Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics
An animated series retelling a different folk or fairy tale in each episode.
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Cast:Theodore Lehmann , Mitsuko Horie , Ichirô Nagai , Shigeru Chiba , Daisuke Gomi , Minoru Inaba , Steve Kramer , Daisuke Gôri , Kôzô Shioya , Sakiko Tamagawa , Nozomu Sasaki , Kazue Komiya , Ken'ichi Ogata , Gara Takashima , Takuzô Kamiyama , Jôji Yanami , Bin Shimada , Kôhei Miyauchi
S1.E1 ∙ Bureemen no ongaku tai
An old donkey who can no longer haul heavy loads overhears his master's plan to kill him and eat him. So, he runs away to the town of Bremen to become a musician. Along the way, he meets a dog, a cat, and a rooster who join him.
S1.E2 ∙ Henzeru to Gureeteru
With their father out seeking food during a famine, a brother and sister are lured by their cruel stepmother into the forest to avoid having to feed them. Hansel and Gretel return the first time with a trail of pebbles, but the second lose their way when the breadcrumbs they're forced to use are eaten by birds. They follow a magnificent bird to a house of gingerbread, but it turns out to be a trap, inhabited by a child-eating witch.
S1.E7 ∙ Puss in Boots: Part 1
Max, the youngest son of the recently deceased miller, receives a measly puss as an inheritance. The young man seems disgusted by this infamous legacy, but he will soon discover that the cat's intelligence can bring him fortune.
S1.E8 ∙ Puss in Boots: Part 2
After having lied to the king, telling him that his master is a marquis, the cat will have to search for an undetermined castle. He will soon reach one, but will have to confront its owner, the evil sorcerer king.
S1.E9 ∙ Yuki shiro to bara beni
Two sisters are visited in winter by a talking bear, but he leaves in the spring speaking of riches to protect and an evil spell. Then Snow White and Rose Red keep encountering a helpless but cold gnome, and later a prince seeking his lost brother.
S1.E14 ∙ 6 nin no go uke tsu
A soldier is unjustly compensated by his money-loving king and princess. Forced to fend for himself, he meets five remarkable friends: a strongman, one who can run faster than any other human, one whose bare head can create ice and snow, one whose breath extends for a distance, and one who can see and shoot for miles. The soldier inspires them to follow him, then they decide to stop the cruelty of the country's rulers.
S1.E15 ∙ Inochi no mizu
A sickened king is told he needs the Water of Life from the Evil Forest to recover. His elder selfish son Franz seeks it to reclaim his inheritance from his brother. But after insulting and threatening a gnome, he is trapped in the Valley of No Return. Prince Joesf goes and gets the gnome's help for his respect, and is directed by the North Wind. He enters an enchanted castle which appears periodically, rescues an imprisoned princess whom he falls in love with, and collects the water. But on the way back through the valley he rescues Franz, who replaces his water with a poisoned supply so Josef will be suspected of treachery.
S1.E16 ∙ Ao hi ge
Josephine's dreams of marrying a prince seem to come true when one sends for her in her forest home. Though her brothers are wary of her wedding a man none of them has met, she accepts eagerly - but is startled by his striking beard of blue. The prince, who provides Josephine with every luxury until she becomes haughty, has only one locked, mismatched room in his castle he will not discuss. When he leaves her with his keys and instructions to see that one is not used, Josephine is lured by it to the forbidden room, and a terrible secret.
S1.E17 ∙ Yorinde to Yoringeru
When Jorinde and her fiancé Joringle visit the woods, its witch they unknowingly encountered earlier draws them to her home and turns Jorinde into a nightingale and takes her as she does every maid she meets. After being unable to move to stop it, Joringle is driven out of the woods by her magic with only a puzzling message from Jorinde, and can't see a way to best the magic to free her.
