My Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs
A scene from the series (L-R): Julia Pendleton, Judy Abbott and Sally McBride
私のあしながおじさん
(Watashi No Ashinaga Ojisan)
GenreDrama
Comedy
Coming-of-age
Slice of Life
Romance
Anime television series
Directed byKazuyoshi Yokota
Produced byTakaji Matsudo (Nippon Animation)
Yoshihisa Tachikawa (Fuji Television)
Written byHiroshi Ōtsuka
Nobuyuki Fujimoto
Music byKei Wakakusa
StudioNippon Animation
Original networkFuji Television
Original run 14 January 1990 23 December 1990
Episodes40

My Daddy Long Legs (私のあしながおじさん, Watashi No Ashinaga Ojisan) is a Japanese animated television series based on the novel Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster.

This anime was aired in 1990 and part of the container World Masterpiece Theater produced by Nippon Animation studios and was awarded the Excellent Movie Award for Television by the Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs for Children in 1990. It aired from 14 January to 23 December 1990, with 40 episodes produced.[1]

  1. ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 205. ISBN 9781476672939.