Heidi, Girl of the Alps

Heidi, Girl of the Alps
Cover art of the 1979 film DVD release
アルプスの少女ハイジ
(Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji)
GenreDrama, historical
Anime television series
Directed byIsao Takahata
Produced byJunzō Nakajima
Shigehito Takahashi
Written byHisao Ōkawa
Mamoru Sasaki
Yoshiaki Yoshida
Music byTakeo Watanabe
(Japanese version)
Gert Wilden
(German version)
StudioZuiyo Eizo
Licensed byStudio 100
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV)
English network
Original run January 6, 1974 December 29, 1974
Episodes52 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji
Directed bySumiko Nakao
Isao Takahata
Produced byShigehito Takahashi
Music byTakeo Watanabe
StudioZuiyo
ReleasedMarch 17, 1979
Runtime107 minutes
Original video animation
Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji: Arumu no Yama-hen
Music byTakeo Watanabe
StudioZuiyo
ReleasedAugust 21, 1996
Runtime89 minutes
Original video animation
Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji: Haiji to Kurara-hen
Music byTakeo Watanabe
StudioZuiyo
ReleasedAugust 21, 1996
Runtime91 minutes
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Heidi, Girl of the Alps (Japanese: アルプスの少女ハイジ, Hepburn: Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji) is an anime television series produced by Zuiyo Eizo and based on the novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880). It was directed by Isao Takahata and features contributions by numerous other anime filmmakers, including Yoichi Kotabe (character design, animation director), Toyoo Ashida (co-character design, animation director), Yoshiyuki Tomino (storyboard, screenplay), and Hayao Miyazaki (scene design, layout, screenplay).[1]

Heidi is the 6th and final entry in Calpis Comic Theater, a precursor of the World Masterpiece Theater series, based on classic tales from the Western world. The animation studio responsible for Heidi, Zuiyo Enterprise, would split in 1975 into Nippon Animation Company, Ltd. (which employed the anime's production staff and continued with the World Masterpiece Theater franchise) and Zuiyo Company, Ltd., which retained the rights (and debt) to the Heidi TV series. The feature-length film edit of the TV series, released in March 1979, was engineered completely by Zuiyo, with no additional involvement from Nippon Animation, Takahata or Miyazaki. Zuiyo also re-edited the series in two OVA released in 1996.[2]

  1. ^ "Arupusu no shôjo Haiji" (1974) Archived 2010-01-21 at the Wayback Machine The Internet Movie Database (Retrieved 3 October 2009)
  2. ^ "アルプスの少女ハイジ ベスト アルムの山/ハイジとクララ - ハイジクラブ通販ショップ". アルプスの少女ハイジ ベスト アルムの山/ハイジとクララ - ハイジクラブ通販ショップ (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2022-09-28. Retrieved 2022-09-28.