Judy Abbott is an orphan who has been given the opportunity to study at the prestigious Lincoln Memorial High School by a mysterious benefactor whom she only knows as "John Smith". She has only seen his shadow once, and because of his long legs, she calls him "Daddy Long Legs". The only payment she is to give her benefactor is that she write him letters every month, with no expectation of them being responded to.The anime covers three years of Judy's life, starting with her leaving the John Grier Home orphanage, and ending with her finishing high school. |
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Ratings: | TVMaze: No Rating | |
Released: | January 14, 1990 | |
Runtime: | 30 min | |
Genres: | Drama Romance Comedy Anime | |
AKA: | Daddy Long-Legs, My Daddy Longlegs, My Daddy Long Legs, Sekai Meisaku Gekijou, 私のあしながおじさん | |
Countries: | Japan | |
Companies: | Fuji TV Nippon Animation | |
Cast: | Hiromi Tsuru Hideyuki Tanaka Yuri Amano Emi Shinohara Bin Shimada Kenichi Ogata Yuriko Fuchizaki Eiko Yamada Mitsuko Horie Fujita Toshiko Yoku Shioya 7 more Ken Yamaguchi Yuko Kobayashi Yoshino Ohtori Hisako Kyouda Chie Satou Shunsuke Shima Hidehiro Kikuchi | |
Crew: | Akira Miyazaki Masakazu Higuchi Nobuyuki Fujimoto Mitsuko Horie Tsuyoshi Kaga Sadohara Takeyuki Kouzou Kusuba Akiko Koyama Morimoto Shigeru Hajime Okayasu Masaru Ooshiro 6 more Shuuichi Seki Kei Wakakusa Akira Kikuchi Atsushi Irie Shoji Furuta Sadayoshi Fujino | |
yellow_rose1 : Oh how I've missed good ole fashion sit coms like this. Those were the days. Even the song...