The Melancholy Promise of Heidi, Girl of the Alps
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Isao Takahata made a big name for himself with his adaptation of Johanna Spyri's Heidi, Girl of the Alps. In doing so he made Heidi the national treasure she is today, celebrated as much in Japan as she is in Switzerland, and she is as famous as the late, great director himself. But there's more to Heidi than meets the eye, and in this video I take a look at the glimpses we get into the man Takahata would become, just past the saccharin, cute tale of a small girl chasing goats across the Swiss Alps.
This video was originally produced as part of the Anituber Anthology 4, an homage to the works of Isao Takahata. You can find the full video here: • The Isao Takahata Trib...
I'm pretty sure this was the first anime I ever saw on TV in Germany.
die guten alten zeiten
Same. However, it was my parents who introduced this to me, since it made up a huge part of their childhood growing up.
My second anime
This is the only Anime I ever watched.
This, Biene Maja and Wickie.
A total classic in German kids TV... I watched and loved it LOTS as a kid, even then I was totally taken with the beautiful animation, design and background art!
Only a few years ago I learned that it's a Japanese production... by Ghibli no less! :'D
TheAether Wow thats so interesting!! Didnt know germans watched this too 🤯 I’m japanese but lived in America but still grew up watching this 😪This was such an emotional video
It’s 3D animated now
Not by Ghibli, it was made many years before studio's foundation
@@haroldsen4238 I heard all the new 3D animated shows are shite. Can you confirm?
@@hillary6800 A german (Leo Kirch) commissioned the Heidi anime to nippon animation(or whatever it was called back in the day) It was meant for german TV.
*I'm Austrian, I pretty much grew up watching Heidi, it was the first thing I ever watched on TV and it never left me. The alps are not far for me and because of this animation, I go there every weekend and take long hikes. I think everybody should watch Heidi, when he has a bad time, it really lifts up the spirit and let's you see the simple and beautiful things in life.*
I live in Switzerland and this was my childhood. This was on TV when i was little and i loved it so much. Brings back memories, man
Dang this anime is the reason why I badly want to visit SWITZERLAND 😭😭😭😭.. I want to visit Heidi's place rofl
@@minye0598 I'm pretty sure that almost anywhere in Switzerland,looks the same. Full of mountains
😇
@@alakhazomEhhh not exactly :)
Although a lot of the country is covered by the alps, not all of it looks like the scenery in Heidi haha
My mom grew up watching Heidi on TV, and when I started getting into Ghibli films, she pointed out that those movies looked similar to the cartoons she used to watch in her childhood.
Now I know it wasn't a coincidence. Heidi is one of the things my mom remembers the most fondly from her childhood, in fact she used to sing the intro as a bed song for me and my brother when we were very young (we are mexican and Heidi's intro has different lyrics here, which are basically Heidi asking her grandfather why things are the way they are, like how in spring the flowers bloom and that sort of stuff, singing, of course, it's a very beautiful rendition of the song), and it's honestly kinda bizarre but sweet how something that she holds dear in her heart is actually made by the same people who went on to make some of the most fantastic works I have ever had the pleasure of watching, and that I have come to personally grow fond of as well. It's fascinating how Miyazaki and Takahata have had such a long and successful career that me and my mother, with completely different childhoods, experiences, and a large age gap like the works of those two men and their group of animators, writers, and all the musicians that have worked with them.
Man exactly my mother also watch Heidi when she was younger and she learn it to me too when I was a toddler but really I have her in my heart and I love her so much that I can't describe how much I adore her ❤️
dude you almost make tear up watching this, I remember watching this adaptation of Heidi, and loving every bit as a kid.
same here ;_; it‘s just sooo beautiful
I'm swiss who's been living abroad for about a year and when I feel homesick, watching this show just... brings tears to my eyes and reminds me of my childhood, this show is incredibly important to me
it's made me homesick for switzerland ever since I was a kid and I've never been there
I’m absolutely obsessed and in love with la pequeñita Heidi. This show is golden, especially the Spanish version from Spain. Heidi is in my heart. Always.
She is in my heart forever as well.
I have never agree so much!
Or Spanish version of Latin America, in my case!
I want to say... That there was this one episode of Hetalia, where Japan met Switzerland.
