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The Adventures of the Little Prince
Poster from the first DVD box of the series depicting the main characters
星の王子さま プチ・プランス
(Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu)
GenreAdventures
Anime television series
Directed byKôji Yamazaki, Takeyuki Kanda
StudioKnack Productions
Licensed by
Original networkTV Asahi
English network
Original run July 4, 1978 – March 27, 1979
Episodes39 (35 on Japanese TV; 26 in English dub)

The Adventures of the Little Prince is an anime series based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Made by the animation studio Knack Productions, the series, originally titled The Prince of the Stars: Le Petit Prince (星の王子さま プチ・プランス, Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu), aired in Japan on the TV Asahi network from July 1978 to March 1979. Dubbed into English, the series premiered in the United States in 1985 on Nickelodeon and was rerun through June 1, 1985 to December 29, 1989.[1] It was also broadcast on TVOntario in 1989,[2] a station that would later pick up the dub of the 2010 French adaptation. Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, of Mobile Suit Gundam fame, was involved in this series as a director.

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.

Plot

The series showed the extended adventures of the Little Prince, Swifty The Space Bird, and the Rose Girl.

Episodes

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No. Original Title[a] English Title Original air date

Voices

Character Japanese voice English voice
Little Prince Taiki Matsuno Julie Dees, Katie Leigh
Rose Girl Yoshiko Matsuo Janet Waldo
Swifty (Bird) Hiroshi Masuoka Hal Smith
Saten Keiko Yokozawa
Boss Kazue Takahashi
Peter Kaoru Kurosu
Old Man Minoru Yada
Danya Janet Waldo
Narrator Masaaki Yajima

DVD releases

On September 6, 2005, Koch Vision released a 4-disc DVD of the entire English series in Region 1. Koch Vision has subsequently begun releasing the series in Volumes each containing 3 or 4 episodes each, which sell at a lower cost than the complete series.

Discotek Media released all 26 episodes of the English dub on DVD on October 31, 2017. On December 6, 2017, Discotek Media uploaded the first episode of the Japanese version with English subtitles to YouTube, though it is currently unknown if they will subtitle all episodes and if they have any plans to release the Japanese version to home video.

DVD Name Ep # Release Date
The Complete Animated Series 26 September 6, 2005
The complete English language series 26 October 31, 2017

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Translated episode titles for episodes 1 and 2 are taken from Discotek Media's official stream.

References

Citations
  1. ^ Collins, Glen. From Kubrick To Saint-Exupery: The Adventures of the Little Prince, The New York Times. April 14, 1985. p.30. Accessed August 4, 2009.
  2. ^ TVOntario 1989 commercial
Bibliography

External links

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