Tales of Little Women

Tales of Little Women
The March sisters, clockwise from upper left: Jo, Meg (in chair), Amy, and Beth.
愛の若草物語
(Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari)
GenreHistorical drama, Civil war drama
Anime television series
Directed byFumio Kurokawa
Produced byJunzō Nakajima
Taihei Ishikawa (Fuji TV)
Written byAkira Miyazaki
Music byKazuo Ōtani
StudioNippon Animation
Original networkFuji TV
English network
Original run January 11, 1987 December 27, 1987
Episodes48

Tales of Little Women (愛の若草物語, Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari, "Love's Tale of Young Grass"), also simply known as Little Women, is a Japanese animated television series adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 1868-69 two-volume novel Little Women, produced by Nippon Animation.[1] It was first aired in 1987 (January–December) by the Fuji TV network.[2]

A sequel series, Little Women II: Jo's Boys, premiered in 1993.

  1. ^ Alberghene, Janice M.; Lyon Clark, Beverly (2004) [1st pub. 1999]. Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays. Routledge. p. 379. ISBN 9781135593254.
  2. ^ Dollase, H. T. (2010). "Shōfujin(Little Women): Recreating Jo for the Girls of Meiji Japan". Japanese Studies. 30 (2): 247–262. doi:10.1080/10371397.2010.497588. S2CID 145246498.