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. The anime has been dubbed into French, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, Thai and Persian.
Plot Set in the 1830s, 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.
Cast and characters Popple family Minori Matsushima as Lucy-May Popple - the 7-year-old main character. Rihoko Yoshida as Kate Popple - Lucy-May's 10-year-old sister, she serves as narrator of the series. Sakiko Ikeda as Clara Popple - Lucy-May's 16-year-old sister and eldest sibling. Tatsuya Matsuda as Ben Popple - Lucy-May's 12-year-old brother. Teiyū Ichiryūsai and Yumi Takada as Tob Popple - Lucy-May's 2-year-old brother and youngest sibling. Katsunosuke Hori as Arthur Popple - Lucy-May's father. Ikuko Tani as Annie Popple - Lucy-May's mother. Marsh - Lucy-May's pet hamster. Little - Lucy-May's pet dingo.
Others Mie Suzuki as Billie Jamling - a 10-year-old boy who is friends with Kate and Lucy-May. Tetsuo Mizutori as Mr. Jamling - Billie's father, a carpenter who is also a friend of the Popples Junpei Takiguchi as Mr. Pettiwell - a wealthy businessman who came on the same ship as the Popples. Happy - Mr. Pettiwell's dog. Hiroshi Masuoka as Mr. Parker - a friend of Popple family. Kazuhiko Inoue as John - a young sailor with a crush on Clara. Chikako Akimoto as Jane Mac - a kind neighbor of the Popples. Rokurō Naya as Bernard - Jane's brother, who works in Colonel Light's office Kimie Nakajima and Takashi Yasuda as Mary and Fred - aunt and uncle of Lucy-May who live with Arthur's mother in Yorkshire, England. Miyoko Asō as Grandmother - mother of Arthur and Mary. Toshihiko Kojima as Frank Princeton - a wealthy landowner who helps Lucy-May after an accident. Akiko Tsuboi as Sylvia Princeton - Frank's wife, who becomes morbidly attached to Lucy-May who reminds her of her deceased daughter.
Production 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. Another adaptation of the story, written by Ken Wakasaki as a tie-in to the anime, was also published in Japan in 1982.
Episodes To a New land Cute Fellow The Replacement First Exploration After the Rain A Town Named Adelaide Ben's Misfortune Night Before Departure Road to Adelaide Green Town My Small House Night at Adelaide Ben Has Arrived A Stout Man Two Homes Drenched Doctor Unfortunate Accident Tree Climbing Shopping Tine Water in the Well Adelaide's Designer Children of Brick and Dingo Your Name is Little The Day Which Marks The End Of Summer When I'm Not Brought Along I Got Sick! Ride on the Wind Land Opposite the River Little's Training Birthday Present Little and Black Dog Bridge over the Rainbow Lost Dream Little and School Duel Five Shillings in the Nest Bandits of the Grassland Detective Lucy Two Farewells Who Am I? A Town I Do Not Know, A Person I Do Not Recognize A Child Called Emily Missing Each Other Little! Little! Tob's Vanished A Wombat In The Hole Father's Decision Rich Child Clara's Marriage Toward's the Rainbow
Music Opening theme: "Niji ni Naritai" by Sumiko Yamagata Ending theme: "Mori ni Oide" by Sumiko Yamagata
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