Manga Sekai Mukashibanashi

Another nostalgic late 80s anime to review~

The anime follows an episodic style, where each episode is a new story, fable, or a folklore from somewhere in the world.
It has both exotic and classic tales told in their brutal reality, and both are entertaining to sit through. I love the classics where a realistic twist is added to the endings (or just being true to the origins).
The stories vary from seeming childish to being extremely impropriate for children (Carmen's story, and Cosette's Mother dying looking terrifying which hunted me for quite a while)!
There are happy stories, depressing ones, tear jerking ones, and frightening ones. And most ... if not all have a lesson to learn.

The animation is average considering the year of the release and some episodes consist of only a slide show of pictures.
While the art is eye-catching considering it changes according to the story, so it's really amusing and solves the problem of having all MCs of tales looking alike in such animes.

I believe it's an ageless classic that deserve a try.

A journey through MadHouse chapter 2.

Once again I see something that is too difficult to find in a language I understand. Fortunately the anime is too easy to understand even if you don't speak Japanese. Manga Sekai shows us different classic stories that are or were told throughout the world.

I recommend this anime but with a way of seeing it that is too specific. It would be very irresponsible of me to recommend you watch 127 episodes of something that is not in your language, does not have subtitles and that can be tiring as you get closer to the end. The way I ... recommend watching it is this: first watch the entire catalog of stories that the anime offers. Then, choose your favorite stories and enjoy them. Since it is not an anime with a sequential story, it is an episodic format and is easier to enjoy since you can start from any point in the anime without getting lost along the way.

Something that I liked was that, even though the anime is called "Manga Fairy tales from the world" it is not limited to just telling fairy tales. It has a mix of fairy tales, fables, short stories, myths, legends and the last 20 chapters are focused on telling classic stories from literature in chapters divided into two parts. One may think that you know most of these types of stories and that reviewing this anime may be a waste of time, but I can bet that you will find one or two stories that you didn't know about and that will lead you to research more about that story, just like it happened to me.

As for MadHouse, considering that this is an anime from 1976, they have a very varied work in terms of animation style. This may be the anime where you can have those first glimpses of what a good studio MadHouse would be over time. What I would highlight would be the backgrounds that are drawn in such a simple way that some become so captivating. Obviously judging 70s animation by today's standards is not possible, so we must always take into account the time period where this was broadcast.

This was a popular anime in the 70s, so much so that it was dubbed into many languages. The problem is that many of those chapters with dubbing in English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, etc. are now lost media. If you dedicate yourself to the search, you may find 10 or 20 chapters dubbed into your language, but I would not recommend wasting time on this as it can be frustrating. As I said at the beginning I only recommend watching certain stories and you can even limit yourself to stories dubbed in your language. No matter how you decide to watch it, personally, I believe that we should all watch at least a couple of episodes of this anime, as an exercise in historical appreciation and the evolution of anime.