is a 1985
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ese
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series produced by
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, based on
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's novel,
A Little PrincessA Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialized novel entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine.According to Burnett, she...
. Spanning 46 episodes, it originally premiered in 1985 across Japan on
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as the 11th series of Nippon Animation's famous
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staple.
It was also later aired across Japan by the anime television network,
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, who also later broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide, including its
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in
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and
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, dubbing and translating the series into English under the title
Princess Sarah. Animax's adaptation was the series' only English translation, and the series has yet to be commercially released in the
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. The series has also been selected as one of the best 100 Japanese anime series of all time by viewers of
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.
It was also aired in numerous countries worldwide and translated into several languages, including
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,
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,
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and
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. In the
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, it was aired by
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in the early 1990s (with some rebroadcasts at the beginning of the 21st century), and was a runaway success, even spawning a live action movie and a teleserye. In the Pan-Arab region, it became the most successful anime based on a novel adaptation in the 90s.
Story
Princess Sara tells the story of Sara Crewe, a young daughter of a wealthy
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family in
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, who starts attending an all-girl's seminary selection
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in
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, where she excels in her studies and is loved deeply by many of her friends and classmates. However, tragedy soon strikes when Sara's father passes away and her family goes bankrupt, leaving her to be a poor orphan. The school's headmistress, Miss Minchin, takes advantage of this situation and makes her a
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in the school, trying hard to make her life as miserable as possible. However, Sarah, with the help of her friends, perseveres and tries to endure all her hardships until redemption comes at last.
Characters
- voiced by: Mie Suzuki
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Staff
- Original work: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden , A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.Born Frances Eliza Hodgson, she lived in Cheetham Hill, Manchester...
's A Little PrincessA Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialized novel entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine.According to Burnett, she...
- Planning: Shōji Satō
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, Eiichi Kubota (Fuji TV)
- Director: Fumio Kurokawa
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi
- Character design: Shunji Saida
- Animation directors: Toshiki Yamazaki, Kuniyuki Ishii, Atsuko Ōtani
- Background artist: Shōhei Kawamoto
- Art director: Nobuo Numai
- Layout editing: Yasuji Mori
Yasuji Mori was an animator who worked with Toei Animation, while it was still known as Toei Doga. He was also a famous illustrator of children's books....
- Music: Yasuo Higuchi
- Producers: Junzō Nakajima, Taihei Ishikawa (Fuji TV)
- Executive producer: Kōichi Motohashi
- Production manager: Mitsuru Takakuwa
- Production: Nippon Animation
is a Japanese animation studio. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, with chief offices in the Ginza district of Chūō and production facilities in Tama City....
, Fuji TV
Music
- Lyrics: Rei Nakanishi
Rei Nakanishi is a Japanese novelist and songwriter.-Career:Nakanishi was born Reizō Nakanishi in Mudanjiang, Manchukuo. He graduated from Kudan High School in Tokyo and received a degree in French literature from Rikkyo University...
- Composition: Kōichi Morita
Lieutenant-Colonel Koichi Morita was a Japanese army officer born in Tokyo.Having studied military science in the United States and Germany, he was posted to the War Ministry in 1890. He fought in Korea during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5 before serving under General Nogi Maresuke in Formosa...
- Arrangement: Katsuhisa Hattori
- Performance: Satoko Shimonari
- Lyrics: Rei Nakanishi
- Composition: Kōichi Morita
- Arrangement: Katsuhisa Hattori
- Performance: Satoko Shimonari
Episodes and staff
- (broadcast on January 6, 1985)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, animation director: Shunji Saida, episode director: Takeshi Yamaguchi
- (broadcast on January 13, 1985)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, animation director: Shunji Saida, episode director: Takeshi Yamaguchi
- (broadcast on January 20, 1985)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, storyboard: Yūsaku Sakamoto, animation director: Shunji Saida, episode director: Jirō Saitō
- (broadcast on January 27, 1985)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, animation director: Shunji Saida, episode director: Takeshi Yamaguchi
- (broadcast on February 3, 1985)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, storyboard: Yūsaku Sakamoto, animation director: Toshiki Yamazaki, episode director: Jirō Saitō
- (broadcast on February 10, 1985)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, storyboard: Yoshio Kuroda, animation director: Atsuko Ōtani, episode director: Takeshi Yamaguchi
- (broadcast on February 17, 1985)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, storyboard: Yukio Suzuki, animation director: Toshiki Yamazaki, episode director: Jirō Saitō
- (broadcast on February 24, 1985)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, storyboard: Yūsaku Sakamoto, animation director: Atsuko Ōtani, episode director: Takeshi Yamaguchi
- (broadcast on March 3, 1986)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, animation director: Toshiki Yamazaki, episode director: Jirō Saitō
- (broadcast on March 10, 1986)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, storyboards: Yoshio Kuroda, animation director: Shunji Saida, episode director: Takeshi Yamazaki
- (broadcast on March 17, 1986)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, storyboards: Yūsaku Sakamoto, animation director: Toshiki Yamazaki, episode director: Jirō Saitō
- (broadcast on March 24, 1986)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, storyboards: Yūsaku Sakamoto, animation director: Atsuko Ōtani, episode director: Takeshi Yamazaki
- (broadcast on March 31, 1986)
- Screenplay: Ryūzō Nakanishi, storyboards: Yūsaku Sakamoto, animation director: Kuniyuki Ishii, episode director: Jirō Satō
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