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 (1996 film) Volpe, whom he tricks them into going to Terra Magica and drinking the cursed water there; and are later revealed to have transformed into a real cat and a fox, which results in them getting captured by a farmer and kept as pets, where they later witness Pinocchio in town. The donkeys transform back into boys by reforming. Geppetto and Leona marry, and Pinocchio gives his father a log he found to carve into a girlfriend. Nearly ten years before the film was eventually made, Director Steve Barron and Jim Henson were considering the idea of a live-action version of