[1974: arupusu no shôjo haiji / Heidi, Girl of the Alps]

• Original Work: Heidi (Pt. 1: Heidi's Lehr-und Wanderjahre, Pt. 2: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat) (1880 & 1881)
• Continuations: Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Children by Charles Tritten, "Johanna Spyri's translator"
• Author: Johanna Spyri (1827-1901)
• Nationality: Swiss
• Story Setting: Alm-uncle's cabin near Maienfeld, Switzerland; and Frankfurt, Germany
• Story Beginning Date: 1877: Heidi is brought to Alm-mountain by Dete
• Series Length: 52 Eps.
• Staff:
 
• Director: Takahata Isao
• Continuity & layout: Miyazaki Hayao
• Character design & director of animation: Kotabe Yôichi
• Music: Watanabe Takeo
• Artistic director: Okai Masahiro
• Voice actors:
 
• Heidi: Sugiyama Kazuko
• Grandfather: Miyauchi Kôhei
• Peter: Kohara Noriko
• Clara: Yoshida Ryouko
• Miss Lottenmeyer: Asabu Miyoko
• Narrator: Sawada Toshiko
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Tell me
• Closing: Wait a moment
• Vocalist: Ôsugi Kumiko
• Image: A scan of the cassette cover for a Spanish-version Heidi soundtrack. (--Thanks, Alfredo! All scans from Spanish goods were donated by him.)
• Image: The cover of a Spanish Heidi comic book.
• Sound: A zipped MIDI-file of the closing song.

1975: furandâsu no inu / A Dog of Flanders

• Original Work: A Dog of Flanders & Other Stories (1872)
• Author: Marie Louisa De La Ramée (Ouida) (1839-1908)
• Nationality: English
• Story Setting: Belgium
• Story Beginning Date: 1870: Nello meets Patrasche.
• Series Length: 52 Eps.
• Director: Kuroda Yoshio
• Character design: Mori Yasuji
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Daybreak on the road
• Closing: Walk to the ends of the earth
• Vocalist: Ôsugi Kumiko
• Home Page: Yasushi Harasawa's Flanders page with ep list, char list and credits. (Japanese)

1976: haha wo tazunete sanzen ri / 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (From the Appenines to the Andes)

• Original Work: (Cuore) Heart: an Italian schoolboy's journal, a book for boys (1878)
• Author: Edmondo de Amicis (1846-1908)
• Nationality: Italian
• Story Setting: Genova, Italy (Marco's hometown); and then across the Atlantic by boat to Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Story Beginning Date: 1881: Marco's mother Anna goes to Argentina.
• Series Length: 52 Eps.
• Staff:
 
• Director: Takahata Isao
• Continuity & layout: Miyazaki Hayao
• Scenario writer: Fukazawa Kazuo
• Character design & animation director: Kotabe Yôichi
• Artistic director: Mukuo Takashi
• Music: Sakata Kôichi
• Voice actors:
 
• Marco: Matsunoo Keiko
• Peppino: Nagai Ichirô
• Conchetta: Kohara Noriko
• Fiolina: Nobusawa Mieko
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Marco of the grasslands
• Closing: Good morning, mother
• Vocalist: Ôsugi Kumiko
• Image The cover of a Spanish Marco (The Spanish name for the series) comic book.

1977: araiguma rasukaru / Rascal Raccoon

• Original Work: Rascal, a Memoir of a Better Era (1963)
• Author: Sterling North (1906-1974)
• Nationality: American
• Story Setting: United States
• Story Beginning Date: 1917: Sterling meets Rascal.
• Series Length: 52 Eps.
• Directors: Endô Seiji and Saito Hiroshi (ep's 1-29)
• Koshi Shigeo (ep's 30-52)
• Character design: Endô Seiji
• Theme songs:
• Opening: To Locke River
• Closing: Here, Rascal
• Vocalist: Ôsugi Kumiko

1978: perïnu monogatari / The Story of Perrine

• Original Work: En Famille (1893)
 One translated edition (W. Heinemann, 1984; tr. by Lady Mary Loyd) is entitled Her own folk. Hector Malot wrote another book later on called Sans Famille. Translated literally, En Famille means "with the family" and Sans Famille means "without a family." The latter novel is being animated at this moment. It is entitled Ie naki ko Rémi, and has enacted various changes on various aspects of the content.
• Author: Hector Malot (1830-1907)
• Nationality: French
• Story Setting: France
• Pre-Story Date: 1878: Perrine born in Dacca, India.
• Series Length: 50 Eps.
• Directors: Saito Hiroshi and Koshi Shigeo (ep's 1-29)
• Koshi Shigeo (ep's 30-50)
• Character design: Seki Jun'ichi
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Perrine's story
• Closing: Whimsical Baron
• Vocalist: Ôsugi Kumiko

