- Spoon Obasan
Infobox animanga/Header
name = Spoon Oba-san
caption =
ja_name = スプーンおばさん
ja_name_trans = Supūn Oba-san
genre =Fantasy ,Adventure Infobox animanga/Anime
title =
director =Tatsuo Hayakawa
studio =Studio Pierrot
network = flagicon|JapanNHK ,Animax
network_other = flagicon|GermanyRTL 2
flagicon|FranceTF1 flagicon|Netherlands flagicon|BelgiumNCRV flagicon|ItalyOdeon TV ,Rete 4 flagicon|PolandTVP 1
first =April 4 1983
last =March 9 1984
episodes = 50Nihongo|"Spoon Oba-san"|スプーンおばさん|Supūn Obasan|lit. "Aunt Spoon" is a
Japan eseanime television series , which premiered onNHK fromApril 4 ,1983 toMarch 9 ,1984 , spanning 50 episodes.ann anime|id=1467, retrieved on2007-10-26 ] It is based on the novel "Mrs. Pepperpot " by the Norwegian authorAlf Prøysen . It was also later aired in Japan by thesatellite television networkAnimax .The series was later aired across several countries worldwide, and has been translated into English Fact|date=October 2007 and several other languages.
Plot
Mrs. Pepperpot lives in a small little village with her husband. She wears a small magical
teaspoon around her neck which every now and then shrinks her to the size of her teaspoon which doesn't shrink as well, and she must drag it along with her on her back when she gets shrunk. She always changes back to her original size after a certain amount of time. This special condition had its advantages - she can communicate with animals and enjoy wonderful adventures in the woods. This way she wins new and interesting friends on a regular basis. She is a good friend of Lily, a mysterious little girl who lives in the forest alone, she is also friends with a mouse family. She can not reveal her secret or show herself in the shrunk condition, which sometimes gets quite difficult. Her husband, Mr. Pepperpot eventually finds out his wife's secret, later on in the series.Characters
* Mrs. Pepperpot
* Mr. Pepperpot
* Lily
* Mouse familyRegional releases
A Japanese DVD
Region 2 box set of the series was produced in 2005. An English DVD release was never made.References
External links
* [http://pierrot.jp/title/spoon/index.html Official website]
* [http://pierrot.jp/english/title/spoon.html Pierrot's official English website]
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