Mokku of the Oak Tree, also known as Mokku Woody the Oak Tree (樫の木モック, Kashi no Ki Mokku), or Saban's Adventures of Pinoccio in the United States, is a 52 episode anime series by Tatsunoko Productions first aired on Fuji Television in 1972. The story is based on the novel 'Pinocchio' by Italian author Carlo Collodi.
The series has a distinctly sadistic theme and portrays the main character, Pinocchio (Mokku), as suffering from constant physical a...
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Mokku of the Oak Tree, also known as Mokku Woody the Oak Tree (樫の木モック, Kashi no Ki Mokku), or Saban's Adventures of Pinoccio in the United States, is a 52 episode anime series by Tatsunoko Productions first aired on Fuji Television in 1972. The story is based on the novel 'Pinocchio' by Italian author Carlo Collodi.
The series has a distinctly sadistic theme and portrays the main character, Pinocchio (Mokku), as suffering from constant physical and psychological abuse and freak accidents.
This version of Pinocchio tells a story of an extremely gullible, naive and morally confused wooden doll brought to life by a mystical blue fairy. Pinocchio (Mokku) is characterized as having many character faults which he must learn to overcome in order to be worthy of being granted humanity. Some of these character faults include selfishness, rudeness, insensitivity, indolence, obstinacy, over- trusting, self-pity, stupidity, disobedience, compulsive lying, arrogance, greed, cowardice, recklessness...
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