Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

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The branch offices and agents of Sumitomo Life Insurance heavily promoted the series with posters in their offices as well as commercials directly after each episode.

Synopsis

The title of the series was derived from the Nippon Animation series World Masterpiece Theater, creating a Japan Masterpiece Theater series. While each story would be told in 1–3 episodes, they shared a common theme of "modern Japanese classics", and were designed to emulate the success of the Princess Sarah series.

Each episode (or set of episodes) retells using animation a popular modern Japanese story from the past 100 years or so.

List of episodes

Titles marked with ◎ were released by Shinchō Bunko in a manga form. Titles marked with ★ were part of the Script error: No such module "Nihongo". series released by Kin no Hoshi.

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External links

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