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The Littl' Bits
200px The children of The Littl' $.25, from left to right: Willibit, Lillabit, Snagglebit, Chip, Browniebit
森の陽気な小人たち ベルフィーとリルビット (Mori no Yōki na Kobitotachi: Berufi to Rirubitto)
Anime tv serial
Directed by	Masayuki Hayashi
Studio	Tatsunoko Productions
Network	TV Tokyo
English network	Nick Jr.(U.S.) ITV/BBC (U.K.)
Original run	000000002022-01-07-0000 January vii – July 7, 1980 (1980-07-07)
Episodes	26[ane]
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The Littl' Bits (森の陽気な小人たち ベルフィーとリルビット , Mori no Yōki na Kobitotachi: Berufi to Rirubitto ^? , "Cheerful Dwarves of the Forest: Belfy and Lillabit") is a Japanese anime tv set series with 26 episodes, produced in 1980 by Tatsunoko Productions in Japan. First shown on Goggle box Tokyo (and so called Tokyo 12 Aqueduct), its Saban-produced English language translation was featured on the children's tv set station Nick Jr. from 1991 to 1995 alongside other children'southward anime series such as Adventures of the Footling Koala, Maya the Bee, Noozles, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, and Grimm'south Fairy Tale Classics.

Due to their similar size and naming scheme, an analogy is oft fatigued between the Littl' $.25 and the Smurfs.

Contents

• 1 Synopsis
• 2 Regional releases
• 3 Characters
  • three.i The Children
  • 3.2 The Adults
  • iii.3 The Animals
• 4 Episodes
• 5 Cast
  • 5.1 Japanese Cast
  • 5.2 English Cast
• 6 Staff
• 7 References
• viii External links

Synopsis

The series describes the adventures of a race of tiny people who live in a unproblematic hamlet in Foothill Forest. It focuses in particular on a grouping of children: Lillibit, Willibit, Snagglebit, Fleck, and Browniebit. Snagglebit, the spoiled son of the mayor, is enamored of the beautiful Lillibit, but she's best friends with Willibit, the moral part model and main protagonist. Thus, fifty-fifty though they generally go along well, Willibit and Snagglebit often barrel heads, especially over Lillibit. Snagglebit usually pals effectually with the brusque-in-stature Browniebit, who is something of a coward (and is often teased by Snagglebit for this), and Chip, who idolizes Lillibit's uncle, Dr. Snoozabit, and wants to be a doctor like him.

Another oftentimes recurring child character is Teenybit (Willibit'due south younger sis), who befriends Scarybit, an sick-tempered, superstitious old adult female assumed to exist a witch and shunned by most of the other villagers. Teenybit tin see that, nether Scarybit's tough outside, she's just a alone old lady who needs a friend.

The children are watched over past, and ofttimes scolded by, the older Littl' $.25 including the doctor Dr. Snoozabit, the wood-cutter Chopabit, the baker Bakeabit, Willibit'south male parent Grumpabit, Helpabit, the elder Elderbit, Mayor Bossabit (Snagglebit'south father), and others. Snoozabit has a tendency to beverage besides much, forcing his immature niece, Lillibit, to watch out for him and practice her best to keep him on the right track (In the American version, Snoozabit'southward drunkenness was rewritten equally being constantly sleepy and needing a nap, hence his English proper name).

Dr. Snoozabit has raised Lillibit since her infancy, and has ever told her that her birth parents died shortly after she was born. Not having a female parent and begetter around occasionally depressed Lillibit, especially when she observed her friends having fun with their parents. However, in the 2d-to-last episode of the series, it was revealed that Lillibit'south parents were in fact alive and were "Wanderbits" (descendants of the "Builderbit" race who were exiled from Foothill Wood for how they treated the animals who rose up and about collection them to extinction). In the terminate, the villagers decided to permit them to stay in Foothill Forest, and Lillibit and her parents were joyously reunited - simply in time for a devastating earthquake to ravage Foothill Forest in the last episode, forcing the villagers to band together to rebuild.

When they're non involved in politics (for example, one episode in which they attempted to get their blah fellow villagers to vote on election twenty-four hour period), the children spend much of their time exploring and interacting with the animals of the woods, both friendly and unfriendly, including raccoons, bears, bullfrogs, squirrels, fish, and horses. Lillibit tin even speak directly with animals. They ofttimes take advantage of their animal friends for transportation, especially Snuffly the flying squirrel and Blue the hedgehog.

