Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid

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Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid
人魚姫 マリーナの冒険 (Adventures of the Little Mermaid)
Genre	Fantasy, Adventure, Drama, Romance
TV anime
Directed by	Takehiro Miyano
Studio	Fuji Eight Co., Ltd.
Network	NHK
Original run	1991 – 1991
No. of episodes	26

Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid was an animated series produced by Saban in the early 1990s, probably to cash in on the success of the Disney movie adaptation based upon the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Little Mermaid".

This 26-episode TV series was originally a Japanese/South Korean co-production directed by Takehiro Miyano and Yun Suk Hwa. The title of the series in Japan was Ningyo Hime Marina no Boken (The Adventures of Mermaid Princess Marina), and the series was broadcast on Japan's Fuji TV network from February to July of 1991. As in the 1975 feature-length movie version produced by Toei (with which this series may be confused), the mermaid protagonist was drawn as a blonde in this version and given the name Marina. It also added a new ingredient to the story: a magical whistle given to Marina by the Sea Witch allowing her to shift back and forth between human and mermaid form when blowing it.

Released in America for Saturday-morning and weekday afternoon syndication by Saban Entertainment in the fall of 1991, the series wasn't nearly as popular as Disney's version and faded quickly.

[edit] Alternative titles

• Aventuras de la Pequeña Sirenita por Saban (Spanish title)
• Avventura di Marina (Italian title)
• בת הים הקטנה (Bat Hayam Haktana) (Israeli title)
• Die kleine Meerjungfrau Marina (German title)
• Ino Yoja: Marina ui Mohoum (Korean title)
• Le Prince et la Siréne (French title)
• Przygody Syrenki (Polish title)
• Una sirenetta innamorata (Italian title)
• 人魚姫 マリーナの冒険 (Ningyo Hime Mariina no Bouken) (Japanese title)

[edit] External links

• Ningyo Hime Marina no Boken at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia