Is Belle and Sebastian easy watching?

Yes, very. More comforting than 97% of well-known series. This describes how the series comes across across its whole run, measured against other well-known series; it is not a content list.

Is Belle and Sebastian scary?

Barely. Less frightening than 76% of well-known series. This describes how the series comes across across its whole run, measured against other well-known series; it is not a content list.

Is Belle and Sebastian sad?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known series. This describes how the series comes across across its whole run, measured against other well-known series; it is not a content list.

Belle and Sebastian

Name: Belle and Sebastian
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Released: 1981
Rating: 7.55
Cast: Noriko Ohara, Ichiro Nagai, Keiko Yokozawa, Hiroko Suzuki, Toru Furuya

On NHK BS1

1981–19821 season52 episodes30 min7.5 / 10

A gentle, episodic children's anime about a boy and his giant dog searching for the boy's mother in the Pyrenees, built on warmth, connection, and the pastoral beauty of a literary adaptation.

Belle and Sebastian is an anime adaption of a series of French novels called Belle et Sébastien by Cécile Aubry. The series ran on the Japanese network NHK from April 7, 1981 – June 22, 1982. It consists of 52 episodes and was a co-production of MK Company, Visual 80 Productions and Toho Company, Ltd.. Toshiyuki Kashiwakura was the head writer and character designs were by Shuichi Seki. The show was broadcast on French and Japanese television in 1981, with American cable network Nickelodeon picking it up in 1984. In the United Kingdom, it aired on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990. This anime used many staffers from Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, thus the look and feel is similar to that of a WMT production even though Nippon Animation itself was not involved with this series. The series has been aired in many countries outside Japan and has been dubbed and subtitled in English and numerous other languages.

Clusters

Gentle Warmth, Ordinary Belonging Lives Traced Across Time

Genres

Animation Drama Family

Keywords

Based On Novel Or Book Giant Dog Anime Search For Mother Kodomo Dog Man Friendship The Pyrenees Los Pirineos

Questions people ask

Is Belle and Sebastian easy watching? Yes, very. More comforting than 97% of series.
Does Belle and Sebastian leave you hopeful? Yes, very. More hopeful than 92% of series.
Is Belle and Sebastian violent? Barely. Less violent than 78% of series.
Is Belle and Sebastian scary? Barely. Less frightening than 76% of series.
Is Belle and Sebastian sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the series comes across across its whole run, compared with other well-known series. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked episode by episode, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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