History Anime / TheWonderfulWizardOfOz

The 52-episode series was produced by Panmedia under the title ''Oz no Mahō Tsukai'' and debuted on Creator/TVTokyo in 1986. It has a visual style resembling Nippon Animation's ''Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater'' productions; character designer Shuichi Seki worked on both.

The English-language adaptation was produced by Creator/{{Cinar}} and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in the United States. In addition to re-dubbing all the dialogue, (with narration performed by Creator/MargotKidder) ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' has new titles and credits, which contrive to disguise the fact that it's not a native English-language product (none of the Japanese cast or crew are credited in the Cinar version). Cinar also re-edited each of the four story arcs into movie-length versions for home video release. All the music added in by Cinar was done by Canadian band Parachute Club.

* BlackBeadEyes: Dorothy in this version.

* NiceShoes: The Silver Shoes. Interestingly, They started out looking like ordinary peasant shoes. Once Dorothy obtained them, the shoes magically changed to a pair of Mary Janes.

* AdaptationalHeroism: The circumstances of the Wizard taking over the throne are shown in flashback through a hidden chamber within the Emerald City with a dying Pastoria entrusting the newly arrived Wizard with the task of protecting Ozma from the wicked witches. Not having the magic to actually do the job himself leads him to entrust Ozma to Mombi.

* ConspicuousCG: In the Cinar title sequence. Including several blatantly anachronistic objects floating around in the tornado, presumably because they had the models on hand.

* GivingThemTheStrip: When the Tin Man takes the Nome King's chancellor captive, he escapes by slipping out of his official robe. (Underneath, he's wearing [[StockUnderwear ISO standard cartoon long johns]].)

* LullDestruction: The narration in the English-language dub[[note]]The Japanese version doesn't have a narrator.[[/note]] sometimes does this. Particularly noticeable in episode 31 (the first part of "Ozma of Oz"), which begins with an eerie sequence several minutes long with no dialogue at all -- apart, of course, from the chattering of the narrator.

* LullDestruction: The narration in the English-language dub[[note]]The Japanese version doesn't have a narrator.[[/note]] is sometimes guilty of this. Particularly noticeable in episode 31 (the first part of "Ozma of Oz"), which begins with an eerie sequence several minutes long with no dialogue at all -- apart, of course, from the chattering of the narrator.

* TomboyPrincess: Ozma. Despite it being [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by [[spoiler:Tip/Ozma undergoing a GenderBender]], the original books and most other versions of the series completely avert this.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Dorothy's dream in the first episode (featuring lots of actual footage from later in the series), but [[{{Macekre}} only in the dub]].

The English-language adaptation was produced by Creator/{{Cinar}} and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in the United States. In addition to re-dubbing all the dialogue, (with narration performed by Creator/MargotKidder) ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' has new titles and credits, which contrive to disguise the fact that it's not a native English-language product (none of the Japanese cast or crew are credited in the Cinar version). Cinar also re-edited each of the four story arcs into movie-length versions for home video release. As of this writing, only the movie-length versions are available on DVD. All the music added in by Cinar was done by Canadian band Parachute Club.

In 2017, the series was licensed by Creator/DiscotekMedia. They committed to releasing the English dubbed version of the series on DVD, and they also uploaded the [[https://youtu.be/3_tWsrnu1ss first]] [[https://youtu.be/yDiPmHguX9o three]] [[https://youtu.be/0im9aPw6C4k episodes]] in subtitled Japanese on their Youtube channel to gauge interest.

** Mombi's hair is purple.

It consists of four story arcs, based respectively on ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' (episodes 1-17), ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'' (18-30), ''Literature/OzmaOfOz'' (31-41), and ''The Emerald City of Oz'' (42-52). The first story arc is one of the most faithful adaptations of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' in existence; the later story arcs diverge more from the source material.

The English-language adaptation was produced by Creator/{{Cinar}} and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in the United States. In addition to re-dubbing all the dialogue, (with narration performed by Margot Kidder) ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' has new titles and credits, which contrive to disguise the fact that it's not a native English-language product (none of the Japanese cast or crew are credited in the Cinar version). Cinar also re-edited each of the four story arcs into movie-length versions for home video release. As of this writing, only the movie-length versions are available on DVD. All the music added in by Cinar was done by Canadian band Parachute Club.

* EvilLaugh: The Wizard breaks out an impressively scary Mwa-ha-ha when he's trying to get Dorothy and her friends to go away and not forget about making him keep his side of the bargain.

* HeavySleeper: The people of the Emerald City, who apparently won't wake up before dawn for ''anything'', even an invading army marching through the city and carrying them off beds and all.

The 52-episode series was produced by Panmedia under the title ''Oz no Mahōtsukai'' and debuted on Creator/TVTokyo in 1986. It has a visual style resembling Nippon Animation's ''Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater'' productions; character designer Shuichi Seki worked on both.

The English-language adaptation was produced by Creator/{{Cinar}} and aired on {{Creator/HBO}} in the United States. In addition to re-dubbing all the dialogue, (with narration performed by Margot Kidder) ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' has new titles and credits, which contrive to disguise the fact that it's not a native English-language product (none of the Japanese cast or crew are credited in the Cinar version). Cinar also re-edited each of the four story arcs into movie-length versions for home video release. As of this writing, only the movie-length versions are available on DVD. All the music added in by Cinar was done by Canadian band Parachute Club.

The English-language adaptation was produced by {{Cinar}} and aired on {{Creator/HBO}} in the United States. In addition to re-dubbing all the dialogue, (with narration performed by Margot Kidder) ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' has new titles and credits, which contrive to disguise the fact that it's not a native English-language product (none of the Japanese cast or crew are credited in the Cinar version). Cinar also re-edited each of the four story arcs into movie-length versions for home video release. As of this writing, only the movie-length versions are available on DVD. All the music added in by Cinar was done by Canadian band Parachute Club.

** The redheaded Glinda from the book inexplicably has light ''[[YouGottaHaveBlueEyes blue]]'' hair.

%% I have heard that the series is also available through Netflix, but I'm not in a position to verify this myself.

* UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics: In the Japanese version, the Scarecrow refers to Dorothy as "Dorothy-san".

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Dorothy's dream in the first episode (featuring lots of actual footage from later in the series).

* LullDestruction: The narration in the English-language dub is sometimes guilty of this. Particularly noticeable in episode 31 (the first part of "Ozma of Oz"), which begins with an eerie sequence several minutes long with no dialogue at all -- apart, of course, from the chattering of the narrator.