Little Pollon

Little Pollon

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Little Pollon


caption =
ja_name = おちゃめ神物語コロコロポロン
ja_name_trans = Ochamegami Monogatari Korokoro Poron
genre =
Infobox animanga/Manga
title =
author = Hideo Azuma
publisher = Akita Shoten
publisher_other =
magazine = Princess
demographic = Shōjo
first = 1977
last = 1979
volumes = 2
OEM =
Infobox animanga/Anime
title =
director = Takao Yotsuji
studio = Kokusai Eigasha
licensor =
network = Fuji TV
network_other =
first = 1982-05-08
last = 1983-03-26
episodes = 46
episode_list =

"Little Pollon", known in Japan as nihongo|"The Story of Little Goddess Roly-Poly Pollon"|おちゃめ神物語コロコロポロン|Ochamegami Monogatari Korokoro Poron is a Greek mythology-based Japanese anime television series, based on the 1977 manga "Olympus no Pollon" ("Pollon of Olympus") by Hideo Azuma. The TV anime series consisted of 46 episodes and aired across Japan on Fuji TV from May 1982 to March 1983, and was also popular in some European countries, such as Italy. The series is noted for its portrayal of the gods of Mount Olympus as fallible beings succumbing to real human faults and weaknesses, such as selfishness, temper tantrums, debauchery, laziness, and vanity.

tory

The main character of the story is Pollon, a sweet, precocious little girl who is the daughter of the God of the Sun, Apollo.Pollon's goal in life is to grow up to become a beautiful and powerful goddess. She attempts to do good deeds and help out any way she can in order to achieve the status of godhood. Invariably, her overtures backfire and end up causing major trouble for both the gods of Olympus and their human subjects. However, Pollon's kind heart, perseverance and indomitable spirit win out in the end, as she attains the title of "Goddess of Hope."

Characters

* Pollon - The daughter of Apollo, the sun-god, she is a kind-hearted but somewhat naive girl who wants to be a goddess when she grows up. However, her attempts to prove herself worthy of the title of goddess usually result in disasters of comic proportions.
* Eros - The God of Love, and Pollon's cousin and best friend. He shoots heart-tipped arrows at people to make them fall in love, but as he is quite an ugly creature, he ironically has no girlfriend of his own.
* Apollo - Pollon's father, the God of the Sun. He is a lazy drunk who is somewhat neglectful of his daughter. His main job is to drive the Sun's chariot across the sky each day, but as he is often too lazy and/or drunk to do so, Pollon often ends up driving the chariot herself.
* Zeus - The king of the gods, father of Apollo and grandfather of Pollon. Despite his advanced age, he has a strong attraction to younger women, which often gets him in trouble with his wife, Hera.
* Hera - The queen of the gods, mother of Apollo and grandmother of Pollon. She is portrayed as the stereotypical hen-pecking wife, somewhat neurotic and given to temper tantrums, and often responds violently to her husband Zeus' flirtatious ways.
* Artemis - The Goddess of the Moon, one of Pollon's aunts.
* Aphrodite - The Goddess of Beauty, and another of Pollon's aunts. She is also the mother of Eros. Aphrodite is very beautiful and very vain, and spends hours admiring herself in the mirror.
* Poseidon - The God of the Sea is very tall in stature, towering way over the other gods. Although he is the god of the sea, he ironically can't swim.
* Hephaestus -
* Athena -
* Dionysus -
* Cha Cha Cha -
* Dosankos -
* The Sun - The long-suffering Sun is often ripped, torn or otherwise disturbed by Pollon and/or the other gods. He has become a heavy smoker to deal with the stress in his life.
* Narrator - A cute little sprite who tells the story of Pollon and the gods as it unfolds.

Overseas Distribution

In addition to its success in Japan, "Little Pollon" was an extremely popular television program in Italy during the mid-1980s, where it was known as "C'era una volta... Pollon" ("Once upon a time there was... Pollon") and featured a memorable Italian theme song by Cristina D'Avena. Many of the Pollon fan sites on the Internet are in Italian. Azuma's original manga has also been published in the Italian market. The series was also broadcast in France in the late 1980s under the title "La Petite Olympe et les Dieux", with Pollon's name changed to "Olympe."

Enoki Films USA holds the U.S. license to the anime series, although no English dub or subtitling of the series has ever been commercially released.

The "Little Pollon" production team followed up the series in 1983 with another anime based on a Hideo Azuma manga, "Nanako SOS" (aka "Nana the Supergirl"). In one scene in "Nanako SOS", the "Little Pollon" anime is being played on television.

Anime staff

* Original creator: Hideo Azuma
* Executive producer: Juzo Tsubota
* Series director: Takao Yotsuji
* Scenarists: Masaru Yamamoto, Kenji Terada, Toyohiro Ando
* Character designs: Toshio Takagi, Tsutomu Fujita
* Animation directors: Toshio Takagi, Hirokazu Ishiyuki
* Music: Masayuki Yamamoto
* Theme song performance: Yoshie Hara
* Production: Kokusai Eiga (Movie International Co., Ltd.) / Fuji TV

External links

* [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1680 Ochamegami Monogatari Korokoro Poron] at Anime News Network
* [http://www.enokifilmsusa.com/library/littlepollen.htm Enoki Films USA's Little Pollon page]
* [http://www.animeplanet.it/Ochamegami%20monogatari%20KoloKolo%20Polon/ Pollon fansite] in Italian


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