Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey

Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey
Cover art from the DVD release of the series
メーテルリンクの青い鳥 チルチルミチルの冒険旅行 (Maeterlinck no Aoi Tori: Tyltyl Mytyl no Bōken Ryokō)
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroshi Sasagawa
Produced by	Yoshinobu Nishizaki
Written by	Keisuke Fujikawa and Maru Tamura
Music by	Hiroshi Miyagawa
Studio	Academy Productions Toei Animation
Network	Fuji TV
Original run	January 9, 1980 – July 9, 1980
Episodes	26

Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey (メーテルリンクの青い鳥 チルチルミチルの冒険旅行 Maeterlinck no Aoi Tori: Tyltyl Mytyl no Bōken Ryokō) is a 1980 Japanese animated television series directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa, with character designs from Leiji Matsumoto. It is based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. The series was 26-episodes long when aired on Japanese television. An Office Academy production in association with Toei Animation, the series was produced by Yoshinobu Nishizaki and used many of the staff from Nishizaki's earlier Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers).

Plot

The series is about a girl called Mytyl (voiced by Mami Koyama) and her brother Tyltyl (voiced by Toru Furuya) seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune.

Characters

Tyltyl Mytyl Tyrol (the dog) Shanet (the cat) Berylune (the fairy) Queen of Night Tyltyl and Mytyl's parents

Spirit of Water Spirit of Fire Spirit of Time Spirit of Bread Spirit of Milk Spirit of Sugar Spirit of Light

Anime Staff

Producer / Planning: Yoshinobu Nishizaki

Chief Director: Hiroshi Sasagawa

Script: Keisuke Fujikawa, Maru Tamura

Original Character Design: Leiji Matsumoto

Animation Character Design and Supervising Animation Director: Toyoo Ashida

Assistant Animation Director: Yoshiyuki Hane

Art Director: Kazue Ito

Sound Director: Atsumi Tashiro, Yasunori Honda

Music: Hiroshi Miyagawa

Production: Toei Animation, Office Academy, Fuji TV

Episodes

One warm evening, a visitor Sing! Dance! The merry fairies The forest of darkness is full of mysteries Guardian of the dark, queen of the night Good evening, ghost The birds who grasped freedom Welcome to the land of sickness The land where time has stopped A happiness a little too full of itself Pleased to meet you, motherly love Secret of the palace of the night Desert with no oasis Mechanical blue bird

Invitation to the graveyard Revolt of the animals!! Children who are yet to be born I'm now being born... The land of gold is full of dreams! Giant of the isle of topsy-turvy Deep sea is the gathering place of demons Devil-inhabited mansion Face-off against the queen of the night Fight the beast! Mother's life in the balance Break through the demon's trap Queen of night, dead at dawn Where are you going, blue bird?

Titles in other languages

• French: L'Oiseau bleu
• Italian: Tyltyl, Mytyl e l'uccellino azzurro

See also

• The Blue Bird
• Maurice Maeterlinck

External links

• Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey at the Internet Movie Database
• Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia