Huckleberry no Bouken

Huckleberry no Bouken
Huckleberry Finn on Italia 1
Genre	Adventure
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu Tameo Kohonawa
Written by	Mamoru Sasaki
Network	Fuji Television
Original run	2 January 1976 – 25 June 1976
Episodes	26

Huckleberry no Bouken (ハックルベリィの冒険) is an anime series based on the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It is the first of two Huckleberry Finn anime. A second Huck Finn television series was made in 1994, Huckleberry Finn Monogatari.^[1]

Plot summary

At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglas in return for saving her life. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in some respects a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the widow attempts to "civilize" the newly rich Huck.

Huck is kidnapped by his father but manages to fake his own death and escape to Jackson's Island, where he coincidentally meets up with Jim, a slave of the Widow Douglas' sister, Miss Watson. Jim is running for freedom because he has found out that Miss Watson plans to "sell him South" for $800. Together they construct a raft and travel on the Mississippi River,^[2] Jim hoping for freedom from slavery, and Huck searching freedom from his drunk father and controlling foster parent.

Cast

Main cast

• Masako Nozawa as Huckleberry Finn
• Yasuo Yamada as Jim

Additional Cast

• Chikao Ōtsuka
• Daisuke Umon
• Kei Tomiyama
• Miyoko Aso
• Reiko Mutō

Episode list

Music

References