Belle and Sebastian | |
名犬ジョリィ (Meiken Jorī) | |
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Genre | Adventure, Historical |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Keiji Hayakawa |
Studio | MK Company Visual 80 Toho |
Original network | NHK |
English network | |
Original run | April 7th, 1981 – June 23rd, 1982 |
Episodes | 52[1] |
Belle and Sebastian (名犬ジョリィ, Meiken Jorī, Famous Dog Jolie) is an anime adaption of the 1965 novel Belle et Sébastien by French author Cécile Aubry.[2][3][4] The series ran on the Japanese network NHK from April 7th, 1981 to March 24th, 1982. It contains 52 episodes and was a co-production of MK Company, Visual 80 Productions and Toho Company, Ltd.
Toshiyuki Kashiwakura is the head writer and character designs are by Shuichi Seki. The show was broadcast on French and Japanese television in 1981, with American cable network Nickelodeon picking it up in 1984. In the United Kingdom, it aired on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990.
The anime incarnation of Belle and Sebastian uses many staffers from Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, thus the look and feel is similar to that of a WMT production even though Nippon Animation itself is not involved with the series.
The series has been aired in many countries outside Japan and has been dubbed and subtitled in English and numerous other languages. The English-language script was written by Eileen Opatut, and the series was dubbed into English by Synchro-Quebec in Montreal.[5]