Missis Jo and her happy family
| Anime television series | |
|---|---|
| title | Missis Jo and her happy family |
| Original title | 若 草 物語 ナ ン と ジ ョ ー 先生 |
| transcription | Wakakusa Monogatari: Nan to Jō-sensei |
| Country of production |
 Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 1993 |
| Studio | Nippon animation |
| length | approx. 24 minutes |
| Episodes | 40 |
| Director | Kōzō Kusuba |
| idea | Louisa May Alcott |
| First broadcast | January 17 - December 19, 1993 on Fuji Television |
| German-language first broadcast |
December 11, 1997 on RTL II |
Missis Jo and her cheerful family ( jap. 若草物語ナンとジョー先生 Wakakusa Monogatari: Nan to Jō-sensei , literally: The story of young grass: Nan and Miss Jo ) is an anime television series based on the novel Little Men of American writer Louisa May Alcott based. It premiered in 1993 as part of the World Masterpiece Theater series and is a sequel to A Happy Family .
The story takes place in the 19th century at a boarding school run by Jo March from A Happy Family .
action
Jo March has grown up and runs a boarding school with her husband, which she sets up in the house that her late aunt left her. She met her husband Friedrich Bhaer in New York . With him she has two sons, Teddy and Rob. The couple tries to raise the children as well as possible in their own way.
Although the boarding school is a boys' school, there are also two girls educated there: Daisy, daughter of Jo's sister Meg, and the lively Nan, who started school in Plumfield in 1882. Jo takes the two street children Nat and Dan into school.
Origin and publications
The forty episodes of the series were created in the animation studio Nippon Animation , which had also taken over the production of all previous World Masterpiece Theater series, such as Heidi and A Happy Family . Kōzō Kuzuha acted as the director . Michiru Shimada reworked the novel into the script for the series. In doing so, he changed the plot. While the book template begins with the arrival of Nat , the same character in the anime only appears in the middle of the plot. Nan, on the other hand, with whom the plot begins in the anime, appears later in the book. Shimada tells the story from the perspective of the adult Nan , who remembers her childhood at boarding school in flashbacks.
Fuji Television beamed Missis Jo and her cheerful family of 17 January to 19 December 1993 for the first time on Japanese television from. The anime was released on VHS in Japan and on ten DVDs in 2002.
The series also appeared in Spanish, Italian and German dubbing. The German first broadcast took place from 1997 to 1998 in the children's program Vampy on RTL II . Missis Jo and her happy family could later be seen on Tele 5 (but only 14 episodes) and ORF 1 (in Confetti Tivi).
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Missis Jo | Eiko Yamada | Heidi Weigelt |
| Ned Barker | Rikako Aikawa | |
| Professor Bhaer | Yôsuke Akimoto | Detlef Giess |
| Daisy Brooke | Kae Araki | Anja Stadlober |
| Rob Bhaer | Yuriko Fuchizaki | |
| Mary-Anne | Kayoko Fujii | Peggy Sander |
| Asia | Yasuko Hatori | Karin Reif |
| Meg Brooke | Keiko Han | |
| Professor Paige | Takkou Ishimori | Wolfgang Ostberg |
| Dan Keen | Nobutoshi Kanna | Gunnar Helm |
| Jack Ford | Tsutomu Kashiwakura | Marius Clarén |
| John Brooke | Toshihiko Kojima | Rainer Doering |
| Nancy Harding | Hazuru Matsukura | Manja Doering |
| Teddy Bhaer | Kyôko Minami | Ghadah Al-Akel |
| Franz | Toshiyuki Morikawa | Alexander Doering |
| Mrs. March | Taeko Nakanishi | Astrid Bless |
| Silas | Ryûji Saikachi | Werner Senftleben |
| Professor Farth | Masaharu Satô | Rainer Büttner |
| Stuffy | Chie Satou | Fabian Schwab |
| Tommy Bangs | Minami Takayama | Robert Stadlober |
| Laurie Lorenz | Nobuo Tobita | Frank Schröder |
| Demi Brooke | Kyôko Yamada | |
| Emile | Hiro Yuuki | Michael Bauer |
| Nathaniel "Nat" Black | Mariko Ikegami | Konrad Bösherz |
DVD release
KSM Anime released the series divided into two boxes and thus on eight DVDs on October 19, 2015 and December 7, 2015, including the German soundtrack. The publisher lists trailers and picture galleries as "extras".
Web links
- Description at Nippon Animation : Japanese and English
- Missis Jo and her happy family incl. German episode list in Anime no Tomodachi (AnT)
- Missis Jo and her cheerful family at Anime News Network (English)
- Missis Jo and her cheerful family in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Missis Jo and her happy family in the German dubbing index . Retrieved February 14, 2016.