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Hanan has frequently mentioned the cartoons that she watched as a kid growing up in Syria, in particular one that involved a guy named ‘Duc Feed’ and his robot ‘Klandaser’ who battle against other evil robots trying to take over the universe.

I’ve never been sat at my machine before when they’ve been mentioned, but this time I was and what better way to test out the power of t’internet than finding details of obscure Japanese Anime dubbed into Arabic

Searching on google didn’t result in any hits for ‘Klandaser’ or ‘Duc Feed’, but then i wasn’t sure that these would be accurate translations of the actual names. A quick search later for ‘arabic cartoons’ resulted in this page which listed a whole bunch of old cartoons dubbed into Arabic. A lot of these are Japanese anime and include Hanans old favourite which turns out to be called ‘Grendizer‘ (and the main character is Duke Fleet). A bit more searching and look what we found… yes that’s right Grendizer on Youtube, dubbed into Arabic.

I’m impressed by the power of the Longtail.

Excuse me now while I go and try and calm Hanan down, she’s running round the flat pretending to be a giant robot.