The Bush Baby (1992)

Original title

大草原の小さな天使　ブッシュベイビー

Directed by

Takayoshi Suzuki

Genre

drama anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 40 episodes

Rated

ALL

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl living in rural Africa befriends a small animal called a bush baby. She and her family face a move away from the land and the animals she loves. The story follows her efforts to protect her wild companion during this transition.

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What happens

Bush Baby, Little Angel of the Grasslands (大草原の小さな天使 ブッシュベイビー, Daisougen no Chiisana Tenshi Busshubeibī), shortened as The Bush Baby, is the title of a 1992 anime series consisting of forty 25-minute episodes. It is based on the novel The Bushbabies (1965) by Canadian author William Stevenson. The series is part of Fuji Television and Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, which consists of anime television series adaptations of classic children's books. It has also been broadcast internationally on networks such as TVO/Access Alberta (Canada), France 3 (France), Antena 3 (Spain), Italia 1 (Italy), Tele 5/tm3 (Germany), ORF1 (Austria), ABS-CBN/GMA 7/Quality TeleVision (Philippines), various Arab networks (Arab World), and RTM2 (Malaysia). The English dub for the series was handled by TVOntario from 1993 to 1995. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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