Princess Sara
, also spelled as Princess Sarah, is a Japanese anime series produced by Nippon Animation, based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1905 novel, A Little Princess. Spanning 46 episodes, it originally premiered in 1985 across Japan on Fuji Television as the 11th series of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater. This work is one of the most well-known works in "the World Masterpiece Theater", the story describes an orphan girl who endures persistent bullying in the dormitory. Negative factors such as orphan, poverty and child abuse are fully adopted. It is one of the most well-known Japanese manga/anime on the theme of "bullying" of the juvenile world, the highest audience rating marked five eighteenths. The series has also been selected as one of the best 100 Japanese anime series of all time by viewers of TV Asahi. It was also later aired across Japan by the anime television network, Animax, who also later broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide, including its English language networks in South Asia and Southeast Asia, dubbing and translating the series into English under the title Princess Sarah. Animax's adaptation was the series' only English translation and the series has yet to be commercially released in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, Princess Sarah was aired on Children's ITV in August 1989 Until October 1992, With Subtitles. In the Philippines, Princess Sarah was aired on ABS-CBN in the early 1990s with various rebroadcasts since then. Its popularity inspired a live-action film Sarah... Ang Munting Prinsesa and a primetime TV drama series. The show was also dubbed in Arabic under the title سالي (romanized as Sally). After its success with Arabic-speaking audiences, the show was also rerun to Arabic-speaking audiences around the turn of the twenty-first century. سالي was subsequently added to Netflix Middle East on November 19, 2020. In the year 1885, the story follows Sara Crewe, the young daughter of, Captain Ralph Crewe, who is extremely wealthy due to running a diamond mine in British-ruled India.
