Little Lulu and Her Little Friends (partially found episodes of anime series; 1976)

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Promotional art from the anime.

Status: Partially Found

Ritoru Ruru to Chitchai Nakama (also known as Little Lulu and Her Little Friends) is a 26-episode anime series, produced by Nippon Animation, that ran from October 3rd, 1976, to April 3rd, 1977. Little Lulu was originally created by Marjorie Henderson Buell and this anime was based on the comics by John Stanley. This anime is extremely rare and has been out of print for a long time.

An English dub was made by ZIV International in 1978. It was also dubbed in Spanish, German, Italian (twice, first in 1981, then in 1995, plus a compilation film released in 1980, named "Le incredibili avventure della Piccola Lulú", translated as "The Incredible Adventures of Little Lulu"), Arabic, Hebrew, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Availability

The Japanese dub is completely lost because the show never received any home media releases in its home country. Despite this, an August 2020 Japanese auction emerged, containing a 16mm film reel of episode 6 from the original Japanese dub. Images from this film reel and a short 20-sec clip were saved by YouTuber ChozinFellers.

Currently, the whole series is available in Spanish (courtesy of YouTuber NesGamer90) and in Arabic (courtesy of YouTuber Ayam Zaman لولو الصغيرة). The Swedish dub of Episode 6 was uploaded on December 16, 2014 (courtesy of YouTuber Muppet). As for the Italian dubs, the only footage of the 1981 dub is the opening, while the compilation film released that year found it's way onto YouTube on May 15, 2020, courtesy of FilmIsNow. YouTuber Emozioni Ritrovate claims to have a DVD box-set of the 1995 dub for sale.

On July 20th, 2019, ChozinFellers uploaded six full episodes of the Ziv International English dub of Little Lulu, which was originally uploaded by now-deleted YouTube channel Fogelogel. ChozinFellers is awaiting for possible translators for the rest of the remaining episodes through "Project Lulu," and has a fansite dedicated to the anime, called "Fellers' Frontier."

Gallery

Videos

"Le incredibili avventure della Piccola Lulú"

Episode 1: "Little Angel"

Episode 2: "Operation Babysitter"

Episode 3: "Good Luck Guard"

Episode 4: "The Endurance Test"

Episode 5: "Save the Prisoners"

Episode 6: "Little Fireman"

1978 English Opening

1978 English Ending

Swedish dub of Episode 6

Japanese Opening & Ending songs

August 2020 auction (Images & 20-sec clip)

1977 Japanese record, containing bits of the original Japanese VA

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Full Spanish Theme Song

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1981 Italian Opening

Full 1981 Italian Theme Song

1995 Italian Dub for Sale

External Link

References