Anime like The Story of Cinderella

What is The Story of Cinderella about?

Status: Finished

Cinderella is the only daughter of a fairly wealthy family. When her mother dies, his father marries a widow with 2 daughters then goes travelling for business. Cinderella eventually becomes the slave of her stepmother and stepsisters. The Prince on the other hand, lives a boring life in the castle and one day escapes and pretends to be a commoner.Cinderella meets him through an accidental bump and becomes his bestfriend not knowing that he really is the prince. There are other twists to this tale including another villain in the person of the king's right hand who is plotting to take over the throne once he eliminates the prince. After a series of events and stories told, the castle holds a Royal ball for the prince to be able to choose a wife. Every maiden in the kingdom receives an invitation. When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from her pets dog, mice, cat and birds, and from her Fairy Godmother.

Tags: Foreign , Fairy Tale , Bullying , Medieval , Heterosexual , Classic Literature , Animals , Anthropomorphism , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy

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Shirayuki Hime no Densetsu

Also known as The Legend of Snow White.

Studio: Tatsunoko Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Romance

Snow White was a very happy princess, until the day her stepmother, the Queen Christelle, finally reveals her personality and wants to kill the girl. Snow White flees from the castle and got lost in the woods, where she meets seven dwarfs.

Tags: Heterosexual , Medieval , Female Protagonist , Fairy Tale , Classic Literature , Animals , Foreign , Magic

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Andersen Douwa Ningyo Hime

Also known as Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Marina, the most beautiful mermaid in the royal Merman family, is curious about the human world. One day, she sees a handsome prince on a boat. Suddenly, a storm comes up, throwing him into the sea. Marina saves her handsome prince and guides him to the shore. Marina falls deeply in love and desperately wants to become a human. Despite the hazards, she is willing to risk it all for love.

Tags: Fairy Tale , Foreign , Mermaid , Royal Affairs , Classic Literature , Tragedy , Magic , Coastal , Kids , Female Protagonist , Medieval

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Himitsu no Hanazono

Studio: NHK , Gakken , NHK Enterprises , Aubec
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Mary Lennox recently became an orphan because her parents died from a cholera epidemic in India so she was sent to live in England with her uncle. However, her uncle is a very distant man who talks to noone so she is left alone in the mansion with nobody to play with. Soon she meets a friendly servant boy named Dicon and his older sister Martha and they soon become good friends. Later on she discovers a secret garden and hopes it will bring happiness to her new family, including her cousin Collin who is crippled.

Tags: Kids , Classic Literature , Ojou-sama , Disability , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Historical , Animals

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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

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Kinpatsu no Jeanie

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

During the civil war a girl living in Virginia, named Jeanie, waits for her old boyfriend Robert to marry him, according to a childish promise, but the war makes the things complicated and, Robert comes back as northerner soldier.
Only with the conflict's end, and many misadventures, their dream will become true.

Tags: Historical , Revenge , Female Protagonist , Orphan , War , Nun

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Hana Yori Dango

Also known as Hana Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers).

Studio: Toei Animation , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Makino Tsukushi: a girl who comes from a poor family just wants to get through her 2 last years at Eitoku Gakuen, quietly. But once she makes herself known by standing up for her friend to the F4, the 4 most popular, powerful and rich boys at the school. She gets the red card: F4's way of a "Declaration of War". But when she doesn't let herself be beaten by them and is starting to fall for one of the F4; Hanazawa Rui. She starts to see that there is more than meets the eye...

Tags: Bullying , School , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Tsundere , Male Harem , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Revenge , Foreign

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Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette

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

Based on the famous classic novel Les Miserables.

Being a single mother is hard in early 19th Century France. When young Cosette was traveling with her mother trying to find a job and a place to live, they were always shunned away because very few employers hire single mothers. When she is promised with the prosperity of working in the big city, Cosette is separated from her mother in the hopes a caretaker will watch over her while her mother earns some money. Unfortunately this was a trick and the caretaker is a corrupt man who makes Cosette his indentured servant. Then the kind mayor of the town that Cosette makes her new home in sees how winds of change are so detrimental for children and families, and decides to do something about it.

Tags: Historical , Classic Literature , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Tragedy , Dystopian , Bullying , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Military , Inn , Police , Fugitive , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Guns , Animals , Marriage , Religion

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