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Watch the charm­ing trail­er for Stu­dio Ghibli’s first ever kids’ show

11 Jan 2017

Words by Rebecca Speare-Cole

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Circular black and white eye icon with radiating lines.
Ron­ja, the Robber’s Daugh­ter will air on Ama­zon Prime lat­er this month.

Con­sid­er­ing their size­able con­tri­bu­tion to the land­scape of tra­di­tion­al ani­mat­ed sto­ry­telling, it’s pret­ty remark­able to think that Stu­dio Ghi­b­li had nev­er pro­duced an out-and-out kids’ show before 2014. Now rather excit­ing­ly, all 26 episodes of Ron­ja, the Robber’s Daugh­ter are being import­ed for Eng­lish-lan­guage audi­ences, hav­ing orig­i­nal­ly aired on Japan­ese television.

The series was direct­ed by Goro Miyaza­ki (son of Hayao), who pre­vi­ous­ly helmed the sim­i­lar­ly fam­i­ly-ori­ent­ed From Up on Pop­py Hill and Tales of Earth­sea. The sto­ry, about a young girl whose father is the chief of a tribe of ban­dits, is an adap­ta­tion of beloved Swedish children’s writer Astrid ​“Pip­pi Long­stock­ing” Lindgren’s pop­u­lar books of the same name. Gillian Ander­son will serve as nar­ra­tor in the new­ly dubbed ver­sion. Watch the delight­ful trail­er above and let us know your thoughts @LWLies

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Ron­ja, the Robber’s Daugh­ter will be avail­able to stream on Ama­zon Prime from 27 January.

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