Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables
Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables | |
こんにちは アン 〜Before Green Gables (Konnichiwa An 〜Bifō Guriin Gēburusu) | |
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Genre | Adventure, Slice of life, Drama |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | BS Fuji, Animax |
Original run | April 5, 2009 – December 27, 2009 |
Episodes | 39 |
Konnichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables (こんにちは アン 〜Before Green Gables, Konnichiwa An 〜Bifō Guriin Gēburusu, lit. "Hello Anne: Before Green Gables"), is the 26th in Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater anime. The series is an adaptation of Canadian children's literature author Budge Wilson's 2008 prequel novel Before Green Gables, which was translated into Japanese as Konnichiwa Anne (こんにちは アン) by Akiko Usagawa. It chronicles the early years of main character Anne Shirley as she loses both her parents and is adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert.
Production and development
Introduced in
While developing the series, Nippon Animation's staff undertook research by visiting a historical village in southeastern Canada which formed the inspiration for
The series premiered on April 5, 2009, and aired every Sunday from 19:30 to 20:00
Staff
- Director: Katsuyoshi Yatabe
- Series composition and screenplay: Michiru Shimada
- Original character design: Yoshiharu Satō
- Character designs and chief animation director: Takayo Nishimura
- Music: Yasuharu Takanashi, Hiromi Mizutani, Kenji Fujisawa
- Art director: Shigeru Morimoto
- Colour design: Tomoko Komatsubara
- Production: Nippon Animation
Characters
- Anne Shirley
- Voiced by: Rina Hidaka (日高里菜)
- Joanna (Harrigan) Thomas
- Voiced by: Seiko Tamura (田村聖子)
- Anne's maternal aunt, wife to Bert and mother to Eliza, Horace, Edward, Harry and Noah. She is constantly trying the make ends meet, and as such is often in a bad mood.
- Bert Thomas
- Voiced by: Setsuji Satō
- Joanna's husband and father to her children. Due to his laziness and alcoholism, he is unable to hold down a job, usually spending whatever money he earns from the oddjobs he does on cheap liquor.
- Eliza Thomas
- Voiced by: Rika Wakusawa (わくさわりか)
- First born daughter of Thomas family and primary income of the household. She cares for Anne like her own child, but later marries Roger Emerson and leaves Anne behind.
- Horace Thomas
- Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi
- First son of the Thomas family
- Edward Thomas
- Voiced by: Chiaki Shimogama
- Second son of the Thomas family
- Harry Thomas
- Voiced by: Taeko Kawata
- Third son of the Thomas family
- Noah Thomas
- Voiced by: Satomi Kōrogi
- Fourth son of the Thomas family
- Jessie (MacIntyre) Gleeson
- Voiced by: Mitsuko Horie
- An old widower with high standing
- Lochinvar
- Anne's companion cat. His name is taken from a line of the poem "Marmion" by Walter Scott.[3]
- Narration
- Voiced by: Masako Ikeda
References
- ^ NHK World. Archived from the originalon 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ 現在、この作品のパック販売はしていません。 Archived 2012-07-01 at archive.today(Biglobe: meaning "This masterpiece is now not on sale")
- ^ Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott (Project Gutenberg)
O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west,
External links
- anime television series official website
- Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables at IMDb
- Nippon Animation's official announcement
- Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Before Green Gables to Debut in Canadian Embassy in Japan (Anime News Network)