NILS NO FUSHIGI NA TABI Nils' Mysterious Journey

AKA: le Mysterieux Voyage de Nils Holgerson au Pays des Oies Sauvages (French) (-Can anybody think of longer title?? - Ed)

Author: Selma Lagerlöf

Director: Hisayuki Toriumi

Script Writer: Marty Murphy / Narumitsu Tagushi

Character Design: Toshiyasu Okada

Backgrounds: Mitsuki Nakamura

Music: Karel Svoboda

Company: Studio Pierrot

Year: 1980-81

Charas:
Nils Holgerson the horrid "little" hero

Story: Nils is a bad boy who likes to play tricks on all the animals in the farm. One day he decides to pick on a pixy who doesn't like it. To punish him, he shrinks him to guinea pig size. Nils then goes on a trip with the wild geese to try and amend his ways as this is the only way he will get his normal size back.

Type: TV series

Number of Episodes: 52 TV eps

We have: None (thankfuly!)

What we thought: A higly moral theme streched out over far too many episodes. I think the targeted audience is probably as high as Nils after his transformation ... Pass