Manga Classics: Sense and Sensibility - Recommendations

• TV (13 eps)
• 1979

The Main character is a 15 year old Isabelle Laustin, other characters being her parents Leon and Marie, Isabelle`s friends Jean and his sister Marie, and Isabelle`s suitor, Captain Victor. When Paris is beseiged and Napoleon III`s army is defeated, Isabelle escapes to London, disguised as a boy, and engages in secret agent stuff.

• TV (26 eps)
• 1979 - 1980

• TV Special (2 eps)
• 2001

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1991

Based on the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1978

Wealthy miser Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, stingy old man who never has a kind word for anyone. Lacking both empathy and human compassion, he spends his days greedily exploiting people to make himself richer. On Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him that three more spirits are coming to show him the error of his ways. If Scrooge refuses to change, his spirit will be condemned to wander the earth forever!

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1980

• TV (43 eps)
• 1988

The story concerns an American boy named Cedric Errol, who at an early age finds that he is the sole heir to a British earldom and leaves New York to take up residence in his ancestral castle. After some initial resistance, he is joined by his middle-class mother, widow of heir James Errol. His grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, intends to teach the boy to become an aristocrat, but Cedie inadvertently teaches his grandfather compassion and social justice, and the artless simplicity and motherly love of dearest warms the old man's heart.

• TV (39 eps)
• 2004 - 2005

Maybelle West is a young relative of the famous Miss Marple, and an aspiring detective in her own right. Although the privilege of getting to witness Miss Marple's work from up close ought to be enough to train anyone in the craft, Maybelle also secures herself a place under the tutelage of another detective genius, Hercule Poirot. Thus, she ends up traveling between the village of St. Mary Mead and London, observing the two great minds at work as they use their amazing powers of deduction to solve crimes that leave the regular police baffled.

• TV Special (2 eps)
• 2001

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1979