Pinocchio: The Series
| Pinocchio: The Series | |
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Screenshot from the TV series Pinocchio: The Series, displaying Geppetto and Pinocchio | |
| 樫の木モック | |
| Written by | Jinzo Toriumi |
| Directed by | Ippei Kuri (episodes 1-14) Seitaro Hara (episodes 15-52) |
| Music by | Nobuyoshi Koshibe |
| Opening theme | "Kashi no ki Mokku" by Kumiko Kaori |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 52 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Tatsuo Yoshida |
| Producers | Kenji Yoshida Motoyoshi Maesato |
| Production company | Tatsunoko Production |
| Original release | |
| Network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| Release | 4 January – 26 December 1972 |
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Pinocchio: The Series, also known as Saban's The Adventures of Pinocchio and known as Mock of the Oak Tree (樫の木モック, Kashi no Ki Mokku) in Japan, is a 52-episode anime series by Tatsunoko Production first aired on Fuji Television in 1972, which was edited by Saban in 1990. The story is loosely based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi.
Unlike the lighter, more cheerful tones of most adaptations such as Walt Disney's film adaptation and Nippon Animation's version Piccolino no Bōken, this series has a distinctly darker, more sadistic tone in the veins of Collodi's novel, and portrays the main character, Pinocchio (Mock) in his personality from the novel, as a bad-behaved troublemaker who only learns his lesson by suffering from constant physical and psychological abuse and freak accidents.