Little Women (partially lost Japanese and English dub of anime adaptation of American novel; 1981)
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The March sisters as they appear in the show. Clockwise from lower right: Jo, Amy, Beth, and Meg.
Status: Partially Lost/Found
Date found: Unknown
Found by: Unknown
This article has been tagged as Needing work due to its [lack of English resources].
Little Women, also known as Little Women's Four Sisters (若草の四姉妹 Wakakusa no Yon Shimai) or From "Little Women Story": Little Women's Four Sisters (「若草物語」より 若草の四姉妹 "Wakakusa Monogatari" Yori: Wakakusa no Yon Shimai), is a 1981 Japanese animated television series adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. The series is directed by Kazuya Miyazaki (a veteran Toei director whose credits included Cutie Honey and UFO Robo Grendizer among others) and produced by Toei Animation for the Kokusai Eiga-sha (Movie International) company. [1]
This series was a follow-up to the TV special that aired the previous year by the same animation studio, which was also dubbed into English, but does include a more refined art style. This series is sometimes confused with Nippon Animation's 1987 World Masterpiece Theater TV series Tales of Little Women, as both series were dubbed in English and broadcast on U.S. cable TV in the 1980s (the 1981 series on CBN, now known as Freeform, and the 1987 series on HBO, currently streaming on AmazonPrime). In addition, both TV series share a voice actress: Keiko Han, who plays Beth in this TV series, and Meg in the 1987 series.
The series was said to do fairly well, though not to the extent of the aforementioned Tales of Little Women, and has yet to recieve a proper DVD release in it's native Japan, though it has had a DVD release in France and Taiwan (the latter being a bootleg set). There are Japanese clips online in varying quality, as well as the complete series being available in French and Italian on Youtube.
The English dub is also mostly lost, aside from the first three episodes, which have been uploaded by 20C History Project