History Anime / AiNoWakakusaMonogatari

* CoolTeacher: Mr. Sutton, Amy's teacher back in Gettysburg/York. He is a kind, well-liked young man that goes to fight for the Union. When Amy draws him on her slate, he takes it in stride and likes the portrait, but it could be because he is also romantically interested in Meg (which [[ShippingGoggles Jo teases her for]]), but that goes nowhere since we [[FridgeHorror don't see him after the first episode.]]

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Tom Brooke, John's mischievous little brother. Amy is this as well. [[ToyShip Naturally, they get along well]]

* {{Keigo}}: Hannah speaks this way in the original Japanese version. It's discussed more in detail in [[https://frogkun.com/2016/02/03/how-would-a-black-woman-speak-in-anime-a-case-study-of-little-women/ this article]].

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Beth
* FriendlyEnemies: Jo and Anthony Boone

* Break the Cutie: Beth March started crying because of The Hummels' baby dies of scarlet fever

* NamesTheSame: Due to the AdaptationNameChange, Father March now shares a name with actor Creator/FredricMarch

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ArtShiftedSequel: Jo's Boys had a slightly different art style compare to the original, as the characters have smaller eyes. This can be chalked up to a change in character designers, as Yoshiharu Sato (known for his work on ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' and ''Anime/TheStoryOfPollyannaGirlOfLove'') took over from Yoshifumi Kondo and Toshiki Yamazaki.

* SpoilerTitle: The episode "Amy's Revenge" has said character burning Jo's writing in the fire after she refuses to take Amy.

* IllGirl: Beth. She was constantly sick to the point where her father had to essentially homeschool her.
** Mrs. Hummel, a young woman with four children. She can't do much for her cold hungry children due to being so weak after the birth of her newest child and her husband being away at war.

* AdultFear: Despite being based on a relatively light-hearted novel, the anime does add some drama
** Episodes 3 and 4 deal with their hometown being taken over by Confederate soldiers, and the March family is hiding John, a runaway slave. When Confederate soldiers come to their house and Hannah heads for the kitchen, the commander orders some of his men after her and to search the kitchen, with Marmee pleading them to leave her alone. African-Americans in the northern states, even if they had been free their whole lives, had the threat of being sold into slavery.
** In Episodes 5 and 6, the Battle of Gettysburg destroys their hometown, [[ImpoverishedPatrician leaving the family without much left]].
** When Aunt March scolds David again and suggests he join the army to be useful, David says he doesn't want to get killed. This is the first time Jo realizes her father could be killed and as a bit of a HeroicBSOD. At Aunt March's insistence, David apologizes in a seemingly genuine PetTheDog moment.
** Meg's nightmare after [[spoiler: learning of her father's illness]] is both depressing and terrifying.
** Everyone is worried over Beth's scarlet fever. And unlike in the novel, [[spoiler: Amy realizes the seriousness of it fairly early on, and confides in Laurie she is afraid for her sister.]]
** When [[spoiler: Father comes home (the second time after his illness), he says at one point, he stopped ''breathing''. Understandably, the girls are utterly terrified that he still wants to go back to war after the six months he is allotted to stay home. Fortunately, the war ends by the final episode and he doesn't need to go.]]

* JesusTaboo: Subverted. While Jesus himself isn't mentioned much in favor of general Christian themes, David mentioned him in episode 47 to attempt to appeal to Aunt March so she'll give him more money because of the Christmas season. [[GetOut Aunt March doesn't approve of this, and orders him out]].

** Played straight in episode 47 with David. [[spoiler: After antagonizing Jo by rubbing it in her face how much money Aunt March gives him, David is cut out of her will.]]

** Marmee's first name is changed from Margaret to Mary.

* ThemeTuneCameo: In the Japanese version, in episode 33. During the sisters' outing with Laurie, Anthony, Mr. Brooke and Tom, the sisters sing the second Japanese OP song, "Itsuka Kitto!" (roughly translating as "One Day, for Certain"), which doubles as ProductPlacement since the original song itself was recorded by the seiyuu for the four March sisters. Even more amusingly, they all sing Amy's verse from the original song with lyrics about wanting a more perfectly shaped nose. The English dub, rather more realistically, has the girls sing a popular song of the era: [[Music/StephenFoster Stephen Foster's]] "The Old Folks at Home."

* {{Adaptation Name Change}}: Quite a few examples

* [[spoiler: CensoredChildDeath: We don't see the Hummel's baby succumb to scarlet fever. Instead, Beth is shown leaving the small house trembling, [[ThousandYardStare looking blankly forward]] [[HeroicBSOD before breaking down in tears]]. ]]

* {{Tomboy}}: Jo

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Father March's backstory is different than in the book, where he was a preacher who fell into poor fortune after a bad investment when the girls were quite young. [[spoiler: Here, he was raised by Aunt March, who wanted him to run for public office. He dropped out of law school and became a civil engineer instead, allowing his family to live relatively comfortably.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Mild example. In earlier episodes, since [[CuteKitten Milky-Ann]] was never properly trained before (she appears to be only a few days old when Beth finds her in the rain), she wets the carpet, Beth's bed, and Amy's dress. This leads to Jo and Beth getting a box full of dirt as a makeshift litter-box. This all was kept in the English dub, by the way.

* ArtShift: It's easy to tell which episodes had animation directed by co-character designer Toshiki Yamazaki and which were directed by the slightly OffModel Takumi Koyama, whose characters have more elongated faces and bigger chins. Yamazaki's animation style is generally looser and more fluid and he works very well with the characters designed by Yoshifumi Kondo. (A third animator, Atsuko Otani, directed only one episode, and her style isn't that different from Yamazaki's.)

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: As in the novel, Jo's feelings regarding her ill-treatment of Amy after the "novel-burning" incident and Amy's near-drowning. In this anime version, however, Jo's self-hatred is so intense that she actually injures her own hand pounding on her desk in anguish.

* {{Narrator}}: Amy acts as the narrator.

** Meg in the English dub pronounces "advertisement" as "Ad-vert-is-ment".

* LullDestruction: Typical of Saban dubs of the era, virtually every moment of silence in the original is covered up with additional dialogue, music or narration. Both the raw Japanese and English dub versions of episode 1 are available for comparison on [=YouTube=].

* AlphaBitch: Jenny Snow, Amy's classmate. Jenny rubs it in Amy's face that her father isn't home to give her money for sweets. Then, when Amy, who doesn't have enough limes for the whole class, says Jenny may not get a lime because of said incident, tells Mr. Davis that Amy brought contraband, [[{{Hypocrite}} despite having brought sweets to school in the past]].

* ArtShiftedSequel: Jo's Boys had a slightly different art style compare to the original, as the characters have smaller eyes. This can be chalked up to a change in character designers, as Yoshiharu Sato (known for his work on ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' and ''Anime/TheStoryOfPollyannaGirlOfLove'') took over.

* ArtShift: It's easy to tell which episodes had animation directed by co-character designer Toshiki Yamazaki and which were directed by the slightly OffModel Takumi Koyama, whose characters have more elongated faces and bigger chins. Yamazaki's animation style is generally looser and more fluid. (A third animator, Atsuko Otani, directed only one episode, and her style isn't that different from Yamazaki's.)