Remi, Nobody's Girl

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Remi, Nobody's Girl
家なき子レミ (Ie Naki Ko Remi)
Genre	Adventure, Drama, Historical, Slice of Life
TV anime
Directed by	Kôzô Kuzuha
Studio	Nippon Animation
Network	Fuji TV, Animax Animax
Original run	1 September 1996 – 23 March 1997
No. of episodes	26

Remi, Nobody's Girl (家なき子レミ, Ie Naki Ko Remi^?) was a 26-episode Japanese anime television series by Nippon Animation, which premiered 1 September 1996 to 23 March 1997 across Japan on the Fuji Television network as the final installment to Nippon Animation's famed World Masterpiece Theater series.

The complete series, all 26 episodes, was later aired by the anime satellite television network, Animax, who translated and dubbed the series into English for broadcast across its respective English-language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia, under the title Remi, Nobody's Girl, as well as other languages.

[edit] Story

Remi, Nobody's Girl tells the story of Remi, a humble and cheerful young girl, who is an excellent singer, and lives in a French town in the countryside with her mother, and her enduring and overcoming the difficulties and trials she faces in her journeys.

The story is very loosely based on the novel Sans Famille by Hector Malot, which had already been adapted into an earlier anime TV series, Ie Naki Ko, by Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1977. Nippon Animation's adaptation of the story became infamous for adapting the original story much more loosely than previous WMT series had, including changing the gender of the title character, Remi, from a boy to a girl and rewriting the character as a child singer. According to The Anime Encyclopedia by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, this was done to showcase the talents of legendary J-pop star and seiyuu Mitsuko Horie, who provided the voice of Remi in this version. The WMT franchise had already declined in popularity by then, and the low ratings achieved by Ie Naki Ko Remi sounded the death knell for the World Masterpiece Theatre and led the series to be pulled off the air after only 26 episodes.

[edit] External links

• Nippon Animation's official website (Japanese)
• Remi, Nobody's Girl (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia