Nobody's Boy: Remi

Nobody's Child
家なき子 (Ie Naki Ko)
Genre	Adventure Drama Slice of life Historical Coming of age Family
Anime television series
Directed by	Osamu Dezaki
Produced by	Hidehiko Takei Keishi Yamazaki
Written by	Haruya Yamazaki Tsunehisa Itō Keiko Sugie
Music by	Takeo Watanabe
Studio	TMS Entertainment Madhouse
Licensed by	US ImaginAsian
Original network	Nippon TV
English network	iaTV
Original run	October 2, 1977 – October 1, 1978
Episodes	51
Anime film
Directed by	Osamu Dezaki Yoshio Takeuchi (assistant)
Produced by	Tetsuo Katayama
Written by	Takeo Watanabe
Music by	Haruya Yamazaki Tsunehisa Itō Keiko Sugie
Studio	TMS Entertainment
Released	March 15, 1980
Runtime	96 minutes
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Nobody's Boy: Remi (家なき子, Ie Naki Ko, lit. Homeless Child) is a Japanese anime series by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and Madhouse. The story is based upon French author Hector Malot's 1878 novel Sans Famille. It follows a young boy who works for a travelling group of players in the hope of earning money and seeing his foster family again. The anime is well known in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Latin America, Canada (in French), France, The Netherlands, Italy, the Arab world, Indonesia and Philippines.

A movie version by the same studio and director was released in 1980.

In the Philippines, the anime was originally shown between 1979 and 1980. However, like the other contemporary anime broadcast in the same period, Candy Candy, Heidi, etc.), the full story was not shown. It was only after nearly twenty years that it was shown in full, under the title "Remi" on ABS-CBN, this time in Tagalog. ImaginAsian attempted to make the show available in America through on-demand DVD, but with no success. However, it is still available in streaming format on Hulu.

In the Netherlands, it was broadcast between 1979 and 1980 by AVRO and in 1996 by the EO. The AVRO version was released on DVD.

In 1996, a new adaptation of this story was aired in Japan. Remi, Nobody's Girl (家なき子レミ, Ie Naki Ko Remi) was created by Nippon Animation as part of their famous World Masterpiece Theater series.

In 1995, Nobody's Boy: Remi was also broadcast by RCTI.

Characters[]

• Remi: Masako Sugaya
• Vitalis: Yōsuke Kondō
• Mrs. Milligan: Reiko Mutō
• Mrs. Baraberin: Hiroko Suzuki
• Jerome Baraberin: Takeshi Aono
• Mattia: Noriko Ohara

Episodes[]

1. Remi from Chavanon Village (October 2, 1977)
2. Remi, The Child of Destiny (October 9, 1977)
3. Remi's Departure (October 16, 1977)
4. March Forward, Remi! (October 23, 1977)
5. Remi's Debut (October 30, 1977)
6. Remi and his Sky-Blue Classroom (November 6, 1977)
7. Do Re Mi Fa Remi (November 13, 1977)
8. Lost Boy Remi (November 20, 1977)
9. My First Friend, Grace (November 27, 1977)
10. An Unexpected Occurrence (December 4, 1977)
11. Vitalis' Trial (December 11, 1977)
12. Little Director Remi (December 18, 1977)
13. A Meeting with the Swan (December 25, 1977)
14. Remi's Troupe on the Swan (January 1, 1978)
15. A Happy Boat Ride (January 8, 1978)
16. Dreaming of My Two Mothers (January 15, 1978)
17. Goodbye Swan (January 22, 1978)
18. Don't Look Back Remi (January 29, 1978)
19. In a Raging Blizzard (February 5, 1978)
20. Remi and the Wolf (February 12, 1978)
21. Birth of a New Life (February 19, 1978)
22. The Famous Joli Coeur (February 26, 1978)
23. A Great Master (March 5, 1978)
24. My New Paris Friend, Mattia (March 12, 1978)
25. Boss Garofoli (March 19, 1978)
26. Farewell, My Son (March 26, 1978)
27. Vitalis's Past (April 2, 1978)
28. Lise's Feelings (April 9, 1978)
29. The Happy Greenhouse (April 16, 1978)
30. The Ring Bond (April 23, 1978)
31. Thank You, Mattia (April 30, 1978)
32. A Great Idea (May 7, 1978)
33. My Outrageous Friend (May 14, 1978)
34. A Storm! 250 Meters Below (May 21, 1978)
35. Save Remi! (May 28, 1978)
36. Mattia the Musical Genius (June 4, 1978)
37. A Present for Mom (June 11, 1978)
38. Mrs. Barberin (June 18, 1978)
39. Hurry to Paris! (June 25, 1978)
40. Remi is English! (July 2, 1978)
41. I Finally Meet My Parents (July 9, 1978)
42. The Driscolls' True Identity (July 16, 1978)
43. The Milligan Family Insignia (July 30, 1978)
44. The Bond of Mother and Child (August 6, 1978)
45. My Mother Has Gone Away (August 13, 1978)
46. In the Midst of Despair (August 20, 1978)
47. A Desperate Dive (September 3, 1978)
48. Storm on the Dover Strait (September 10, 1978)
49. My Two Mothers (September 17, 1978)
50. Her First Word...Remi! (September 24, 1978)
51. Beginning A New Journey (October 1, 1978)

See also[]

• Sans Famille, the novel by French author Hector Malot on which this anime was based.
• Perrine Monogatari, the anime adaptation of Malot's accompanying novel En Famille.

External links[]

• Official site
• Nobody's Boy: Remi (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• ImaginAsian Official Page
• Nobody's Boy: Remi at IMDb

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