The Complete Amateur's Guide to Moomin

I did not know about shonen snuffkin with a gun.
Amazing

Man i cried. As a finn i grew up on Moomins. My first movie was Moomins and the comet, i red the books, i watched the show, my home was/is full of Moomin mugs, toys, sheets and plates. I learned to love nature, to love art and to be kind to myself and others from the Moomins. Its a part of my soul now and my dream as an artist is to someday make something that would impact someone as much as Moomins impacted me.

Moomin is my favorite anime.


Im not kidding, it brings me nostalgia from a more simple time

Amazing video! For a while I actually lived in a building in Helsinki that had paintings in the corridor walls made by Tove Jansson in the 50s :-)

The 90's cartoon is always going to be the "definitive" moomin-story for me, because its the one I grew up on...
Its a bit scary that we are apparently in a "Moomin renessanse" though, someone is going to steal my fanfiction-idea at this rate

What's the music you used in the background? Some of them sounds ao familiar. The one at 36:99 is the one i'm most curious about.
Also love the video, grew up with the cartoon. Kinda grew tired of it as i got older, but now i want to get the books and absorb the world again.

Amazing insight, didn't know all of this about the creation of these lil fellas.. one wish though, as I'm listening rather than watching - maybe consider listening to the proper pronunciations of the foreign words and names 😅 would help a bit for those of us who can actually understand them. Thanks though!

Yeah sorry, you lost me on the unqualified philosophical remarks. Maybe it would have been better to keep them out in a discussion about the Moomins.

Trollkarl was called that because originally magicians were believed to be trolls, not humans. If you did magic as a human then you werent called magician/wizard.
Eventually terms get conflated and lost and blurry, especially since christianity colonised and changed a lot of things including what's allowed to be talked about. So it started meaning human who can do magic. But translating it into troll man is technically not innacurate ^__^ /lh

Oh she did well, her mother, in the beginning of the end where we let people like you live and doom our society which ends in authoritarians taking over you leftist fool?

Amazing video :)

What an amazing video, thank you! I can understand and appreciate the world of the Moomins and Tove Jansson a lot better now. ❤

Moomins were popular all iver europe while americans were busy with spiderman.
It doesnt mean anything that it just arrived there lately.

I watched Moomin the first time when I was 4 or 5 years old. Now, 30+ years later, I still return to the series, whenever I'm ill.
With the music you played, I could tell about scenes takingplais alongside the music.
I never noticed or thought about the storry of the invisible chield, but now I get it.
After seing a loved one disapear or lose herself in a mentaly abusive relationship,
and seing the struggle for my loved one to finde herself on the other side of that relationship...
I now see Nini in a new light.
Thankyou <3

I grew up with two soviet animated adaptations (mostly the 80s one), both unmentioned here, both CREEPY in different ways :D

I'm geniunely surprised to see a whole lot of people who never heard of Moomins. Just wait until you learn that Astrid Lindgren has books other than Pippi!

What a beautiful video. It popped up in my recommended and I’m glad it did. The moomins have been my childhood series and I’ve continued loving the stories since I saw them for the first time - every time they seem just as magical as when I first experienced them :)

I’ve noticed Moomin is very popular in Japan. I got a Little My mechanical pencil yesterday! They have so many merchandise!

I had the rare experience of growing up with the moomins as a kid in Canada in the early 2000s. My family went to Sweden when I was a baby and my dad bought a bunch of moomin books which I loved as I grew up. I think the comics really affected my Humor and philosophy in later years. And now my 3 year old nephew is watching the 90s anime and loves them. It feels nice to see how much this story keeps reaching people over the years.

There was a comic magazine with Moomin and his friends in the early 90s until 2006. I was one of the main writers and Tove's brother Lars was one of the editors until his death. It was a fun and creative period of my life.

the comet is an allegory for climate change

This "little" documentary is why I love YT. Thanks, Henry.

When I was a kid in the 80’s I had the flu and I was pretty delirious, it was snowing outside and my mum had given me a heap of medicine. The strong syrupy stuff. I fell to sleep on the sofa and woke up to the moomin’s playing on the tv. I’ll never forget my 1st moomin experience

Very excellent presentation from an old fan, first stumbled upon these little guys in the early 70s on Puffin, an imprint of Penguin. Part of what gave Tove power was what we would call today character design, and she knew, as she had the example of Winnie the Pooh right there. what a corporate animation house could do, and the best thing she could do for her characters was to preserve their esthetic as well as its deeper and more independent elements in this way she foreshadowed JK Rowling who also didn't let go of her characters to the corporate suits. My fave characters are the Hattifatteners.

I learned about Moomin when I was living in Japan. They really are so popular out there, despite never hearing about them when I was growing up in the U.S. Everyone in Japan seems to love Moomin.

