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Popolocrois | |
ポポロクロイス物語 (Poporokuroisu Monogatari) | |
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Genre | Sword and sorcery[1] |
Anime television series | |
Popolocrois Monogatari | |
Directed by | Koichi Mashimo |
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Music by | Kow Otani |
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Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | October 4, 1998 – March 28, 1999 |
Episodes | 25 |
Anime television series | |
PoPoLoCrois | |
Directed by | Kazuhiro Ochi |
Produced by | Norio Yamakawa Tetsuya Watanabe Hideaki Miyamoto |
Written by | Reiko Yoshida |
Music by | Kōichirō Kameyama |
Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | October 5, 2003 – March 28, 2004 |
Episodes | 26 |
Popolocrois Monogatari (Japanese: ポポロクロイス物語, Hepburn: Poporokuroisu Monogatari, "Popolocrois Story") is a Japanese anime television series, based on the manga series PopoloCrois created by Yohsuke Tamori, broadcast on TV Tokyo. There have been two different series, broadcast in 1998–1999 and 2003–2004. The first series is about the adventure after the defeat of the Ice Demon: a girl named "Hyuu" came to Popolocrois, and the second series is 15 years after Maira's defeat. The second anime series features brand new characters, along with some of the old ones.
The main character for the second series is Pinon, who is the son of Pietro and Narcia. The second series is based on the fourth PlayStation 2 game in Japan, PoPoLoCrois: Adventure of Beginnings (Japanese title: Popolocrois Hajimari no Bouken; official English Title: Popolocrois: A New Departure), and the fifth PlayStation 2 game Popolocrois: Law of the Moon Adventure (Japanese title: Popolocrois Tsuki no Okite no Bouken; official English title: Popolocrois: Enchanted Lunar Tale).
The 1998 Popolocrois Monogatari television series has regrettably never been officially released in America, and the show is widely ignored by the American fan community because it's perceived as a children's anime. But as a traditional fairy tale fantasy adventure, the original Popolocrois is charming, touching, and more intelligent than unaware viewers realize.