Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (1987)
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics is a Japanese animated anthology series by Nippon Animation. The episodes are adaptations of a variety of folk and fairy tales, and not limited to Grimm's Fairy Tales.
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Episode 1 - The Travelling Musicians of Bremen
Release Date: 1987-10-21An old donkey who can no longer haul heavy loads overhears his master's plan to kill him and eat him. So, he runs away to the town of Bremen to become a musician. Along the way, he meets a dog, a cat, and a rooster who join him.
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Episode 2 - Hansel and Gretel
Release Date: 1987-10-28Due to a devastating famine, two children, Hansel and Gretel, are abandoned in the woods by their cruel stepmother and are lured to a gingerbread house inhabited by a child-eating witch.
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Episode 3 - The Frog Prince (1)
Release Date: 1987-11-04A selfish princess learns a lesson in humility and consideration for others from a talking frog.
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Episode 4 - The Frog Prince (2)
Release Date: 1987-11-11 -
Episode 5 - Little Red Riding Hood
Release Date: 1987-11-18A little girl on her way through the woods to her grandmother's house is accosted by a sneaky, hungry wolf.
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Episode 6 - The Golden Goose
Release Date: 1987-11-25A young simpleton is gifted a golden goose in return for an act of kindness. When three scheming sisters plot to steal the goose, they become stuck to it and every person who tries to free them becomes stuck in turn until they perform an unselfish act.
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Episode 7 - Puss in Boots (1)
Release Date: 1987-12-02A clever cat schemes and cajoles to elevate his master's social and financial status.
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Episode 8 - Puss in Boots (2)
Release Date: 1987-12-09 -
Episode 9 - Snow White and Rose Red
Release Date: 1987-12-16Two sisters are visited in winter by a talking bear, but he leaves in the spring speaking of riches to protect and an evil spell. Then Snow White and Rose Red keep encountering a helpless but cold gnome, and later a prince seeking his lost brother.
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Episode 10 - Snow White (1)
Release Date: 1987-12-23A vain and wicked queen orders the death of her stepdaughter, Snow White, for exceeding her beauty. But Snow White flees into the woods where she meets seven friendly dwarfs who help to protect her when the queen comes to finish the job.
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Episode 11 - Snow White (2)
Release Date: 1987-12-30 -
Episode 12 - Snow White (3)
Release Date: 1988-01-06 -
Episode 13 - Snow White (4)
Release Date: 1988-01-13 -
Episode 14 - The Six Who Went Far
Release Date: 1988-01-20A soldier is unjustly compensated by a money-hoarding king and princess. Forced to fend for himself, he meets five remarkable friends: a strongman, one who can run faster than any other human, one whose bare head can create ice and snow, one whose breath extends for a distance, and one who can see and shoot for miles. The soldier inspires them to follow him, then they decide to stop the cruelty of the country's rulers.
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Episode 15 - The Water of Life
Release Date: 1988-01-27A young prince in line to inherit a kingdom goes on a quest for the Water of Life to save his ailing father, the King's, life. But the prince's older brother, wanting the kingdom for himself, tries to steal the Water to prove his worth to the King and get in his good favor again.
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Episode 16 - Bluebeard
Release Date: 1988-02-03Josephine's dreams of marrying a prince seem to come true when one sends for her in her forest home. Though her brothers are wary of her wedding a man none of them has met, she accepts eagerly - but is startled by his striking beard of blue. The prince, who provides Josephine with every luxury until she becomes haughty, has only one locked, mismatched room in his castle he will not discuss. When he leaves her with his keys and instructions to see that one is not used, Josephine is lured by it to the forbidden room, and a terrible secret.
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Episode 17 - Jorinde and Joringel
Release Date: 1988-02-10When Jorinde and her fiancé Joringel visit the woods, its witch they unknowingly encountered earlier draws them to her home and turns Jorinde into a nightingale and takes her as she does every maid she meets. After being unable to move to stop it, Joringel is driven out of the woods by her magic with only a puzzling message from Jorinde, and can't see a way to best the magic to free her.
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Episode 18 - Briar Rose
Release Date: 1988-02-17 -
Episode 19 - Old Sultan
Release Date: 1988-02-24 -
Episode 20 - King Grizzle Beard
Release Date: 1988-03-02 -
Episode 21 - The Naughty Spirit
Release Date: 1988-03-09 -
Episode 22 - The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes
Release Date: 1988-03-13 -
Episode 23 - Cinderella (1)
Release Date: 1988-03-23 -
Episode 24 - Cinderella (2)
Release Date: 1988-03-30