Unlocking the Treasures of Old

A few years later, I watched a trailer for a film called Back to the Forest on one of my old Seabert VHS tapes.

I had never watched Back to the Forest in my entire life up to this point, so this gave me an idea. I bought a copy of the VHS from Amazon.

Afterwards, I watched the whole film. I noticed several things about it: First, the copyright year was 1989. Second, the film was animated by Nippon Animation, one of the leading animators in Japan. Third, some of the voice actors on Digimon also worked on this film: Robert Axelrod, Edie Mirman, and Eddie Frierson.

This amazing coincidence could not have hit me harder if I hadn't known any of the voice actors on Digimon beforehand. Fortunately, I did.

The answer was obvious: Back to the Forest was animé.

This connection between Digimon and Back to the Forest made my animé fandom even stronger.