S1.E19 ∙ Zurutan jiisan
An aged, near-deaf sheepdog is about to be killed by his master since he is no longer ferocious. Warned by the cat, Sultan approaches a wolf he's made peace with over the years. The wolf offers to "capture" the farmer's baby so Sultan will return with him, be seen as a hero, and be spared. The plan succeeds (though Sultan attacks not remembering it's an act), and Sultan offers to repay him. But the wolf, expecting this, guesses he'll be rewarded with livestock. When he comes as agreed to collect, he goes after the sheep and Sultan confronts him, joined by the farmer, and is challenged to a fight.
S1.E20 ∙ Tsugumi no hi ge no ousama
Beautiful but arrogant Princess Helena mocks every king's appearance at a gathering for her to choose a husband. Her father responds by giving her to the next humble man to visit: a musician from the kingdom belonging to "Grizzle Beard", the suitor she insulted most. She is forced to accept a poor lifestyle and responsibilities, meaning she is hindered by her unwillingness to help or accept others.
S1.E22 ∙ Odori nui te boroboro ni naru kutsu
Princess Genevieve keeps dancing the night through, which the king only knows since she goes through a large supply of shoes. He begins to guard her to learn how, only for her sisters Julia and Louise to convince her to let them join her. Their father confines them to their chamber doubting they were in the castle since no one saw them, but it stops nothing. He offers one of their hands to the man who can discover their secret in three nights but imprisonment for those who cannot, and the princesses give every watcher wine with sleeping potion. When foreign veteran Peter takes the challenge, he does not take the drink and follows them. But under the castle he finds a dreadful truth even the sisters don't know.
S2.E1 ∙ Suishou no tama
Anton learns that the witch who killed his mother and took her identity has imprisoned a princess whom she bites nightly to temporarily exchange her own age for the girl's youth. Anton warns his brothers and they try to escape, but when the witch finds out she attacks, turning George into an eagle and Sebastian into a whale. Anton eludes her but is left alone to find a way to thwart her magic to free all three victims.
S2.E4 ∙ Kyabetsu roba
Frederick's kindness to an old man while hunting is repaid by his being told where to find a cloak that will take him anyplace and a gold ball that will grant whomever swallows it gold daily. After getting them, he sprains his ankle while meeting the beautiful Lisabeth. She tends him at her home, but her "mother", a witch, forces her to use magic to steal them by having him cough up the ball then leaving with him and the cloak and taking it. Stranded in the desert and determined to avenge himself especially since he loved Lisabeth, Frederick stumbles upon two fields of cabbages: one which turns people into donkeys and one which turns them back.
S2.E6 ∙ Mori no naka no baasan
A rich party in attacked is a forest by a witch and her goblins. One young servant, Lisabeth, escapes and meets a talking owl who gives her a key to locks hidden in the landscape opening to everything needed to survive and fine clothing. But her friend leaves every night. When Lisabeth presses for the reason, he explains that the witch has cursed him, and she offers to free him. She is told to enter the witch's home to find a hidden ring, making no noise. But though she enters when the witch is gone as instructed, the witch returns to fight with her magic and goblins.
S2.E7 ∙ Do manjuu
A poor man asks his rich master for some grains to feed his family but is rejected. Later the master is paid visit by the Devil in the form of a bat who has come to take away his soul.
S2.E8 ∙ Ookami to kitsune
A greedy, proud wolf forces a fox who hunts and steals better into helping him attain food. Tired of working for him and getting nothing himself, the fox decides to use the wolf's gluttony against him.
S2.E9 ∙ Hore no obasan
Hildegarde, forced by her cruel stepmother Gretchen to do all the chores, pricks herself while spinning and tries to clean the bobbin only for it to fall down the well. Ordered to retrieve it, she jumps in and ends up in the land of Mother Hollie, who shakes her quilt to bring snow. Hildegarde is asked to shake it and accepts, and does well. After requesting to return home, she is rewarded with much gold. Gretchen presses her spoiled daughter Elaine to enter the well to become rich too. But she is not as strong or hardworking...
