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Minky Momo information page
This page is a collection of informations related to "Magical Princess Minky Momo," a 1982 animated tv series arguably the most influential show of its' genre ("magical girls") in the history of anime--the story of a girl who drifted down to Earth from the Land of Dreams on an ultimately doomed mission to return to the people of the earth the dreams and hopes they had lost, and who, instead, in the end, and ironically inspired by the ultimate failiure of her attempts, wound up being the one endowed with a yearning to discover her own dream.
Nippon Anime Filmography
This is a borrowed list -- the original to be found in the July 1994 issue
of Animage -- of every single t.v. anime that the studio Nippon Animation
has produced over the years. N.A. is the studio responsible for the Sekai
Meisaku (World Masterpiece) series anime, as well as other tv series like
Chibi Maruko-chan and Tico of the Seven Seas. Isao Takahata
and Hayao Miyazaki together contributed amply to various of the tv
series in the early years. (as their filmographies will belie;
however--and to dispel a rumor I chanced across--they have not been
involved, to my knowledge, in a N.A. production since Miyazaki's 1978
Future Boy Conan and Takahata's 1979 Anne of Green
Gables.)
Nippon Animation official home page
Finally! from the hands of the makers themselves has arisen a home-page, already upon my initial discovery replete with information and boasting over two-thousand accesses. The page is well created, with recent, detailed information, far beyond the capacity of second-hand neophytes like Yours Truly to provide, on series like Chibi Maruko-chan, Meiken Rasshii, and the newest of their World Masterpiece Theater series tv series, Ie naki ko Remi. All one will ever want to know for as long as Nippon Animation decides to continue to chug along, as they will have by this year for well 22 years now. Onwards into a new age they advance with new techniques, new approaches, and new policies and ways of thinking seemingly elicited only by the neccessity to survive. (in Japanese)
Fuji television anime licensing page
The tv network on which the World Masterpiece Theater, as well as many of the other Nippon Animation tv series, has been running is Fuji Terebi. This page in english lists a large number of anime titles, I assume, open for licensing, ranging from Ranma to Pollyanna to Fatal Fury. Wierd variety. There are interesting though for the most part puerile english descriptions of many of the World Masterpiece Theater--and other--tv series.
World Masterpiece Anime List
A listing of all the anime series in the Sekai Meisaku Gekijou,
or World Masterpiece Theater, line of tv series produced by Nippon Animation.
Each of the tv series in the line, in accordance with the title of the
series, is based on a famous or "classic" work of (usually children's)
literature of any nationality. The series was begun in 1975 with "A
Dog of Flanders" after Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata beat the path in
1974 with their co-production of "Heidi, Girl of the Alps",
and it has continued producing one series each year since then, rendering
to the screen such books as Anne of Green Gables, Little Women and
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Yadamon: Magical Dreamer information page
A largely unknown yet quite original and enjoyable childrens' animated tv series aired in Japan in 1992, with character designs by an also largely unknown yet vastly talented artist, Suezen. A small resource of information and images in order to keep the show from *completely* sinking to the bottom of a sea of obscurity, for lack of endorsement, to western (fan-)audiences. Interested in this cuuute show? Ask me! I've got copies and a big heart.