1979: akage no an / Anne of Green Gables

• Original Work: Anne of Green Gables (1908)
• Continuations: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams (with links to the novels, online)
• Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
• Nationality: Canadian
• Story Setting: Canada
• Story Beginning Date: 1890: Anne arrives at Princess Edwards Isle from Nova Scotia.
• Series Length: 50 Eps.
• Director: Takahata Isao
• Character design: Kondô Yoshifumi
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Can you hear it?
• Closing: An endless dream
• Vocalist: Ôwada Ritsuko
• Home Page: Yasushi Harasawa's Anne page with ep list, char list and credits. (Japanese)

1980: tomu sôyâ no bôken / The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

• Original Work: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) (a link to the novel, online) Apparently there was an animated version of Huckleberry Finn made a few years later, by another animation studio. Nippon Animation has slated a movie re-make of Tom Sawyer for Spring, 1999. It is the third in a series of movie remakes scheduled by NA over the next three years.
• Author: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
• Nationality: American
• Story Setting: United States, St. Petersburg, small town on Miss.
• Story Beginning Date: Summer 1870: Tom begins his adventures.
• Series Length: 49 Eps.
• Director: Saitô Hiroshi
• Character design: Seki Jun'ichi
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Further than anyone has ever gone
• Closing: My Mississippi
• Vocalist: Kusaka Maron

1981: kazoku robinson hyôryüki fushigina shima no furône / The Robinson family lost at sea: Vroni on the wondrous island

• Original Work: The Swiss Family Robinson (Der Schweizerische Robinson) (1813)
• Author: Johann David Wyss (1743-1818)
• Nationality: Swiss
• Story Setting: Southern Pacific island
• Story Beginning Date: 1813: Vroni and family wrecked on deserted island.
• Series Length: 50 Eps.
• Director: Kuroda Yoshihirô
• Character design: Seki Jun'ichi
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Barefoot Vroni
• Closing: Vroni's dream
• Vocalist: Han Keiko

1982: minami no niji no rüshï / Lucy of the Southern Rainbows

• Original Work: ?
• Author: Phyllis Piddington (?)
• Nationality: ?
• Story Setting: Australia
• Story Beginning Date: 1840: The Poppel home moves to southern Australia.
• Series Length: 50 Eps.
• Director: Saitô Hiroshi
• Character design: Seki Jun'ichi
• Theme songs:
• Opening: I want to become a rainbow
• Closing: Come into the forest
• Vocalist: Yamagata Sumiko

1983: arupusu monogatari watashi no an'netto / Story of the Alps: My Annette

• Original Work: ? (The japanese translated edition is entitled Yuki no Takara, or "The Snow Treasure")
• Author: Patricia M. St. John (?)
• Nationality: English
• Story Setting: Rossiniere, Switzerland
• Story Beginning Date: Spring 1920: Annette and Lucien get into fight.
• Series Length: 48 Eps.
• Director: Kusuba Kôzô
• Character design: Takamatsu Issei
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Annette's blue skies
• Closing: Edelweiss's white flower
• Vocalist: Han Keiko

1984: makiba no shôjo katori / Katri, Girl of the Meadows (Katri the Cow Girl)

• Original Work: Paimen, piika ja emäntä (The ~1940 Japanese translated edition by Morimoto Yasuko and Kolpinen from which the anime hails its title is Makiba no Shôjo, referred to in English as Katri, the Cow Girl)
• Author: Auni Nuolivaara
• Nationality: Finnish
• Story Setting: Finland
• Story Beginning Date: Fall 1912: Katri's mother leaves to work in Germany.
• Series Length: 49 Eps.
• Director: Saitô Hiroshi
• Character design: Takano Noboru
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Love: a present for you
• Closing: A lullaby on the breeze
• Vocalist: Kobayashi Chie

1985: shôkôjo sèra / Little Princess Sara

• Original Work: A Little Princess (1905) (a link to the novel, online)
• Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett (1848-1924)
• Nationality: English
• Story Setting: England
• Story Beginning Date: 1885: Sara enters Miss Minchin's girls' school.
• Series Length: 46 Eps.
• Director: Kurokawa Fumio
• Character design: Saida Shunji
• Theme songs:
• Opening: The whisper of a flower
• Closing: Sunflower
• Vocalist: Shimonari Satoko
• Sound: A zipped MIDI-file from Sara. The song is called Mizuiro, or "Color of Water".

