Spring Once Again
Series titles: 赤毛のアン (Japanese), A
- Studio
- Fuji Television, Nippon Animation
- Animation studio
- Nippon Animation
- Distributor
- Bandai Visual
Synopsis
Anne Shirley is a freckle-faced, red-haired girl, who grows up in an orphanage having lost her parents at a very early age.
Anne is always cheerful and fun-loving despite being brought up without love or affection.
When she turns 10, she is adopted by the old farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla.
Anne starts her new life with Matthew and Marilla at a farm called Green Gables , but actually the Cuthberts wanted a boy who could help with their work on the farm.
Overcoming many hardships and meeting many friends and people, Anne grows up to be a strong-minded woman.
Anne is always cheerful and fun-loving despite being brought up without love or affection.
When she turns 10, she is adopted by the old farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla.
Anne starts her new life with Matthew and Marilla at a farm called Green Gables , but actually the Cuthberts wanted a boy who could help with their work on the farm.
Overcoming many hardships and meeting many friends and people, Anne grows up to be a strong-minded woman.
Characters
Anne Shirley, Matthew Cuthbert, Marilla Cuthbert, Mashu, Mrs. Lind, Diana, Jane, Ruby, Minnie May, Tilly, Sophia, Josy, Gilbert, Charlie, Moody, Professor Citisee, Minister Alan, Mrs. Alan
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Ken'ichi Baba, Shigeo Koshi, Kôzô Kusuba, Kazuyoshi Yokota
- Series Director
- Isao Takahata
Producing
- Producer
- Shigeô Endo, Junzô Nakajima
- Executive Producer
- Kôichi Motohashi
Writing
- Writer
- Yoshihisa Araki, Shigeki Chiba, Aiko Isomura, Seijirô Kôyama, Isao Takahata, Takekuni Takano
- Original Novel, Anne of Green Gables By
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Based on the Original Novel By
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Voices
- Voice
- Eiko Yamada (Anne), Fumie Kitahara (Marila), Ryûji Saikachi (Mashu), Miyoko Asô (Mrs. Lind), Gara Takashima (Diana), Sanae Takagi (Jane), Mami Koyama (Ruby, Minnie May), Makoto Takasaka (Ruby), Chiyoko Kawashima (Tilly), Kimiko Tsuruta (Sophia), Junko Hori (Josy), Kazuhiko Inoue (Gilbert), Kazuyo Aoki (Charlie), Yoku Shioya (Moody), Hiroko Suzuki (Professor Citisee), Kazuyuki Sogabe (Minister Alan), Yôko Egawa (Mrs. Alan), Michio Hazama (Narrator)
Music
- Music
- Akira Miyoshi, Shigeto Mori
Animation
- Animation Director
- Yoshifumi Kondo
- Animator
- Noboru Akiyama, Nobumasa Arakawa, Kiko Gotô, Jun'ichi Hashimoto, Natsuyo Hoda, Mariko Ioka, Hirokazu Ishino, Seiko Iwasaki, Masahiro Katô, Masao Kimura, Yoshishige Kosako, Takumi Koyama, Yôichi Mieno, Noriko Moritomo, Kôichi Murata, Toshiko Nakagawa, Yutaka Oka, Toshitsugu Saida, Michiyo Sakurai, Sanae Shibuya, Masako Shinohara, Toshio Sugawara, Noboru Takano, Katsuo Takasaki, Tomoaki Takemoto, Yukiko Terada, Nobuo Tomizawa, Kazuhide Tomonaga, Kazuo Ushikoshi, Kôshin Yonegawa, Hidenori Ôshima
- Layouts
- Hayao Miyazaki, Michiyo Sakurai
Art Department
- Art Director
- Masahiro Ioka
- Storyboards
- Ken'ichi Baba, Fumio Ikeno, Shigeo Koshi, Kôzô Kusuba, Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu, Seiji Okuta, Hiroshi Saitô, Isao Takahata, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Kazuyoshi Yokota
- Character Designer
- Yoshifumi Kondo
- Backgrounds
- Taizaburou Abe, Ken'ichi Ishibashi, Tomie Katô, Kenichi Kobayashi, Shigeo Nishihara, Toshio Nozaki, Akira Shôhei, Seiji Sugawara, Kazuhiko Tamari, Nizou Yamamoto, Yukihiro Yokoyama
- Scenic Design
- Hayao Miyazaki
Production notes
A series of 50 episodes. It aired in Japan on the Fuji TV network as part of the World Masterpiece Theater between January 7, 1979 to December 30, 1979.