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Title (English) Daddy Long-Legs

Title (Japanese) watashi no ashinaga ojisan

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Fantasy Novel

Notes English name: My Daddy Longlegs
From a book by Jean Webster, 1912
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 The book:
In the prologue, the 17 year old Judy Davis, the oldest girl in the orphanage, is told that she is being given a college scholarship by an anonymous benefactor, because of her brilliance in English at school. At the orphanage she has had to look after the younger children and do housework. The only condition is that she has to write a monthly letter to her nameless benefactor. At college she finds herself in a completely different world. The rest of the book consists of her letters describing her busy new life.
The anime: Judy's benefactor sends her to the "Abraham Lincoln Memorial School for Girls", a posh residential school for rich girls, near New York.

Review I've seen half the series, and enjoyed it a lot. Judy Davis, a somewhat gawky, clumsy and over-energetic girl, is in an orphanage in the USA in the 1920's. In the first episode, she is hoping to get a scholarship to college (though she looks a bit young for this - see synopsis), but the visit of the patrons is marred by Judy continually falling over and spilling things on people, including the long-suffering matron.

The German dub is rather shrill.

Credits Series Director: Kazuyoshi Yokata
Data from Ben Ettinger

Episodes 48

Release Jap:VHS, Ger:TV, Iran:TV

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 1990 January 4 - 1990 December 23

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)	Daddy Long-Legs
Title (Japanese)	watashi no ashinaga ojisan
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	English name: My Daddy Longlegs From a book by Jean Webster, 1912 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	The book: In the prologue, the 17 year old Judy Davis, the oldest girl in the orphanage, is told that she is being given a college scholarship by an anonymous benefactor, because of her brilliance in English at school. At the orphanage she has had to look after the younger children and do housework. The only condition is that she has to write a monthly letter to her nameless benefactor. At college she finds herself in a completely different world. The rest of the book consists of her letters describing her busy new life. The anime: Judy's benefactor sends her to the "Abraham Lincoln Memorial School for Girls", a posh residential school for rich girls, near New York.
Review	I've seen half the series, and enjoyed it a lot. Judy Davis, a somewhat gawky, clumsy and over-energetic girl, is in an orphanage in the USA in the 1920's. In the first episode, she is hoping to get a scholarship to college (though she looks a bit young for this - see synopsis), but the visit of the patrons is marred by Judy continually falling over and spilling things on people, including the long-suffering matron. The German dub is rather shrill.
Credits	Series Director: Kazuyoshi Yokata Data from Ben Ettinger
Episodes	48
Release	Jap:VHS, Ger:TV, Iran:TV
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	1990 January 4 - 1990 December 23
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.