1986: ai shôjo porian'na monogatari / Tale of Pollyanna, Girl of Love

• Original Work: Pollyanna (1913)
• Continuations: Pollyanna Grows Up (1915) and various others by different authors after Porter's death
• Author: Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868-1920)
• Nationality: American
• Story Setting: United States; latter half in Boston (and taken from Pollyanna Grows Up)
• Story Beginning Date: 1920: Polyanna taken in by Mrs. Polly Harrington.
• Series Length: 51 Eps.
• Director: Kusuba Kôzô
• Character design: Satô Yoshiharu
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Carnival of happiness and I want to see that smiling you
• Closing: To become love... and Happiness
• Vocalist: Kudô Yuki

1987: ai no wakakusa monogatari / A Tale of Love's Young Grass

• Original Work: Little Women (1868-69) (a link to the novel online)
• Continuations: Good Wives (1889), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys
• Author: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
• Nationality: American
• Story Setting: United States
• Story Beginning Date: 1863
• Series Length: 48 Eps.
• Director: Kurokawa Fumio
• Character design: Kondô Yoshifumi & Yamazaki Toshiki
• Theme songs:
• Opening: An invitation from the young grass and Some day, absolutely
• Closing: A melody on the breeze in the evening sun and A lullaby to my father
• Vocalists: Han Keiko, Yamada Eiko, Shô Mayumi, Sakuma Rei, Shimonari Satoko
• Sound: A zipped MIDI-file of "Some day, absolutely".
• Home Page: A hypertext version of Little Women, plus background information on the author and text.

1988: shôkôshi sedi / Little Prince Cedie

• Original Work: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886)
• Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett (1848-1924)
• Nationality: English
• Story Setting: United States
• Story Beginning Date: 1885: Cedie (Cedric) leaves New York for England.
• Series Length: 43 Eps.
• Director: Kusuba Kôzô
• Character design: Sakurai Michiyo
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Our Cedie
• Closing: For the sake of loving someone...
• Vocalist: Nishida Hikaru

1989: pètâ pan no bôken / The Adventures of Peter Pan

• Original Work: Peter and Wendy (1911)
• Predecessors: The Little White Bird (1902), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
• Author: James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)
• Nationality: Scottish
• Story Setting: England/Neverland
• Story Beginning Date: 1900: Peter takes Wendy to Neverland.
• Series Length: 41 Eps.
• Director: Nakamura Takashi
• Character design: Kuroda Yoshihirô
• Theme songs:
• Opening: One more time, Peter Pan
• Closing: Dream... Open Sesame!
• Vocalist: Yüyu

1990: watashi no ashinaga ojisan / Daddy Long-legs

• Original Work: Daddy Long-Legs (1912)
• Author: Jean Webster (1876-1916)
• Nationality: ?
• Story Setting: United States
• Story Beginning Date: 1920: Judy to enter college.
• Series Length: 40 Eps.
• Director: Yokota Kazuyoshi
• Character design: Seki Jun'ichi
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Growing up
• Closing: Your breeze...
• Vocalist: Horie Mitsuko (link leads to Jun Hamazaki's fan home page on this popular singer/voice-actor, who did not sing the opening or closing for but is playing the PART of Rémi in the 1995/96 WMT series Rémi, the homeless girl. She also released, in conjunction with Nippon Animation, a CD-single of the song "Yume yo eien ni", a commemorative of sorts which colludes many of the WMT opening themes into one long omnibus song. She has been well known at least since the time of her singing of the theme-songs to the 1976 classic of girls' anime, Candy Candy.)

1991: torappu ikke monogatari / Story of the Trapp Family

• Original Work: The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (1949)
• Author: Maria Augusta Trapp
• Nationality: German
• Story Setting: Austria
• Story Date: 1937: Trapp Family flees from rising Nazi tide to New York.
• Series Length: 40 Eps.
• Director: Kuzuba Kôzô
• Character design: Seki Jun'ichi
• Theme songs:
• Opening: The do-re-mi song
• Closing: Hold out your hands
• Vocalist: Itô Eri
• Home Page: Yasushi Harasawa's Trapp page with ep list, char list and credits. (Japanese)

1992: kusabara no chïsana tenshi busshu beibï / Bush Baby, Little Angel of the Grasslands

• Original Work: The bushbabies (1965)
• Author: William Stevenson (1925- )
• Nationality: Canadian
• Story Setting: Killimanjaro, Kenya
• Story Beginning Date: 1964: Jackie begins to travel the savannah.
• Series Length: 40 Eps.
• Director: Suzuki Takayoshi
• Character design: Seki Jun'ichi & Katô Hiromi
• Theme songs:
• Opening: A smile as prologue and Appolo
• Closing: Become a bird
• Vocalists: Yamano Satoko, Tanimura Shinji, Okamoto Maya
• Home Page: Yasushi Harasawa's Bushbaby page with ep list, char list and credits. (Japanese)

1993: wakakusa monogatari nan to jô sensei / Tale of Young Grass: Nan and Miss Jo

