Waki Yamato
Director
Smart-san (1978)
Season 1
Benio Hanamura is a 17-year-old schoolgirl in Tokyo during the Taisho era. Benio lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy—contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions, and isn't as interested in housewife duties as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love. Benio's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Benio but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms.
Released June 3, 1978
Episode 24 min
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Genres: Animation, Anime, Anime: Historical, Anime: Shoujo, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Keywords: tmdb.shoujo, tmdb.anime, imdb.historical-fiction, imdb.fictional-war, imdb.based-on-comic-book, imdb.manga, imdb.1900s + 3 more, imdb.anime-animation, imdb.1920s, tmdb.taisho-period
Production Companies: Nippon Animation
Network: ANIMAX
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Network: ANIMAX
Episode Runtime: 24 min.
Season Runtime: 1008 min.
Released: June 3, 1978
Last Air Date: Feb. 14, 1979, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: G
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