Producer Jean Chalopin contacted some Japanese studios, such as Toei (who did "Grendizer"); and Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Studio Pierrot and Studio Junio produced French-Japanese series. Even though made completely in Japan by character-designers such as Shingo Araki, the first Chalopin production of this type, "Ulysses 31" took thematic inspiration from the Greek "Odyssey" and graphic influence from Stanley Kubrick's '. "Ulysses 31" went on sale in 1981, other shows produced by DiC Entertainment followed in 1982, "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors", "Mysterious Cities of Gold", later "M.A.S.K.", etc. Such series were popular enough to allow the introduction of licensed products such as tee shirts, toys, stickers, mustard glass, mugs or "keshi". Also followed a wave of "anime" adaptations of European tales by Studio Pierrot and mostly by the Nippon Animation studio, "e.g." Johanna Spyri's "Heidi, Girl of the Alps" (1974), Waldemar Bonsels's "Maya the Honey Bee" (1975), Hector Malot's ' (1977), Cécile Aubry's "Belle and Sebastian" (1980), or Jules Verne's "Around the World with Willy Fog" (1983), notable adaptation of American works were Mark Twain's "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1980) and Alexander Key's "Future Boy Conan". Interesting cases are Alexandre Dumas, père's "The Three Musketeers" adapted to "Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds" (1981) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes become "Sherlock Hound" (1984), both turned human characters into anthropomorph animals.