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Nippon Animation (日本アニメーション) is a Japanese animation studio. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, with chief offices in the Ginza district and production facilities in Tama City. officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. Ginza (銀座 is a district of Chūō Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and is a Municipality classified as a city, located in Tokyo, Japan.

Nippon Animation is famous for producing numerous anime series based on works of literature such as Anne of Green Gables and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. (anime in Japanese, Anne of Green Gables is a book by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 Novel about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, co-founders of the famous Studio Ghibli, directed several episodes in the World Masterpiece Theater series. is a is one of the most famous directors of Anime, or Japanese Animated Films. is a Japanese Animation Film studio, and previously was a subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten. (the official English name given by Nippon Animation is "The Classic Family Theater Series" is a Japanese TV Anime staple that showcased each year an animated

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Company history

What is now Nippon Animation is descended from Zuiyo Eizo (Zuiyo Enterprises), an animation studio that produced several popular series in the early and mid-1970s, including 1974's Heidi, Girl of the Alps (アルプスの少女ハイジ, Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji), an adaptation of Johanna Spyri's popular children's book Heidi. was a very popular Anime series released by the animation studio Zuiyo Eizo (which later became Nippon Animation) in 1974 Johanna Spyri (johana ʃpiːʁi ( 12 June 1827 &ndash 7 July 1901) was an author of children's stories and is best known for Heidi Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning ( German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) usually abbreviated Heidi, is a novel about the events The Heidi anime was enormously popular in Japan (and later in Europe as well, and the feature-length edit of the TV series also saw a U. S. VHS release in 1985), but Zuiyo Eizo soon found itself in financial trouble because of the high production costs of a series it was attempting to sell to the European market. In 1975, Zuiyo Eizo was split into two entities: Zuiyo (not Zuiyo Eizo), which absorbed the debt and the rights to the Heidi anime, and Nippon Animation, which was essentially Zuiyo Eizo's production staff (including Miyazaki and Takahata). Officially, Nippon Animation Co. , Ltd. was established in June 1975 by company president Koichi Motohashi. The newly rechristened Nippon Animation found success right away with Maya the Bee (みつばちマーヤの冒険, Mitsubachi Māya no Bōken) and A Dog of Flanders (フランダースの犬, Furandāsu no Inu), which became the first entry in the World Masterpiece Theater series. Hayao Miyazaki left Nippon Animation in 1979 in the middle of the production of Anne of Green Gables to make the Lupin III feature The Castle of Cagliostro. is an animated television series adapted from the novel Anne of Green Gables by Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery. is a Japanese Manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Kato under the Pen name of " Monkey Punch " is a 1979 Anime Film co-written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

Body of work

In addition to the World Masterpiece Theater series, Nippon Animation has also produced many other series based on Western works of literature, as well as original works and adaptations of Japanese manga. (the official English name given by Nippon Animation is "The Classic Family Theater Series" is a Japanese TV Anime staple that showcased each year an animated ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly Many of these are included in the list of the studio's works below.

Of the studio's productions not based on Western literature, the most popular is undoubtedly Chibi Maruko-chan (1990), based on the popular manga by Momoko Sakura. is a Shōjo Manga series by Momoko Sakura, later adapted into an Anime TV series by Nippon Animation, which originally aired on Fuji Television Pen name, is a Japanese manga artist from Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture. At its peak, this slice-of-life anime about an unusually intelligent elementary-school-aged girl and her family and friends managed an audience rating of nearly 40%, making it one of the highest-rated anime series ever (and the highest-rated anime program in Japanese history at the time).

Works adapted from Western literature

World Masterpiece Theater series

Main article: World Masterpiece Theater

Other TV series

"The Adventures of Picorino" (1976)
"The Adventures of Picorino" (1976)
"Future Boy Conan" (1978)
"Future Boy Conan" (1978)

TV specials

Other works

TV series

Hey! Bumboo (1985)
Hey! Bumboo (1985)

TV specials, movies and OAVs

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In 1997 it was adapted into an Anime series directed by Masami Anno titled Cooking Master Boy pronounced "Hunter Hunter" is a Japanese Manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi with an Anime adaptation is a Magical girl Anime and Manga, it was created by Kia Asamiya and written and drawn by Keiko Okamoto. Marcelino Pan y Vino ''Marcelino Bread and Wine'' (aka The Miracle of Marcelino) is a 1955 Spanish film is a comedy Anime series created based on the Manga by the same name by Hiroyuki Etou is a TV station based in Tokyo, Japan. It is also known as, a Portmanteau of "terebi" and "Tokyo is a Manga series by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, which was adapted into a 43 episode Japanese Anime series about a princess of the fictional Harmonica Star was a famous Japanese manga artist. His works include Tetsujin 28-go, Giant Robo, Akakage, Babel Gigantor is the American adaptation of the Anime version of Tetsujin 28-go, a Manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama released in 1956. is a Japanese soccer Manga and Anime series authored by Yōichi Takahashi. See also Animax Mobile TV is a Japanese Anime Satellite television network dedicated to broadcasting anime programming can refer to two comedy Manga and Anime series ''Nangoku Shounen Papuwa-kun'' (南国少年パプワくん and its sequel series PAPUWA. is a Japanese animated Television series created by Takashi Nakamura and produced by Nippon Animation. is a Manga series written by Tomoko Hayakawa. The individual chapters have been serialized in Bessatsu Friend since its premiere in 2000 and in 21 is a In ancient Greek literature, Nausicaa (often rendered Nausicaä or Nausikaa Greek: Ναυσικάα) a daughter of King
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