World Masterpiece Theater (世界名作劇場, Sekai Meisaku Gekijō) is a Japanese TV animated series that showcased an animated version of a different classical...
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co-founders of Studio Ghibli, directed several episodes in the World Masterpiece Theater series. What is now Nippon Animation is descended from Zuiyo Eizo...
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Heidi, Girl of the Alps (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
entry in Calpis Comic Theater, a precursor of the World Masterpiece Theater series, based on classic tales from the Western world. The animation studio...
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3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
into a 52-episode epic. The series was broadcast on World Masterpiece Theater (Calpis Children's Theater back then), an animation staple that showcased each...
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Hayao Miyazaki (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
Nippon Animation) in 1973, Miyazaki worked as an animator on World Masterpiece Theater and directed the television series Future Boy Conan (1978). He...
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Dororo (1969 TV series) (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
series. The series is first installment of World Masterpiece Theater, then known as Calpis Comic Theater, and the only one in black and white. Dororo...
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Isao Takahata (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
work at Nippon for about a decade; his work there included a World Masterpiece Theater adaptation of Anne of Green Gables in 1979, another project which...
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being the first entry in what is now known as the World Masterpiece Theater series (Calpis Comic Theater at the time). Dororo was also made into a live-action...
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My Daddy Long Legs (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. This anime aired in 1990 as part of the World Masterpiece Theater series, produced by Nippon Animation and was awarded the Excellent...
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Moomin (1969 TV series) (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
series is also the second entry in what is now known as World Masterpiece Theater (Calpis Comic Theater at the time). Zuiyo Enterprise, would split in 1975...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1980 TV series) (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn). The series was broadcast on the World Masterpiece Theater, an animation staple on Fuji TV, that each year showcased an animated...
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Anne), an animated television series, part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater, produced in Japan and directed by Isao Takahata. Anne of Green...
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Saito Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables, a series in the World Masterpiece Theater anime This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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Story of the Alps: My Annette (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
Alps Story: My Annette (アルプス物語 わたしのアンネット, Arupusu Monogatari Watashi no Annetto) is a 1983 anime series by Nippon Animation. 48 episodes aired on Fuji...
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Anne of Green Gables (1979 TV series) (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
animated television series and the fifth entry in Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater (which has been known by several different names). It was adapted...
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and 1990. This anime used many staffers from Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, thus the look and feel is similar to that of a WMT...
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Rascal the Raccoon (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
Rascal the Raccoon (あらいぐまラスカル, Araiguma Rasukaru, literally Raccoon Rascal, with the Japanese word for raccoon meaning "washing bear") is a 1977 Japanese...
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Katri, Girl of the Meadows (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
around the world; among them were My Annette: Story of the Alps (1983) and Little Princess Sara (1985). In Europe, where World Masterpiece Theater series...
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Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
produced by Nippon Animation, and the first installment in the World Masterpiece Theater series in ten years after Remi, Nobody's Girl. It is an adaptation...
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Princess Sara (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
from January to December 1985, as part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater. The series follows Sara Crewe, a young student of an all-girls...
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Little Women II: Jo's Boys (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
17 January to 19 December 1993 as part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater. Mulherzinhas II (Portuguese) Los chicos de Jo (Spanish) Missis...
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Dog of Flanders (TV series) (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
notable for being the first official entry in the World Masterpiece Theater series (Calpis Children's Theater at the time). The animators conducted extensive...
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Peter Pan: The Animated Series (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
numerous original story arcs. In the usual case of the World Masterpiece Theater, the stage is a real world, and the main character is often exposed to terrible...
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Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
Anne: Before Green Gables") is the 26th in Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater anime. The series is an adaptation of Canadian children's literature...
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real Foster or his wife. It is one of companion volumes of the World Masterpiece Theater, broadcast on TV Tokyo from 19:30 to 20:00 on Thursday. This work...
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Monogatari (Trapp Family Story), 1991 animated TV series, part of World Masterpiece Theater (The only animated adaptation of the book.) The Sound of Music...
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Trapp Family Story (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
real-life Austrian singing family the Trapp Family. It is a part of the World Masterpiece Theatre franchise, which adapted classic works of literature into...
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Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
Nippon Animation. This 1982 adaptation is part of the studio's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, based on the 1982 novel Southern Rainbow by Australian...
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New Moomin (category World Masterpiece Theater series)
was produced in 1972 as part of the Calpis Comic Theater (later known as World Masterpiece Theater) and broadcast on Fuji TV. As in the previous series...
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Naki Ko Remi) was created by Nippon Animation as part of their World Masterpiece Theater series. In 1995, Nobody's Boy: Remi was also broadcast by RCTI...
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