don't know why.

 

It's nice when other countries have their fair share.