Growing Up
Series title: 青春アニメ全集
- Studio
- Nippon Animation
- Distributor
- Nippon TV
Synopsis
The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years.
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Fumio Kurokawa
- Series Director
- Fumio Kurokawa
- Episode Directors
- Akiko Matsushima, Noboru Ishiguro, Eiji Okabe, Isamu Kumada, Hidehito Ueda
Producing
- Producer
- Kôichi Motohashi (Executive Producer)
Writing
Voices
- Voice
- Midori Kiuchi (Narrator)
Music
- Music
- Kôichi Sakata
- Theme Song
- Hideo Shimazu, Junnosuke Yamamoto
Animation
- Animator
- Yoshio Kabashima
Crew
- Design
- Hiroshi Motomiya, Tetsuya Chiba, Shotaro Ishinomori, Osamu Komori, Hiromitsu Morita
- Character Design
- Yasuji Mori
- Layout Supervisor
- Yasuji Mori
- Storyboards
- Fumio Kurokawa, Yumiko Suda
- Animation Directors
- Hideaki Shimada, Hirokazu Ishiyuki, Hiroshi Ogawa, Kazuo Iimura, Shigetaka Kiyoyama, Yumiko Suda
- Episode Directors
- Eiji Okabe, Eisuke Kondo, Noboru Ishiguro, Tomoko Matsushima, Yumiko Suda
- Director of Photography
- Toshiaki Morita
- Ending Illustrations
- Seiichi Hayashi
- Planning Director/Producer
- Shoji Sato
- Audio Director
- Sadayoshi Fujino
Production notes
This TV series ran for 35 episodes.
The authors range from Ichiyo Higuchi (Takekurabe), Ogai Mori (The Dancing Girl) and Soseki Natsume (Botchan) to Yasunari Kawabata (The Izu Dancer, Nobel laureate of 1968), and Yukio Mishima (The Sound of Waves). Other authors include Eiko Tanaka, Shintaro Ishihara, Masao Kume, Sachio Ito, Yasushi Inoue, Junichiro Tanizaki, Shiro Ozaki and Jiro Akagawa.
Ozaki's "Theater of Life" was condensed from 530 pages to under 30 minutes, while Mori's "The Dancing Girl" was relieved of its prostitution subplot.
A story by "Koizumi Yakumo" was included without revealing that this was actually the Japanese name of foreign-born author Lafcadio Hearn.
Two episodes were not broadcast. Instead, the segments, adaptations of Masao Kume's "Student Days" and Musanokoji Saneatsu's "The Friend Who Didn't Believe in Friendship," appeared as separate "specials" on Asahi TV in 1987.
The authors range from Ichiyo Higuchi (Takekurabe), Ogai Mori (The Dancing Girl) and Soseki Natsume (Botchan) to Yasunari Kawabata (The Izu Dancer, Nobel laureate of 1968), and Yukio Mishima (The Sound of Waves). Other authors include Eiko Tanaka, Shintaro Ishihara, Masao Kume, Sachio Ito, Yasushi Inoue, Junichiro Tanizaki, Shiro Ozaki and Jiro Akagawa.
Ozaki's "Theater of Life" was condensed from 530 pages to under 30 minutes, while Mori's "The Dancing Girl" was relieved of its prostitution subplot.
A story by "Koizumi Yakumo" was included without revealing that this was actually the Japanese name of foreign-born author Lafcadio Hearn.
Two episodes were not broadcast. Instead, the segments, adaptations of Masao Kume's "Student Days" and Musanokoji Saneatsu's "The Friend Who Didn't Believe in Friendship," appeared as separate "specials" on Asahi TV in 1987.