Anime Himitsu no Hanazono

Himitsu no Hanazono
アニメ ひみつの花園
Genre	Drama, Historical
Anime television series
Directed by	Tameo Kohanawa
Written by	Kaoru Umeno
Music by	Kouhei Tanaka (composer)
Studio	Aubec, Gakken, NHK Enterprises
Network	NHK
Original run	19 April 1991 – 27 March 1992
Episodes	39

Anime Himitsu no Hanazono is an anime series televised from 1991 to 1992.^[1] It is an adaptation of the novel The Secret Garden.^[2]

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 逆転タイフーン (Gyakuten Typhoon)
• ending はらほろひれはれ (Harahorohirehare)

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. 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.

External links

• Anime Himitsu no Hanazono (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Anime Himitsu no Hanazono at the Internet Movie Database