Where he comments on how the man was different from what he had imagined... And it cuts of to this scene where Japan pictures Switzerland dancing on the top of a hill
AND ONLY NOW, do I understand the reference.
I dont understand what you mean. Can you explain please
@@naruto53353, there is this anime called Hetalia where countries are turned into human characters.
Each country has a personality that's based on the stereotypes that each of those countries are known for, example: Japan is a very quiet and reserved man, Italy is a lazy womanizer, France is flamboyant and hates England... etc etc.
The anime narrates the world history through the interaction of these characters, and being as such, we see how each country thinks and acts toward the other.
Switzerland is a very closed off and unfriendly man, in this anime, being kind only to Lichestein. And there is an episode where the character that represents Japan meets Switzerland, where the Japanese comments on how different of a person Switzerland was from what he had pictured, and that is because of the influence that Heidi had made on the country. So, when Japan sees the stoic, serious person that is Switz, he imagines him dancing in the Alps while singing, for THAT is how Japan thought he would be like.
Aaa only NOW I got your reference! Thnx for the explanation
I just realized this too holy shit
I watched Heidi about 5 months ago through my sister recommendation. Can’t describe how beautiful this anime is. I enjoyed every episode and left me thinking about her. Worth watching.
My mind has been blown twice!
1. The cartoon show I've grown up watching was made in japan?
2. Hayao Miyazaki was involved?
miyasan and takahatasan. you better see it again
Trust me you are not the only one soiling your pants right now. Mine are through the moment I heard Hayao worked on this beautiful series. Actually I watched it as a kid as well. Man good old times I'm telling ya.
Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of Gundam, was also involved.
@@raibyo nice
And Yoichi Kotabe was HEIDI's character designer....he'd go on to design MARCO, Rascal Racoon, the Pokemon movies as well as the iconic Super Mario Brothers Nintendo characters. Takeo Watanabe composed the music heard in Japan, Latin America and various other countries. In Europe the music was redone, but frankly, while good it does not come anywhere close in emotional energy as Watanabe's masterpiece. Takeo Watanabe also composed various other anime music, most notably the score for Candy Candy for Toei Animation.
I grew up with this masterpiece of a tv show just like my mother did before me and just recently I rewatched this show once again- never gets old. I'd honestly would reccomend every stuido ghibli fan to watch this amazing show. It's heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking with some really really great visuals
In El Salvador was a huge success, I'm here because we're rewatching it for the holidays, good times then and good times now.
This show made it to Venezuela where I'm from and man, this brings many wonderful memories of my grandfather, with whom I used to watch this show since I can remember until he died when I was 6. I really want to give this show another watch, but I'll probably cry most of the time lol.
this show was my childhood :,)
date un chance broder, reconoceras las lagrimas de gozo, takahata es un genio
se puede ver n yutube
I used to sing the Spanish OP with my grandmother, I definitely feel the nostalgia
Watch it again and again and again and again :)
Heidi, Pinocchio, Nils Holgersson and Captain Future...that were the series that introduced Anime to Germany back in the 70s. My childhood!
World Masterpiece Theatre yielded so many gems. I saw Heidi in its feature length incarnation as a child back when I had no concept of what anime was. It remains one of the most poetic adaptations of the story.
I was named after this!! I never knew it was Hayao Miyazaki’s work!! No wonder I was so fascinated by Studio Ghibli’s work.
Growing up in Switzerland while watching a anime that takes place in Switzerland. Good times indeed.
I watch the whole things as a kid of 5-6 and omg did it ever make me cry. My mom watched it in the 70s when it first aired in Mexico and then me in the 80s. Later on my niece also was introduced to series as a little kid and loved it. It still makes me cry til this day. We've watched the full series together years ago when I lived with my folks. Great memories.
This one will never go from my heart... Today Iam 18 years old and I will watch it over and over whenever I will miss it.. 😊
Bro, your videos are always on point. I want you to know that I really appreciate them , especially knowing how much time and effort it costs to do resesrch, write scripts and edit videos. I am writing this comment before watching the video because i know that this will be my conclusion based on all your previous videos. Thanks man, I really mean it..
Thank you. I'm so touched that my videos mean so much to you. I'll do my best to keep it up :)
I was growing up watching that show. I was really suprised when i found out years later that it was directed by Takahata.
Heidi's dying flowers bring to mind Takahata's GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES!
