Tom Sawyer's Adventures (1980)

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Anime television series
title Tom Sawyer's Adventure
Original title ト ム ・ ソ ー ヤ ー の 冒 険
transcription Tomu Sōyā no Bōken
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 1980
Studio Nippon animation
length 25 minutes
Episodes 49
Director Hiroshi Saitō
production Takaji Matsudo
music Katsuhisa Hattori
First broadcast Jan 6, 1980 on Fuji TV
German-language
first broadcast		 August 30, 2001 on junior
synchronization

Tom Sawyer's Adventure ( Japanese ト ム ・ ソ ー ヤ ー の 冒 険 , Tomu Sōyā no Bōken ) is an anime television series by Nippon Animation from 1980. It is based on the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and is part of the World Masterpiece Theater series .

content

Tom Sawyer lived with his half-brother Sid with his aunt Polly on the Mississippi River in the late 19th century . His best friend is Huckleberry Finn, a half-orphan whose father doesn't take care of him and who can do whatever he wants all day. They experience many adventures together, such as driving across the Mississippi, diving and playing pirates, or playing pranks on others. This often puts them in danger and worries their loved ones. More serious topics such as the early death of parents or slavery do occur, but do not determine the plot as much as in the novel.

Production and publication

The series was created in 1980 under the direction of Hiroshi Saitō at Nippon Animation . Responsible producer was Takaji Matsudo , the character design was created by Shūichi Seki and the artistic director was Taisaburō Abe . It was first broadcast on Fuji TV from January 6th to December 28th, 1980 .

In Germany, the series was shown for the first time on August 30, 2001 at Junior . It was broadcast on Ki.Ka in 2003 and published on 10 DVDs by Anime Virtual . The series had already been shown on Spanish and Italian television in 1981 and on French television in 1982. This was followed by broadcasts in Mexico, the Netherlands and the Philippines, among others. In the USA, the anime was released in the form of a compilation as a 105 minute long film Tom and Huck and was shown in a version edited by Haim Saban on the broadcaster HBO .

synchronization

The German synchronization was created at Arena Synchron .

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Tom Sawyer Masako Nozawa Fabian Hollwitz
Huckleberry Finn Kazuyo Aoki Fritz Vogt
Sid Sawyer Sumiko Shirakawa Carsten Otto
Mr. Dobbins Ichirō Nagai Eberhard Prüter
Steven Thatcher Helmut Gauss
Becky Thatcher Keiko Han Jill Cooper
Aunt Polly Haru Endo Luise Lunow
Mr. John Rogers Ken'ichi Ogata Roland Hemmo
Joe Harper Kazuhiko Inoue Vanya Gerick

music

The music for the series was composed by Katsuhisa Hattori . The opening credits of the original are underlaid with the song Dare yori mo Tōku e by Maron Kusaka , in the credits you can hear her song Boku no Mississippi . A new opening song was produced for the German version.

reception

According to the German magazine AnimaniA , the series tells “ about the longings of most children: adventure, freedom, friendship - and everlasting school holidays. “The drawings are simple but beautiful, the backgrounds minimalist and the movements are jerky by today's standards. The German synchronization was extremely successful.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c AnimaniA 12/2003, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Berkeley 2006, Stone Bridge Press. P. 664.

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