History Anime / TheWonderfulWizardOfOz

* AdaptationalHeroism: The circumstances of the Wizard taking over the throne are shown in flashback when Ozma and Dorothy discover a hidden chamber within the palace. This vision shows 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 lead him to entrust Ozma to Mombi.

The English-language adaptation was produced in Montreal by Creator/{{Cinar}} and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in the United States and in syndication in Canada on stations such as the Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork. In addition to rewriting and 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; essentially the only thing the English version has in common with the Japanese is the animation itself). Cinar also re-edited each of the four story arcs into movie-length versions for home video release. Canadian pop band Parachute Club also performed new theme songs for the English language release.

The English-language adaptation was produced in Montreal by Creator/{{Cinar}} and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in the United States. In addition to rewriting and 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; essentially the only thing the English version has in common with the Japanese is the animation itself). Cinar also re-edited each of the four story arcs into movie-length versions for home video release. Canadian pop band Parachute Club also performed new theme songs for the English language release.

* AlienLunch: When Dorothy's a slave in the Wicked Witch of the West's kitchen, mention is made of the Witch's meals being composed of things like scrambled spider's eggs ("the part I really hate is mixing in the dead flies") and pickled snake.

* NiceShoes: The Silver Shoes. Interestingly, they start out looking like ordinary peasant shoes. Once Dorothy obtains them, the shoes magically change to a pair of shiny silver Mary Janes.

* NiceHat: The Princess of Ev changes her personality by changing hats, rather than heads, in this series.

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

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
** Glinda's hair is green.
** Mombi's hair is purple.

* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: In most depictions of Dorothy (most notably [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz W.W. Denslow's illustrations]] and the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz 1939 film]]) usually have her wear pigtails. Here, Dorothy keeps her hair down.

* OnTheNext: The Japanese versions of the episodes end with Dorothy narrating a preview of the next episode.

The English-language adaptation was produced in Montreal by Creator/{{Cinar}} and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in the United States. In addition to rewriting and 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; essentially the only thing the English version has in common with the Japanese is the animation itself). Cinar also re-edited each of the four story arcs into movie-length versions for home video release. Canadian pop band Parachute Club also performed new theme songs for the English language release.

Not to be confused with the 1982 Japanese animated film adaptation ''Anime/TheWizardOfOz'', though both were written by Akira Miyazaki.

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, as did several other ''WMT'' staffers.

In 2017, the series was licensed by Creator/DiscotekMedia. They committed to releasing the English dubbed version of the series on DVD to go along with existing movie-length releases, 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.

Not to be confused with the 1982 Japanese animated film adaptation ''Anime/TheWizardOfOz''. Akira Miyazaki, a writer for this show, also wrote for the film.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Dorothy's dream in the dub's first episode features lots of footage from later in the series.

* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: In most depictions of Dorothy (most notably [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz W.W. Denslow's illustrations]] and the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz 1939 film]]) usually have her wear Pigtails. Here, Dorothy keeps her hair down.

* 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.

* {{Fainting}}: Mombi, when the Lion catches her trying to steal the Golden Cap.

* GoldFever: The Gnome King, Guph and The Growleywog act are affected this way by the emeralds of the Emerald City.

* 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.

* SaharanShipwreck: The travellers in the Deadly Desert find one surrounded by fish skeletons, shells, and other evidences that the desert was once an ocean.

** The Princess of Ev (known by her original name of Langiwdere in Japanese, but [[DubNameChange changed to Lulu in the English dub]])has a collection of hats that she changes according to her mood -- in the original book version of ''Ozma of Oz'', it was ''heads''.

** The Princess of Ev has a collection of hats that she changes according to her mood -- in the original book version of ''Ozma of Oz'', it was ''heads''.

Not to be confused with the 1982 Japanese animated film adaptation ''Anime/TheWizardOfOz''.

* TomboyPrincess: Ozma is rather tomboyish, due to [[spoiler:having [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender grown up as]] [[GenderBender Tip]]]]. [[TomboyishnessUpgrade This is a significant change]] from the original books and most other versions of the series, where Ozma was completely feminine despite sharing the same background.

The English-language adaptation was produced by Creator/{{Cinar}} and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in the United States. In addition to rewriting and 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.