Review of the entire trilogy (the next two parts are about the approach of the end of the world in the form of a comet).
These cartoons are one of the worst phobias of my childhood. Along with the Satanic "Hedgehog in the Mist" and the VID logo. Illustrations of Tove Jansson herself, who invented all this nonsense, can already be described as quite disturbing, but the authors of the cartoon did everything to turn this world into a shaped nightmare. In other cartoons, creatures live in colorful worlds, against the background of wildlife. These are in front of the dead. They walk through a bleak, scorched nuclear desert. No one lives there except for these devils. There's not a single tree there. Why is the sea dry? Why do they celebrate not understand that in the cave, in which they are attacked by one monster, then another? They are almost all lonely there: the traveler, the astronomer, the first collector, the second. An evil force waiting for the end of color in a basement in the desert. Creatures running through a red blizzard, dragging their scarab in the ghostly hope of salvation from Armageddon... Damn it! It was shown to the kids! I was only able to see this horror in the middle of my life.
A special word about music: howls, creaks, a long hum, howling, as if from hell. Even in hot delirium, this could not occur to a normal author as a soundtrack to a children's cartoon. It was impossible to do this by accident. This is either the work of a madman, or a planned attack on the minds of Soviet children, which, incidentally, was carried out there with amazing periodicity.
