Must Watch Classic Anime Movies Based on Literature

To make ends meet, he does all kinds of odd jobs. For the most part he helps his grandfather. Just like in a soap opera, he faces infinite difficulties. I’m not ashamed to say that I cried (and I think most of you did too) when the main characters died at the end.

Perinu Monogatari (The Story of Perrine)

The original work is titled with family (1893) written by a French writer, Hector Malot. He wrote another book titled without family. Its translation into English, with family means “with family” and without family It means “without family.” The book, Sans Famille, was also animated and is titled Ie Naki ko Remi (Nobody’s Son).

Perrine is the daughter of a half-Indian mother and a French father. Just before dying, the father asks his wife to go to his hometown of Maraucourt in France. The journey that Perrine and her mother make in a caravan is quite painful, they lack money and have good reason to fear the way they will be received when they arrive.

Akage no Anne (Anne of Green Gables)

Anne of Green Gables (1908) by Lucy Maud Montgomery It tells the story of Anne, an orphan girl who comes to the Cuthberts family, who lives in Green Gables, a Canadian farm. But the orphanage sent her by mistake; the Cuthberts wanted to adopt a child who could have helped them in their work on the farm.

However, they eventually become like Anne and decide to keep her with them. There are many sequels to the novel such as Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the island, Ana’s dream houseetc and has many followers around the world.

Tomu Soya no Boken (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (year 1876) by Mark Twain tells the adventures of diamond in the rough Tom and his friends. An animated version of Blueberry Finn It was also made a few years after this one.

Kazoku Robinson Hyoryuki Fushigi na Shima no Furone (The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone from the Mysterious Island)

The original novel is Johann David Wyss and had the right The Swiss Family Robinson (The Swiss Robinson) (year 1813). It tells the story of a family abandoned on an island. it’s a Robinsonadaa story that revolves around a character who travels, is abandoned in a place and, finally, learns to survive. The term is based on Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and includes works such as Gulliver’s Travels and recently the movie Lost in space.

Shokojo Sera (Little Princess Sara)

One of the popular works of Frances Hodgson Burnett made in anime, the others are Little Lord Fauntleroy and The secret garden. Set in London in 1885, Sara Crewe, who spent her childhood in India with her widowed father, is sent to Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies.

On his 11th birthday, he learns of his father’s death and ruin. From being the most elegant and pampered girl in her school, she becomes a scullery maid. But things get better when her friends and her father’s friends don’t let her down.

Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari (Tales of Little Women)

Originally Little Women and little men by Luisa María Alcott. In Little Women, the story takes place a few years after the Civil War in the United States. Frederick March has joined the Yankee army and has left his wife with their four daughters: Meg (Margaret), Jo (Josephine), Beth (Elisabeth) and Amy.

Their house burned down during a battle (in the anime, not the book), so they have to move to Newcord, where their Aunt Martha lives. Little Men takes place ten or years after Little Women. Jo March, married to the German professor Fritz Bhaer, now lives in her Aunt Martha’s former house, where she opened a school.

Shokoshi Sedi (The Little Prince Cedie)

Also for Frances Hodgson Burnettoriginally titled Little Lord Fauntleroy. Little Cedric Erol does not know that he is actually the grandson of the Earl of Dorincourt and heir to a prestigious British family. Nor does he know that, a few years earlier, his father left England after a fight with the earl, who did not want to recognize his son’s marriage to “an American commoner.”

After the death of his father, Cedric becomes Lord Fauntleroy and has to go to England. He is separated from his mother and the count, who is prejudiced against Americans, receives him very coldly. But Cedric is a very adorable boy and will win everyone’s hearts, even his grandfather’s.

Peta Pan no Boken (The Adventures of Peter Pan)

Originally Peter and Wendy (1911) by James Mateo Barrie. Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up and doesn’t want to. The series is divided into two parts. In the first, Peter, Wendy and their friends fight Captain Hook. The second half, however, is not based on the novel, instead they fight an evil sorceress named Sinistra.

Torappu Ikke Monogatari (Trapp Family Story)

Have you seen the movie? The sound of music? Well, this is the anime version. based on The history of the Trapp family singers (1949) by Maria Augusta TrappIt tells the story of the Trapp family as they avoid the rising Nazi tide in Austria.

That is, Naki Ko Remi (Remi: Nobody’s Girl)

Originally San Famille by Hector Malot. There was an earlier (original) version with Remi when I was a kid and the title was Nobody’s Child (Chibikko Remi to Meiken Kapi / Little Remi and the famous dog Kapi). The plot remains the same but the gender of the main character does not. My young mind was reeling from the emotions provoked by the deaths of the characters (be they men or beasts) and the revelations.

There are many other anime shows based on classic literature. To name a few, they are: Don Quixote, The Legend of the White Whale or Moby Dick, The Magnificent Fox, Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Three Musketeers, Jack and the Beanstalk, One Thousand and One Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad, Thumbelina, Treasure Island, Les Miserables, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Grimm’s Masterpiece Theatre, Fantastic Adventure: The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Ramayana, The Cinderella Storyetc

There is definitely a wealth of anime literature out there for hungry minds to digest and learn from.