Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics is a Japanese animated anthology series by Nippon Animation. The episodes are adaptations of a variety of folk and fairy tales, and not limited to Grimm's Fairy Tales.
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- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes aired
- 48
- Latest aired
- S02E24
- Total runtime
- 20h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 October 1987 – March 1988 24 episodes
- Season 2 March 1988 – April 1989 24 episodes
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S01E01 The Travelling Musicians of Bremen
October 21 · 25min find the promo
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An old donkey who can no longer haul heavy loads overhears his master's plan to kill him and eat him. So, he runs away to the town of Bremen to become a musician. Along the way, he meets a dog, a cat, and a rooster who join him.
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S01E02 Hansel and Gretel
October 28 · 25min find the promo
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Due to a devastating famine, two children, Hansel and Gretel, are abandoned in the woods by their cruel stepmother and are lured to a gingerbread house inhabited by a child-eating witch.
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S01E03 The Frog Prince
November 4 · 25min find the promo
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A selfish princess learns a lesson in humility and consideration for others from a talking frog.
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S01E04 The Frog Prince (2)
November 11 · 25min find the promo
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S01E05 Little Red Riding Hood
November 18 · 25min find the promo
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A little girl on her way through the woods to her grandmother's house is accosted by a sneaky, hungry wolf.
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S01E06 The Golden Goose
November 25 · 25min find the promo
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A young simpleton is gifted a golden goose in return for an act of kindness. When three scheming sisters plot to steal the goose, they become stuck to it and every person who tries to free them becomes stuck in turn until they perform an unselfish act.
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S01E07 Puss in Boots
December 2 · 25min find the promo
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A clever cat schemes and cajoles to elevate his master's social and financial status.
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S01E08 Puss in Boots (2)
December 9 · 25min find the promo
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S01E09 Snow White and Rose Red
December 16 · 25min find the promo
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Two sisters are visited in winter by a talking bear, but he leaves in the spring speaking of riches to protect and an evil spell. Then Snow White and Rose Red keep encountering a helpless but cold gnome, and later a prince seeking his lost brother.
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S01E10 Snow White
December 23 · 25min find the promo
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A vain and wicked queen orders the death of her stepdaughter, Snow White, for exceeding her beauty. But Snow White flees into the woods where she meets seven friendly dwarfs who help to protect her when the queen comes to finish the job.
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S01E11 Snow White (2)
December 30 · 25min find the promo
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S01E12 Snow White (3)
January 6 · 25min find the promo
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S01E13 Snow White (4)
January 13 · 25min find the promo
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S01E14 The Six Who Went Far
January 20 · 25min find the promo
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A soldier is unjustly compensated by a money-hoarding king and princess. Forced to fend for himself, he meets five remarkable friends: a strongman, one who can run faster than any other human, one whose bare head can create ice and snow, one whose breath extends for a distance, and one who can see and shoot for miles. The soldier inspires them to follow him, then they decide to stop the cruelty of the country's rulers.
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S01E15 The Water of Life
January 27 · 25min find the promo
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A young prince in line to inherit a kingdom goes on a quest for the Water of Life to save his ailing father, the King's, life. But the prince's older brother, wanting the kingdom for himself, tries to steal the Water to prove his worth to the King and get in his good favor again.
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S01E16 Bluebeard
February 3 · 25min find the promo
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Josephine's dreams of marrying a prince seem to come true when one sends for her in her forest home. Though her brothers are wary of her wedding a man none of them has met, she accepts eagerly - but is startled by his striking beard of blue. The prince, who provides Josephine with every luxury until she becomes haughty, has only one locked, mismatched room in his castle he will not discuss. When he leaves her with his keys and instructions to see that one is not used, Josephine is lured by it to the forbidden room, and a terrible secret.
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S01E17 Jorinde and Joringel
February 10 · 25min find the promo
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When Jorinde and her fiancé Joringel visit the woods, its witch they unknowingly encountered earlier draws them to her home and turns Jorinde into a nightingale and takes her as she does every maid she meets. After being unable to move to stop it, Joringel is driven out of the woods by her magic with only a puzzling message from Jorinde, and can't see a way to best the magic to free her.
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S01E18 Briar Rose
February 17 · 25min find the promo
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S01E19 Old Sultan
February 24 · 25min find the promo
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S01E20 King Grizzle Beard
March 2 · 25min find the promo
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S01E21 The Naughty Spirit
March 9 · 25min find the promo
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S01E22 The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes
March 13 · 25min find the promo
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S01E23 Cinderella
March 23 · 25min find the promo
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S01E24 Cinderella (2)
March 30 · 25min find the promo