I used to watch this show with my mother as a 6 year old, I love it. The episodes with Pichi (the little bird) have basically been embedded in my consciousness and traumatised me to this day to the point I still have tears leaking out my eyes watching this video. The melancholy is real and deftly woven in to every strand of this show, and the simply beauty of it really seals it in.
World masterpiece theater is an amazing collection of anime series. I wish all of it was available outside of Japan.
I never cried so much for a show😭 grew up watching this with my mom
I really cry with this I love Heidi so MUCH 😭❤️
There aren't many anime that have a wheelchair-bound character be such a integral part of so many episodes
🏔🌲🛷⛷ I remembered watching HEIDI with my sister and my mom in 1980🕊🕊🕊. Now in 2020, i'm watching this cartoon again, 40 years later....What a BEAUTIFUL cartoon....I try to stop crying like the child i was..... Nostalgia hurts my heart....I would like return to my childhood on the 80 ies.....Good old days.....
its hard not to cry when heidi got taken away from her grandpa as well when she reunites with him again
Your videos make me happy on the bad days thx this video was amazing
Wow thank you so much Mason! I almost didn't release this video separately. Now I'm really glad I did :)
Dörfli means little village
Dorf = village
li is the diminuitive ending.
I was weirded out when I first realised Heidi was an anime, all my childhood I had thought it was Swiss or German
and then I found out Hayao Miyazaki was involved.
It was commissioned by a german. I wonder if it aired first in japan or germany.
I visited the Heidi House in Switzerland last year. How come I missed getting something for this anime as a souvenir in the tiny Heidi Museum there.
When it ends, feels like loosing something
I remember watching it on cartoon network India in early 2000s. I loved this show, brings back memories.
So many things I didn't know about it, like it was originally a Japanese anime.
I think this was the first Anime of a lot of us who grew up in the 80s. I wish I could find a good quality version like the one in this video. I watched it in Spanish and they still to this day show the original unedited and un cleaned version. I've seen HD versions of this in other languages and it looks amazing. The colors, the mountains, everything looks more beautiful than I remember in HD. Sadly the Spanish versions I don't think it's available in that format. If someone knows of one let me know.
I used to watch this series thanks to my mom that was also a fan. Before ever knowing what anime was. Is great to see this. Keep the great work.
My mom also introduced me to it! 😊
Same guys
I love you for posting this video! bcus i, like you, adore Heidi.
Y con Haydi somos tres
@@sonnyshades5519 I LOVE IT!
This was shown in philippine tv way back in the early 90s if i remember correctly.
This brings back memories. Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, The Bush Baby, 3000 leagues in search of mother and My Daddy Longlegs in particular.
The movie was translated in Greek, too. I loved every episode I watched as a child. It was like a colorful, memorable, nostalgic journey. 😄
Ps. I like that you added the scenes in japanese. I noticed that some scenes have different translations outside of Japan.
Shockley your mono tone voice adds depth to this documentary
fun fact: Heidi, Girl of the Alps was not part of the World masterpiece theater, Heidi was made before the series, more accurate to say that Heidi was so successful, hence the making of the World masterpiece theater series.
It's kind of like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, it was not made by Studio Ghibli, but a anime company called Topcraft. Now everyone consider it is made by Ghibli because Hayao Miyazaki directed it. In other hand, many member of Topcraft join Ghibli after Topcraft closed down, and Ghibli acquired the copyright of the wind of the Valley, so it's fair to say it's a Ghibli animation...lol
Wow, this is the first Anime that I ever watched. It was so beautiful in terms of story and visual art. Once every couple of years, I randomly watch an episode and get teleported back to my childhood. The good old days!
Loved this series growing up! This was broadcast as an English dub on Cartoon Network South Asia in the late 90s/early 00s, when we lived in Bangladesh briefly (Sri Lankan here). Loved the animation and the atmosphere it managed to capture. Spot on about the sense of melancholy- it's part of what attracted a lot of us to this I think
The whole entire dvd pack was once gifted to me by my grandmother when I was a kid! I’m from Canada and it was my first taste of anime back then I just loved it and even as a child I could feel the depth of this show. It is truly lovely!
Please make a video about "A Dog of Flanders." It's the saddest story to come out of Japan anime in the 1970s.
