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Akage no An (1979)

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11 August 2007

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25 April 2025

Akage no An, a fifty-episode animated series based on Anne of Green Gables, was produced by Nippon Animation and released throughout 1979.

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Overview

Produced by Nippon Animation Company (Tokyo), Akage no An consisted of an animated series based on Anne of Green Gables. The series appeared as part of Nippon Animation’s World Masterpiece Theater, and its fifty episodes first aired in Japan on successive Sunday evenings throughout 1979.

Details

Company Credits

Produced by Nippon Animation Co. Ltd.

Release Date

7 January–30 December 1979

Runtime

50 × 23 minutes

Main Cast

Eiko Yamada as Anne Shirley (50 episodes)
Fumie Kitahara as Marilla Cuthbert (50 episodes)
Michio Hazama as Narrator (46 episodes)
Ryûji Saikachi as Matthew Cuthbert (46 episodes)
Gara Takashima as Diana Barry (37 episodes)
Miyoko Asô as Rachel Lynde (19 episodes)
Junko Hori as Josie Pye (17 episodes)
Sanae Takagi as Jane Andrews (16 episodes)
Kazuhiko Inoue as Gilbert Blythe (14 episodes)
Mami Koyama as Minnie May Barry (12 episodes)
Makoto Kôsaka as Ruby Gillis (9 episodes)

Source Material

Based on the novel by Lucy Maude Montgomery.

Writers

Yoshihisa Araki
Shigeki Chiba
Aiko Isomura
Kôzô Kusuba
Seijirô Kôyama
Nanako Shiraischi
Isao Takahata
Takekuni Takano
Kazuyoshi Yokota

Directors

Isao Takahata
Ken’ichi Baba
Kôzô Kusuba
Kazuyoshi Yokota
Shigeo Koshi

Credits

Producers: Shigeo Endô and Junzô Nakajima. Executive producer: Kôichi Motohashi.

IMDB

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Green_Gables_(1979_TV_series)

Episodes

This episode list consists of titles that accompanied the release of the English-language dubbed version of the series on YouTube, followed in brackets by an alternate title that appeared within each episode. These episode titles differ from sources that drew from the episode’s titles in Japanese.

S1E01: Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised [The Big Surprise]
S1E02: Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised [A New Home]
S1E03: Morning of Green Gables [Farewell, Green Gables]
S1E04: Anne’s History
S1E05: Marilla Makes Up Her Mind
S1E06: Anne of Green Gables [A Dream Comes True]
S1E07: Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified [It’s Hard to Say Sorry]
S1E08: Anne’s Impressions of Sunday School [Sunday School]
S1E09: A Solemn Vow [Meeting Diana]
S1E10: Anne Plays with a Best Friend [True Friends]
S1E11: Anne Loses the Amethyst Brooch [Marilla Loses Her Brooch]
S1E12: Anne’s Confession [The Confession]
S1E13: Anne Goes to School
S1E14: A Tempest in Class [Classroom Trouble]
S1E15: Fall Is Coming [A Mouse in the Pudding]
S1E16: Diana Is Invited to Tea [Diana Comes to Tea]
S1E17: Anne Returns to School [Back to School]
S1E18: Anne Rescues Minnie May [Anne to the Rescue]
S1E19: Diana’s Birthday
S1E20: Spring Once Again [The Anniversary]
S1E21: The New Minister’s Wife [The New Minister]
S1E22: The Wrong Ingredient [The Catastrophe]
S1E23: Anne Is Invited to Tea [The Invitation]
S1E24: An Affair of Honour [A Serious Affair of Honour]
S1E25: A Letter to Diana
S1E26: The Concert Plan [Planning a Concert]
S1E27: Matthew and the Clothes Shop [Matthew’s Gift]
S1E28: The Christmas Concert
S1E29: Anne Starts the Story-Telling Club [The Story Club]
S1E30: Vanity and Vexation of Spirit [Vanity and Vexation]
S1E31: An Unfortunate Lily Maid [An Unfortunate Lily Maiden]
S1E32: An Epoch in Anne’s Life
S1E33: An Invitation to Queen’s Class [The Argument]
S1E34: Diana and the Students at Queen’s [Separate Ways]
S1E35: Longing for the Summer Holidays [Anxiety]
S1E36: The Future of the Story Club [Summer at Green Gables]
S1E37: A 15-Year-Old’s Spring [The Train Comes to Carmody]
S1E38: My Number Is 13 [Exam Nerves]
S1E39: The Results [The Long Wait]
S1E40: The Concert Hotel [A Big Success]
S1E41: Off to Queen’s College [Departure for Queen’s]
S1E42: Life on a New Campus [Student Life]
S1E43: Home for the Weekends [A Weekend at Green Gables]
S1E44: The Winter at Queen’s [The Long Winter]
S1E45: The Glory and the Dream [Gilbert and the Gold Medal]
S1E46: Matthew’s Love [Matthew’s Daughter]
S1E47: The Reaper Whose Name Is Death [The Grim Reaper]
S1E48: Matthew’s Farewell [The Last Goodbye]
S1E49: The Bend in the Road [Plans for the Future]
S1E50: God’s in His Heaven, All Is Well on Earth [Gilbert’s Good Deed]