Pinocchio: The Series (1972)

Original title

樫の木モック

Genre

drama anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 52 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wooden puppet boy named Pinocchio constantly misbehaves and learns hard lessons through suffering and accidents. The series follows his bleak adventures as he faces abuse and freak mishaps, staying true to the original novel's dark tone.

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What happens

Pinocchio: The Series, also known as Saban's The Adventures of Pinocchio and known as Mock of the Oak Tree (樫の木モック, Kashi no Ki Mokku) in Japan, is a 52-episode anime series by Tatsunoko Production first aired on Fuji Television in 1972, which was edited by Saban in 1990. The story is loosely based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Unlike the lighter, more cheerful tones of most adaptations such as Walt Disney's film adaptation and Nippon Animation's version Piccolino no Bōken, this series has a distinctly darker, more sadistic tone in the veins of Collodi's novel, and portrays the main character, Pinocchio (Mock) in his personality from the novel, as a bad-behaved troublemaker who only learns his lesson by suffering from constant physical and psychological abuse and freak accidents. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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