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If you're a fan of SUPER BOOK or FLYING HOUSE and wish there was something else more like these 2 series , actually there is one series that comes to mind that I would recommend. I'd like to find all of it someday. So far I've mainly located the subtitled version retitled "TIME QUEST", although the correct name is actually "TONDEKEMAN". And No I'm not talking about "TIME BOKAN" either thank God. This series is not Christian and if anything may even be considered totally the opposite. Still if someone wants to learn more about the Arab muslim culture and their behavior , this may help! The story is over all very much like SUPER BOOK and FLYING HOUSE but is more comedic like "BACK TO THE FUTURE" , where as FLYING HOUSE has been known to be considered to be more of "a Christian version of DR WHO" by some fans. TIME QUEST starts out with a poor inventor named Professor Leonardo similar to Professor Bumble but even more of a "bumble" you can say. His time machine winds up being built into a talking kettle with a sarcastic attitude at times called TONDEKEMAN. After the professor returns from a time quest to the time of the dinosaurs , 2 kids then wind up going back to ancient arab muslim times and help rescue a princess from a fat guy and his giant hundred foot genie. But they wind up losing Tondekeman in the process. They make friends with the prince of a neighboring country and get to live in royalty while they are stuck back in ancient times. Each episode usually has the enemy try to kidnap the princess by transporting her and others to different eras in time. While the 2 kids keep trying to save her and get back Tondekeman. Sometimes they get Tondekeman back but usually only temporally. As it turns out however after the first few episodes we find out that Professor Leonardo is none other than the famous Leonardo Da Vinci. No this series has nothing to do with that junk "Da Vinci code whatever" that some of you may have heard about. This anime came out in 1989 and lasted only 39 chapters. It's a lot like SUPERBOOK mixed with BACK TO THE FUTURE but takes place in just about every time period except Biblical times. So far #1-6,9-11,13-19,21,22,24-31,33,34,36-39 of the subtitled version has been located and 3 chapters of the non subtitled versions as well. If anyone has any others please let us know. This series I think may have been translated into other languages as well. It's a shame that this anime never got more attention. It should of.