Anime
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Mitsuko Horie
Narrator / Fairy in Opening (voice)
28 eps
Ryusei Nakao
Rooster (voice)
1 eps
Osamu Kato
Lead Thief (voice)
1 eps
Yoshiko Ohta
Farmer's Wife (voice)
1 eps
Sanji Hase
Heinrich (voice)
2 eps
Mami Koyama
Hansel (voice)
1 eps
Chieko Honda
Gretel (voice)
1 eps
Shunsuke Shima
Father (voice)
1 eps
Chie Kitagawa
Stepmother (voice)
1 eps
Yoshino Takamori
Princess (voice)
1 eps
Ritsuo Sawa
Thief (voice)
2 eps
Terue Nunami
Grandmother (voice)
1 eps
Chiyoko Kawashima
Mother (voice)
1 eps
Hiroko Emori
Sister (voice)
1 eps
Ryuji Saikachi
The Grandfather of the Forest (voice)
1 eps
Ikunari Sawaki
Farmer (voice)
1 eps
Joji Yanami
Dog (voice)
2 eps
Reiko Suzuki
Hans' Mother (voice)
1 eps
Kenichi Ogata
The Hat Man (voice)
4 eps
Kazumi Tanaka
Preacher's Disciple (voice)
1 eps
Minoru Inaba
(voice)
5 eps
Kyoko Tongu
Sister (voice)
1 eps
Takuzō Kamiyama
The King (voice)
1 eps
Kayoko Fujii
Snow White (voice)
1 eps
Bin Shimada
Hans (voice)
2 eps
Kaneto Shiozawa
Bear / Prince (voice)
1 eps
Ichiro Nagai
The Gnome (voice)
3 eps
Nobuo Tobita
Younger Prince (voice)
1 eps
Shigeru Chiba
(voice)
3 eps
Keiko Hanagata
Mother (voice)
1 eps
Tessyo Genda
First Brother (voice)
2 eps
Haru Endō
Doris (voice)
1 eps
Sakiko Tamagawa
Snow White (voice)
2 eps
Nozomu Sasaki
Klaus (voice)
2 eps
Kazue Komiya
Queen (voice)
2 eps
Yoku Shioya
Max (voice)
2 eps
Gara Takashima
Mirror (voice)
2 eps
Ken Yamaguchi
(voice)
2 eps
Kohei Miyauchi
(voice)
1 eps
Toshiya Ueda
(voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics reads strongest on World Building, Spectacle and Character Depth.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
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.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Kazuyoshi YokotaDirector
- Shigeru OmachiDirector
- Fumio KurokawaDirector
- Hiroshi SaitoDirector
Music
- Hideo ShimazuOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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