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* AdaptationDyeJob: Atreyu is a Greenskin, and he does, indeed, have green skin in this series. This is in contrast to the film series, where he looks like a normal Caucasian human. It could be considered an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], as this is in fact TruerToTheText: Atreyu is explicitly stated to be green-skinned in the book.

The overarching plot of the series is that Bastian regularly visits Mr. Coriander's bookshop and reads the Neverending Story, which transports him to the world of Fantastia. There, he undergoes various quests and adventures that range from helping out his friends to solving major problems threatening Fantasia itself. Bastian is most frequently aided in his travels by Bark Troll, a friendly if bumbling member of a race of humanoid trees, and the dog-like Falcor the Luckdragon. Engywook and Urgl, the gnomes, are also frequent allies. Other friends that show up less frequently include Atreyu and his talking horse Artax, Gluckuck the Tiny, and the Rockchewer family.

%% * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The episode ''The Dreaming Fields'' has all the characters getting exactly what they wished for...with the wishes turning bad by the end of the episode.

* FisherKing: The Childlike Empress is the ultimate wellspring from which all Fantasia springs, and harm to her can cause harm to the kingdom. In the episode "Missing Memories", Xayide steals the Empress's memories from Yor's Minroud Mine; when she destroys a memory, that portion of Fantasia is erased from existence. After he manages to drive Xayide out of the mine before she can destroy the Empress's memory of him, Bastian has to help the Empress rebuild her memory from scratch to recreate Fantasia.

** When Xayide used Nightmare Weeds to make everyone's dreams come true and eventually be corrupted into nightmares, she is unaffected as she never dreams (explaining "The evil never dream"), but three duplicates of herself are forced to act as Three-Head's servant as each head has its own dreams.

* BigBad: Xayide and Gmork both share this role, as they are recurring villains with highly ambitious plans; Xayide wants to conquer Fantasia, and will destroy it if she can't, whilst Gmork wants to devour the world. Xayide makes the most appearances, but Gmork is arguably the scarier of the two.

* FisherKing: The Childlike Empress is the ultimate wellspring from which all Fantasia springs, and harm to her can cause harm to the kingdom. In the episode "Missing Memories", Xayide steals the Empress's memories from Yor's Minroud Mine; when she destroys a memory, that portion of Fantasia is erased from existence. In the end, Bastian has to rebuild her memory from scratch to recreate Fantasia.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Bastian travels to Fantasia whilst sick with a cold in one episode, hoping to forget his misery. Unfortunately, because it's an Earth disease, it makes Falcor the Luck Dragon fatally ill, forcing Bastian to travel to the realm of Ygramal to find a magical medicine that can cure him.

* CoolMount: Artax appears in the series. Unlike in the book, he can’t talk, but he’s more capable of emotion than he was in the movie.

''The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux'' is an AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'', presented as a loose sequel to [[Film/TheNeverendingStory the 1984 feature film]]. Produced by [=CineVox=] Entertainment and animated by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}, it ran for a single 26-episode season from 1995 to 1996.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Rockbiter family were renamed the Rockchewers. This change carried over to the third film. Like Atreyu's example above, this is also TruerToTheText: The Rockbiter was said to be a "rock chewer" instead in the book.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Rockbiter family were renamed the Rockchewers. This change carried over to the third film.

* CanonForeigner: The series is filled with lots of characters that didn't appear in the book or in the movies, such as Large Head (Who seems to be some sort of {{Expy}} of the movie version of Cairon), the Shadow Goblin and Vermin.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Bastien travels to Fantasia whilst sick with a cold in one episode, hoping to forget his misery. Unfortunately, because it's an Earth disease, it makes Falcor the Luck Dragon fatally ill, forcing Bastien to travel to the realm of Ygramal to find a magical medicine that can cure him.

* FisherKing: The Childlike Empress is the ultimate wellspring from which all Fantasia springs, and harm to her can cause harm to the kingdom. In the episode "Missing Memories", Xayide steals the Empress' memories from Yor's Minroud Mine; when she destroys a memory, that portion of Fantasia is erased from existence. In the end, Bastian has to rebuild her memory from scratch to recreate Fantasia.

