Pinocchio: The Series
1972 Japanese anime TV series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pinocchio: The Series, also known as Saban's The Adventures of Pinocchio and known as Mock of the Oak Tree (樫の木モック, Kashi no Ki Mokku) in Japan, is a 52-episode anime series by Tatsunoko Production first aired on Fuji Television in 1972, which was edited by Saban in 1990.[1] The story is based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi.
Pinocchio: The Series | |
![]() Screenshot from the TV series Pinocchio: The Series, displaying Geppetto and Pinocchio | |
樫の木モック (Mokku of the Oak Tree) | |
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Anime television series | |
Directed by | Seitaro Hara |
Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
Original network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
English network | |
Original run | 4 January 1972 – 26 December 1972[1] |
Episodes | 52 |
Unlike the lighter, more cheerful tones of most adaptations such as Walt Disney's film adaptation and Nippon Animation's version Piccolino no Bōken, this series has a distinctly darker, more sadistic tone in the veins of Collodi's novel, and portrays the main character, Pinocchio (Mock) in his personality from the novel, as a bad-behaved troublemaker who only learns his lessions by suffering from constant physical and psychological abuse and freak accidents.[2]