The Bush Baby

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The Bush Baby
大草原の小さな天使　ブッシュベイビー (Bush Baby, Little Angel of the Grasslands)
Genre	Drama
TV anime
Directed by	Takayoshi Suzuki
Studio	Nippon Animation
Network	Fuji TV Italia 1 Tele5 ORF1 TVO
Original run	12 January 1992 – 20 December 1992
No. of episodes	40

The Bush Baby (大草原の小さな天使　ブッシュベイビー, Sougen no chiisana tenshi busshu beibii^?) is the title of a 1992 anime series consisting of forty 24 minute episodes. It is based on the novel, The Bushbabies (1965), by Canadian author William Stevenson.

Contents 1 Plot outline 2 Themes 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Plot outline

In 1964, a young girl named Jackie travels the savannah in the area of Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya, where her father is a game warden. When her father loses his job, the family prepares to return to England. Right before they are about to leave, Jackie realises that she has lost the papers for her pet bushbaby, Murphy. She leaves the ship heading for England and it sets sail without her. Luckily, she meets Tembo, her father's loyal African assistant. Tembo has been spying on the export warehouse of some poachers and is now being pursued by them. In addition, a manhunt for Tembo has begun because people think he has kidnapped Jackie.

[edit] Themes

• Opening Themes

1. "APOLLO" by Yasuhide Sawa (eps 01-22)
2. "Hohoemi de Prologue" by Satoko Yamano (eps 23-40)

[edit] Trivia

• The series is part of Fuji Television & Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater which consists of TV anime series adaptations of classic children's books.
• The North American dub was released in Canada on TV by Cinelume.

[edit] External links

• The Bush Baby (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Basic Info
• IMDb Page
• Music and Lyrics
• German Summary