History Anime / HeidiGirlOfTheAlps

It tells the tale of Heidi, a five-year-old orphan who is pretty much dumped by her aunt on her grandpa, a gruff man with a bad reputation who lives alone in the mountains. Heidi quickly melts the old man's heart and makes a friend in Peter, a goatherd six years older than her, and Grandpa's huge St Bernard dog, Josef/Joseph (renamed in many foreign dubs for some reason as some variation on the word "fog"). Just as she has gotten cozy in the Alps, her aunt comes back and tricks her into leaving the mountains for Frankfurt to become the companion of a [[LonelyRichKid lonely, rich]] girl bound to a wheelchair, Klara Sesemann. Once again, she makes friends with the whole household (except for uptight old hag Mrs. Rottenmeier), but she gets increasingly homesick, to the point that she starts ''sleepwalking''. For her sanity's sake, she's allowed to go back to the Alps, with the promise that Klara will be allowed to visit her there. Which just happens to be exactly what Klara needs for her health...

* TheCutie: Heidi, deffinetly: a relatively short, chubby, baby-faced little girl with an innocent, cheery personality.

''Heidi, Girl of the Alps'' is a 1974 {{Anime}} series that ran for 52 episodes based on the famous Swiss classic children's novel ''[[Literature/{{Heidi}} Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning]]'' by Johanna Spyri, which was created as part of the ''Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater'' series.[[note]]Zuiyo Eizo, the producing animation studio, would split into Zuiyo Company Ltd. and Creator/NipponAnimation in 1975, with the latter encompassing Zuiyo Eizo's animation staff. Zuiyo Company Ltd. has continued to hold the show's copyright as well as that of ''Literature/VickyTheViking'', although all subsequent ''WMT'' series were Nippon Animation productions, and Nippon Animation holds the copyright of ''A Dog of Flanders'' and ''Anime/MayaTheBee'', which began as Zuiyo works and transitioned to Nippon Animation productions while still airing.[[/note]] The anime featured the talents of Creator/YoshiyukiTomino (storyboards), Creator/IsaoTakahata (director) and Creator/HayaoMiyazaki[[note]]the core of what would become Creator/StudioGhibli[[/note]] (animator). Also, the character designs were done by Yoichi Kotabe, likely best known in the West for his later work with Creator/{{Nintendo}}.

In 2014, Belgian animation company Creator/Studio100 produced a CGI remake that trims down the number of episodes (from 52 to 39) and makes slight changes to the story -- for example, Heidi's aunt comes to live with her at Clara's house instead of just leaving Heidi there and disappearing, even falling in love and becoming engaged to Sebastian, Clara's family butler.

First telecast on Creator/FujiTV, ''Heidi'' was a big success, and it is still fondly remembered in Japan and many foreign countries, particularly in Europe and Latin America. Not so much in English-speaking countries, as only a movie-length edited version of the show (put together without Takahata and Miyazaki's input) made it to home video in the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom and the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates; the edited version also aired in the [[TheEighties early '80s]] on Creator/{{HBO}}. Canada was more fortunate, getting the entire series in French on [[Creator/{{CBC}} Radio-Canada]] television. Video game players (especially those who may have never heard of this version of the story) may recognize part of the opening theme from the arcade game ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}''[[note]]Specifically, the second "yodeling" part[[/note]].

First telecast on Creator/FujiTV, ''Heidi'' was a big success, and it is still fondly remembered in Japan and many foreign countries, particularly in Europe and Latin America. Not so much in English-speaking countries, as only a movie-length edited version of the show (put together without Takahata and Miyazaki's input) made it to home video in UK and USA; the edited version also aired in the early '80s on Creator/{{HBO}}. Canada was more fortunate, getting the entire series in French on [[Creator/{{CBC}} Radio-Canada]] television. Video game players (especially those who may have never heard of this version of the story) may recognize part of the opening theme from the arcade game ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}''[[note]]Specifically, the second "yodeling" part[[/note]].

In 2014, Belgian animation company Creator/Studio100 produced a CGI remake that trims down the number of episodes (from 52 to 39) and makes slight changes to the story (for example, Heidi's aunt comes to live with her at Clara's house instead of just leaving Heidi there and dissapearing, even falling in love and becoming engaged to Sebastian, Clara's family butler).

* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: [[DownplayedTrope A mild example.]] Heidi's hair is black and curly in the original novel; in the anime, her hair is still black but appears to be straight instead of curly.

''Heidi, Girl of the Alps'' is a 1974 {{Anime}} series that ran for 52 episodes based on the famous ''[[Literature/{{Heidi}} Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning]]'' Swiss classic children's novel by Johanna Spyri, which was created as part of the ''Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater'' series.[[note]]Zuiyo Eizo, the producing animation studio, would split into Zuiyo Company Ltd. and Creator/NipponAnimation in 1975, with the latter encompassing Zuiyo Eizo's animation staff. Zuiyo Company Ltd. has continued to hold the show's copyright as well as that of ''Literature/VickyTheViking'', although all subsequent ''WMT'' series were Nippon Animation productions, and Nippon Animation holds the copyright of ''A Dog of Flanders'' and ''Anime/MayaTheBee'', which began as Zuiyo works and transitioned to Nippon Animation productions while still airing.[[/note]] The anime featured the talents of Creator/YoshiyukiTomino (storyboards), Creator/IsaoTakahata (director) and Creator/HayaoMiyazaki[[note]]the core of what would become Creator/StudioGhibli[[/note]] (animator). Also, the character designs were done by Yoichi Kotabe, likely best known in the West for his later work with Creator/{{Nintendo}}.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Like most other adaptations of her story, Heidi often goes barefoot whenever she has the chance.

* HateSink: Rottenmeier just keeps getting harder and harder to like as she increasingly makes Heidi's life in Frankfurt a living hell. It's incredibly satisfying to eventually see her turn into a total ButtMonkey at the Alps.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Several scenes in the mountains featured "cute animals", which were later identified as marmots by Klara. More specifically, their exact species would likely be the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_marmot Alpine marmot]], given where the story is set.

It tells the tale of Heidi, a five-year-old orphan who is pretty much dumped by her aunt on her grandpa, a gruff man with a bad reputation who lives alone in the mountains. Heidi quickly melts the old man's heart and makes a friend in Peter, a goatherd six years older than her, and Grandpa's huge St Bernard dog, Josef/Joseph (renamed in many foreign dubs for some reason as some variation on the word "fog"). Just as she has gotten cozy in the Alps, her aunt comes back and tricks her into leaving the mountains for Frankfurt to become the companion of a [[LonelyRichKid lonely, rich]] IllGirl bound to a wheelchair, Klara Sesemann. Once again, she makes friends with the whole household (except for uptight old hag Mrs. Rottenmeier), but she gets increasingly homesick, to the point that she starts ''sleepwalking''. For her sanity's sake, she's allowed to go back to the Alps, with the promise that Klara will be allowed to visit her there. Which just happens to be exactly what Klara needs for her health...

* YodelLand: Provide the trope picture. To be fair, it's based on a novel that ''thrives'' on Yodel Land to the point of more or less being its TropeCodifier.

In 2014, Belgian animation company ''Creator/Studio100'' produced a CGI remake that trims down the number of episodes (from 52 to 39) and makes slight changes to the story (for example, Heidi's aunt comes to live with her at Clara's house instead of just leaving Heidi there and dissapearing, even falling in love and becoming engaged to Sebastian, Clara's family butler).

* AdaptationDyeJob: [[DownplayedTrope A mild example.]] Heidi's hair is black and curly in the original novel; in the anime, her hair is still black but appears to be straight instead of curly.

It tells the tale of Heidi, a five-year-old orphan who is pretty much dumped by her aunt on her grandpa, a gruff man with a bad reputation who lives alone in the mountains. Heidi quickly melts the old man's heart and makes a friend in Peter, a goatherd six years older than her, and Grandpa's huge St Bernard dog, Joseph (renamed in many foreign dubs for some reason as some variation on the word "fog"). Just as she has gotten cozy in the Alps, her aunt comes back and tricks her into leaving the mountains for Frankfurt to become the companion of a [[LonelyRichKid lonely, rich]] IllGirl bound to a wheelchair, Klara Sesemann. Once again, she makes friends with the whole household (except for uptight old hag Mrs. Rottenmeier), but she gets increasingly homesick, to the point that she starts ''sleepwalking''. For her sanity's sake, she's allowed to go back to the Alps, with the promise that Klara will be allowed to visit her there. Which just happens to be exactly what Klara needs for her health...