The evidence consort harmony between man beings and the animal kingdom. The plot in every episode of the evidence had an of import lesson for the young audition - amongst the important issues which were addressed in the serial, were responsibility, patience, prejudice, hard work and the value of family and friends.^[2]

Regional releases

A few episodes of the prove were released on VHS in the early 1990s; i of these tapes, called Litt'l Friends (sic), is nonetheless available on Amazon. The evidence was never released in DVD, but bootleg DVDs of the Italian and Arabic versions are available for buy from some websites, as are some additional English episodes.

Characters

The Children

• Lillibit (alternate names: Berufi, Belfy, Tiptip, Belfi, Lutinette, Basma)

Voiced by: Yōko Asagami (Japanese), Anik Matern (English)

A sugariness, cute orphan girl who lives with her uncle Dr. Snoozabit and watches over him due to his addiction of drunkenness. While usually even-tempered and level-headed, Lillibit sometimes loses her atmosphere with her uncle because of his laziness. Lillibit tin speak straight to animals which includes Snuffly.

• Willibit (alternate names: Rirubitto, Lillibit, Tiptipon, Lutinou, Abdo)

Voiced by: Mayumi Tanaka

The moral role model and main protagonist who is Lillibit'due south best friend. He is brave and has a strong sense of justice just as well has a tendency to act impetuously.

• Snagglebit (alternate names: Napoleon)

Voiced by: Sachiko Chijimatsu

The spoiled son of Mayor Bossabit. He has a beat out on Lillibit and considers himself to exist Willibit's rival for Lillibit'southward affections, but he and Willibit usually get along fairly well.

• Flake

One of Snagglebit's cronies, the son of Chopabit the woodcutter. He idolizes Dr. Snoozabit and became the physician's unofficial assistant in i early episode, until he realized how much work the medical profession actually involves.

• Browniebit

Voiced by: Sonja Brawl

The third member of Snagglebit'south gang, considerably shorter in stature than the other children. He tends to be somewhat of a coward and is oft teased by Snagglebit and Fleck for this.

• Teenybit (alternate names: Chuchuna, Cuccuna)

Willibit'south younger sister, a precocious girl and very observant for her historic period. Teenybit has a brave streak to rival her blood brother'southward, which sometimes gets her into trouble. She is the central character in several episodes which involve her befriending the village outcast, Scarybit.

The Adults

• Dr. Snoozabit (alternate names: Daggurin, Docklin)

Voiced by: Terrence Scammell

Lillabit's uncle, the town doctor who enjoys drinking dandelion wine ("dandelion juice" in the English language version). Lillabit does her best to proceed him sober simply often gets frustrated with him. Despite his debauchery and laziness, he is a skilled doctor and is highly respected by the citizens of Foothill Forest.

• Mayor Bossabit

Voiced past: Arthur Grosser

Snagglebit's father and the mayor of the village in Foothill Forest. He is raising Snagglebit on his ain equally his wife (Snagglebit'due south female parent) died when Snagglebit was still very young. His chore often leaves him little time for his son, merely he loves and is very protective of Snagglebit.

• Scarybit

An hating, superstitious quondam woman assumed to be a witch. Initially, she seems to relish her outsider status, but she is eventually befriended by immature Teenybit and is soon more accepted by the society of Foothill Woods.

• Chopabit

The forest-cutter, Scrap's father. He wants his son to go a woodcutter like him, but Fleck has other ambitions, which causes some friction between father and son.

• Bakeabit

The baker.

• Grumpabit

Voiced by: A.J. Henderson

Willibit and Teenybit's father. Despite his grumpy demeanor, he is a kind-hearted man who cares securely for his family. His wife is known in the series simply as "Mrs. Grumpabit."

• Helpabit

Mayor Bossabit's alive-in gardener and handyman. Helpabit is famous for his delicious beloved, with its hugger-mugger ingredient of nectar from the flowers known every bit "Blue Lovelies."

• Elderbit (Japanese proper noun, Ronji)

Voiced by: Rick Jones

The village's elderberry, sage, and instructor to the children (albeit in a non-formal chapters since there is no school per se in the series) who savor hearing his stories of days gone past in Foothill Forest.

The Animals

• Snuffly (Japanese name, Monga)

A flying squirrel who is Lillabit's friend and constant companion and frequently joins in the children's games. He doubles equally a mode of transportation for Willibit and Lillabit on their adventures.

• Blue (Japanese name, Pion)

A hedgehog who is also a companion of the children.

