Dear Animal Friends - The 1982 Japanese animated series

November 17, 2020

Dear animal friends (Japanese original title: Anime Yasei no Sakebi) known in the United States under the title: Call of the wild is a Japanese animated TV series (anime) produced in 1982 by TV Tokyo and Wako Productions. The series consists of 26 episodes lasting 24 minutes and is based on Jack London's tales of the forest. Each episode features a wild animal in danger. In Italy the series aired on Rai Due on 1 June 1986 and the famous song by Bruno Lauzi, La Tartaruga, was used as the theme song.

Technical data and credits

Title in various languages:
Anime Shout of the Wilderness (Japanese)
Call of the Wild (English)
Dear animal friends (english)
Animal friends (english)
حياة البراري (Arabic)
نداء البراري (Arabic)
Gender: adventure
Number of episodes: 22

Directed by: Shigeru Omachi, Shigeru Omura, Takeshi Tamazawa
Film script: Jinzo Toriumi, Saburo Ebinuma
Unit director: Eiji Onozato
Music: Yoshinobu Nakata
Original story: Hatoju Muku
Artistic director: Junichi Mizuno
Animation director: Kanji Hara, Masaru Suda, Nobuetsu Ando, Osamu Tsuruyama, Takao Suzuki, Yasuhiko Suzuki
Sound Director: Koichi Chiba
Photography director: Masayuki Hirono
Producer: Hyota Ezu (TV Tokyo), Saburō Gōda (Wako Productions), Sumio Takahashi (Wako Productions)