Anime like Tom Sawyer no Bouken

Huckleberry Finn Monogatari

Studio: Aubec
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

Based on Mark Twain's famous book about the adventures of young orphan Huckleberry Finn.

Tags: Classic Literature , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Rural

Kaze no Naka no Shoujo: Kinpatsu no Jeanie

Also known as The Girl in the Wind: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair.

Studio: Nippon Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

The story begins in a small town, Pennsylvania in 1838. Jeanie MacDowell is a cheerful and beautiful girl with light brown hair. Jeanie enjoys playing the piano and loves taking piano lessons from her mother.

Steven, a good harmonica player, and Bill, a black boy who is very good at playing the banjo, are great friends of Jeanie’s. They enjoy playing music together like a small band.

However, Jeanie’s happy life changes dramatically after her mother suddenly passes away.

Experiencing many difficulties and learning the importance of life, she decides to devote her life to helping many people suffering from illness.
This series is a highly emotional love story about the relationship between young Stephen Foster, who later becomes a famous composer and author of children’s songs, and young Jeanie MacDowell, who becomes Stephen Foster’s wife.

Tags: Historical , Foreign , Classic Literature , Class Struggle , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Family Life , School , Travel

Watashi no Ashinaga Oji-san

Also known as My Daddy Long Legs.

Studio: Nippon Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Daddy Long Legs is based on the novel of the same name by Jean Webster. It chronicles the adventures of Judy Abbott, an orphan in New York. During a meeting for the superintendent, with other important and rich people in attendance, a scholarship is offered to Judy by a mysterious benefactor. Catching only a glimpse of his tall shadow as he leaves, Judy calls him "Daddy Long Legs" and writes him letters every month as per his request. While studying at the Lincoln Memorial school, she makes many friends and learns about a world she never knew about before.



Tags: Classic Literature , Coming of Age , Foreign , Age Gap , Historical , Female Protagonist , Writing , School , Bullying , Heterosexual

Anime Sanjuushi

Also known as The Three Musketeers.

Studio: Gakken , Studio Gallop , NHK Enterprises , KORAD
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Romance

The Three Musketeers: The year is 1625. The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris at the tender age of 18, and almost immediately offends three musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Instead of dueling, the four are attacked by five of the Cardinal's guards, and the courage of the youth is made apparent during the battle. The four become fast friends and embark upon an adventure that takes them across both France and England in order to thwart the plans of the Cardinal Richelieu. Along the way, they encounter a beautiful young spy, named simply Milady, who will stop at nothing to disgrace Queen Anne of Austria before her husband, Louis XIII, and take her revenge upon the four friends.



Tags: Historical , Classic Literature , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Politics , Slapstick , Swordplay , Conspiracy , Estranged Family , Royal Affairs , Animals , Gender Bending , Heterosexual , Travel , Guns , Ships , Religion , Amnesia

Akage no Anne

Also known as Anne of Green Gables.

Studio: Nippon Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Anne is an orphan full of imagination. When she arrives at her new home she learns that sometimes you have to be a sensible person too; at the same time her unique character changes, or at least attracts, the people around her. The story covers Anne's growth from about eleven to seventeen years old as she makes friends, goes to school and studies. At a difficult point in her life, Anne will have to make a hard choice and perhaps find a new dream.

Tags: Coming of Age , Found Family , Classic Literature , Female Protagonist , Historical , Family Life , Orphan , Rural , Adoption , Iyashikei , Time Skip , School , Tragedy , Foreign , Religion , Agriculture , Primarily Female Cast , Kids , Body Image , School Club , Primarily Child Cast , Trains , Tsundere , Musical Theater , College , Elderly Protagonist

Sekai Douwa Anime Zenshuu

Studio: MLB
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

Originally released in Japan as a tool for learning English. Each episode tells a different story from Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Episodes:
• The Ugly Duckling (みにくいあひるの子)
• Three Little Pigs (三びきのこぶた)
• Snow White (しらゆきひめ)
• Red Riding Hood (赤ずきん)
• Puss in Boots (ながぐつをはいた猫)
• The Little Mermaid (にんぎょひめ)
• Little Black Sambo (ちびくろサンボ)
• The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids (おおかみと７ひきのこやぎ)
• Cinderella (シンデレラひめ)
• Alibaba and Forty Thieves (アリババと４０人のとうぞく)

Note: In 1986, Saban Entertainment released a 5 volume set of the OVA series titled My Favorite Fairy Tales including an English redubbing and adding four shorts from Toei's World Famous Fairy Tale Series (The Cobbler and the Elves, Sleeping Beauty, The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Carpet) to the VHS release.



Tags: Kids , Fairy Tale

Bokutachi no Peace River

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Supernatural

Anime adaptation of the children's fantasy novel by Daisaku Ikeda.

Tags: Kids

Anne Shirley

Also known as Anne Shirley.

Studio: The Answer Studio , Fuji Creative Corporation , Fuji TV , The Answer Studio , Fujipacific Music
Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A new adaptation of Akage no Anne (Anne of Green Gables).

On the beautiful Prince Edward Island in Canada, an orphan named Anne Shirley is mistakenly sent to Green Gables, the home of Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. They choose to adopt her anyway, as Anne finds friendship, love, and happiness in her new home. Come along for the story of a purehearted and imaginative girl growing up, leaving for college, and returning home a changed woman.



Tags: Orphan , Parenthood , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Classic Literature , Historical , Shoujo , Rural , Iyashikei , Family Life , Adoption , School , Teacher , Foreign , POV , Time Skip , College , Coastal , Writing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Body Image , Work , Boarding School , Tragedy , Religion , Agriculture

Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari

Also known as Tales of Little Women.

Studio: Nippon Animation , Saban Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Meg, faithful and gentle, Jo, independent and energetic, Beth, quiet and shy, Amy, amiable and precocious–the four sisters live vigorously and happily at home with their gentle mother while waiting for their father to return from the Civil War. Helping each other, they challenge their fates and grow up to become wonderful women.

Tags: Classic Literature , Historical , Family Life , Foreign , Primarily Female Cast , Travel , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Writing , Tsundere

Houkago Teibou Nisshi

Also known as Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater.

Studio: Doga Kobo
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

Introverted Hina Tsurugi is trying to adjust to her new school since moving from the countryside. And in spite of her unease around sea life, classmate Yuuki Kuroiwa somehow convinces her to join the Breakwater Fishing Club. She wants to be open to these new friends and experiences, but some of them are as strange as the fish they’re supposed to hook. Is she biting off more than she can chew?



Tags: Fishing , School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Outdoor Activities , Primarily Teen Cast , Iyashikei , Food , Coastal , Educational , Rural , Seinen , Environmental , Cycling , Kuudere