| The Adventures of the Little Prince | |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:The_Adventures_of_the_Little_Prince_(TV_series).jpg) Poster from the first DVD box of the series depicting the main characters | |
| 星の王子さま プチ・プランス (Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu) | |
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| Genre | Adventure |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kōji Yamazaki Takeyuki Kanda |
| Produced by | Hiromichi Mogaki Hiroshi Hashioka |
| Written by | Akira Adachi Eiichi Tachi Haruya Yamazaki Keiko Sugie Masaaki Sakurai Susumu Yoshida Takeo Kaneko Tomomi Tsutsui Toyohiro Andō Tsunehisa Itō Yoshiaki Yoshida |
| Music by | Kunihiro Kawano |
| Studio | Knack Productions |
| Licensed by | [1] |
| Original network | ANN (ABC, TV Asahi) |
| English network | |
| Original run | July 4, 1978 – March 27, 1979 |
| Episodes | 39 (35 on Japanese TV; 26 in English dub) |
The Adventures of the Little Prince is an anime series based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Made by the animation studio Knack Productions, the series, originally titled The Prince of the Stars: Le Petit Prince (星の王子さま プチ・プランス, Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu), aired in Japan on the TV Asahi network from July 1978 to March 1979. Dubbed into English, the series premiered in the United States in 1985 on Nickelodeon and was rerun through June 1, 1985 to December 29, 1989.[2] It was also broadcast on TVOntario throughout the 1980s beginning in 1985,[3] a station that would later pick up the dub of the 2010 French adaptation. Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, of Mobile Suit Gundam fame, was involved in this series as a director.
In total, there were 26 episodes aired in English, with 39 episodes made for the original Japanese run. Discotek Media picked up the North American license for the anime in 2017.[1] In May and December of that same year, Discotek Media has uploaded a Japanese language (with English subtitles) of the first episode on YouTube, and all 39 episodes of the Japanese language version (with English subtitles) on Crunchyroll.[4][5]
According to The Anime Encyclopedia by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, only the first 35 episodes were actually aired on Japanese TV; the remaining four episodes remained unreleased until the series was reissued on video.
- ^ a b Ressler, Karen (17 July 2017). "Discotek Licenses Magical Canan, The Adventures of the Little Prince Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ Collins, Glen. From Kubrick To Saint-Exupery: The Adventures of the Little Prince, The New York Times. April 14, 1985. p.30. Accessed August 4, 2009.
- ^ TVOntario 1989 commercial
- ^ "Discotek Posts The Adventures of the Little Prince Anime's 1st Episode With English Subtitles". Anime News Network. December 7, 2017. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ Luster, Joseph (May 16, 2019). "Kimagure Orange Road and More Join Crunchyroll's Anime Catalog". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
Four more titles are set to launch as part of Crunchyroll's anime catalog TODAY! This batch includes Photon the Idiot Adventures, Psybuster, The Adventures of the Little Prince, and Kimagure Orange Road.