| Anmitsu Hime | |
| Ja Kanji: | あんみつ姫 |
| Genre: | Fantasy, Comedy |
| Type: | manga |
| Author: | Shosuke Kurakane |
| Publisher: | Kobunsha |
| Demographic: | Shōjo |
| Magazine: | Shōjo |
| First: | May 1949 |
| Last: | April 1955 |
| Volumes: | 4 |
| Type: | live film |
| Anmitsu Hime: Amakara no Shiro Maki | |
| Director: | Shigeo Nakagi |
| Music: | Nobuaki Asai |
| Type: | live film |
| Anmitsu Hime: Amakara no Shiro Maki | |
| Director: | Shigeo Nakagi |
| Music: | Nobuaki Asai |
| Type: | live film |
| Warrior Training of Anmitsu Hime | |
| Director: | Tatsuho Osone |
| Music: | Mitsuo Kato |
| Studio: | Shochiku |
| Type: | drama |
| Anmitsu Hime: Yōjutsu Kurabe no Maki | |
| Network: | KRT |
| First: | December 1, 1958 |
| Last: | October 28, 1960 |
| Episodes: | 100 |
| Type: | special |
| Director: | Akihiro Oguro |
| Network: | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| Type: | special |
| Director: | Shuji Sugimura |
| Network: | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| Type: | manga |
| Author: | Izumi Takemoto |
| Publisher: | Kodansha |
| Demographic: | Shōjo |
| Magazine: | Nakayoshi |
| First: | September 1986 |
| Last: | October 1987 |
| Volumes: | 4 |
| Type: | tv series |
| Anmitsu Hime: From Amakara Castle | |
| Director: | Masami Annō |
| Producer: | Yoshitaki Suzuki (Studio Pierrot) Ryūnosuke Endō (Fuji TV) Kyōtarō Kimura (Yomiko) |
| Music: | Kan Ogasawara |
| Studio: | Studio Pierrot |
| Network: | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| First: | October 5, 1986 |
| Last: | September 27, 1987 |
| Episodes: | 51 |
| Type: | live tv film |
| Director: | Masaki Nishiura |
| Producer: | Sumi Asano[1] |
| Type: | live tv film |
| Director: | Masaki Nishiura |
| Producer: | Sumi Asano |
, known outside Japan as Sugar Princess, is a manga series by Shosuke Kurakane. The original manga was serialized between 1949 and 1955. In 1986, Izumi Takemoto retold the original manga series, releasing it under the same title and simultaneously with the anime adaptation.
Anmitsu is a beautiful princess living happily at the Amakara Castle. The only thing is that she is a tomboy and doesn't act very ladylike. When Anmitsu turns ten years old, her parents present her with a tutor named Castella, who's from the Pudding Kingdom, in hopes of getting Anmitsu more serious about being a princess. Nonetheless, Anmitsu is still up to her usual antics and frequently escapes from the castle to have fun. However, she learns many things about the world outside the castle and about life in general in her adventures. She also makes new friends and continues to cause trouble for the royalty in Amakara Castle.
The manga was published in Kobunsha's Shōjo magazine from 1949 to 1955. The series helped boost the magazine's circulation to 700,000 copies.[2] It was one of the most popular manga of the early 1950s.[3]
The first adaptations of Anmitsu Hime came in 1954 with two films. Both starred Izumi Yukimura as Anmitsu Hime. Another film was made in 1960, but with an entirely new staff and cast, starring Haruko Wanibuchi as Animtsu Hime.
An anime adaptation, called Anmitsu Hime: From Amakara Castle was made by Studio Pierrot (with planning cooperation from Tatsunoko Production, who produced the show that was in Anmitsu-hime's timeslot: Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman) that aired on Fuji TV from October 5, 1986, to September 27, 1987, for a 51-episode run.[6] The broadcast time is from 18:00 to 18:30 on Sunday, it is the time zone which is assigned to "Chibi Maruko-chan" since 1990.
The series is about a tomboy princess in the late Edo-period world, but with modern-day technology. This anime is tied up with the "Dream Factory" and "Sunset Meow Meow" that were planned by Fuji TV at that time, stories of Princess Anmitsu visiting the "Dream Factory" appears in this anime, and theme songs are also sung by the Onyanko Club.
Singer : Onyanko Club / Lyricist : Yasushi Akimoto / Composer : Akira Mitake / Arranger : Akira Mitake
Singer : Onyanko Club / Lyricist : Yasushi Akimoto / Composer : Hiro Nagasawa / Arranger : Etsuko Yamakawa
See main article: Alex Kidd: High-Tech World. A Master System video game based on the series was made, and translated for the Europe, North America and Oceania markets as Alex Kidd in High-Tech World, with the main character replaced with Alex Kidd and other characters and parts of the game slightly edited to fit the change from a female to a male protagonist; where as the goal of Anmitsu Hime is to reach a cake shop in time before it closes, the localized version changes this to a game center.