A Nice Boy
Also known as: Un Garcon Sympatique (French)
English title: A Nice Boy
Foreign titles: Les Quatre Filles Du Docteur March (French), Eine Fröhliche Familie (German), Una Per Tutte, Tutte Per Una (Piccole Donne) (Italian)
Series title: 愛の若草物語 (Japan
- Studio
- Nippon Animation, Fuji TV
- Animation studio
- Nippon Animation.
Key Animation: Anime R, DAST Corporation, Dogakobo, Oh production, Sunshine Corporation, Trans Arts.
In-Between Animation: Dogakobo, Oh production , Trans Arts.
Backgrounds: Atelier Rourke, Studio Aqua - Distributor
- Bandai Visual
Synopsis
Meg, faithful and gentle, Jo, independent and energetic, Beth, quiet and shy, Amy, amiable and precocious-the four sisters live vigorously and happily at home with their gentle mother while waiting for their father to return from the Civil War. Helping each other, they challenge their fates and grow up to become wonderful women.
Characters
Meg, Jo, Beth,Amy
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Nobushiki Yamazaki
- Series Director
- Fumio Kurokawa
- Assistant Directors
- Harumi Matsumura, Hiroko Yamajika, Jun Takagi, Shinichi Matsumi, Takashi Ôhei, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Yuji Kitazawa
Producing
- Producer
- Junzô Nakajima
- Executive Producer
- Kôichi Motohashi
Writing
- Writer
- Akira Miyazaki
- Based On The Original Novel "Little Women" By
- Louisa May Alcott
Voices
- Voice
- Keiko Han (Margaret 'Meg' March), Eiko Yamada (Josephine 'Jo' March), Mayumi Sho (Elizabeth 'Beth' March), Rei Sakuma (Amy March), Nobuo Tobita (Theodore 'Laurie' Lawrence)
Music
- Music
- Kazuo Otani
Animation
- Animator
- Yoshiki Yamazaki, Shou Koyama (Animation Directors)
- Assistant Animation Director
- Hiroko Fujii
Art Department
- Art Director
- Masamichi Takano
- Storyboards
- Eiji Okabe, Fumio Ikeno, Fumio Kurokawa, Hiromi Sugimura, Kôzô Kusuba, Kôzô Kuzuha, Norio Yazawa, Shigeo Koshi, Shinichi Matsumi, Shinichi Tsuji, Takao Yotsuji, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Yoshio Kuroda
- Character Designers
- Toshiki Yamazaki, Yoshifumi Kondô, Yoshiki Yamazaki, Nobushiki Yamazaki
- Backgrounds
- Noboru Otani
Camera
- Cinematography
- Toshiaki Morita
Sound
- Sound
- Etsuji Yamada
Production notes
A forty-eight episode series. This series aired on Fuji Television as part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater from January 1, 1987 to December 27, 1987. A sequel series Little Women II: Jo's Boys, premiered in 1993.