- The Adventures of The Little Prince
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name = The Adventures of the Little Prince
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ja_name = 星の王子さま プチ・プランス
ja_name_trans = Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu
genre = AdventuresInfobox animanga/Anime
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network =All-Nippon News Network
first =July 4 ,1978
last =March 27 ,1979
episodes = 39
episode_list = List of The Adventures of The Little Prince episodesnihongo|"The Adventures of the Little Prince"|星の王子さま プチ・プランス|Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu was ananime series based on the book byAntoine de Saint-Exupéry . Made by the Knack animation studio, the series, originally titled Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu ("Prince of the Stars: Petit Prince"), aired inJapan on theTV Asahi network from July 1978 to March 1979. Re-edited and dubbed into English, the series premiered in theUnited States in 1982 on Nickelodeon and was rerun through the rest of the 1980s.Yoshikazu Yasuhiko , of "Mobile Suit Gundam " fame, was involved in this series as a director and character designer.The series showed the extended adventures of the Little Prince, Swifty The Space Bird, and the Rose Girl. In total there were 26 episodes aired in English, with 39 episodes made for the original Japanese run. (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 "lost" until the series was reissued on video.)
Episodes
eason 1
# Higher Than Eagles Fly!
# Shipwreck!
# On Wings of Love
# Rob the Rainbow
# A Small Alien
# Somewhere in Space
# Visit to Another Planet
# The Perfect Planet
# The Wolf Pack
# The Star Gazer
# Last Voyage of the Rose
# The Chimney Sweep
# The Greatest Gifteason 2
# (14) Too Big for This World!
# (15) The Winning Ride
# (16) To Be a Man
# (17) The Magic Case
# (18) Always Listen to a Fox
# (19) The Dancing Bear
# (20) Hitch Onto Halley's Comet
# (21) A Light in the Storm
# (22) What Makes Mitzi Mean?
# (23) The Wishing Stone
# (24) A Different World
# (25) Erase All Beauty
# (26) Play It Again, Sean!Voices
* Little Prince:
Taiki Matsuno (flagicon|USAKatie Leigh )
* Saten:Keiko Yokozawa
* Boss:Kazue Takahashi
* Peter:Kaoru Kurosu
* Old Man:Minoru Yada
* Danya: (flagicon|USAJanet Waldo )
* Narrator:Masaaki Yajima Bibliography
* The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, 2nd ed.
* The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, by Jonathan Clemens and Helen McCarthyDVD releases
On September 6, 2005,
Koch Vision released a 4-disc DVD of the entire English series in Region 1.Koch Vision has subsequently began releasing the series in Volumes each containing 3 or 4 episodes each, which sell at a lower cost than the complete series.External links
*imdb title|287191
* [http://www.toonarific.com/show.php?show_id=138 "Danya y Little Prince" on toonarific.com]
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