I grew up watching this show as a kid and seeing this video just brought up so many emotions.
Thank you for making these videos. I grew up with this show and it remains one of my main reasons why I adore takahata's work to this day
A nice anecdote is that this trip they made to Switzerland to sightsee and take notes was the first time ever for animators to make an expedition abroad for the sake of a cartoon.
this anime is popular in Philippines and it was one of the anime that made my childhood. Remembering back when I was child I didn’t quite remember how I reacted to the sad scenes all I remember is I really like watching it every morning. But now I just rewatched it again as an adult my oh my I bawled my eyes out when I watched it. This anime will always have a special place in my heart ❤️
Give ABS-CBN credit where it is due for bringing this gem to Pinoy viewers...even with the Tagalog dubbing, many were moved with the little Swiss girl's pluck and charm
That show did have a who's who of anime titans working on it...Miyazaki, Takahata and Tomino (the latter who also worked on the Voltes V anime) to name a few
And Marco, Mojacko, Doraemon
as a swiss kidi remember whenever i came out of school this would air on tv. fun times:)
And to this day I search for the English dub that so well voice acted. There was project that was done just to get a suitable English sub a few years ago. But the English dub has forever been lost. I would like to pay as much as possible for this. Although I have watched it in Japanese and I adored it, for people who have never had the chance to watch this as a child a English dub would be far easier to approach. And i feel sad that many people are missing out on this wonder just due to that fact. Please if someone has access to the Eng Dub of Heidi, DM me so that we can help other people enjoy this beauty.
Every emotion is portrayed so beautifully. Japanese are best at anime
my mom grew up watching this show. I also grew up watching this since whatever anime she saw she showed me. whenever I see photos of it I can't help but tear up.
My mom grew up watching this show
same here with my mom
Same
I grew with anime since the 90s and so on. i watched this with my dad the first time with him in 2021. And he told me this was one of the first anime he watched when he young while in El Salvador.
Now that I think of it, Heidi was actually my very first anime. It never occurred to me before because I thought it was a western cartoon growing up.
This made me dream of the Alps and I still do ❤️
This was my childhood. I remember watching it on TV many years ago but I forgot the name though I've been looking for it and now I'm here. So glad this brought back memories :) ❤
R.I.P Isao Takahata.
...die Show ist auch eine Kindheitserinnerung für Menschen außerhalb Japans :)
I actually remember watching this one and only just now remembered watching it after seeing this video. I had no clue it was made by Miyazaki and Takahata so that's really really cool! Thanks for the memory jog ^^
Wonderful! I hope there will be more content on Takahata's work in the future :) His stuff is so underrated among non-japanese anime fans
I'm german so I grew up watching this and two years ago actually read the original book and even though they left out a lot they captured the story and characters so well. You can see how much love and passion they put in this series ♥
I had been watching the whole series with my mom since six months ago. And tonight we watched the final episode.
"Until we meet again"
What an emotional journey this anime was. The story of Heidi was full of joy and full of tears.
Heartwarming and melancholic.
Heidi, Alm-uncle, Peter, Clara, Joseph and all the other characters will be remembered for a long long time.
Thank you for covering this.
For some reason, we had a Heidi anime dub in Hindi for India in early 2000s. I think it's probably where my interests for anime and appreciation for Ghibli movies began.
We had a Malayalam dub on a local channel in Kerala loved it growing up now that channel is not how it used to be
the kid watching hiedi become respectful and caring to other
This anime is so cozy i can see how it started the man's career who would romanticize the region in a way that's impossibly lovely
Thank you for all the work you put into each of these videos. They are beautifully crafted, intelligent, and contain wonderful insight. Honestly they are of professional quality, and I could easily see them being a networked educational series.
This is a pretty popular kidshow in the German nation (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).
Omg ... I grew up on this series 😢😢
My father watched this as a kid and we watch it every year.
Please make a video about Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac. It's from the same creators of Heidi. It's just as deep, emotional and melancholic as Heidi. I promise it will make you cry.
My mother used to watch this when she was a kid
I remeber on the Albanian TV in the morning I wake up eat breakfast and watch Haidi it was so good.
Me and my mum used to watch this childhood memories :')
My mother watch this when she was a kid in Mexico
Watched it earlier this year. Such an amazing and wholesome series. There's just something special about it.
