I have watched the Croatian cartoon "The Elm Chanted Forest" and its sequel "The Magician's Hat".
Ugh...oh...I know they're terribly written...I know they were great concepts that fell right on their faces like a dropped marionette. But I enjoy them so much, and yes, they had great concepts going for them. But they just weren't executed well enough.
I almost wrote an entire rant, but let me just say that Thistle the Magician would have made SO MUCH MORE of a better hero than Peter Palette the Painter. But that's probably why Thistle was the hero in the sequel.