I have been a Moomin superfan for years I know quite a lot about the Moomins and this is probably the greatest video I have seen going into depth on the franchise well done

What a lovely documentary. Eloquently written and so well researched. I've only sporadically seen Moomin episodes on YT. I use it to calm myself, or help me sleep. It reminds me of the shows we had back in the day, so it fills me with a sense of comfort and longing for my childhood. Knowing what I know after watching your video, I'm very glad to have stumbled upon the Moomins.

"Racist Pseudoscientists like Kant" - How to show you don't really know anything about philosophy in 4 words :(

Tanoshii Mumin Ikka was televised in Mexico during the 90s on Channel 11, never missed an episode, love it to this day

aeeeyyyyy moominnnnnnnn

mooominnn

You ve done a very good and professional job. A wonderful intake into the Moomin stories but also phenomenon, with a background into its creator all through the video. Not to forget the other details making this video even more special ( editing and images/video sources used , choice of music ,english subtitles etc...) Complemented by a great narration. Which is much appreciated now that we re in an era of AI generated stories /narrations.
I'm excited to discover your* other video essays.

Bonne continuation 💜💐

Snufkin with a rifle: "Sometimes reasonable Moomin must do unreasonable things."

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Thankyou so much! I love the characters & the books, but didn't know there were nearly so many adaptations. She is a really inspiring person.

I saw this video and clicked on it bc i was curious after seeing a few gifs around the internet. I’ve definitely been sold on the franchise now. I ended this video with tears in my eyes.

I think, even if Moomin ends up getting watered down even more in the future for a wider audience, its okay. Because we live in a culture where it’s necessary for media success now and it will be a good gateway for newbies like me to discover the original sources.
Also it can be a good tactic to start out really basic and slowly ease into something more originally moomin feeling I think. Lots of very successful cartoons in america started out very basic and then slowly eased into darker themes and thats a huge reason they were able to succeed.

stopped watching wen u became ignorant n apathetic to Neitzsche, idk who uve been listening to, tho it's transparently the wrong people

This was such a helpful video! I’ve known about the moomins for a while, but I didn’t really know what they were or where they came from, so thank you for this!

I've seen some things about the Moomins and Jansson alike but i never knew the story or what the Moomins were all about. This video made me really want to read the books and comics!! It really seems like Tove was passionate and loved this characters and world a lot even when she was burntout from it, and i think ending the story when she did was also an act of love to the stories and the fanbase alike. She probably knew that stretching the story further would end up being for the worst and i think that's a very brave thing to do with a franchise so popular

Interesting comparison between the Moomins and the Hobbits - would that make Snufkin a Moomin version of Gandalf? ;)

Wonderful origin story of Moomin; what a pity American children aren't familiar with the wonderful world of Moomins and friends in Moominvalley 💖❤️

Little My is kind of a partially translated unit of measurement joke, in Swedish which was her primary language we refer to the lowercase version of letters as the "little" version, and the lowercase version of the Greek letter Mu, which in Swedish is called My is µ, or Micro.
So it's an elaborate short joke, sorry to say.

Thank you for making this. I'm s Finn who grew up on the 90's anime and I was able to learn so much from this.

As the 90's series being my mother's milk, I cringed so hard when seeing some of the new anime shows a couple of years ago. I couldn't watch it for long.

The one character I was missing when watching this was Stinky. He is one of my favourites along with little My, who kept bringing discord to the Moomin valley. The episode of stinky and the invisible girl is one of the most memorable to me, where Moomin, while previously having entertained or endured Stinky's troubles, becomes so upset at him for bullying Ninni. As a someone who was ostracized and bullied at school, this hit me so hard at the time.

I'm not the first one to do this, but at the naming celebration of my child, I read the bit about Snufkin giving a name Teety-Woo to this small adulating creature. It's also a great commentary of Snufkin's compassion and simultaneous disdain for adulation, saying it so nicely that one should not worship someone whom they do not really know.

A couple of hints on pronunciation:
Tove is said somewhat like this: Tuu-veh.
Number 2 in swedish is said: twoh ("två" has a swedish oh).

I am so glad for your compassionate take on curating this, what seems to be a "neutral" look at the evolution of Moomin. Like you pointed out, many of the tv adaptations, notably the first and last anime ones, wanted to cater it to some specific purpose, without staying true to the original books and comics. While I understand this, and I am happy that people can find them through this medium, I hope that it helps them discover the books and original art, which has the most profound effects on the emotional themes that Tove so bravely brought forward. I think these books are so great because both adults can get so much from them, while they are reading them as bedside stories to their young children.

So... 😅 Moomin, huh?
Right on. 🎉

as someone who has no right speaking for her, I still think she would have been appreciative of this video <3

The fact that you added Good Omens to a Moomin video is very satisfying for me. Two of my favorite shows that have nothing to do with eo in one video. Love it ❤❤❤