• Original Work: Little Men (1871) (sequel to Little Women)
• Author: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
• Nationality: American
• Story Setting: United States
• Story Beginning Date: 1882: Nan comes to Plum Fields.
• Series Length: 40 Eps.
• Director: Kusuba Kôzô
• Character design: Satô Yoshiharu
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Tomorrow's sky is as clear as today's
• Closing: 'Ding-dong' through the blue sky
• Vocalist: Kosaka Akiko and Itô Kaoru
• Home Page: Yasushi Harasawa's page with ep list, char list and credits. (Japanese)

1994: nanatsu no umi no tiko / Tico of the Seven Seas (Tico and Nanami)

• Original Work: None; original story
• Story Setting: Japan
• Story Beginning Date: 1994: The Pepelonchino arrives in Japan.
• Series Length: 39 Eps.
• Director: Takagi Jun
• Character design: Morikawa Sôko
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Sea loves you
• Closing: Twinkle talk
• Vocalist: Shinozuka Mayumi
• Home Page: Yasushi Harasawa's Tico page with ep list, char list and credits. (Japanese)

1995: romio no aoi sora / Romeo's Blue Skies (The Black Brothers)

• Original Work: Fratelli Neri (1941?)
• Apparently the German translation of this book, Die Schwarzen Brüder, is the source for the current Japanese translation of it, but the original was written in Italian. The book title translates to The Black Brothers, but to my knowledge the book has not yet been translated into English.
• Author: Lisa Tetzner
• Nationality: Swiss (originally German, she emigrated to Switzerland with her husband in the thirties to escape the rising tide of nazism in Germany)
• Story Setting: From Sonogno, a small village in southern Switzerland (to the north of Lago Maggiore, a lake overlapping the southern border wtih Italy; not on map) to Locarno and then Milan, Italy
• Story Beginning Date: 1838: Romeo departs for Milan.
• Series Length: 33 Eps.
• Director: Kusuba Kôzô
• Character design: Satô Yoshiharu
• Theme songs:
• Opening: To the sky...
• Closing: Si Si Ciao - On these Roman roofs
• Vocalist: Kasahara Hiroko
• Home Page: Yasushi Harasawa's Romeo page with synopses, credits & ep list (Japanese)
• Home Page: Fansubbing group, The Techno-Girls, with info on english-subtitled episodes
• Home Page: Online anime mag EX (vol 2 issue 3) feature article on Romeo
• Scripts:
• TV EP's 1-4
• TV EP's 5-8

1996: meiken rasshï / Famous Dog Lassie

• Original Work: Lassie Come-Home (1940)
• Author: Eric Mowbray Knight (1897-1943)
• Nationality: English
• Story Setting: From Scotland to Yorkshire, England
• Story Beginning Date:
• Series Length: 25 Eps.
• Director: Katabuchi Sunao
• Character design: Morikawa Sôko
• Theme songs:
• Opening: Endless story
• Closing: A boy's hills
• Vocalist:
• Home Page: Yasushi Harasawa's Lassie home page (Japanese)

(Sept. 1996-)1997: ie naki ko rémi / Rémi the Homeless Girl ("Nobody's girl"?)

• Original Work: Sans Famille
 
• One english translated edition (Rand, McNally & company, 1925; The Windermere series; tr. by Philip Schuyler Allen) is entitled The adventures of Rémi. A literal translation of the title gives Familyless, a title as awkward as The adventures of Rémi is imaginative, but another translated edition (Cupples & Leon Company, 1916; tr. by Florence Crewe-Jones) renders it Nobody's boy, far nearer the feeling of the original title. It should be noted, however, that this title wouldn't quite fit as a reference to the anime version, because the main character is no longer a boy, as in the original, but is now a girl. It should also be noted that this story was made into a popular anime tv series over ten years ago, from Tokyo Movie Shinsha, under the direction of Dezaki Osamu (Blackjack, Ashita no Joe). The Japanese translation of the novel (and the Dezaki anime version) is entitled Ie naki ko.
• Author: Hector Malot (1830-1907)
• Nationality: French
• Story Setting: France
• Story Beginning Date:
• Series Length: Started airing on September 1, 1996; CANCELLED by Fuji TV on account of low ratings; ended March 23, 1997 with a staggeringly low episode count of 23 episodes.
• Director: Kusaba Kôzô
• Character Design: Ôshiro Masaru (reading uncertain; kanji are "ôkï" "shiro" and "katsu")
• Theme songs:
 
• Opening: About love...
• Closing: A Premonition of Happiness (not the Future Boy Conan song!)
• Vocalists: Sada Masashi and "Youca", respectively
• Home Page: Yasushi Harasawa's Rémi home page (Japanese)