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“Orphaned Heidi melts her bitter grandfather's heart while sharing Alpine adventures with Peter and Clara.”
Heidi: Girl of the Alps
アルプスの少女ハイジ
7.43
2,379 rank · 42,406 viewers · 382 favorites
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Synopsis
Orphaned Heidi melts her bitter grandfather's heart while sharing Alpine adventures with Peter and Clara.
After becoming an orphan, Heidi is forced to live with her grandfather Öhi, who lives in the Alps. She learns he's a very bitter man who only accepted by force to take her in. But Heidi's kindness may be able to open his heart. Together with the shepherd Peter and invalid Clara, she has lots of adventures. (Source: adapted from ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 18 sampled reviews
8.1
/10
What 18 viewers settled on.
88%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 1.85
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.85 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.8 pts
Recommenders 8.8 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↓ 0.89
Running avg · Aug 2014 → Feb 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Beautiful, a serie that everyone most see, with an amazing story that will capture your full attention. Certainly is a classic anime with a few years old, but I must say that's not so important as...”
- 9 “Like many Afrikaner kids, I grew up watching this in the Afrikaans dub (making this my first anime!). In my late teens, I was pleasantly surprised to find that this is in fact an anime. I rewatched...”
- 9 “I can confirm, this is what Switzerland is like. In all seriousness, this is the first anime I ever saw, before I even knew what anime was. The anime certainly lives up to being "a story for...”
Verbosity
Short · 61%
Medium · 22%
Long · 17%
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- Format 52 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 21h 40m all episodes
- Aired Jan 1974 – Dec 1974 Winter 1974
- Source Tv media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-2039 catalog