Anime Himitsu no Hanazono

Anime Himitsu no Hanazono (アニメ ひみつの花園) is an anime television series aired in Japan from 1991 to 1992.^[1] It is an adaptation of the 1911 novel The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.^[2]

Anime Himitsu no Hanazono
Screenshot of Mary Lennox in the anime.
アニメ ひみつの花園
Genre	Drama Historical
Anime television series
Directed by	Tameo Kohanawa
Produced by	Yasuo Kaneko Masako Matsuura
Written by	Kaoru Umeno
Music by	Kohei Tanaka
Studio	Aubec, Gakken, NHK Enterprises
Original network	NHK Educational TV
Original run	19 April 1991 – 27 March 1992
Episodes	39

Cast

Major:

• Ben Weatherstaff (Japanese: Yoichi Miyakawa)
• Colin Craven (Japanese: Minami Takayama)
• Craven ("Clevin") (Japanese: Osamu Saka) possibly Archibald Craven (Colin's father) or Dr. Craven (Archibald's brother)
• Dickon Sowerby (Japanese: Mayumi Tanaka)
• Helen McCoy (Japanese: Masako Katsuki)
• Mary Lennox (Japanese: Miina Tominaga)
• Martha Phoebe Sowerby (Japanese: Chika Sakamoto)
• Mr. Pitcher (Japanese: Fumihiko Tachiki)
• Narrator (Japanese: Tomoko Munakata)
• Sarah Ann Medlock (Japanese: Toshiko Ota or Yoshiko Oota)
• Susan Ann Sowerby (Japanese: Kazuyo Aoki)

Other:

• Bunny (Japanese: Yoshiko Kamei)
• Camilla (Japanese: Fumi Hirano)
• Hawkins (Japanese: Akio Ohtsuka)
• Henry (Japanese: Rokuro Naya)
• Jim (Japanese: Urara Takano)
• Natalie (Japanese: Midori Nakasawa)
• Patty (Japanese: Minami Takayama)
• Sam (Japanese: Masamichi Sato)

Music

Yoshie Hayasaka sings both:

• Opening Gyakuten Typhoon (逆転タイフーン)
• Ending Hara horo hire hare (はらほろひれはれ)

Titles in other languages

• Arabic: الحديقة السرية ("The Secret Garden")
• Chinese: 神秘花園 (Taiwan), 神秘的花園 (Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong and Guangxi)
• Italian: Mary e il giardino dei misteri ("Mary and The Mysterious Garden")
• Korean: 비밀의 화원 ("The Secret Garden")
• Polish: Tajemniczy ogród ("The Secret Garden")
• Portuguese: O Jardim Mágico ("The Magic Garden") (Italian-dubbed version with Portuguese subtitles)^[3]
• Spanish: El jardín secreto ("The Secret Garden") (Mexico, Chile and Spain only; the latter country has a dubbed version that was based on the Italian version)
• Tagalog: Si Mary at Ang Lihim na Hardin/Si Maria at Ang Lihim na Hardin ("Mary and The Secret Garden")
• Romanian: Grădina ascunsă ("The hidden garden")

References

1. Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy, Helen (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia, Revised & Expanded Edition: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917. Stone Bridge Press. p. 571. ISBN 9781611725155. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
2. Lichterfeld, Imke; Gymnich, Marion (2012). A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden: Frances Hodgson Burnett's Children's Classic Revisited. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 123, 109, 111, 115, 117, 119, 121. ISBN 9783847000549. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
3. "O Jardim Mágico". SAPO. 14 July 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2018.

External links

• Anime Himitsu no Hanazono (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Anime Himitsu no Hanazono at IMDb