Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics,also known as Grimm Masterpiece Theater in the original version and The Grimm's Fairy Tales,is a Japanese anime anthology series by Nippon Animation. The episodes are adaptations of the Grimms' Fairy Tales.
Enoki Films Co.,Ltd. was a Japanese studio based in the Enoki Building in Shinjuku,Tokyo.
Ultra Maniac is a manga series written by Wataru Yoshizumi. The romantic comedy series features 8th grader Ayu Tateishi,a tennis club member,and her transfer student friend,Nina Sakura,who is actually a trainee witch from the magical kingdom. It premiered in Shueisha's Ribon manga magazine in February 2001 and ran until January 2004. It was also published in five collected volumes by Shueisha. Viz Media licensed and released an English translation of the series in North America.
Thumbelina is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen,Denmark,with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second instalment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. Thumbelina is about a tiny girl and her adventures with marriage-minded toads,moles,and cockchafers. She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size.
Faerie Tale Theatre is an American live-action fairytale fantasy anthology television series of 27 episodes,that originally aired on Showtime from September 11,1982 until November 14,1987. It is a retelling of 25 fairy tales,particularly those written by The Brothers Grimm,Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen,an additional episode is based on the poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin".
Thumbelina is a 1994 American animated musical fantasy film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman,based on the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The film stars the voices of Jodi Benson,Gary Imhoff and John Hurt,with supporting roles from Gino Conforti,Charo,Gilbert Gottfried,Carol Channing and Joe Lynch.
Hana no Ko Lunlun,translated to English as The Flower Child Lunlun and Lulu,The Flower Angel is a magical girl anime by Toei Animation,focusing on a theme of flowers in its stories. It was directed by Hiroshi Shidara and written by Shiro Jinbo. It was greatly successful in the West,particularly in Europe and in Latin America,as well as in Japan. An edited English-language dub of a few episodes titled Angel made this series one of,if not the first,magical girl anime works to reach the United States and Canada,well over a decade before Sailor Moon.
Magical Princess Minky Momo is a Japanese magical-girl anime franchise by Ashi Productions. The original series ran between 1982 and 1983 on TV Tokyo and inspired three OVAs between 1985 and 1987. A second television series,titled Magical Princess Minky Momo:Hold on to Your Dreams,ran on NTV between 1991 and 1992,and like the original,it spawned home video follow-ups. A third Momo series began in 2004,this time as a manga known as Miracle Dream Minky Momo in Shogakukan's Shōgaku Ninensei magazine.
Hans Christian Andersen also known as Paramount Pictures Presents Hans Christian Andersen and known in Japan as Andersen Stories is a Japanese anime anthology series based on the legendary stories of Hans Christian Andersen which aired on Fuji TV from January 3 to December 26,1971. It consists of 52 episodes and was produced by Mushi Production and Zuiyo Enterprise.
Space Oz no Bōken is an anime TV series based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Produced by Enoki Films and EZ Films,the series originally premiered on October 5,1992 and ran for a total of 26 episodes.
Thumbelina is a Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen,first published in 1835.
The Daydreamer is a 1966 stop motion animated–live action musical fantasy film produced by Videocraft International. Directed by Jules Bass,it was written by Arthur Rankin,Jr. and Romeo Muller,based on the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. It features seven original songs by Jules Bass and Maury Laws. The film's opening features the cast in puppet and live form plus caricatures of the cast by Al Hirschfeld. Among the cast were the American actors Paul O'Keefe,Jack Gilford,Ray Bolger and Margaret Hamilton,and the Australian actor Cyril Ritchard as the voice of the Sandman. Three of the voice actors:Burl Ives,and Canadian actors Billie Mae Richards and Larry D. Mann,were the voice suppliers for Videocraft's stop motion Christmas television special,Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964). Some of the character voices were recorded at RCA Studios in Toronto,Ontario,under Bernard Cowan's supervision. The "Animagic" puppet sequences were staged by Don Duga at Videocraft in New York,and supervised by Tadahito Mochinaga at MOM Production in Tokyo,Japan.
Yoko Ishida is a Japanese singer. She is known for having performed theme songs for anime shows such as Prétear,Ai Yori Aoshi,the Ah! My Goddess TV series and the Strike Witches series,as well as for having sung for the Para Para Max CD series. She currently works under Solid Vox. Formerly she was employed by Hyper Voice Managements. Yoko Ishida and Mami Kawada are Japanese Singers with Carolwood Records and Mercury Nashville. with Strike Witches series,and A Certain Magical Index series.
Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid is a Japanese anime film based on Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 eponymous fairy tale,released in 1975 by Toei Animation. Unlike the Disney adaptation released 14 years later,this film is closer to Andersen's story,notably in its preservation of the original and tragic ending. The two main protagonists are the youngest daughter of the royal family,Marina,and her best friend Fritz,an Atlantic dolphin calf. In Japan,this film was shown in the Toei Manga Matsuri in 1975. The film was later released in the United States,dubbed into English by G. G. Communications,Inc. and Prima Film,Inc.,on February 4,1978.
Majokko Tickle,also known as Magical Girl Tickle or Tickle the Witch Girl,is a 1970s magical girl manga and anime by Go Nagai. Unlike Nagai's earlier Cutie Honey,Majokko Tickle is closer to the more traditional mold of magical girl anime such as Sally the Witch,and unlike Nagai's other,more popular works,was created for an audience of pre-teen girls.
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is a 1972 American musical fantasy film written,composed,shot,edited and directed by Richard Winer to frame Barry Mahon's Childhood Productions films for a Christmas release. The threadbare plot concerns Santa Claus' attempts to free his sleigh from the sands of a Florida beach,assisted by local children.
My Favorite Fairy Tales in Japan is a 1986 fantasy anime series of fairy tales and other classic stories produced by Robert Barron. The series was released by Saban Productions.
The World of Hans Christian Andersen is a 1968 Japanese-American animated fantasy film produced by Toei Doga,based on the works of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Theatrically released in Japan on March 19,1968,the film was licensed in North America by United Artists in 1971.