I just really wanna say that I hope you find a great sense of pleasure from making videos and that it helps supplement you in some way as well. Your work is absolutely excellent and I enjoy watching it as much as I do the actual anime featured in them. Thanks for putting in such effort and quality, it really makes all the difference.
A timeless classic here in France. I've just purchased the newly released Italian collector DVD box set, that features the original Japanese language.
The French dub is really good, but it was done in Quebec and they unfortunately changed some German names to make them sound more French (Peter > Pierre, Clara > Claire, Fräulein Rottenmeier > Melle Rougemont...)
I already have the complete series in German, to make it more "authentic", however they replaced the original score by Takeo Watanabe...
I LOVE HEIDI!!!
Bringing lots of memories
I feel nostalgia .... 😢-😊
This is the first time in my life that i see Heidi in such a beautiful hd resolution, and i have to say, i never expected those backgrounds to be paintings when I was little. I mean, i knew those were paintings for sure, but man you can even see the strokes of the brush here, it's crazy
Im german and loved this anime 🥰
I love your videos man. Please never stop making them.
Takahata has made some amazing films.
: D
Now this is very bizarre, a couple of months ago I was in a group trip in Europe for Band Touring. One of the places we stopped at was Crans-Montana, Switzerland, and it was in a hauntingly beautiful spot in the mountain ridge. I would some tines merely look out my hotel window and just see the most beautiful view of snow peaks and clouds that were rolling over the mountain tops. It was amazing to be there.
Anyway, back to my point. A few days later on the mountain tops, the Band group goes over to a city near the Pennine Alps. And while we were there, I went in to a few gift shops. When I was looking about for Swiss Chocolates for my family, I found many book racks that contained Heidi books on every rack. And the surprising thing was that half the books were in traditional illustration of the realistic look of Heidi. While the other half had the same design from this anime series. I could tell it was from this show by how uncombed Heidi hair was. And also by fact the boy that was standing right next to her has the same design as Peter.
Edit: Also to say before I forget while typing this down. After leaving Switzerland, we had a brief stop in Luxembourg for breather from the road. In Luxembourg, I went in a few crowd gift shops and found more Heidi books that had the same design from the show. And also some weird looking knock off dolls or wooden figure in reveres color. It was pretty weird to see.
A classic in Brazillian TV, the master Isao Takahata is the best!
I remember when I start watching this expecting a joyful and fun presentation of a kid living in the alps. And oh boy, I was really wrong...
I started this anime today
I have a German background so even though I never watched this anime before it’s still very nostalgic to me because of the type of music they incorporated and it just makes me happy and teary eyed (idk why) ajajsjmsjsj
(Also I have a relative named Heidi lol)
I remember watching this dubbed in my language on local television when I was young.
This takes me way back
Your narration is exemplary. Goosebumps.
My God, do I ever remember watching this series of adaptations on Canadian TV in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It's like being transported through time.
started watching this show recently, with my mom. on episode 10 right now, my mom cried during the episode.
I'm 31 and I still remember this tale fondly, Netflix has made a 3D adaptation of it and it's pretty good.
The Ramen Noodle commercial with Heidi in it…:)
i say it how it is but The German Dubbed version is just so good, even better then the Japanice original! Not only was it extremely good, because not only is the settings right, but the way how emotions are carried in the languages are diffrent and just fits so much better to Heidi!
The Spanish Dub from mexico is also an amazing and extremely well done dub of the wonderful anume
I have the complete series in German, and while the dub is really good (Heidi sounds a bit too old, though), the fact that they replaced the original score by Takeo Watanabe is simply unforgivable! 😡
Thanks for this video man. I remember watching the movie version of this show with my sister many years ago.
@Chase Zzz Heidi have a lot of movie adaptations, but most of them are in live-action. I think he was talking about the movie which have footages of some episodes of the series and was edited and made into a movie. Yes, the "movie" version might not be completed, but I don't think it sucks or you are talking about the movie that was released in 2005 by Nelvana? Overall, I do enjoyed this adaptation, but I do respect your opinion on it.
I'd say that Dog of flanders is probably just as well know, and is even more Iconic in Japan, at least. A video on that and how it made every japanese kid cry would be quite a vid from you.
My first anime I think. Probably the first animated show that wasn't just a 20 min toy commercial that I saw.