AI NO WAGAKUSA MONOGATARI

AKA: Little Women (original title), Les Quatre Filles du Dr March (French)

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Director: Fumio Kurokawa, Nobushiki Yamazaki

Script Writer: Akira Miyazaki

Character Design: Yoshifumi Kondo, Toshiki Yamazaki

Backgrounds: Noboru Otani

Company: Nippon Animation

Year: 1987

Charas:
Meg the eldest of the 4 daughters
Joe the tom-boy daughter
Beth the sweet piano playing daughter
Amy the youngest daughter

Story: based on the well-known children story: "Little Women": During the civil war in America, 4 girls and there mother who have to manage whilst the man of the family is fighting in the war.

Type: TV series / shojo

Number of Episodes: 48 TV episodes

We have: A few episodes in French

What we thought: A heart warming tale. This version puts forward the feelings of the girls in a wonderfull way. My favourite adaptation of the famous book (and that includes films, etc.)