Anime Himitsu no Hanazono explained

Anime Himitsu no Hanazono
Ja Kanji:	アニメ ひみつの花園
Genre:	Drama Historical

Type:	tv series
Director:	Tameo Kohanawa
Producer:	Yasuo Kaneko Masako Matsuura
Music:	Kohei Tanaka
Studio:	Aubec, Gakken, NHK Enterprises
Network:	NHK Educational TV
First:	19 April 1991
Last:	27 March 1992
Episodes:	39

is an anime television series aired in Japan from 1991 to 1992.^[1] It is an adaptation of the 1911 novel The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.^[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
• Ending

Titles in other languages

• ar|الحديقة السرية ("The Secret Garden")
• Chinese: 神秘花園 (Taiwan), Chinese: 神秘的花園 (Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong and Guangxi)
• it|Mary e il giardino dei misteri ("Mary and The Mysterious Garden")
• ko|비밀의 화원 ("The Secret Garden")
• pl|Tajemniczy ogród ("The Secret Garden")
• pt|O Jardim Mágico ("The Magic Garden") (Italian-dubbed version with Portuguese subtitles)^[3]
• es|El jardín secreto ("The Secret Garden") (Mexico, Chile and Spain only; the latter country has a dubbed version that was based on the Italian version)
• tl|Si Mary at Ang Lihim na Hardin/Si Maria at Ang Lihim na Hardin ("Mary and The Secret Garden")
• ro|Grădina ascunsă ("The hidden garden")

Notes and References

1. Book: Clements. Jonathan. McCarthy. Helen. The Anime Encyclopedia, Revised & Expanded Edition: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917. 2006. Stone Bridge Press. 571. 9781611725155. 7 September 2015.
2. Book: Lichterfeld. Imke. Gymnich. Marion. A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden: Frances Hodgson Burnett's Children's Classic Revisited. 2012. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 9783847000549. 123, 109, 111, 115, 117, 119, 121. 7 September 2015.
3. Web site: O Jardim Mágico. SAPO. 2015-07-14. 2018-01-17.