25 minSeason 1 • Episode 52
LatestNils Holgersson is a young boy on a farm who is cruel to the animals. But when he catches the farm's little goblin it becomes one prank too many. He is magically shrunk and suddenly the farm animals are out for revenge. He flees on the back of the goose Morten and they join up with a flock of wild geese. Together they travel all over Sweden, with Nils hoping to find a way to become big again.
Production
World Masterpiece Theater's meticulous Scandinavian landscapes
Writing
Selma Lagerlöf's 1906 novel adapted with surprising fidelity
Score
That earworm theme you'll hum for decades
Mami Koyama
Nils (voice)
Masane Tsukayama
Nils' Father (voice)
Joji Yanami
Ten (voice)
Masako Ikeda
Nils' Mother (voice)
Hideyuki Tanaka
Gunnar (voice)
Yoshito Yasuhara
Morton (voice)
Keiko Yokozawa
Kei Tomiyama
Kohei Miyauchi
Rosenbaum (voice)
Shinobu Adachi
Gacho (voice)
Tetsuo Mizutori
Ondori (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
Gusta (voice)
Minori Matsushima
Ingrid (voice)
Kumiko Takizawa
Dunfuin (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Nippon Animation's 'World Masterpiece Theater,' a decades-long project adapting global children's literature with almost obsessive national authenticity.
Selma Lagerlöf wrote the original novel to teach Swedish geography to schoolchildren; the anime preserves this educational mandate in every panoramic episode.
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