is a manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series by Shosuke Kurakane

Shosuke Kurakane

, pen name was a Japanese manga artist.He wrote many works that has been turned into anime, TV drama, and movie but is especially known for Anmitsuhime which was turned into all three. His second best known work, Tentenmusume , was made into a movie on 1956 with Mariko Miyagi as the heroine and...

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The story was originally produced in 1949-1955.

In 1986-1987, Izumi Takemoto

Izumi Takemoto

is a Japanese manga artist. He attended Nihon University and majored in business. His first experience with science fiction was through the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the majority of his works reflect this SF influence. He is also a cat lover, and while cats frequently appear in his works,...

 retold the original manga series, releasing it under the same title.

Live-action television dramas

The first TV drama series was broadcast in 1958-1960, featuring Misao Nakahara as Anmitsu.

Second TV drama series was broadcast in 1983-1984, featuring Kyōko Koizumi

Kyoko Koizumi

' is a Japanese singer and actress. Her music is released through Victor Entertainment . She is also known by the nickname Kyon Kyon. She had singles reach the Top ten for 12 consecutive years between 1983 and 1994, a female solo artist record, until this was broken by Namie Amuro...

 as Anmitsu.

Third TV drama series was broadcast in 2008-, featuring Mao Inoue

Mao Inoue

is a Japanese actress. She debuted as a U-15 idol in 1999. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as in and Makino Tsukushi in the Hana Yori Dango series, in which she won Best Actress in the 47th Television Drama Academy Awards and received a newcomer award at the 16th Hashida...

 as Anmitsu.

Anime television series

An anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 adaptation, called Sugar Princess: From Amakara Castle was made by Studio Pierrot

Studio Pierrot

is a Japanese animation/animation studio, founded in 1979 by former employees of Tatsunoko Production. Its headquarters is located in Mitaka, Tokyo.The company has a simple logo of the face of a clown...

, aired on Fuji TV

Fuji Television

is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....

 from October 1986 to September 1987 for a 51-episode run.

The series is about a tomboy

Tomboy

A tomboy is a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered typical of the gender role of a boy, including the wearing of typically masculine-oriented clothes and engaging in games and activities that are often physical in nature, and which are considered in many cultures to be the...

 princess took place in feudal

Shogun

A was one of the hereditary military dictators of Japan from 1192 to 1867. In this period, the shoguns, or their shikken regents , were the de facto rulers of Japan though they were nominally appointed by the emperor...

 era, but with modern-day technology.

Video game

A Sega Master System

Sega Master System

The is a third-generation video game console that was manufactured and released by Sega in 1985 in Japan , 1986 in North America and 1987 in Europe....

 video game based on the series was translated for the Europe, North America and Oceania

Oceania

Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

 markets as Alex Kidd in High-Tech World

Alex Kidd in High-Tech World

Alex Kidd: High Tech World is a side-scrolling video game with platforming and adventure elements, released by Sega in 1987 for the Sega Master System, that is part of the Alex Kidd series...

, with Anmitsu Hime characters replaced with Alex Kidd

Alex Kidd

is a video game character whose popularity peaked during the late 1980s and who was the protagonist of both a series of video games released by Sega and their fictional universe, as well as in numerous spin-off merchandise such as novelizations and comics...

 characters.

External links

• Anmitsu Hime film list
• Sugar Princess - Studio Pierrot
  Studio Pierrot
  is a Japanese animation/animation studio, founded in 1979 by former employees of Tatsunoko Production. Its headquarters is located in Mitaka, Tokyo.The company has a simple logo of the face of a clown...
  
  
• Anmitsu Hime - Studio Pierrot
  Studio Pierrot
  is a Japanese animation/animation studio, founded in 1979 by former employees of Tatsunoko Production. Its headquarters is located in Mitaka, Tokyo.The company has a simple logo of the face of a clown...
  
  
• Sega Joy Joy news #11 contains info on the game
• Fuji TV page contains info on the 2008 drama
• Fuji TV page contains info on the 2009 drama