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Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow

{{Short description|Japanese anime television series}}

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{{Infobox television

| image = Lucy of the Southern Rainbow.jpg

| image_size = 230

| caption = Cover art from the re-edited footage film DVD release

| native_name = 南の虹のルーシー

| genre = Historical drama, adventure

| director = Hiroshi Saitô

| executive_producer = Kōichi Motohashi

| producer = Takaji Matsudo

| writer = Akira Miyazaki

| music = Kōichi Sakata

| company = Nippon Animation
Fuji Television

| network = FNS (Fuji TV)

| first_aired = {{Start date|1982|01|10|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1982|12|26|df=y}}

| num_episodes = 50

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

}}

{{nihongo|Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow|南の虹のルーシー|Minami no Niji no Rūshī|"Lucy of the Southern Rainbow"}} is a Japanese anime series by Nippon Animation. This 1982 adaptation is part of the studio's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, based on the 1982 novel Southern Rainbow by Australian writer Phyllis Piddington.

Plot

Set in the 1830s,{{cite web |title=Phyllis Piddington |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A14717 |website=AustLit |date=10 March 2007 |access-date=24 September 2021}}{{cite book |author1=Barbara Wall |editor1-last=Butterss |editor1-first=Philip |title=Southwords |date=1995 |isbn=9781862543546 |page=14 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNFneK-gMmkC&dq=Phyllis+Piddington&pg=PA14 |access-date=24 September 2021 |chapter=A landscape of writing for children|publisher=Wakefield Press }} the series tells the story of a young girl named Lucy and the hardships and excitement she and her family encounter when they move from England to Adelaide in South Australia to start a farm.

Unusual elements

Not only it is the first anime in the World Masterpiece Theater to have been broadcast while the author of the source material was still alive (followed by Story of the Alps: My Annette, The Bush Baby and Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables), but it also is the only one to have aired when the original work wasn't finished yet. At the time of the broadcasting in Japan in 1982, Southern Rainbow was still in phase of serialization on an Australian family daily magazine, prior to be published as a book later that same year.{{Cite web|title=原作「南の虹」１|url=http://katri.world.coocan.jp/lucy/gensaku01.htm|access-date=2022-12-18|website=katri.world.coocan.jp}} Another adaptation of the story, written by Ken Wakasaki as a tie-in to the anime, was also published in Japan in 1982.

Dubbing

The anime has been dubbed into French, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, and Persian.

Characters

=Popple family=

  • Lucy-May Popple - the 7-year-old main character.
  • Kate Popple - Lucy-May's 10-year-old sister, she serves as narrator of the series.
  • Clara Popple - Lucy-May's 16-year-old sister and eldest sibling.
  • Ben Popple - Lucy-May's 12-year-old brother.
  • Tob Popple - Lucy-May's 2-year-old brother and youngest sibling.
  • Arthur Popple - Lucy-May's father.
  • Annie Popple - Lucy-May's mother.
  • Marsh - Lucy's pet hamster.

=Others=

  • Billy Yumbling - a 10-year-old boy who's friends with Kate and Lucy-May.
  • Mr. Pettywell - a wealthy businessman who came on the same ship as the Popples.
  • Happy - Mr. Pettywell's dog.
  • Mr. Parker - a friend of Popple family.
  • John - a young sailor with a crush on Clara.
  • Mary and Fred - aunt and uncle of Lucy-May's who live with their Arthur's mother who live in Yorkshire, England.

Cast

Episodes

  1. To a New land
  2. Cute Fellow
  3. The Replacement
  4. First Exploration
  5. After the Rain
  6. A Town Named Adelaide
  7. Ben's Misfortune
  8. Night Before Departure
  9. Road to Adelaide
  10. Green Town
  11. My Small House
  12. Night at Adelaide
  13. Ben Has Arrived
  14. A Stout Man
  15. Two Homes
  16. Drenched Doctor
  17. Unfortunate Accident
  18. Tree Climbing
  19. Shopping Tine
  20. Water in the Well
  21. Adelaide's Designer
  22. Children of Brick and Dingo
  23. Your Name is Little
  24. The Day Which Marks The End Of Summer
  25. When I'm Not Brought Along
  26. I Got Sick!
  27. Ride on the Wind
  28. Land Opposite the River
  29. Little's Training
  30. Birthday Present
  31. Little and Black Dog
  32. Bridge over the Rainbow
  33. Lost Dream
  34. Little and School
  35. Duel
  36. Five Shillings in the Nest
  37. Bandits of the Grassland
  38. Detective Lucy
  39. Two Farewells
  40. Who Am I?
  41. A Town I Do Not Know, A Person I Do Not Recognize
  42. A Child Called Emily
  43. Missing Each Other
  44. Little! Little!
  45. Tob's Vanished
  46. A Wombat In The Hole
  47. Father's Decision
  48. Rich Child
  49. Clara's Marriage
  50. Toward's the Rainbow

Music

  • Opening theme: "Niji ni Naritai" by Sumiko Yamagata
  • Ending theme: "Mori ni Oide" by Sumiko Yamagata

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • {{anime News Network|anime|441}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/kidstop/meisaku/lucy/lucy.html|title=Official site by Bandai|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050106102236/http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/kidstop/meisaku/lucy/lucy.html|archive-date=6 January 2005|url-status=dead}}

{{World Masterpiece Theater}}

{{Nippon Animation}}

Category:1982 anime television series debuts

Category:Adventure anime and manga

Category:Drama anime and manga

Category:Historical anime and manga

Category:Anime and manga set in Australia

Category:Fictional people from South Australia

Category:Television shows based on Australian novels

Category:Television shows set in South Australia

Category:Television shows set in Adelaide

Category:World Masterpiece Theater series

Category:Fuji Television original programming

Category:Television series set in the 1830s

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