The World's Most Famous Tales(1995)

Name: The World's Most Famous Tales
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Released: 1995

Sekai Meisaku Douwa: Wow! Maerchen Oukoku

アニメ世界の童話 / メルヘン王国

World Masterpiece Fairy Tale Series - Wow! Fairy Tale Kingdom is an Italian-Japanese anime anthology series based on fairy tales and classic stories, produced by Toei Animation, Fuji Eight and Reteitalia in 1995.

The series consists of 26 episodes, each one adapting a popular fairy tale or a literature classic written by a famous author such as: the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, Carlo Collodi, Lewis Carroll, Alexandre Dumas, Howard Pyle, Jonathan Swift, Johanna Spyri, L. Frank Baum, E. T. A. Hoffmann, James Halliwell-Phillipps and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Most of the episodes follow quite closely the original source material, with some changes made to alter unhappy endings or to suit the half-hour episode run.

Note: Only 21 stories were broadcast with the last 5 being released on VHS.

Adventure Fantasy

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Foreign Fairy Tale Classic Literature

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Details

AnimeTV
episodes26
airedSpring 1995
statusFinished
per episode24 min
ratingAll ages
creationHuman-made

Also known as

Animated Children's Stories of the World · Anime Sekai no Douwa · Anime Sekai no Douwa Series · Anime Sekai no Dōwa · Cuentilandia · Die schönsten Kindergeschichten · Fiabissime · Le favole più belle · Le fiabe più belle · Les contes les plus célèbres · Märchen Ōkoku · Merhen Okoku