Himmapan Himmapan: From Traibhumikatha to PangPond the Himmapan Adventure animated series

Abstract

“Himmapan” is the forest that appeared in literature named Traibhumikatha written by King Lithai of Sukhothai. This forest influences Thai literary creations afterward, including novels, movies and animation films in present age, one of which is an animated television series called “PangPond the Himmapan Adventure”.The producer brings a motif from Traibhumikatha and recreates it in popular culture form. This article aims to study the strategy and the factor of creating “Himmapan world”. The study found that this movie creates “Himmapan world” by using strategies such as creating dialogues for characters, adding scenes not relevant to Traibhumikatha, and adding jokes. The main factor of the producer’s creation of this kind of animated television series was its creation in contemporary entertainment industry context. The producer had to create things to be unique, universal, and creative to meet the needs of their target group.