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愛の若草物語
(Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari)
Genre
Historical drama
TV anime
Director
Yoshio Kuroda
Studio
Nippon Animation
Network
Fuji TV, Animax
Other networks:
HBO
Antena 3
RTL II, tm3, Tele 5
Original run
January 1, 1987 – December 27, 1987
Episodes
48
Little Women, also known as Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari (愛の若草物語, Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari? “Love’s Tale of Young Grass”) is a 1987 Japanese animated television series adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, produced by Nippon Animation.
A sequel series, Little Women II: Jo’s Boys, premiered in 1993.
Contents
- 1 Plot
- 2 Characters
- 3 Broadcast
- 4 Themes
- 5 Comparison with the source material
- 6 See also
- 7 External links
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Plot
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four loving March sisters living with their mother in the USA during the Civil War. Their father is a military doctor fighting in the Union Army. After a terrible battle in a neighbour town, the Confederates pass through their town and burn it. Over the ruins of their house the March family also learn that the factory in which their father invested all his money has been burnt too. Homeless and penniless, the family heads towards Newcord (Concord in the original novel), where the father’s aunt lives, hoping for the old lady to help them. The girls try to adjust to their new life, face many hardships, meet new friends and wish to the war to be over at last.
Characters
- Eiko Yamada as Josephine ‘Jo’ March
- Keiko Han as Margaret ‘Meg’ March
- Mayumi Shou as Elizabeth ‘Beth’ March
- Rei Sakuma as Amy March
- Nobuo Tobita as Theodore ‘Laurie’ Lawrence
Broadcast
Little Women aired on Fuji Television from 1 January 1987 to 27 December 1987 as part of Nippon Animation’s World Masterpiece Theater. The series was broadcast aired across Asia by the anime satellite television network, Animax.
Little Women was first dubbed into English by Saban Entertainment and was broadcast across the United States by HBO in 1988, under the title Tales of Little Women, making it one of only three WMT serials to have been broadcast on television in the U.S.
Themes
Opening Themes
- “Wakakusa no Shoutaijou ” by Eri Nitta (eps 01-14)
- “Itsuka Kitto! ” by Keiko Han, Eiko Yamada, Mayumi Shou, Rei Sakuma (eps 15-48)
Ending Themes
- “Yuuhi to Kaze to Melody” by Eri Nitta (eps 01-14)
- “Otousama eno Lullaby” by Satoko Shimonari (eps 15-48)
Comparison with the source material
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The television series is based on the the first book of Alcott’s novel, playing loosely with the characters and setting to tell a new story. The first direct comes in episode 18, based on Chapter 3 of the original novel.
Additional characters are introduced, such as: Jim, a slave hidden by the Marchs from the soldiers; David, another nephew of Aunt March and Anthony, a reporter from the Newcord press.
See also
- Little Women (1981 TV series), Toei Animation’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel.
External links
- Little Women at Nippon Animation’s English website
- Little Women (anime) at Anime News Network’s Encyclopedia
- Little Women at the Internet Movie Database
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