A Nice Parcel
Foreign titles: Princesse Sarah (French), Die Kleine Prinzessin Sara (German), Lovely Sara (Italian), Mała Księżniczka Sara (Polish), La Princesa Sara (Spanish)
Series titles: 小公女セーラ, Shok
- Studio
- Nippon Animation
- Animation studio
- Nippon Animation
- Distributor
- Bandai Visual
Synopsis
Sara, a pretty girl born into a rich British family in India, is treated like a little princess at a dormitory school in London. Sara's sweet school life turns to tragedy when she learns of her father's death and the family's bankruptcy. However, Sara endures her hard luck with kindness and imagination and escapes from her misery through fantasies.
Characters
Sara Crewe, Miss Minchin
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Fumio Kurokawa, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Jiro Saito
Producing
- Producer
- Junzô Nakajima, Taihei Ishikawa
- Executive Producer
- Kôichi Motohashi
Writing
- Writer
- Hidemi Kamata, Keiko Mukuroji, Ryûzô Nakanishi
- Based On The Original Story
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Music
- Music
- Yasuo Higuchi
Animation
- Animation Director
- Atsuko Otani, Kuniyuki Ishii, Toshiki Yamazaki
- Animator
- Yoshiki Yamazaki, Shunji Saita, Kuniyuki Ishii
- Layouts
- Yasuji Mori
Art Department
- Art Director
- Nobuo Numai
- Storyboards
- Fumio Kurokawa, Kôzô Kusuba, Kôzô Kuzuha, Takayoshi Suzuki, Yoshio Kuroda
- Character Design
- Shunji Saida
Editing
Sound
- Sound Effects
- Akihiko Matsuda
Production Management
- Production Manager
- Mitsuru Takakuwa
Crew
- Planning
- Eiichi Kubota, Shoji Sato
- Theme Song Performance
- Satoko Shimonari
Production notes
This TV series ran for 46 episodes. This series originally aired across Japan on Fuji Television in World Masterpiece Theater from January 6, 1985 through December 29, 1985.
Adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1888 children's novel "Sara Crewe."
Adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1888 children's novel "Sara Crewe."