Anmitsu Hime (あんみつ姫, "Princess Anmitsu"), known outside Japan as Sugar Princess, is a manga series by Shosuke Kurakane. The original manga was serialized between 1949 and 1955. In 1986, Izumi Takemoto retold the original manga series, releasing it under the same title and simultaneously with the anime adaptation.

Plot

Anmitsu is a beautiful princess living happily at the Amakara Castle. The only thing is that she is a tomboy and doesn't act very ladylike. When Anmitsu turns ten years old, her parents present her with a tutor named Castella, who's from the Pudding Kingdom, in hopes of getting Anmitsu more serious about being a princess. Nonetheless, Anmitsu is still up to her usual antics and frequently escapes from the castle to have fun. However, she learns many things about the world outside the castle and about life in general in her adventures. She also makes new friends and continues to cause trouble for the royalty in Amakara Castle.

Media

Manga

The manga was published in Kobunsha's Shōjo magazine from 1949 to 1955. The series helped boost the magazine's circulation to 700,000 copies.[2] It was one of the most popular manga of the early 1950s.[3]

Live-action adaptations

The first adaptations of Anmitsu Hime came in 1954 with two films. Both starred Izumi Yukimura as Anmitsu Hime. Another film was made in 1960, but with an entirely new staff and cast, starring Haruko Wanibuchi as Animtsu Hime.

Live-action television dramas

  • The first TV drama series was broadcast in 1958–1960, featuring Misao Nakahara as Princess Anmitsu.
  • The second TV drama series was broadcast in 1983–1984, featuring Kyōko Koizumi as Princess Anmitsu.
  • The third TV drama mini-series was broadcast in 2008[4] and 2009[5] in the form of two television specials. They feature Mao Inoue as Princess Anmitsu.

Anime television series

An anime adaptation, called Anmitsu Hime: From Amakara Castle was made by Studio Pierrot (with planning cooperation from Tatsunoko Production, who produced the show that previously was in Anmitsu-hime's timeslot: Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman) that aired on Fuji TV from October 5, 1986, to September 27, 1987, for a 51-episode run.[6] The broadcast time is from 18:00 to 18:30 on Sunday, it is the time zone which is assigned to "Chibi Maruko-chan" since 1990.

The series is about a tomboy princess in the late Edo-period world, but with modern-day technology. This anime is tied up with the "Dream Factory" and "Sunset Meow Meow" that were planned by Fuji TV at that time, stories of Princess Anmitsu visiting the "Dream Factory" appears in this anime, and theme songs are also sung by the Onyanko Club.

Theme songs

Anime staff

Anime cast

Video game

Main article: Alex Kidd: High-Tech World

A Master System video game based on the series was made, and translated for the Europe, North America and Oceania markets as Alex Kidd in High-Tech World, with the main character replaced with Alex Kidd and other characters and parts of the game slightly edited to fit the change from a female to a male protagonist; where as the goal of Anmitsu Hime is to reach a cake shop in time before it closes, the localized version changes this to a game center.

References

  1. ^ "Anmitsu hime (TV Movie 2008) - IMDb". IMDb.
  2. ^ Yadao, Jason S. (2009). The Rough Guide to Manga. London: Rough Guides. pp. 15. ISBN 978-1858285610.
  3. ^ Power, Natsu Onoda (2009). God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-478-2.
  4. ^ "Classic Shōjo Manga Anmitsu-hime Gets Television Drama". July 10, 2023.
  5. ^ "TV Drama Based on Anmitsu-hime Shōjo Manga Gets Sequel". July 10, 2023.
  6. ^ "Sugar Princess Archived February 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine". Studio Pierrot. Retrieved on February 10, 2009.
  7. ^ "株式会社ぴえろ 公式サイト". Archived from the original on April 26, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anmitsu-hime
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