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Acknowledgments

Thanks go out to the following people for helping me out in some way or another with this page:

  • Taro Rehrl for the idea to create this page in the first place way back when, and for the biographical info about Lisa Tetzner.
  • Frédéric Goetzinger for creating the ever so useful WMT mailing list plus pictures such as those in New Moomin and Anime Sanjushi.
  • Sergio Cocco for help regarding European-language dubs of films.
  • Geoff Cowie for providing layout tips and pics and stuff most of which unfortunately were sacrificed to my revision bug along the way.
  • Hironobu Kanno for a gift which has helped me fill out credits for all the WMT.
  • Aivars Liepa
  • Keita Teranishi
  • Feena
  • Dennis Hirschmann
  • Alan D. Peters of Animemania for info on some English dubs and for the images in the Grimm & other entries.
  • Ruben for info on dubs & titles in Spain.
  • Chris Bubb for info on US airings of english-dubbed WMTs like Tom Sawyer and FFs like SuperBook, Marina's Adventure, Maya the Bee and others.
  • Jose Rivera for screengrabs from Jungle Book, Treasure Island and Laura, and for all the info on Puerto Rican dubs in various entries.
  • Martin Lux for scads of very detailed info on Czech dubs and for screengrabs and sounds from Maya, Tico and Alice in Wonderland.
  • Pinoko's Andersen Room provided me with extensive credits for this series.
  • Nino's Joli page provided me with extensive credits for this series.
  • Andrea Tozzi & Simona Stanzani's Italian anime page gave me a few Italian titles.
  • The Fansub Database keeps me up to date on what's being fansubbed.
  • A big thanks to Jim Breen for his great WWWJDict, which I put to a lot of use in translating credits.
  • Jerry Beck's Animated Feature Films listing, from which the info on old English dubbed theatrical releases like Cleopatra and Sinbad came from.
  • The Family Center syndicated cartoons listing is a nice resource, though less than 1% is anime.
  • Scott Ryan for design pointers and lots of other stuff, and for being an all-around swell guy.

    Primary online anime data sources:

  • Anime Daijiten
  • TV Anime Broadcast List, which is where all the episode listings and episode credit info came from.
  • TV Anime List
  • The Japanese Movie Database

    Primary printed anime data sources:

    Animage Pocket Data Notes For Animation Fan, included in the March 1999 issue of Animage

    Video Soft So Katarogu 97 nen han, a catalog of in-print VHS tapes and LDs in Japan, updated editions published yearly. (donated by Barbara Chambers)

    LD Daizenshu, '81-'96 Zensakuhin Deeta Soran, a catalog of all LDs ever published in Japan, updated editions published yearly

    Tokyo Movie Anime Super Data File, a mook by Tatsumi Publishing with info on all Tokyo Movie Shinsha productions.

    General works cited:

  • Japanese Names: A Comprehensive Index by Characters and Readings, P. G. O'Neill. Weatherhill, Inc., New York & Tokyo, 1995. First edition: 1972. ISBN 0-8348-0225-2.
  • Meisaku Anime Shudaika Daizenshu, "My Favorite Songs from the Memorial Animation", 3-CD set of WMT openings and endings from 1975 to 1994 issued for the 20th Anniversary. The booklet included with the set lists all staff and other info for each series.
  • Moomintroll Conquers the World (tr. Kristina Friberg), Annika Hällsten. Scandinavian Review #?, p. 57-62.
  • Tove Jansson and Her Readers: No One Excluded, Nancy Huse. Children's Literature #19, p. 149-161. Mentions the anime versions, talks in general about Tove's career and the popularity of the Mooming series.
  • Undiscovered Country, Alison Lurie. The New York Review, 17 Dec. 1992, p. 16-20. A review of four Moomin books.
  • Studies in Swedish Literature No. 11: Tove Jansson: Pappan och havet, Glyn Jones. Twayne, 1984. An in-depth (but problematic) study of the Moomin books.
  • The Oxford companion to children's literature, Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-19-211582-0.
  • Early Children's Books and Their Illustrations, The Pierpont Morgan Library, NY. David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, 1975. ISBN 0-87923-158-0.
  • Cyclopedia of World Authors, third edition, 5 volumes. Frank N. Magill, editor. Salem Press, CA, NJ,1958 (1997). ISBN 0-89356-434-6.
  • Twentieth-Century Young Adult Writers, first edition. St. James Press, Detroit, London, Washington, 1994. ISBN 1-55862-2020.
  • Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, fourth edition. St. James Press, Detroit, London, Washington, 1995. ISBN 1-55862-177-6.
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