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Format
TV
Episodes
43
Episode Duration
20 min per ep
Status
Finished Airing
Premiered
Spring 1979
Aired
1979-04-07 to 1980-04-05
Source
Original
Rating
G - All Ages
Genres
Adventure
Historical
Studios
Madhouse
Producers
NHK
Licensors
Animation Kikou: Marco Polo no Bouken (アニメーション紀行 マルコ・ポーロの冒険)
Seventeen-year-old Marco Polo leaves his home in Venice on a trip to the little-known country of "Yuan", in the company of his father Nicolo and his uncle Matteo. Their mission is to deliver the sacred oil from the Tomb of Christ and a letter from the Pope to the Kublai.