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Future Boy Conan - renamed “Adnan wa Lina” (Adnan and Lina) - was (and still is) one of the most popular cartoons in the Middle East and North Africa. It and UFO Robo Grendizer (and a bunch of other anime) were picked up by a Kuwaiti dubbing studio and blew up all over the region in the late 70s and 80s. If you ask anyone who grew up in the region from the 70s to 90s, they’ll very likely know these two shows.


Correction: Grendizer was dubbed by a Lebanese studio.

In general, Lebanon, Syria, and Kuwait are the big players in the anime dubbing space. Egypt is known for dubbing US cartoons.


Grendizer!! Oh man that takes me back. Star Blazers was the other show I couldn't get enough of at the time (circa 1982?) as a pre-adolescent.




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