Heidi, Girl of the Alps

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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)
Genre	Drama, historical
Anime television series
Directed by	Isao Takahata
Produced by	Junzō Nakajima Shigehito Takahashi
Written by	Hisao Ōkawa Mamoru Sasaki Yoshiaki Yoshida
Music by	Takeo Watanabe (Japanese version) Gert Wilden (German version)
Studio	Zuiyo Eizo
Licensed by	Studio 100
Original network	FNS (Fuji TV)
English network	IN: Cartoon Network UK: Anglia Television US: Nickelodeon, HBO ZA: Cartoon Network
Original run	January 6, 1974 – December 29, 1974
Episodes	52 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji
Directed by	Sumiko Nakao Isao Takahata
Produced by	Shigehito Takahashi
Music by	Takeo Watanabe
Studio	Zuiyo
Released	March 17, 1979
Runtime	107 minutes
Original video animation
Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji: Arumu no Yama-hen
Music by	Takeo Watanabe
Studio	Zuiyo
Released	August 21, 1996
Runtime	89 minutes
Original video animation
Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji: Haiji to Kurara-hen
Music by	Takeo Watanabe
Studio	Zuiyo
Released	August 21, 1996
Runtime	91 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]