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Title (English) Tico & Nanami

Title (Japanese) nanatsu no umi no tiko

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Fantasy Novel

Notes Ger. ="Ein Toller Freund"
English name: Tico of the Seven Seas or Tico and Nanami
Dates: January 16, 1994-December 18, 1994; Number of episodes: 48
Production Company: Nippon Animation; Broadcaster: Fuji TV
Creator(s): Akira Hiro
A title in Fuji TV & Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater (meisaku)TV anime series of adaptations of classic children's books.

Classification WMT

Synopsis Tico is a whale, and Nanami is a small girl who lives with her father on a little old tugboat. Also in the series are the boat's engineer, an attractive young woman, Cheryl, and other oddly assorted characters. Some of the early episodes cover a story segment, set in South America, in which a photographer photographs a massacre of seals, and some powerful and unscrupulous interests try to have the information suppressed.

Review This is the only WMT (World Masterpiece Theater) anime series to be made with an original script.
(I have a fair amount of information about this series, in an illustrated booklet, but it's in Japanese).
To be frank, this is the WMT series I have liked the least, and its lurid farrago of implausible sub-aquatic stunts, powerboat chases, shootings, kidnappings, thugs with metal hands, fights, etc, grates very badly when viewed alongside the gentler charms of the other series with their wealth of realistic and everyday detail. It's a clash of two utterly different cultures: what was formerly thought to be suitable reading for the young, and what they are now served up on television. I'd much rather have Katri the farm girl and her multiplication tables, than a lot of identikit gunmen in expensive power boats.

Credits Series Director: Jun Takagi
Character Designer(s): Satoko Morikawa
Data from Ben Ettinger

Episodes 48

Release Jap:VHS, Jap:DVD, Jap:LD

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 1994 January 16 - 1994 December 18

Production Nippon Animation

Broadcaster Fuji TV

Animation

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Tico & Nanami
Title (Japanese)	nanatsu no umi no tiko
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	Ger. ="Ein Toller Freund" English name: Tico of the Seven Seas or Tico and Nanami Dates: January 16, 1994-December 18, 1994; Number of episodes: 48 Production Company: Nippon Animation; Broadcaster: Fuji TV Creator(s): Akira Hiro A title in Fuji TV & Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater (meisaku)TV anime series of adaptations of classic children's books.
Classification	WMT
Synopsis	Tico is a whale, and Nanami is a small girl who lives with her father on a little old tugboat. Also in the series are the boat's engineer, an attractive young woman, Cheryl, and other oddly assorted characters. Some of the early episodes cover a story segment, set in South America, in which a photographer photographs a massacre of seals, and some powerful and unscrupulous interests try to have the information suppressed.
Review	This is the only WMT (World Masterpiece Theater) anime series to be made with an original script. (I have a fair amount of information about this series, in an illustrated booklet, but it's in Japanese). To be frank, this is the WMT series I have liked the least, and its lurid farrago of implausible sub-aquatic stunts, powerboat chases, shootings, kidnappings, thugs with metal hands, fights, etc, grates very badly when viewed alongside the gentler charms of the other series with their wealth of realistic and everyday detail. It's a clash of two utterly different cultures: what was formerly thought to be suitable reading for the young, and what they are now served up on television. I'd much rather have Katri the farm girl and her multiplication tables, than a lot of identikit gunmen in expensive power boats.
Credits	Series Director: Jun Takagi Character Designer(s): Satoko Morikawa Data from Ben Ettinger
Episodes	48
Release	Jap:VHS, Jap:DVD, Jap:LD
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	1994 January 16 - 1994 December 18
Production	Nippon Animation
Broadcaster	Fuji TV
Animation
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.