Episodes

1. "The Children's Festival" -
2. "Doc Snoozabit" -
3. "The Old Manufactory Stream" -
4. "The Rainbow Firefly" -
5. "Election Day" -
6. "Scarybit the Witch" -
7. "Winter Strawberries" -
8. "The Snow Woman" -
9. "Relieve the Raccoon!" -
10. "Madame Bella the Weaver" -
11. "The Baby Bears" -
12. "Looking at the Stars" -
13. "Poor Old Helpabit" -
14. "Storm Infant" -
15. "The Mystical Monument" -
16. "Help the Squirrel" -
17. "The Legend of Red Light" -
18. "The Cowardly Filly" -
19. "The Strange Egg" -
20. "Let'due south Go to the Ocean, Function 1" -
21. "Let'southward Go to the Ocean, Part two" -
22. "The Red Rainbow" -
23. "Earthquake!" -
24. "Forget-Me-Nots" -
25. "The Wanderbits" -
26. "Atrocious, Awful Days" -

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Japanese Cast

• Belfy (Lillabit): Yōko Asagami
• Lillibit (Willibit): Mayumi Tanaka
• Napoleon (Snagglebit): Sachiko Chijimatsu
• Chuchuna (Teenybit): Tsuneko Shitomi
• Daggurin: Kaneta Kimotsuki
• Ronji (Elderbit): Ryuji Saikachi
• Mayor Meimondo (Mayor Bossabit): Minoru Nishio
• Narrator: Toshiko Maeda

Annotation: It is ofttimes mistakenly believed by Westerners that the Japanese "Belfy" (Berufi) and the English "Willibit" are the same character, and that the Japanese "Lillibit" (Rirubitto) and the English "Lillabit" are the aforementioned character. In fact, "Belfy" is the name of the female, not the male, pb of the series in the original Japanese, and "Rirubitto" is the male, not the female, atomic number 82. This can be confirmed by consulting the English-language department of Tatsunoko Productions' Website.

English Cast

• Sonja Ball - Browniebit
• Arthur Grosser - Mayor Bossabit
• Dean Hagopian -
• A.J. Henderson - Grumpabit
• Arthur Holden - Snagglebit
• Rick Jones - Elderbit
• Liz MacRae -
• Walter Massey - Narrator
• Anik Matern - Lillabit
• Terrence Scammell - Dr. Snoozabit
• Jane Woods -
• Rachelle Cano - Lead Vocal Opening and Closing Themes

Staff

Japanese Version (Mori no Yoki na Kobito-tachi Berufi to Rirubitto)

• Created past: Shigeru Yanagawa, Tomoyuki Miyata, Tatsunoko Product
• Executive Producer: Kenji Yoshida
• Planning: Tatsunoko Production Planning Squad, Tokyu Bureau
• Production Supervisor: Ryoichi Yamada, Masakazu Fujii
• Chief Director: Masayuki Hayashi
• Episode Manager: Masayuki Hayashi, Norio Yazawa, Shinichi Tsuji, Mizuho Nishikubo, Hiroshi Iwata, Hideo Furusawa, Masakazu Higuchi, Shigeru Omachi
• Screenplay/Storyboards: Akiyoshi Sakai, Naoko Miyake, Takao Koyama, Yoshiko Takagi, Yu Yamamoto, Shigeru Yanagawa, Yuji Suzuki, Osamu Sekiguchi, Norio Yazawa, Masayuki Hayashi
• Music: Takeo Watanabe^[1]
• Character Design: Akiko Shimomoto, Hiromitsu Morita
• Animation Director: Hiromitsu Morita, Hayao Nobe
• Theme Song Performance: Kumiko Oosugi (OP- Mori he Oide Yo; ED- Oyasumi Chuchuna)
• Camera: Studio Gallop
• Laboratory: Orient Laboratory (now IMAGICA)
• Broadcaster: Tokyo 12 Aqueduct (7 January to seven July 1980)
• Production: Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd.

English language Version (The Littl' Bits)

• Script: Michael McConnohie (episode 2)
• Music: Haim Saban, Shuki Levy
• Associate Producer: Eric S. Rollman
• Executive Producer: Jerald E. Bergh
• Producer: Winston Richard
• Supervising Producer: Winston Richard
• Supervising Author: Robert 5. Barron
• Voice Director: Tim Reid
• Opening and Endmost Theme Vocalist: Rachelle Cano

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.i} 森の陽気な小人たち ベルフィーとリルビット. Tatsunoko Productions (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-08-16 . CS1 maint: unrecognized linguistic communication (link)<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
2. ↑ "Tatsunoko Pro". Tatsunoko Productions . Retrieved 2008-07-20 .<templatestyles src="Module:Commendation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>

External links

• The Littl' Bits (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• The Littl' $.25 on IMDb
• Tatsunoko Us
• The Littl' $.25 at Idiot box.com
• LittlBits.com unofficial fan site

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