Tortoise Hanba's Stories

Tortoise Hanba's Stories (Chinese: 憨八龟的故事) is a large scale 3D-CG Chinese animation TV series in China. It is also referred to as The Story of Hanbagui or Hanbagui.

Tortoise Hanba's Stories
Also known as	Hanbagui
Country of origin	China
Original language	Mandarin
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	104
Production
Running time	about 12 minutes
Original release
Network	CCTV
Release	9 September 2006 (2006-09-09) – 2008 (2008)

Background

The show was produced by "Shenzhen Toonring Animation" in Shenzhen with an estimated final budget of 30 million RMB (about $US 3.7 million). It has completed 52 episodes by the 2nd half of 2006, and is projecting 500 episodes over the next few years.

Story

The first 52 episodes called “Falling on the Earth” tells how “Hanbagui”, the turtle, comes across the teenagers “Abu”, “Annie”, “Siaomei” on earth and makes friends with them. He goes looking for his lost fellows “Baobaoxiong”, “Tiejiaxiaozi”, “Baizhangtia", “Baijingling”, “Qixingpiao”. It is a comedy.

References

• CNICIF
• IT.com.cn Archived 2008-03-15 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Hanbagui Business Info