Ozu no mahôtsukai (1986–1987)
1/10
A case against adaptations faithful to the source material
19 November 2023
After watching the 1939 movie based on the Wizard of Oz line of books and noticing some cracks in it that prevented me to enjoy it at maximum (particularly because it seemed the storyline was more suited to a animated treatment than a live-action one) I thougth of giving this anime series a try. And what happened? That I was bored to death immediately by a storyline more interested in enuclating how many times Dorothy sleeps and by how much the character are all idiotic beyond belief, not just the canonically brainless one but all of them. It's also very wordy and repetitious, with descriptions on how the tinman needs to be oiled in every sigle part of his body to start moving again, which is complete nonsense and probably due to the producers of this anime sticking so closely to the source material that they emulated Frank L. Baum's writing 1:1. If this is how the books are, me thinks I'll avoid them for the rest of my life with ease. Avoid with no remorse whatsoever.
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