Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey

	Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey
	Cover art from the DVD release of the series
メーテルリンクの青い鳥チルチルミチルの冒険旅行; (Maeterlinck no Aoi Tori: Tyltyl Mytyl no Bōken Ryokō)
Genre	Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Musical, Romance
	Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroshi Sasagawa
Produced by	Yoshinobu Nishizaki
Written by	Keisuke Fujikawa and Maru Tamura
Music by	Hiroshi Miyagawa
Studio	Academy Productions; Toei Animation
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	January 9, 1980 – July 9, 1980
Episodes	26

Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey (メーテルリンクの青い鳥チルチルミチルの冒険旅行, Maeterlinck no Aoi Tori: Tyltyl Mytyl no Bōken Ryokō) is a 1980 Japanese animated television series directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa, with character designs from Leiji Matsumoto. It is based on the 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck. The series was 26-episodes long when aired on Japanese television. An Office Academy production in association with Toei Animation, the series was produced by Yoshinobu Nishizaki and used many of the staff from Nishizaki's earlier Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers). The series was made in Japan between 1978 and 1979.

Plot

Set in a German-speaking country in the 1970s, the series is about a 12-year-old girl called Mytyl and her 13-year-old brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune. They are accompanied on their journey by their cat and dog, Shanet and Tyrol, who are given anthropomorph forms and the ability to talk by Bérylune.

Characters

Tyltyl (voiced by Toru Furuya)
Mytyl (voiced by Mami Koyama)
Tyrol (the dog) (voiced by Ichiro Nagai)
Shanet (the cat) (voiced by Fuyumi Shiraishi)
Berylune (the fairy) (voiced by Fusako Amachi and Soko Tenchi)
Queen of the Night (voiced by Akihiro Miwa)
Tyltyl and Mytyl's parents (voiced by Koji Yada (father), Miyoko Shoji (ep 1) and Mari Okamoto (mother))
Spirit of the Water (voiced by Hiroshi Otake, Kenichi Ogata & Yoko Asagami)
Spirit of the Fire (voiced by Kenichi Ogata)
Spirit of the Time (voiced by Koji Yada)
Spirit of the Bread (voiced by Toshio Furukawa)
Spirit of the Milk (voiced by Masako Nozawa)
Spirit of the Sugar (voiced by Tomiko Suzuki)
Spirit of the Light (voiced by Mari Okamoto)

Production crew

Producer / Planning: Yoshinobu Nishizaki

Chief Director: Hiroshi Sasagawa

Script: Keisuke Fujikawa, Maru Tamura

Original Character Design: Leiji Matsumoto

Animation Character Design and Supervising Animation Director: Toyoo Ashida

Assistant Animation Director: Yoshiyuki Hane

Art Director: Kazue Ito

Sound Director: Atsumi Tashiro, Yasunori Honda

Music: Hiroshi Miyagawa

Production: Toei Animation, Office Academy, Fuji TV

Episodes

One warm evening, a visitor (January 9, 1980)
Sing! Dance! The merry fairies (January 16, 1980)
The forest of darkness is full of mysteries (January 23, 1980)
Guardian of the dark, queen of the night (January 30, 1980)
Good evening, ghost (February 6, 1980)
The birds who grasped freedom (February 13, 1980)
Welcome to the land of sickness (February 20, 1980)
The land where time has stopped (February 27, 1980)
A happiness a little too full of itself (March 5, 1980)
Pleased to meet you, motherly love (March 12, 1980)
Secret of the palace of the night (March 19, 1980)
Desert with no oasis (March 26, 1980)
Mechanical blue bird (April 9, 1980)

Invitation to the graveyard (April 16, 1980)
Revolt of the animals!! (April 23, 1980)
Children who are yet to be born (April 30, 1980)
I'm now being born... (May 7, 1980)
The land of gold is full of dreams! (May 12, 1980)
Giant of the isle of topsy-turvy (May 19, 1980)
Deep sea is the gathering place of demons (May 26, 1980)
Devil-inhabited mansion (June 4, 1980)
Face-off against the queen of the night (June 11, 1980)
Fight the beast! Mother's life in the balance (June 18, 1980)
Break through the demon's trap (June 25, 1980)
Queen of night, dead at dawn (July 2, 1980)
Where are you going, blue bird? (July 9, 1980)

Music

Opening song

Shiawase no Babira Torarira / "Babyla Tolarilla of Happiness"

Lyrics by: Michio Yamagami

Composition and arrangement by: Hiroshi Miyagawa

Song by: Midori Fukuhara

Ending song

Mado Akari / "Window Lights"

Lyrics by: Michio Yamagami

Composition and arrangement by: Hiroshi Miyagawa

Song by: Hideki Osuga

Insert songs

1. Ima Hoshi Mono wa Ai / "What I Want Now is Love"

Lyrics: Michio Yamagami