LUK Internacional is an important Spanish distributor based in Barcelona, founded in 1979. The company is famous because of its relations with Japanese companies such as TV Tokyo and Sunrise, so Luk brought to Spain and Portugal famous Japanese series like Doraemon and Crayon Shin-Chan. In addition, it has distributed some series like Reborn!, The Adventures of Blinky Bill, Black Jack, Snoopy, Twipsy and Garfield and Friends, to several Spanish and Portuguese TV channels such as Canal 9, TV3 among others.
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1st Logo (1987?-1994) | 2nd Logo (1994-2011) | 3rd Logo (1999-2011) | 4th Logo (2004-2011) | 5th Logo (2011- ) |
Visuals: On a marble background, a blue beveled circle is seen off center. A large, 4-pointed blue star then flashes in, forming a compass with one of the points much longer than the others. A filmstrip then draws in, reversing to the other, more shiny side, in which the text "LUK INTERNACIONAL" is seen on it. After reversing to the other side, "S.A." is also revealed. The filmstrip shines.
Variant: A short variant exists, where the filmstrip just shines.
Technique: Basic computer graphics.
Audio: The ending theme of the show or whatever logo it was plastered over.
Availability: Seen on Castilian Spanish and Portuguese prints of TV series from the time. Examples include Dog City, Muppet Babies, some episodes of Doraemon, and the first season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series).
Visuals: On a gold background, we again see the gold circle. The "X" flies around and finally gets in the circle. The filmstrip, this time in a brown color, moves around the "X" and stops in the same form as the last logo. Several white dots suddenly appear and stick to the filmstrip, forming the letters "LUK INTERNACIONAL S.A.". Mono Guai (a green monkey with an antenna in his head and a white T-shirt with red stripes, who was the company's mascot at the time) appears and smiles for giving a thumbs up below the logo.
Variants:
Technique: CGI mixed with hand-drawn cartoon animation.
Audio: The ending theme of the show.
Audio Variants:
Availability: Seen on lots of shows licensed by LUK during the time. Also seen on Spanish prints of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. The full variant can be found on the Mono Guai personalized videos as well as Spanish prints of Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It reappeared on the 2011 European Portuguese dub of Doraemon because the show aired in European Spanish with European Portuguese subtitles before 2011 in Portugal.
Visuals: There is a star with the X spinning on the circle, which this time is orange. After some time, the X stops spinning and goes back to his usual gold logo. The rest of the logo is similar to the last logo (including the URL), but this time the CGI is updated and the letters just appear instead of being formed by white dots. The word "Presenta" appears below.
The way the word "Presenta" appears can be different depending on the movie:
Variants:
Technique: CGI mixed with hand-drawn cartoon animation.
Audio: A dreamy synth tune that turns into a bombastic theme and ends with some piano notes.
Audio Variant:
Availability: The long version is seen on Doraemon and Crayon Shin-Chan movies from the period. The TV show version is seen on Spanish prints of shows licensed by LUK Internacional during the era.
Visuals: There is the earth globe in the middle of the space, a comet flies through it turning it into a cartoon, another comet flies through it, making a red glow appear as the earth starts to shake. Another comet flies through it turning it into a grey outline of the circle from the logo. The X then appears, also grey, as the filmstrip, which this time has several copies of the LUK Internacional logo passes through the circle. The filmstrip turns red with the text "LUK INTERNACIONAL S.A." on it. Also, the website URL is seen below.
Variants:
Technique: CGI.
Audio: Another dreamy synth tune.
Audio Variants:
Availability: The normal version was only seen on a few LUK Internacional DVDs and VHSs. The versions with the planet turning into the heads of Doraemon and Shinnosuke is seen on Doraemon and Crayon Shin-Chan movies from the period. The TV version is seen on TV shows made by LUK during that era. It also appeared on Spanish releases of Captain Flamingo and Atomic Betty.
Visuals: There are several shots of diamonds of colors flying through space. We then see several red diamonds flying through a ring until they get inside the ring, making the shape of a star and looking like a more "modern" version of the other logos. The letters "LUK Internacional s.a." swipe through a zone of the star.
Variants:
Technique: CGI and Flash animation.
Audio: Same as the 4th logo with a ding sound from the Doraemon variant.
Audio Variant: The TV version uses the ending theme of the show.
Availability: The normal version is seen in Doraemon and Crayon Shin-Chan movies. The TV version is seen on shows licensed by LUK nowadays.
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