Shoukoushi Ceddie

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Little Prince Cedie


caption =
ja_name = 小公子セディ
ja_name_trans = Shōkōshi Cedie
genre = DramaInfobox animanga/Anime
title =
director = Kôzô Kusuba
studio = Nippon Animation
network = flagicon|Japan Fuji TV flagicon|Philippines ABS-CBN flagicon|Spain Tele5 flagicon|Italy Italia 1 flagicon|Netherlands EO
flagicon|Poland TVP 2, TVP Polonia, Porion, Twoja Miejska TV
first = January 10 1988
last = December 25 1988
episodes = 43

nihongo|"Shoukoushi Ceddie"|小公子セディ|Shōkōshi Sedi|trans. "Little Prince Cedie" is a Japanese anime series produced by Nippon Animation in 1988 and was broadcasted on the World Masterpiece Theater, an animation staple that showcased each year an animated version of a different classical book or story. The series is based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's book, "Little Lord Fauntleroy".

Plot

The story concerns an American boy named Cedric Errol birthday is July 31 (more fondly known as Cedie [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/479/479.txt Project Gutenberg etext of the novel ...Cedie!" she cried out,...] ), who at an early age finds that he is the sole heir to a British earldom and leaves New York to take up residence in his ancestral castle, where, after some initial resistance, he is joined by his middle-class mother, the widow of the late heir, James Errol birthday is July 13. His grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, intends to teach the boy to become an aristocrat, but Cedie inadvertently teaches his grandfather compassion and social justice and the artless simplicity and motherly love of dearest warms his heart whose birthday is July 19.

Music

Opening Theme
*nihongo|"My Cedie"|ぼくらのセディ|Bokura no Sedi:Lyrics by: Michio Yamagami:Composition by: Kōichi Morita:Arrangement by: Kazuo Ōtani:Song by: Hikaru Nishida

Ending Theme
*nihongo|"For the Sake of Loving Someone"|誰かを愛するために|Dare ka wo Aisuru Tameni:Lyrics by: Michio Yamagami:Composition by: Kōichi Morita:Arrangement by: Kazuo Ōtani:Song by: Hikaru Nishida

Trivia

*Little Prince Cedie was a runaway hit in the Philippines, and it, like Princess Sarah, spawned a live-action rendition through Star Cinema.
*A video game based on the series was made for the Nintendo Family Computer and was released 12/24/88.
*In one of the episodes, Cedie was reading a National Geographic Magazine.

External links

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* [http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/kidstop/meisaku/cedie/cedie.html 小公子セディ] Official page of the series. (Japanese)
* [http://imdb.com/title/tt0168376/ Shoukoushi Sedi] Profile of the series in IMDb
* [http://users.animanga.com/meisaku/88_pres_E.htm Animanga.com - Little Prince Cedie (1988)] Information on the series in animanga.com.
* [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2077 Anime News Network - Little Prince Cedie] Profile of the series in animenewsnetwork.com

References