The creators were just too immature and inexperienced to make this work, and while I really congratulate them on the truly excellent way they developed Bert, they really were the wrong staff that was assigned to this project.

While the rest of the episodes range from annoying to decent, they still miss that level of detail and realism that graces the rest of the WMT-series. Really, whenever Bert and his family form the central focus of this series, it forgets all of the cheese and instead it creates what it should have been creating throughout the entire series: amazingly genuine and heart-wrenching drama. Heck, he’s even far more interesting than Anne herself. The creators did an amazing job of making this hopeless drunk come alive and give him just the right amount of background and depth to really make him steal the show whenever he’s on. Setting aside the cheesy side-characters, there is one character who is developed brilliantly throughout the series: Bert. However, this also is a show that whenever it shines, it really shines like no other. She just keeps on whining with her cheesy feminist morals and completely takes away the focus from all of the interesting characters. One particularly bad example is Henderson, who plays a major role in episodes 11 to 20. And this show does it over and over and over. There are just too many episodic stories which pick out a side-character and give them a cheesy backstory and development, which only end up ruining that particular character. Anne of Green Gables didn’t like to look back at her past, but this part tends to be completely overshadowed by cheese at times in Konnichiwa Anne.Īnd like I said, the plot really is a mixed bag. The Anne in this series is a genius and a bookworm, even though Anne of Green Gables only later became interested in studying. She’s just a girl who happens to bear a few striking similarities, but there is no way that they’re the same person.

However, let me say this right up front: the Anne of Konnichiwa Anne IS NOT Anne of Green Gables. Konnichwa Anne was meant to be a prequel to one of the most-loved characters of the WMT-franchise: Anne of Green Gables. It’s a mixed bag, inconsistent, cheesy, and while it has incredibly good parts, it also has parts that are incredibly bad. It’s a shame, however, that what very likely is the very last installment of the franchise doesn’t really live up to its name. Especially Les Miserables belongs among my favourites.

People who know this blog probably know that I’ve been a big fan of the World Masterpiece Theatre for a while now.

Konnichiwa anne before green gables