Heidi, Girl of The Alps

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Heidi,

Girl of the Alps


Heidi, Girl of the Alps (アルプスの少女ハイジ Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji) is a 1974
Japanese anime series by Zuiyo Eizo (now Nippon Animation) based on the Swiss
novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880). It was
directed by Isao Takahata and features contributions by numerous other anime
luminaries, including Yoichi Kotabe (character design, animation director), Toyoo
Ashida (co-character design, animation director), Yoshiyuki Tomino (storyboard,
screenplay), and Hayao Miyazaki(scene design, layout, screenplay).[1]
Heidi is one of several World Masterpiece Theater titles produced around the
"classical children's literature period" (1974–1997), based on classic tales from the
Western world. The animation studio responsible for Heidi, Zuiyo Enterprises,
would split in 1975 into Nippon Animation Company, Ltd. (which employed the
anime's production staff and continued with the World Masterpiece Theater
franchise) and Zuiyo Company, Ltd., which retained the rights (and debt) to
the Heidi TV series. The feature-length movie edit of the TV series, released in
March 1979, was engineered completely by Zuiyo, with no additional involvement
from Nippon Animation, Takahata or Miyazaki.

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