S2.E10 ∙ Roku wa no hakuchou
Lost in an enchanted forest during a hunt, a king is forced by a woman to wed her daughter who helps him leave, but both are witches. After his bride attacks his seven children, he has them stay in a small castle in another forest. But she sees where the king keeps the spindle that guides him to them, goes disguised as him, and uses cursed shirts to change his sons into swans. Having missed it, his daughter learns from them that they can turn back if she sews them shirts of chrysanthemums and is silent for six years, and agrees to. During that time a prince falls in love with and marries Elise, and they have a son. But her stepmother finds her, kidnaps the baby and causes blood to appear on Elise's lips so she appears to have eaten him, and convinces the prince she is a witch.
S2.E12 ∙ Ane to otouto
Rose and little Rudolf escape their abusive widowed stepmother to the forest, but she, a witch, places a spell over its ponds to turn their drinkers into animals. Rudolf drinks from one and changes into a deer. A few years later, a king who hunted him falls in love with and marries Rose. After she has had a son, she is captured by her stepmother and imprisoned in a mountain cave, told only selfless love can save her. Her own love allows her spirit to return to see her family, but then she weakens too much to do it again.
S2.E13 ∙ Meijin yonin kyoudai
A poor farmer sends his sons out to learn trades. Franz as a detective learns the art of thieves' stealth to best them, Wilheim becomes an astronomer with sharp eyes, George becomes a remarkable hunter, and Peter as a tailor receives a needle capable of repairing anything. A year later, as they seek work in the city, a dragon kidnaps the land's princess. With the promise of her hand and half the kingdom for the rescuer, the brothers offer to use their abilities to save her.
S2.E16 ∙ Kuma no kawa o ki ta otoko
Johann is poor and unsure what to do after the war he served in ends. A remark that he'd do almost anything to make it home causes a demon to approach. If Johann lives for seven years wearing a coat of the skin of an attacking bear he killed without washing, shaving, or praying, he will receive gold as needed and even more after. He accepts and makes friends at first once he is seen as a strange but humble, generous man. But as his appearance becomes wilder and more feared and rejected, he fights despair. After four years, he hears a penniless merchant about to end his life, and helps him so is offered the hand of one of his daughters in return. Only the middle, Christina, accepts him. He leaves with a promise to return in three years, but each are uncertain if they will be reunited.
S2.E18 ∙ Tetsu no hansu
Spoiled Prince William drops his ball into the dungeon while trying to learn more of Iron Hans, a metal-skinned giant the queen compares to what a real man should be, who forces him to enter to retrieve it. Hans escapes and William can't stop him so he won't be punished, so Hans takes him. In the forest, he orders William to guard his enchanted pond but he is too lazy. Hans reveals just how flawed William is and sends him out to live as a peasant to gain character, offering help should he need it though is rejected. After failing at every job he tries, William ends up serving in another country's palace garden and befriends the princess. Then a vicious army invades, and he is determined to protect the kingdom.
S2.E21 ∙ Yousei no namae
When a young king holds a feast for the country's men to speak of their daughters so he can pick a bride, they embellish their qualities until a lowly miller claims his, Gretchen, can spin gold from straw, though she cannot spin at all. With both threatened if he's found to have lied, she is forced to do so. Her hope for help under a full moon comes true when a wood nymph appears to do it for her at the cost of her necklace. The following night she must do more and the nymph returns, working for her ring. The king agrees to marry her after a third night, but with nothing else to be offered the nymph demands her firstborn and helps giving her no chance to refuse. Gretchen and the king marry, and the nymph comes for the son they eventually have. He offers to leave the baby if Gretchen can guess his name in three days' time.
S2.E22 ∙ Ike ni sumu mizu no majo
A poor miller is about to drown himself in the lake when its nixie appears, offering a chest of gold if he repays her with the next thing born in his home. He accepts but before his pets give birth, he and his wife have a child. The nixie cannot leave the water so they warn the boy, Franz, to avoid the lake. Years later after his parents' deaths, Franz ends up near it after a hunt, and the nixie captures him. His wife Heidi tries to reclaim him, and in the lake meets a spirit who tells her how. She offers Heidi gold objects to be used by the lake periodically so they will distract the nixie and Franz can escape. But the nixie's attacks make it difficult to keep them.
S3.E24 ∙ Des Kaisers neue Kleider
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