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Anmitsu Hime

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Anmitsu Hime
Cover of the second DVD box for the anime.
あんみつ姫
GenreFantasy, Comedy
Manga
Written byShosuke Kurakane
Published byKobunsha
MagazineShōjo
DemographicShōjo
Original runMay 1949 – April 1955
Volumes4
Live-action film
Anmitsu Hime: Amakara no Shiro Maki
あんみつ姫・甘辛城の巻
Directed byShigeo Nakagi
Music byNobuaki Asai
ReleasedNovember 10, 1954 (1954-11-10)
Live-action film
Anmitsu Hime: Amakara no Shiro Maki
あんみつ姫・甘辛城の巻
Directed byShigeo Nakagi
Music byNobuaki Asai
ReleasedNovember 23, 1954 (1954-11-23)
Live-action film
Warrior Training of Anmitsu Hime
あんみつ姫の武者修行
Directed byTatsuho Osone
Music byMitsuo Kato
StudioShochiku
ReleasedDecember 27, 1960 (1960-12-27)
Television drama
Anmitsu Hime: Yōjutsu Kurabe no Maki
あんみつ姫・妖術競べの巻
Original networkKRT
Original run December 1, 1958 – October 28, 1960
Episodes100
Live-action television film
Directed byAkihiro Oguro
Written byKeiji Okutsu
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV)
ReleasedMay 23, 1983 (1983-05-23)
Live-action television film
Directed byAkihiro Oguro
Written byKeiji Okutsu
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV)
ReleasedOctober 17, 1983 (1983-10-17)
Live-action television film
Directed byShuji Sugimura
Written byKeiji Okutsu
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV)
ReleasedJanuary 9, 1984 (1984-01-09)
Manga
Written byIzumi Takemoto
Published byKodansha
MagazineNakayoshi
DemographicShōjo
Original runSeptember 1986 – October 1987
Volumes4
Anime television series
Anmitsu Hime: From Amakara Castle
Directed byMasami Annō
Produced byYoshitaki Suzuki (Studio Pierrot)
Ryūnosuke Endō (Fuji TV)
Kyōtarō Kimura (Yomiko)
Written byYoshio Urasawa
Yoshiyuki Suga
Music byKan Ogasawara
StudioStudio Pierrot
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV)
Original run October 5, 1986 – September 27, 1987
Episodes51
Live-action television film
Directed byMasaki Nishiura
Produced bySumi Asano[1]
Written byYoshihiro Izumi
ReleasedJanuary 6, 2008 (2008-01-06)
Live-action television film
Directed byMasaki Nishiura
Produced bySumi Asano
Written byYoshihiro Izumi
ReleasedJanuary 11, 2009 (2009-01-11)

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

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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

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Manga

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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

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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

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  • 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

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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

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Anime cast

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Video game

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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

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  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.
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