is a Japanese anime series by Nippon Animation. This 1982 adaptation is part of the studio's popular World Masterpiece Theater franchise, based on the 1982 novel Southern Rainbow by Australian writer Phyllis Piddington (1910–2001), and 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 Australia to start a farm.
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.
The anime has been dubbed into French, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, and Persian.
Cast
Minori Matsushima as ルーシー・メイ (Lucy-May) Ikuko Tani as Annie Katsunosuke Hori as Arthur Rihoko Yoshida as Kate
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