History Anime / Mapletown

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[[caption-width-right:300:Come Down To Maple Town! Surrounded by smiles as warm as spring sunshine!]]

[[caption-width-right:200:Come Down To Maple Town! Surrounded by smiles as warm as spring sunshine!]]
[[ThemeTune My favorite place to be... Maple Town and me.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Come Down To Maple Town! Surrounded by smiles as warm as spring sunshine!]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[Come Down To Maple Town! Surrounded by smiles as warm as spring sunshine!]]

[[ThemeTune My favorite place to be... Maple Town and me.]]

After 50 episodes, the series underwent a format change and changed its name to "New Maple Town Stories: Palm Town Chapter." In this new series, Patty Rabbit moves away from the forested Maple Town (thus making the title rather misleading) and to a new setting, the tropical Palm Town. Waiting for her there are a new group of friends and troublemakers. None of the other Maple Town denizens tag along, making Patty the only regular character in both series. This move proved unpopular, and the series ended about a year after the change. Note that none of the Palm Town episodes were ever dubbed into English. However Palm Tower has been in several countries such as Italy and Arabic speaking markets where the entire 50 episode run was translated and where it trumps Maple Town in popularity.

* TheBusCameBack: It seems that the show was ready to return the Maple Town characters and mothball the Palm Town ones with Patty leaving Palm Town for Maple Town at the end of the second season. However, for better or for worse, the series ended right after Patty boards the boat.

* TheBusCameBack: It seems that the show was ready to return the Maple Town characters and mothball the Palm Town ones with Patty leaving Palm Town for Maple Town at the end of the second season. However, for better or for worse, the series ended there.

* GenderBlenderName: Wild Wolf's oroginal name is Gretel.

After 50 episodes, the series underwent a format change and changed its name to "New Maple Town Stories: Palm Town Chapter." In this new series, Patty Rabbit moves away from the forested Maple Town (thus making the title rather misleading) and to a new setting, the tropical Palm Town. Waiting for her there are a new group of friends and troublemakers. None of the other Maple Town denizens tag along, making Patty the only regular character in both series. This move proved unpopular, and the series ended about a year after the change. Note that none of the Palm Town episodes were ever dubbed into English.

''Maple Town'' (''Maple Town Monogatari'') was an animated television series, created by Chifude Asakura, produced by Creator/ToeiAnimation of Japan and originally broadcast on that country's Creator/TVAsahi in 1986 and 1987. The show centered on a community of anthropomorphic animals; its main characters were Patty Rabbit and her friend, Bobby Bear. The town was an impossibly friendly, cheerful place, with the only trouble being caused by the thieving swindler, Wild Wolf, and occasionally by the bratty but generally good-hearted [[AlphaBitch Fanny Fox]]. The series is also noteworthy for being an early directorial job for Junichi Sato and Kunihiko Ikuhara, who would both become world famous for their work on ''Anime/SailorMoon'' (in one episode of the latter, Usagi Tsukino has a stuffed rabbit doll bearing a very strong resemblance to Patty).

''Maple Town'' (''Maple Town Monogatari'') was an animated television series, created by Chifude Asakura, produced by Creator/ToeiAnimation of Japan and originally broadcast on that country's Creator/TVAsahi in 1986 and 1987. The show centered on a community of anthropomorphic animals; its main characters were Patty Rabbit and her friend, Bobby Bear. The town was an impossibly friendly, cheerful place, with the only trouble being caused by the thieving swindler, Wild Wolf, and occasionally by the bratty but generally good-hearted [[AlphaBitch Fanny Fox]]. The series is also noteworthy for being an early directorial job for series director Junichi Sato, who would soon become world famous as director of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' (in one episode of the latter, Usagi Tsukino has a stuffed rabbit doll bearing a very strong resemblance to Patty, not to mention the fact that her given name means "rabbit" in Japanese).

''Maple Town'' (''Maple Town Monogatari'') was an animated television series, created by Chifude Asakura, produced by Creator/ToeiAnimation of Japan and originally broadcast on that country's Creator/TVAsahi in 1986 and 1987. The show centered on a community of anthropomorphic animals; its main characters were Patty Rabbit and her friend, Bobby Bear. The town was an impossibly friendly, cheerful place, with the only trouble being caused by the thieving swindler, Wild Wolf, and occasionally by the bratty but generally good-hearted [[AlphaBitch Fanny Fox]]. The series is also noteworthy for being an early directorial job for series director Junichi Sato, who would soon become world famous as director of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' (in one episode of the latter, Usagi Tsukino has a stuffed rabbit doll bearing a very strong resemblance to Patty).

''Maple Town'' (''Maple Town Monogatari'') was an animated television series, created by Chifude Asakura, produced by Creator/ToeiAnimation of Japan and originally broadcast on that country's Creator/TVAsahi in 1986 and 1987. The show centered on a community of anthropomorphic animals; its main characters were Patty Rabbit and her friend, Bobby Bear. The town was an impossibly friendly, cheerful place, with the only trouble being caused by the thieving swindler, Wild Wolf, and occasionally by the bratty but generally good-hearted [[AlphaBitch Fanny Fox]]. The series is also noteworthy for being an early directorial job for series director Junichi Sato, who would soon become world famous as director of ''Anime/SailorMoon''.

''Maple Town'' (''Maple Town Monogatari'') was an animated television series, created by Chifude Asakura, produced by Creator/ToeiAnimation of Japan and originally broadcast on that country's TV Asahi in 1986 and 1987. The show centered on a community of anthropomorphic animals; its main characters were Patty Rabbit and her friend, Bobby Bear. The town was an impossibly friendly, cheerful place, with the only trouble being caused by the thieving swindler, Wild Wolf, and occasionally by the bratty but generally good-hearted [[AlphaBitch Fanny Fox]]. The series is also noteworthy for being an early directorial job for series director Junichi Sato, who would soon become world famous as director of ''Manga/SailorMoon''.

* ScrewySquirrel: Bobby's three brothers (Kin, Kun and Ken) in several of the original episodes.

* ArtifactTitle: When season 2 rolled around, the series moved to Palm Town, which rendered the title somewhat misleading.

* ShortAnimeMovie: Two of them, released theatrically. The one for ''Palm Town'' had an extended flashback sequence edited from the original series' finale.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Every country has its own unique theme song.