Little Pollon

Little Pollon
Memorial Box #1 DVD cover
おちゃめ神物語コロコロポロン
(Ochamegami Monogatari Korokoro Poron)
GenreAdventure, comedy[1]
Manga
Written byHideo Azuma
Published byAkita Shoten
MagazinePrincess[2]
DemographicShōjo
Original run19771979
Volumes2
Anime television series
Directed byTakao Yotsuji
StudioKokusai Eiga-sha
Original networkFuji TV
Original run May 8, 1982 March 26, 1983
Episodes46

Little Pollon[1] (Japanese: おちゃめ神物語コロコロポロン, Hepburn: Ochamegami Monogatari Korokoro Poron, lit. "The Story of Little Goddess Roly-Poly Pollon") aka POLON[3] is a musical Greek mythology-based Japanese anime series, based on the 1977 manga series Olympus no Pollon (オリンポスのポロン, Orinposu no Poron, "Pollon of Olympus") by Hideo Azuma.[2][4] The anime television series aired in 1982 on Fuji TV lasting 46 episodes. The series is noted for its faithful portrayal of the Gods of Mount Olympus as fallible beings succumbing to real human faults and weaknesses, such as selfishness, temper tantrums, debauchery, laziness, and vanity.

  1. ^ a b "Little Pollon: A wacky princess of Mt. Olympus". Enoki Films. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  2. ^ a b くだん書房:目録:マンガ:雑誌:秋田書店:プリンセス. Kudan Shobō (in Japanese). Retrieved October 6, 2020. Olympus no Pollon was serialized in Princess magazine from 1977 to 1979, per the magazine's table-of-contents recorded by the vintage shōjo manga bookstore Kudan Shobō.
  3. ^ the opening song spells out the word in English letters P-O-L-O-N and displays it on screen
  4. ^ おちゃめ神物語コロコロポロン. Kotobank (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved September 22, 2020.