* InsistentTerminology: As with the book, and most other adaptations, Miss Rottenmeier insists on referring to Heidi by her full Christian name of "Adelheid". (Or "Adelaide", depending on the translation[[note]]Both Spanish dubs have her call her "Adelaida", the Spanish equivalent. Additionally, "Adelaide" is used in the English version of the 2015 French remake of this 1974 Japanese adaptation.[[/note]])

* HateSink: Rottenmeier just keeps getting harder and harder to like as she increasingly makes Heidi's life a living hell. It's incredibly satisfying to eventually see her turn into a total ButtMonkey at the Alps.

* PrimAndProperBun: Rottermeier always wears her hair in one and is infamous for being a straight-laced, uptight woman.

* WhatTheHellHero: After witnessing Heidi's sleepwalking, and learning from Rottermeier that she forced Heidi to forget about her mountains and stop crying for the sake of Klara, Mr. Sesemann angrily calls Rottenmeier out for giving such cruel orders and directly says to her that is her fault that Heidi's health deteriorated.

* AdultFear: Parents may fear this if they see their children standing at gunpoint even if they're not aiming at them, they still could get hurt.

%%** The same goes for Peter, as he only starts to learn how to read after Heidi teaches him, though he was still functionally illiterate for a period of time after that due to the way he "learnt" how to read.

* ButtMonkey: Rottenmeier, in the last episodes. Seeing her being comically unable to adapt herself to the Alps life is [[LaserGuidedKarma freaking cathartic]].

* InsistentTerminology: As with the book, and most other adaptations, Miss Rottenmeier insists on referring to Heidi by her full Christian name of "Adelheid" (or "Adelaide", depending on the translation[[note]]Both Spanish dubs have her call her "Adelaida", the Spanish equivalent. Additionally, "Adelaide" is used in the English version of the 2015 French remake of this 1974 Japanese adaptation.[[/note]])

* ThwartedEscape: In the episode "A Hectic Night", Heidi almost manages to escape the Sesemann's house, but as she was about to cross the street one of the servants notices her and is forced inside the house against her will.

* WhatTheHellHero: After witnessing Heidi's sleepwalking, and learning from Rottermeier that she forced Heidi to forget about her mountains and stop crying for the sake of Klara, Mr.Sesserman angrily calls Rottenmeier out for giving such cruel orders and directly says to her that is her fault that Heidi's health deteriorated.

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: While the Japanese pronunciation of Heidi's name ("Haiji") is understandable, in both Spanish versions, her name is pronounced "HEY-dee" for some reason. Subverted with Tinette, the maid, whose name is pronounced "Tinett-eh", also in both Spanish versions, but would be closer to the German pronunciation.[[note]]On the other hand, if she was a French maid, then "Tinette" would be the correct pronunciation for her.[[/note]]

''Heidi, Girl of the Alps'' is a 1974 {{Anime}} series that ran for 52 episodes based on the famous ''[[Literature/{{Heidi}} Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning]]'' Swiss classic children's novel by Johanna Spyri, which was created as part of the ''Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater'' series.[[note]]Zuiyo Eizo, the producing animation studio, would split into Zuiyo Company Ltd. and Creator/NipponAnimation in 1975, with the latter encompassing Zuiyo Eizo's animation staff. Zuiyo Company Ltd. has continued to hold the show's copyright as well as that of ''Literature/VickyTheViking'', although all subsequent ''WMT'' series were Nippon Animation productions, and Nippon Animation still holds the copyright of ''A Dog of Flanders'' and ''Anime/MayaTheBee'', which began as Zuiyo works and transitioned to Nippon Animation productions while still airing.[[/note]] The anime featured the talents of Creator/YoshiyukiTomino (storyboards), Creator/IsaoTakahata (director) and Creator/HayaoMiyazaki[[note]]the core of what would become Creator/StudioGhibli[[/note]] (animator). Also, the character designs were done by Yoichi Kotabe, likely best known in the West for his later work with Creator/{{Nintendo}}.