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10/19/1985 - 4/26/1986, Saturdays 7:00 - 7:30 PM TV series 26 episodes Sanrio/TV Asahi

HATA'S ROLE

Series Director
Episode Director & Storyboard:

#1: Welcome to Hookland
#2: Magic Gold Strawberry
#4: Scheme of the Bracelet Mother & Daughter

Episode Director:

#5: Forbidden Cave
#9: Honey Train of the Land of the Flowers
#14: Friendship Pendant
#20: Purin the Magic Girl
#25: Friend at Midnight

STAFF

Producer: Hatano Tsunemasa, Nabejima Shinji (Asahi Hôsô)

Original Idea & Planning: Tomioka Atsushi (Sanrio)
Original Characters: Hiroshige Masayo

Character Design & Animation Director: Yamamoto Shigeru

Art Layout: Abe Yukio
Art: Kiyomizu Kazutoshi
Music: Tanaka Kôhei

Episode Directors: Hata Masami, Tanazawa Ryû, Koguma Kimiharu, Yamada Katsuhisa, Takagaki Kôzô

Written by: Takayashiki Hideo, Kaneharu Satoko, Terada Kenji

Storyboards: Tanazawa Ryû, Takeuchi Nobuo, Katô Yûji, Yamada Katsuhisa, Fukushima Kazumi, Takagaki Kôzô, Hirokawa Kazuyuki, Koguma Kimiharu

Animation Directors: Matsuyama Maya, Kobayashi Kazuyuki, Endô Yûichi, Ohara Shûichi

This is the only TV series Hata directed during his Sanrio period, and it was the first TV series directed by Hata since Make way for Master Kunimatsu 14 years earlier. A sampling of the first few episodes shows it to be of little distinction, with low production quality and little to appeal to anyone outside the intended age range of 3-7 year olds. This series began airing one week before the première of Florence, which Hata had been working on for the previous four years, and was presumably the first Sanrio animation produced subsequent to the closing of Sanrio's main studio, where Florence and everything preceding it had been animated. It represents the turning point in Sanrio's history where they switch tracks from large-scale feature films and start producing small-scale "character animation" shorts based on the Sanrio characters which have made the company a worldwide name.