Belle and Sebastian (1981)

Original title

名犬ジョリィ

Directed by

Keiji Hayakawa

Genre

historical anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 52 episodes

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy named Sebastien lives in a rural French mountain village. He befriends a stray dog named Belle and together they go on travels and face challenges.

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What happens

Belle and Sebastian (名犬ジョリィ, Meiken Jorī; Famous Dog Jolie) is an anime adaption of the 1965 novel Belle et Sébastien by French author Cécile Aubry. The series ran on the Japanese network NHK from April 7, 1981 to March 24, 1982. It consists of 52 episodes and was a co-production of MK Company, Visual 80 Productions and Toho Company, Ltd. Toshiyuki Kashiwakura was the head writer and character designs were by Shuichi Seki. The show was broadcast on French and Japanese television in 1981, with American cable network Nickelodeon picking it up in 1984. In the United Kingdom, it aired on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990. The anime used many staffers from Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, thus the look and feel is similar to that of a WMT production even though Nippon Animation itself was not involved with this series. The series has been aired in many countries outside Japan and has been dubbed and subtitled in English and numerous other languages. The English-language script was written by Eileen Opatut, and the series was dubbed into English by Synchro-Quebec in Montreal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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