The Anime Anne Frank
Last week the new footage and legacy-dissecting book, this week Anne Frank in anime. Is there a genre that can’t somehow accommodate her story? Directed by Eiji Okabe, Anne no Nikki combines the story of Frank’s confinement with “fantasy” adaptations of four of her short stories—Fear, The Wise Dwarf, Henrietta, and The Adventures of Bralee the Bear Cub—which saw later publication in Tales from the Secret Annex.
An English version of “Anne no Nikki” has never been released, but I find it comforting it’s out there in French, Italian and Arabic. Anne no Nikki?
