The Littl' Bits
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The Littl' Bits (森の陽気な小人たち ベルフィーとリルビット, Mori no Yōki na Kobitotachi: Berufi to Rirubitto, lit. Cheerful Dwarves of the Forest: Belfy & Lillibit) is a Japanese anime television series with 26 episodes, produced in 1980 by Tatsunoko Productions in Japan in cooperation with TV Tokyo (then an independent station; what became the TX Network was not organised until 1982, thus the show in its first run aired on affiliates of other networks in other cities, such as Fuji TV-affiliated Kansai TV in Osaka). The series' Saban-produced English translation was featured on the children's television station Nick Jr. from 1991 to 1995 alongside other children's anime series such as Adventures of the Little Koala, Maya the Bee, Noozles, and Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics. In the interim, the series also enjoyed popularity across Europe, the Middle East and the Spanish-speaking world.
The Littl' Bits | |
森の陽気な小人たち ベルフィーとリルビット (Mori no Yōki na Kobitotachi: Berufi to Rirubitto) | |
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Anime television series | |
Directed by | Masayuki Hayashi |
Produced by | Ippei Kuri (executive) Norio Kondo Akira Inoue |
Written by | Takao Koyama, Shigeru Yanagawa, Yu Yamamoto, etc. |
Music by | Takeo Watanabe |
Studio | Tatsunoko Productions |
Original network | TV Tokyo (an independent station in 1980; the show aired on affiliates of other networks in other cities) |
English network | |
Original run | January 7 – July 7, 1980 (1980-07-07) |
Episodes | 26[1] |
Due to their similar size and naming scheme (a creation of the English dub; no such naming scheme existed in the original version), the Littl' Bits has been compared to Smurfs.[2]