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    The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island
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    The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island

    The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island is an anime series produced by Nippon Animation.

    The story is loosely based on the novel “Swiss Family Robinson” by Swiss author Johann David Wyss.

    The character of Flone is not present in the original novel, in which the Robinson family consists of only a father, a mother and four sons. It is likely that Flone was introduced by Nippon Animation as a new character for the anime version in order to attract more girls as viewers. Also in the anime version, the oldest of the Robinson children, Fritz, is named “Franz”, and the character of Jack is a three-year-old rather than a ten-year-old.

    Very popular in Europe, this anime is one of the few World Masterpiece Theater series to have been dubbed into the English language for the American market. An English dub by PMT, Ltd, titled simply Swiss Family Robinson, aired on The Family Channel cable network in the U.S. in 1989. This dub renames Flone “Becca” as well as her older brother Franz “Fritz.” It can currently be seen on the Smile of a Child network.

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    Anne of Green Gables
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    Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables is an animated television series, part of Nippon Animation’s World Masterpiece Theater. It was adapted from the novel, Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Produced by Nippon Animation in 1979, it was first broadcast on Fuji TV from January 7, 1979 to December 30, 1979. Fifty episodes were produced in total.

    It has been exported to neighbouring Asian countries and also to Europe and Canada. As with the novels, the animated version of Anne is much beloved in Japan to this day and “DVD memorial BOX set” was released on August 22, 2008 and a new anime series that serves as a prequel to the series, Kon’nichiwa Anne 〜 Before Green Gables, which premiered on April 5, 2009 in Japan.

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    Wandering Sun
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    Wandering Sun

    Wandering Sun is a Japanese manga and anime television series created by Keisuke Fujikawa and Mayumi Suzuki, and which ran for 26 episodes in 1971. Both Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yasuhiko Yoshikazu were involved in the production of Wandering Sun, and would later again collaborate on the ground-breaking and genre defining series Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam.

    Wandering Sun tells the story of two girls switched at birth, who compete to become successful singers after meeting at high-school.

    The TV series was also released in Italy under the title Jane e Micci and in France as Nathalie et ses Amis.

    This series was itself a ground-breaker in that it was perhaps the first anime series to depict the entertainment industry – specifically popular music, which would be a major plot point in many anime to come from Creamy Mami to Perfect Blue. The voice actress for Nozomi, Junko Fujiyama, was an actual singer who used the series as a launching pad for her own real-life singing career, releasing several singles while the series was still on the air. The anime, however, toned down some of the more intense and mature elements of the manga for a prime-time TV audience.

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