Thumbelina: A Magical Story (1992)

Original title

おやゆび姫物語

Genre

fantasy anime and manga, adventure anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 26 episodes

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A tiny girl born from a flower goes on adventures with animal friends and tries to find her place in the world. The series adapts the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of a small person navigating a big world.

whimsicalgentlehopefullightheartedmagicalcoming-of-agechildlikeadventurous

What happens

Thumbelina: A Magical Story (おやゆび姫物語, Oyayubi Hime Monogatari; lit. The Story of the Thumb-Princess) is a Japanese anime series produced by Enoki Films and adapted from the original 1835 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "Thumbelina" by Akiyoshi Sakai. It premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo on September 30, 1992, and ran for twenty-six episodes until its conclusion on March 31, 1993. The series was edited into an eighty-minute film and released in North America on VHS by Starmaker Entertainment in 1993. In 2006, Digiview Entertainment re-released the Starmaker film to DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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