* MotorMouth: Jocko, a humanoid rooster introduced in the episode "Morla's Wish", is constantly rambling on and on with an endless array of never-ending stories. He ultimately admits that this has driven off pretty much everyone he's ever known and left him all alone. Ironically, this causes him and Morla to become best friends at their first meeting; Bastian even deduces that ''Jocko'' was the Childlike Empress' present to Morla.

* CanonForeigner: The series is filled with lots of characters that didn't appear in the book or in the movies, such as Large Head (Who seems to be some sort of {{Expy}} of the movie version of Cairon, the Shadow Goblin and Vermin.

%% * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The Purple Buffalo.
%% * AnimatedAdaptation

%% * BigBad: Xayide and Gmork both share this role. Xayide makes the most appearances, but Gmork is arguably the scarier of the two.

%% * FieryLion: Grograman, Lord of Goab, the Desert of Everchanging Colors, and of Perilin, the Night Forest. As in the novel, he's a tragic figure whose all-consuming flames destroy everything around him for a vast distance, so he can never leave his desert without instead laying waste to wherever he wanders. At night, he freezes into a statue of lifeless stone, and Goab transforms into the rainbow-like Perilin, only to be annihilated when he wakes the next day. Bastian is the only person he's ever spoken to in his entire existence. Still, his fires serve a necessary purpose, for without Grograman to scorch it to ashes each day, Perilin would spread to smother Fantasia.

* AdaptationalBadass: Gmork in the book and film was, whilst a fearsome monster, ultimately just a brute. Here he is the DimensionLord of the Nothing; the sapient manifestation of its endless hunger.

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''The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux'' is an AnimatedAdaptation of the ''Literature/NeverendingStory'', presented as a loose sequel to [[Film/TheNeverendingStory the 1984 feature film]]. Produced by [=CineVox=] Entertainment and animated by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}, it ran for a single 26-episode season from 1995 to 1996.

* {{Treeant}}: The Tree Trolls, who are trees with arms, faces and legs. They can be stuck-up and snobbish, but they're largely decent people, and Bark Troll is Bastian's closest companion in Fantasia.

* PlantPerson: The Tree Trolls, who are trees with arms, faces and legs. They can be stuck-up and snobbish, but they're largely decent people, and Bark Troll is Bastian's closest companion in Fantasia.

* DimensionLord: Gmork and the Nothing are one and the same. Gmork can open the way between the Nothing and Fantasia, which he uses to try and lure Fantasians into its emptiness.

* FieryLion: Grograman, Lord of Goab, the Desert of Everchanging Colors, and of Perilin, the Night Forest. As in the novel, he's a tragic figure whose all-consuming flames destroy everything around him for a vast distance, so he can never leave his desert without instead laying waste to wherever he wanders. At night, he freezes into a statue of lifeless stone, and Goab transforms into the rainbow-like Perilin, only to be annihilated when he wakes the next day. Bastian is the only person he's ever spoken to in his entire existence. Still, his fires serve a necessary purpose, for without Grograman to scorch it to ashes each day, Perilin would spread to smother Fantasia.

'''The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux''' is an AnimatedAdaptation of the ''Literature/NeverendingStory'', presented as a loose sequel to [[Film/TheNeverendingStory the 1984 feature film]]. Produced by [=CineVox=] Entertainment and animated by Ellipse and Creator/{{Nelvana}}, it ran for a single 26-episode season from 1995 to 1996.

* ArcWords: Every episode marks the conclusion of Bastian's adventures into Fantasia with him reading an epilogue that finishes with "But that's another story".
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The episode ''The Dreaming Fields'' has all the characters getting exactly what they wished for...with the wishes turning bad by the end of the episode.
* BigBad: Xayide and Gmork both share this role. Xayide makes the most appearances, but Gmork is arguably the scarier of the two.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Greenskins of the Grassy Ocean are humans with, well, green skin. They also hunt the Purple Buffalo, who are similarly named appropriately.

'''The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux''' is an AnimatedAdaptation of the ''Literature/NeverendingStory'', presented as a loose sequel to the 1984 feature film. Produced by CineVox Entertainment and animated by Ellipse and Nelvana, it ran for a single 26-episode season from 1995 to 1996.