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Serendipity Monogatari: Pyua-tou no Nakama-tachi (TV)

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Alternative title:

Biniki el Drac Rosa

Biniki el Dragon Rosa (Spanish)

Biniky le Dragon Rose (French)

Henry und der rosarote Drache (German)

Rosaura (Italian)

Serendipity Stories: Friends of Pure Island

Serendipity the Pink Dragon

ميمونة ومسعود (Arabic)

セレンディピティ物語ピュア島の仲間たち (Japanese)

Genres: fantasy

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Plot Summary: Kona is a boy with a friend: a pink dragon named Serendipity with a kind nature. Together, they want to stop an evil captain who tries steal gold from their peaceful island.

User Ratings: 16 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: -

Excellent: 2 votes (dub:2)

Very good: 4 votes (dub:1, sub:1, others:2

1 Arabic dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed

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Good: 4 votes (sub:2, others:2

2 Arabic dubbed

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Decent: 2 votes (sub:1, edit.dub:1)

So-so: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)

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Weak: 1 vote (dub:1)

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Seen in part or in whole by 53 users, rank: #4966 (of 7269)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.750 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.6008, rank: #3535 (of 7286)
Weighted mean: 6.728 (Good−), rank: #3508 (of 7286) (seen all: 6.69 / seen some: 8.00 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.080 (Good), rank: #2198 (of 5489)

Running time: half hour per episode

Number of episodes: 26

Episode titles: We have 26

Vintage:

1983-07-01 to 1983-12-23

1985-09-11 (France Air Date)

Release dates: We have 1

Opening Theme:

"Pyua-tou no Nakama-tachi" by Megumi Hara

Ending Theme:

"Aoi Umi no BEGIN" by Shoko Sano

Official website:

Serendipity Monogatari Official Website (Japanese)

Links: We have 1

Trivia: We have 1

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Japanese staff

Japanese cast

Series Director: Nobuo Onuki

Series Composition: Isao Matsuki

Script:
Sumiko Nakao
Tsunehisa Ito

Storyboard:
Hiroyuki Yokoyama
Kazuo Ikeuchi
Keiji Hayakawa
Masayoshi Oyama

Episode Director:
Hiroyuki Yokoyama
Nobuo Onuki
Shigeru Omachi
Toyo Ebishima
Yoshikuni Nishi

Music: Takeo Watanabe

Original story: Stephen Cosgrove

Character Design:
Kazuo Tomizawa
Yôichi Kotabe

Art Director:
Toyo Ebishima
Yoshikuni Nishi

Executive producer: Masao Takiyama

Producer: Shigeto Takahashi

Background Art:
Hideo Kode
Hisae Oomiya
Junichi Mizuno
Junichi Mizuo
Keiko Kanemura
Mariko Toyama
Tachio Imamura
Tatsuo Imamura
Toshihide Kawana
Tsuneo Nonomiya
Tsutomu Nishikura
Yoshikuni Nishi
Yoshio Ito
Yukiko Maruyama
Yuko Fujie

Editing: Shuichi Kakesu

In-Between Check: Junko Nishimura

Paint: Azusa Edo

Production Advancement: Yoshiaki Matsuda

Production Desk: Hiromi Imai

Production manager: Hiroshi Wakao

Sound Effects: Yozo Kataoka

Special Effects: Rika Tamada

Theme Song Arrangement: Yuji Matsuyama (OP,ED)

Theme Song Performance:
MEgumi Hara (OP)
Shoko Sano (ED)

Mari Okamoto as Serendipity

Michiko Nomura as Kona

Kei Tomiyama as Dolf

Kousei Tomita as Smadge

Noriko Tsukase as Akanatssu

Rihoko Yoshida as Minta

Yuji Mitsuya as Pira-Pira

Yuri Nashiwa as Princess Lola

Japanese companies

Development: Tokyo Laboratory

Photography: Mushi Production

Production:
Nippon Television Network
Zuiyo Eizō

Production Assistance:
Dragon Production
SHAFT
Tama Production

Video Editing: Tokyo Video Laboratory

English cast

English staff

Director: Jim Terry

Script: Collins Walker

Music: Mark Mercury

Producer: Jim Terry

Associate producer: Patricia Curran

Editing: Collins Walker

Betty Gustafson as Serendipity

Betty Gustafson as
Bobby's Mother
Narrator

Bob Bergen as Prof. Abraham

English companies

Audio Post Production: Score One Studios

Post Production Facility: Celebrity Duplicating Services

Producer: Enoki Films

French staff

French cast

(none)

Albert Augier as Uncle Dolf

Danièle Hazan as Boubi

Guy Chapelier as Narrator

Jeanine Forney as Biniky

Luq Hamet as Pilapila the parrot

Yves Barsacq as Smug the pirate

French companies

Broadcaster: TF1 (1985)

Spanish staff

Spanish companies

(none)

Broadcaster:
TV3 (Televisió de Catalunya)
TVE (Spain)

Spanish cast

(none)

Italian staff

Italian cast

(none)

Daniela Igliozzi as Laura Regina

Mario Colli as Cap. Smadge

Massimo Milazzo as Henry

Italian companies

Broadcaster:
Italia 1 (from 1990)
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