![]() The animation itself is very good, showing a very early late eighties to early nineties style with beautiful frame-by-frame hand-drawn characters and watercolour backgrounds - none of that cheap cg you get nowadays. with other characters, narrations, and letters (she writes them a lot - like a journal) are very sincere but most of all original and this makes a very interesting main character and a very interesting series. The feelings and opinions of Judy that is conveyed through her actions, interactions The many characters in this series truly have depth and are far from being one-dimensional - It is amazing that the writers can introduce such characters and without giving them hours upon hours of screen time are able to define their persona. The story chronicles the life of an orphan girl named Jerusha 'Judy' Abbot through her teen-aged years up to her young adulthood. Rating: ★ ★ ★✰ A weird but oddly enjoyable trip down memory lane.This is a part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theatre, and I believe it to a masterpiece indeed. Daddy Long Legs makes a pretty good anime, because at its heart it’s shoujo storytelling with all the proper ingredients: a spunky heroine, a few rich and handsome guys, and the trials of growing up and falling in love. However, it has awakened a latent desire to seek out the musical of the same name, and possibly even the book and (if possible) the anime series from the Nineties. Even if I still had the VHS copy of it somewhere, I probably wouldn’t watch it over and over again. The songs played throughout are a little creepy and/or sad, in my opinion, but overall, rewatching this movie was a good experience. The English dub holds up pretty well, too. (I’m not quite there yet, but getting close!) The art is basic and not overly detailed, but considering that this was done in the Seventies, it’s not bad. ![]() While I’ll still admit that it is a noticeable age difference, it makes me laugh to remember a time when I thought that thirty-three was old. I remember thinking at the time that one of Judy’s suitors, the uncle of her roommate, was way too old for her (thirty-three to Judy’s eighteen). ![]() I recall watching and enjoying this anime when I was quite young. Judy meets her roommie’s uncle: compared to a vampire, thirty-three is nothing! And everyone loves a vampire romance. Because of this, Judy nicknames him “Daddy Long Legs,” and addresses her letters as such (which are sent to his lawyer’s office). A car’s headlights elongate his shadow, making him appear to be extremely tall. Judy is thrilled, and runs downstairs just in time to see the shadow of her benefactor on his way out. All that she has to do in return is agree to write him a letter once a month, updating him on college life, and she must never know his real name or expect any letters in return. After the meeting, the headmistress tells Judy that the richest member of the board has agreed to pay for Judy to attend college. The headmistress says that she has to clear it with the board of trustees. She confesses to the headmistress that she would like to attend college. Since I’ve never read the novel I can’t be sure how much the anime movie deviates from the original story, but here’s the skinny on the film’s plot: Judy Abbott has just come of age in the orphanage where she was raised. Dear Daddy: Why can we never meet? Are you grossly deformed? Are you like the Phantom of the Opera, living in the sewers and crazy from years of solitude? Oh by the way, thanks for the new books, they’re swell! Love, Judy
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