Little Pollon

Little Pollon

Memorial Box #01 DVD cover.
おちゃめ神物語コロコロポロン
(Ochamegami Monogatari Korokoro Poron)
Manga
Written by Hideo Azuma
Published by Akita Shoten
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Princess
Original run 19771979
Volumes 2
Anime television series
Directed by Takao Yotsuji
Studio Kokusai Eigasha
Network Fuji TV
Original run May 8, 1982 March 26, 1983
Episodes 46

Little Pollon (Japanese: おちゃめ神物語コロコロポロン Hepburn: Ochamegami Monogatari Korokoro Polon, lit. The Story of Little Goddess Roly-Poly Pollon) is a musical Greek mythology-based Japanese anime television series, based on the 1977 manga Olympus no Pollon (Pollon of Olympus) by Hideo Azuma. The anime TV series consisted of 46 episodes and aired across Japan on Fuji TV from May 1982 to March 1983, and was also popular in some European countries, such as Italy. The series is noted for its faithful portrayal of the Gods of Mount Olympus as fallible beings succumbing to real human faults and weaknesses, such as selfishness, temper tantrums, debauchery, laziness, and vanity.

Story

The main character of the story is Pollon, a sweet, precocious little girl who is the daughter of the God of the Sun, Apollo. Pollon's goal in life is to grow up to become a beautiful and powerful goddess. She attempts to do good deeds and help out any way she can in order to achieve the status of godhood. Invariably, her overtures backfire and end up causing major trouble for both the gods of Olympus and their human subjects. However, Pollon's kind heart, perseverance and indomitable spirit win out in the end, as she attains the title of "Goddess of Hope."

Characters

Overseas Distribution

In addition to its success in Japan, Little Pollon was an extremely popular television program in Italy during the mid-1980s, where it was known as C'era una volta... Pollon (Once upon a time there was... Pollon) and featured a memorable Italian theme song by Cristina D'Avena. Many of the Pollon fan sites on the Internet are in Italian, and there are regular reruns of the anime. Azuma's original manga has also been published in the Italian market. The series was also broadcast in France on La Cinq in the late 1980s under the title La Petite Olympe et les Dieux, with Pollon's name changed to "Olympe."

Enoki Films USA holds the U.S. license to the anime series, although no English dub or subtitling of the series has ever been commercially released.

The Little Pollon production team followed up the series in 1983 with another anime based on a Hideo Azuma manga, Nanako SOS (aka Nana the Supergirl). In one scene in Nanako SOS, the Little Pollon anime is being played on television.

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