The Bush Baby
| The Bush Baby | |
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Title card | |
| 大草原の小さな天使 ブッシュベイビー | |
| Genre | Adventure, drama |
| Based on | The Bushbabies by William Stevenson |
| Written by | Akira Miyazaki |
| Directed by | Takayoshi Suzuki |
| Music by | Akira Miyagawa |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Koichi Motohashi |
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| Production companies | Fuji Television Nippon Animation |
| Original release | |
| Network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| Release | January 12 – December 20, 1992 |
Bush Baby, Little Angel of the Grasslands (大草原の小さな天使 ブッシュベイビー, Daisougen no Chiisana Tenshi Busshubeibī), shortened as The Bush Baby, is the title of a 1992 anime series consisting of forty 25-minute episodes. It is based on the novel The Bushbabies (1965) by Canadian author William Stevenson.
The series is part of Fuji Television and Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, which consists of anime television series adaptations of classic children's books. It has also been broadcast internationally on networks such as TVO / Access Alberta (Canada), France 3 (France), Antena 3 (Spain), Italia 1 (Italy), Tele 5 / tm3 (Germany), ORF1 (Austria), ABS-CBN / GMA 7 / Quality TeleVision (Philippines), various Arab networks (Arab World), and RTM2 (Malaysia).
The English dub for the series was handled by TVOntario from 1993-1995.