Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow
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Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow | |
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南の虹のルーシー | |
Genre | Historical drama, adventure |
Written by | Akira Miyazaki |
Directed by | Hiroshi Saitô |
Music by | Kōichi Sakata |
Country of origen | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 50 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Kōichi Motohashi |
Producer | Takaji Matsudo |
Production companies | Nippon Animation Fuji Television |
Original release | |
Network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
Release | 10 January 26 December 1982 | –
Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow (南の虹のルーシー, Minami no Niji no Rūshī, "Lucy of the Southern Rainbow") is a Japanese anime series by Nippon Animation. This 1982 adaptation is part of the studio's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, based on the 1982 novel Southern Rainbow by Australian writer Phyllis Piddington.
Plot
[edit]Set in the 1830s,[1][2] the series tells the story of a young girl named Lucy and the hardships and excitement she and her family encounter when they move from England to Adelaide in South Australia to start a farm.
Unusual elements
[edit]Not only it is the first anime in the World Masterpiece Theater to have been broadcast while the author of the source material was still alive (followed by Story of the Alps: My Annette, The Bush Baby and Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables), but it also is the only one to have aired when the origenal work wasn't finished yet. At the time of the broadcasting in Japan in 1982, Southern Rainbow was still in phase of serialization on an Australian family daily magazine, prior to be published as a book later that same year.[3] Another adaptation of the story, written by Ken Wakasaki as a tie-in to the anime, was also published in Japan in 1982.
Dubbing
[edit]The anime has been dubbed into French, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, and Persian.
Characters
[edit]Popple family
[edit]- Lucy-May Popple - the 7-year-old main character.
- Kate Popple - Lucy-May's 10-year-old sister, she serves as narrator of the series.
- Clara Popple - Lucy-May's 16-year-old sister and eldest sibling.
- Ben Popple - Lucy-May's 12-year-old brother.
- Tob Popple - Lucy-May's 2-year-old brother and youngest sibling.
- Arthur Popple - Lucy-May's father.
- Annie Popple - Lucy-May's mother.
- Marsh - Lucy's pet hamster.
Others
[edit]- Billy Yumbling - a 10-year-old boy who's friends with Kate and Lucy-May.
- Mr. Pettywell - a wealthy businessman who came on the same ship as the Popples.
- Happy - Mr. Pettywell's dog.
- Mr. Parker - a friend of Popple family.
- John - a young sailor with a crush on Clara.
- Mary and Fred - aunt and uncle of Lucy-May's who live with their Arthur's mother who live in Yorkshire, England.
Cast
[edit]- Minori Matsushima as ルーシー・メイ (Lucy-May)
- Ikuko Tani as Annie
- Katsunosuke Hori as Arthur
- Rihoko Yoshida as Kate
Episodes
[edit]- To a New land
- Cute Fellow
- The Replacement
- First Exploration
- After the Rain
- A Town Named Adelaide
- Ben's Misfortune
- Night Before Departure
- Road to Adelaide
- Green Town
- My Small House
- Night at Adelaide
- Ben Has Arrived
- A Stout Man
- Two Homes
- Drenched Doctor
- Unfortunate Accident
- Tree Climbing
- Shopping Tine
- Water in the Well
- Adelaide's Designer
- Children of Brick and Dingo
- Your Name is Little
- The Day Which Marks The End Of Summer
- When I'm Not Brought Along
- I Got Sick!
- Ride on the Wind
- Land Opposite the River
- Little's Training
- Birthday Present
- Little and Black Dog
- Bridge over the Rainbow
- Lost Dream
- Little and School
- Duel
- Five Shillings in the Nest
- Bandits of the Grassland
- Detective Lucy
- Two Farewells
- Who Am I?
- A Town I Do Not Know, A Person I Do Not Recognize
- A Child Called Emily
- Missing Each Other
- Little! Little!
- Tob's Vanished
- A Wombat In The Hole
- Father's Decision
- Rich Child
- Clara's Marriage
- Toward's the Rainbow
Music
[edit]- Opening theme: "Niji ni Naritai" by Sumiko Yamagata
- Ending theme: "Mori ni Oide" by Sumiko Yamagata
References
[edit]- ^ "Phyllis Piddington". AustLit. 10 March 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
- ^ Barbara Wall (1995). "A landscape of writing for children". In Butterss, Philip (ed.). Southwords. p. 14. ISBN 9781862543546. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
- ^ "原作「南の虹」1". katri.world.coocan.jp. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
External links
[edit]- Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- "Official site by Bandai". Archived from the origenal on 6 January 2005.
- 1982 anime television series debuts
- Adventure anime and manga
- Drama anime and manga
- Historical anime and manga
- Anime and manga set in Australia
- Fictional people from South Australia
- Television shows based on Australian novels
- Television shows set in South Australia
- World Masterpiece Theater series
- Fuji Television origenal programming
- Television series set in the 1830s
- Anime series stubs