Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey
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| 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) | |
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| Genre | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Romance, Family |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Sasagawa |
| Produced by | Tetsuhisa Yamada |
| Written by | Keisuke Fujikawa Maru Tamura |
| Music by | Hiroshi Miyagawa |
| Studio | Academy Production |
| Original network | FNS (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, Mēterurinku no Aoi Tori: Chiruchiru Michiru 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 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck. The series was 26-episodes long when aired on Japanese television. The series was made in Japan between 1978 and 1979.
Set in a German-speaking country in the 1970s, the series is about a 12-year-old girl called Mytyl and her 13-year-old brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune. They are accompanied on their journey by their cat and dog, Tylette and Tylo, who are given anthropomorphic forms and the ability to talk by Bérylune.
Characters
- Tyltyl (voiced by Toru Furuya)
- Mytyl (voiced by Mami Koyama)
- Tylô (Tyrol) (the dog) (voiced by Ichiro Nagai)
- Tylette (Shanet) (the cat) (voiced by Fuyumi Shiraishi)
- Berylune (the fairy) (voiced by Fusako Amachi)
- Queen of the Night (voiced by Akihiro Miwa)
- Tyltyl and Mytyl's parents (voiced by Koji Yada (father), Miyoko Shoji (ep 1) and Mari Okamoto (mother))
- Water (voiced by Yoko Asagami)
- Fire (voiced by Kenichi Ogata)
- Time (voiced by Koji Yada)
- Bread (voiced by Toshio Furukawa)
- Milk (voiced by Masako Nozawa)
- Sugar (voiced by Tomiko Suzuki)
- Light (voiced by Mari Okamoto)
Production crew
- 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 (uncredited), Office Academy, Fuji TV