| Pinocchio: The Series | |
 Screenshot from the TV series Pinocchio: The Series, displaying Geppetto and Pinocchio | |
| 樫の木モック (Mokku of the Oak Tree) | |
|---|---|
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Seitaro Hara |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
| Original network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| English network | |
| Original run | 4 January 1972 – 26 December 1972[1] |
| Episodes | 52 |
Pinocchio: The Series, also known as Saban's The Adventures of Pinocchio and known as Mock of the Oak Tree (樫の木モック, Kashi no Ki Mokku) in Japan, is a 52-episode anime series by Tatsunoko Production first aired on Fuji Television in 1972, which was edited by Saban in 1990.[1] The story is based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi.
Unlike the lighter, more cheerful tones of most adaptations such as Walt Disney's film adaptation and Nippon Animation's version Piccolino no Bōken, this series has a distinctly darker, more sadistic tone in the veins of Collodi's novel, and portrays the main character, Pinocchio (Mock) in his personality from the novel, as a bad-behaved troublemaker who only learns his lessions by suffering from constant physical and psychological abuse and freak accidents.[2]
- ^ a b "The Adventures of Pinocchio" 作品データベース 樫の木モック. Tatsunoko Production (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-07-20.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 619–621. ISBN 978-1476665993.