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“Orphan girl attends elite school on anonymous "Daddy Long Legs" scholarship in unrelated TV special.”
Daddy Long-Legs
あしながおじさん
5.54
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Orphan girl attends elite school on anonymous "Daddy Long Legs" scholarship in unrelated TV special.
An orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who she refers to as Daddy Long Legs. Note: This TV special is not related to the 1990's series directly. (Source: AniDB)
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- 5 “I'm not sure if it was the awful English dub, the horrible animation, or the over sentimentality of the story that made this so painful to watch. Let's start with the dub: at times the words didn't...”
- 5 “Based on a novel written a hundred years ago, about a young orphan girl who gets the chance to go to college by a mysterious benefactor, with the stipulation that she write him at least one letter...”
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- Format 1 × 60′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 00m all episodes
- Aired Oct 1979 – ongoing
- Source Tv special media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-8277 catalog
Produced by
- Fuji TV Producer
- Meruhensha Producer