Okay it's a japanese or chinese cartoon (japanese i think). I saw it in english but i'm sure that was dubbed. The main character (who i'm pretty sure is female) is named Naya (or at least pronounced that way). She was born from a flower and to begin with she's really small. But then she grows to the normal size of a child (maybe around 13) pretty quickly (like...10seconds). She a warrior and her weapon is this cool spear. She fights this one evel dragon. Not the big fat ones but the far eastern dragons, long and thin. There is an underwater scene in which a battle takes place. I saw this in the mid 80's i think. Anyway way i know not much to go on but anybody remember this?

Mario!! He always was a bit camp, maybe he was a cross-dresser... Those mushrooms made him bigger, the flowers made him fire stuff, it was made in the 80's. He fights a dragon, maybe not underwater though. Not sure he's Japanese though.

I have no idea, but the Voices tell me that it could be Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

I don't really know, thouggh, since I haven't seen it myself. Your description just matched what I've read about it.

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I have no idea, but the Voices tell me that it could be Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

I don't really know, thouggh, since I haven't seen it myself. Your description just matched what I've read about it.

no that doesn't appear to be it. Thanks for trying though, i'll a look at that site a little more se if i can dig up any info. I forgot to mention the cartoon isn't really in manga style. It looks fairly normal...from what i can remember anyway.

apparantly i'm not the only person that's looking for it
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Okay it's a japanese or chinese cartoon (japanese i think). I saw it in english but i'm sure that was dubbed.

The main character (who i'm pretty sure is female) is named Naya (or at least pronounced that way). She was born from a flower and to begin with she's really small. But then she grows to the normal size of a child (maybe around 13) pretty quickly (like...10seconds). She a warrior and her weapon is this cool spear. She fights this one evel dragon. Not the big fat ones but the far eastern dragons, long and thin. There is an underwater scene in which a battle takes place. I saw this in the mid 80's i think.

Anyway way i know not much to go on but anybody remember this?

Quick search for "cartoon born from flower spear" in Google results in Bongshin Bang aka Warrior Spirit Bang.

Search for "Warrior Spirit Bang" results in clicky

Hey, that reminds me: I've been looking for a movie too.

It's anime, and I'll be damned if I can remember most of the movie... but I distinctly remember the climax. It involved these weird buffalo-looking things stampeding across a wasteland, and this little girl stood in front of them trying to stop them.

She ended up getting trampled or knocked out of something, but the buffalo stopped and somehow brough her back to life(not sure if that last part happened).
I saw it when I was pretty young, so it must have been made in the mid-80's. Anyone have any ideas? By any chance, could it be the same movie?

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Okay it's a japanese or chinese cartoon (japanese i think). I saw it in english but i'm sure that was dubbed.

The main character (who i'm pretty sure is female) is named Naya (or at least pronounced that way). She was born from a flower and to begin with she's really small. But then she grows to the normal size of a child (maybe around 13) pretty quickly (like...10seconds). She a warrior and her weapon is this cool spear. She fights this one evel dragon. Not the big fat ones but the far eastern dragons, long and thin. There is an underwater scene in which a battle takes place. I saw this in the mid 80's i think.

Anyway way i know not much to go on but anybody remember this?

Quick search for "cartoon born from flower spear" in Google results in Bongshin Bang aka Warrior Spirit Bang.

Search for "Warrior Spirit Bang" results in clicky

I think i love you. That sounds exactly right!

I think the problem was i always included japanese or chinese in my searches so i never got the right result.

Thanks man...you're a genius!

Actually it turned out that wasn't the cartoon.

But i did find the cartoon i was talking about thanks to you!

It's Nezha fights the dragon king

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Actually it turned out that wasn't the cartoon.

But i did find the cartoon i was talking about thanks to you!

It's Nezha fights the dragon king

Well, Korea and China are near each other, so they are probably just different tellings of the same base mythology.

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Actually it turned out that wasn't the cartoon.

But i did find the cartoon i was talking about thanks to you!

It's Nezha fights the dragon king

Well, Korea and China are near each other, so they are probably just different tellings of the same base mythology.

You're probably right. It'd be quite interesting to watch tem both and see the similarities/differences. I found a site that sells it too so now maybe i can! [grin]

DAMN! in my eagerness to buy i think i just bought a version in chinese