AniWorthTales of Little Women
Introduction
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.
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 7.47/10 · 3837
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Audience reviews
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ProxyLain
English is not my language.
Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari is a classic from the highly acclaimed Nippon Animation studio, and is part of the "World Masterpiece Theater" framework
Ai no Wakakusa is a simple anime about the daily life of the March family, who had to move out of their home because of the war. It is based on the classic autobiographical book "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott.
I admire the story of this anime, even though at a certain point it got a bit stale and uninteresting.
There are many interesting things in this anime, and also many exciting things, like saving a slave who escaped from the battlefield in the war (this happened in the author's lifetime).
At the request of Frederic, father of all the girls in the anime, they move into the house of their aunt, Martha. Mar…
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I have been recently going through the old World Masterpiece Theater collection and this one is a very good adaptation of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. The story is about the March family having to make ends meet in Newport (Concord), Massachusetts during the back drop of the American Civil War. The show also takes some liberties on the original story in a respectful way, mostly adding more back story to the March family and how they came to be at the beginning of the book.
The characters are balanced, Amy tends to be very unlikeable in this show at first. But you begin to understand her mindset as a child during the progression of the story. Jo is always assertive, but has an underling self doubt. Meg feels as though she has to help fill in a mother role for her sisters and not liv…
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