Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables facts for kids

	Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables
Quick facts for kidsこんにちはアン〜Before Green Gables; (Konnichiwa An 〜Bifō Guriin Gēburusu)
Genre	Adventure, Slice of life story, Drama
	Anime television series
Directed by	Katsuyoshi Yatabe
Produced by	Kōichi Motohashi
Written by	Michiru Shimada
Music by	Yasuharu Takanashi; Hiromi Mizutani; Kenji Fujisawa
Studio	Nippon Animation
Network	BS Fuji, Animax
Original run	April 5, 2009 – December 27, 2009
Episodes	39

Konnichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables (こんにちはアン〜Before Green Gables, Konnichiwa An 〜Bifō Guriin Gēburusu, lit. "Hello Anne: Before Green Gables"), is the 26th series in Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater anime. The series is an adaptation of Canadian children's literature author Budge Wilson's 2008 prequel novel Before Green Gables, which was translated into Japanese as Konnichiwa Anne (こんにちはアン) by Akiko Usagawa. It chronicles the early years of main character Anne Shirley as she loses both her parents and is adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert.

Staff

Director: Katsuyoshi Yatabe
Series composition and screenplay: Michiru Shimada
Original character design: Yoshiharu Satō
Character designs and chief animation director: Takayo Nishimura
Music: Yasuharu Takanashi, Hiromi Mizutani, Kenji Fujisawa
Art director: Shigeru Morimoto
Colour design: Tomoko Komatsubara
Production: Nippon Animation

Characters

Voiced by: Rina Hidaka (日高里菜)

Voiced by: Seiko Tamura (田村聖子)

Anne's maternal aunt, wife to Bert and mother to Eliza, Horace, Edward, Harry and Noah. She is constantly trying the make ends meet, and as such is often in a bad mood.

Voiced by: Setsuji Satō

Joanna's husband and father to her children, he is unable to hold down a job due to his laziness and alcoholism, usually spending whatever money he earns from the oddjobs he does on cheap liquor.

Voiced by: Rika Wakusawa (わくさわりか)

First born daughter of Thomas family and primary income of the household. She cares for Anne like her own child, but later marries Roger Emerson and leaves Anne behind.

Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi

First son of the Thomas family

Voiced by: Chiaki Shimogama

Second son of the Thomas family

Voiced by: Taeko Kawata

Third son of the Thomas family

Voiced by: Satomi Kōrogi

Fourth son of the Thomas family

Voiced by: Mitsuko Horie

An old widower with high standing

Anne's companion cat. His name is taken from a line of the poem "Marmion" by Walter Scott.

Voiced by: Masako Ikeda