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Mrs. Pepperpot

スプーンおばさん (Mrs. Pepperpot)
Genre	Fantasy, Adventure
TV anime
Directed by	Tatsuo Hayakawa
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Network	TV Tokyo RTL2 TF1
Original run	April 4, 1983 – March 9, 1984
No. of episodes	50 X 30 minutes

Mrs. Pepperpot (Japanese: スプーンおばさん ) is an anime adaption based on the novel Mrs. Pepperpot by the Norwegian author Alf Prøysen which ran on the Japanese network TV Tokyo from April 4, 1983–March 9, 1984. It consists of 50 episodes.

The series has been aired in many countries outside Japan and has been dubbed and subtitled in English, German, Norwegian, Italian, French, Polish, Dutch, Arabic, Japanese and Hebrew.

1 Plot
2 Characters
3 Alternative titles
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Mrs. Pepperpot lives in a small little village with her husband. She wears a small magical teaspoon around her neck which every now and then shrinks her to the size of her teaspoon which doesn't shrink as well, and she must drag it along with her on her back when she gets shrunk. She always changes back to her original size after a certain amount of time. This special condition had its advantages - she can communicate with animals and enjoy wonderful adventures in the woods. This way she wins new and interesting friends on a regular basis. She is a good friend of Lily, a mysterious little girl who lives in the forest alone, she is also friend with a mouse family. She can not reveal her secret or show herself in the shrunk condition, which sometimes gets quite difficult.