Pinocchio: The Series Pinocchio: The Series Pinocchio: The Series, also known as Saban's The Adventures of Pinocchio and known in Japan as in Japan, is a 52-episode anime series by Tatsunoko Productions first aired on Fuji Television in 1972, which was edited by Saban in 1990. The story is based on the novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Unlike the lighter, more cheerful tones of the Disney film adaptation and Nippon Animation's version "Piccolino no Bōken", this series has a distinctly darker, more sadistic theme, and portrays the main character, Pinocchio (Mock), as suffering from constant physical and psychological
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972 film) finds the talking cricket he tells him to be good but he just throws a hammer at him smashing a picture of the Fairy with Turquoise Hair. He puts his feet in the fire and turns back into a puppet. Geppetto comes back gives him food and new feet. He sends him to school but Pinocchio goes to the puppet show instead. There the puppets see him and tell to come on stage. The stage master takes Pinocchio and wants to burn but Pinocchio cries and he lets Pinocchio go with 7 gold coins. Pinocchio runs into two people (who