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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Japanese anime television series}}<br />
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{{Infobox television<br />
| image = Lucy of the Southern Rainbow.jpg<br />
| image_size = 230<br />
| caption = Cover art from the re-edited footage film DVD release<br />
| native_name = 南の虹のルーシー<br />
| genre = [[Historical drama]], [[adventure]]<br />
| director = Hiroshi Saitô<br />
| executive_producer = Kōichi Motohashi<br />
| producer = Takaji Matsudo<br />
| writer = Akira Miyazaki<br />
| music = Kōichi Sakata<br />
| company = [[Nippon Animation]]<br>[[Fuji Television]]<br />
| network = [[Fuji Network System|FNS]] (Fuji TV)<br />
| first_aired = {{Start date|1982|01|10|df=y}}<br />
| last_aired = {{End date|1982|12|26|df=y}}<br />
| num_episodes = 50<br />
| country = Japan<br />
| language = Japanese<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''''Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow'''''|南の虹のルーシー|Minami no Niji no Rūshī|"Lucy of the Southern Rainbow"}} is a Japanese [[anime]] series by [[Nippon Animation]]. This 1982 adaptation is part of the studio's ''[[World Masterpiece Theater]]'' franchise, based on the 1982 novel ''Southern Rainbow'' by Australian writer [[Phyllis Piddington]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Set in the 1830s,<ref name ="Austlit">{{cite web |title=Phyllis Piddington |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A14717 |website=AustLit |date=10 March 2007 |access-date=24 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Barbara Wall |editor1-last=Butterss |editor1-first=Philip |title=Southwords |date=1995 |isbn=9781862543546 |page=14 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNFneK-gMmkC&dq=Phyllis+Piddington&pg=PA14 |access-date=24 September 2021 |chapter=A landscape of writing for children|publisher=Wakefield Press }}</ref> the series tells the story of a young girl named Lucy and the hardships and excitement she and her family encounter when they move from England to [[Adelaide]] in [[South Australia]] to start a farm.<br />
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==Unusual elements==<br />
Not only it is the first anime in the ''World Masterpiece Theater'' to have been broadcast while the author of the source material was still alive (followed by ''[[Story of the Alps: My Annette]]'', ''[[The Bush Baby]]'' and ''[[Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables]]''), but it also is the only one to have aired when the original work wasn't finished yet. At the time of the broadcasting in Japan in 1982, ''Southern Rainbow'' was still in phase of serialization on an Australian family daily magazine, prior to be published as a book later that same year.<ref>{{Cite web|title=原作「南の虹」１|url=http://katri.world.coocan.jp/lucy/gensaku01.htm|access-date=2022-12-18|website=katri.world.coocan.jp}}</ref> Another adaptation of the story, written by Ken Wakasaki as a tie-in to the anime, was also published in Japan in 1982.<br />
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==Dubbing==<br />
The anime has been dubbed into French, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, and Persian.<br />
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==Characters==<br />
===Popple family===<br />
* Lucy-May Popple - the 7-year-old main character.<br />
* Kate Popple - Lucy-May's 10-year-old sister, she serves as narrator of the series.<br />
* Clara Popple - Lucy-May's 16-year-old sister and eldest sibling.<br />
* Ben Popple - Lucy-May's 12-year-old brother.<br />
* Tob Popple - Lucy-May's 2-year-old brother and youngest sibling.<br />
* Arthur Popple - Lucy-May's father.<br />
* Annie Popple - Lucy-May's mother.<br />
* Marsh - Lucy's pet hamster.<br />
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===Others===<br />
* Billy Yumbling - a 10-year-old boy who's friends with Kate and Lucy-May.<br />
* Mr. Pettywell - a wealthy businessman who came on the same ship as the Popples.<br />
* Happy - Mr. Pettywell's dog.<br />
* Mr. Parker - a friend of Popple family.<br />
* John - a young sailor with a crush on Clara.<br />
* Mary and Fred - aunt and uncle of Lucy-May's who live with their Arthur's mother who live in Yorkshire, England.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Minori Matsushima]] as ルーシー・メイ (Lucy-May)<br />
* [[Ikuko Tani]] as Annie<br />
* [[Katsunosuke Hori]] as Arthur<br />
* [[Rihoko Yoshida]] as Kate<br />
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==Episodes==<br />
# To a New land<br />
# Cute Fellow<br />
# The Replacement<br />
# First Exploration<br />
# After the Rain<br />
# A Town Named Adelaide<br />
# Ben's Misfortune<br />
# Night Before Departure<br />
# Road to Adelaide<br />
# Green Town<br />
# My Small House<br />
# Night at Adelaide<br />
# Ben Has Arrived<br />
# A Stout Man<br />
# Two Homes<br />
# Drenched Doctor<br />
# Unfortunate Accident<br />
# Tree Climbing<br />
# Shopping Tine<br />
# Water in the Well<br />
# Adelaide's Designer<br />
# Children of Brick and Dingo<br />
# Your Name is Little<br />
# The Day Which Marks The End Of Summer<br />
# When I'm Not Brought Along<br />
# I Got Sick!<br />
# Ride on the Wind<br />
# Land Opposite the River<br />
# Little's Training<br />
# Birthday Present<br />
# Little and Black Dog<br />
# Bridge over the Rainbow<br />
# Lost Dream<br />
# Little and School<br />
# Duel<br />
# Five Shillings in the Nest<br />
# Bandits of the Grassland<br />
# Detective Lucy<br />
# Two Farewells<br />
# Who Am I?<br />
# A Town I Do Not Know, A Person I Do Not Recognize<br />
# A Child Called Emily<br />
# Missing Each Other<br />
# Little! Little!<br />
# Tob's Vanished<br />
# A Wombat In The Hole<br />
# Father's Decision<br />
# Rich Child<br />
# Clara's Marriage<br />
# Toward's the Rainbow<br />
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==Music==<br />
* Opening theme: "Niji ni Naritai" by Sumiko Yamagata<br />
* Ending theme: "Mori ni Oide" by Sumiko Yamagata<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{anime News Network|anime|441}}<br />
* {{cite web|url=http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/kidstop/meisaku/lucy/lucy.html|title=Official site by Bandai|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050106102236/http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/kidstop/meisaku/lucy/lucy.html|archive-date=6 January 2005|url-status=dead}}<br />
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{{World Masterpiece Theater}}<br />
{{Nippon Animation}}<br />
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[[Category:Fictional people from South Australia]]<br />
[[Category:Television shows based on Australian novels]]<br />
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[[Category:Television shows set in Adelaide]]<br />
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