S01E01 Goodbyes
The story begins as a woman named Sara looks upon her payload as she is taking a carriage ride across the Finnish countryside to where her six-year-old daughter Katri has been residing with her grandparents....
Katri, Girl of the Meadows
S01E10: The Promise
While Katri might have successfully dodged the bullet of adverse employment action from being sidelined with a cold due to Ulla coming to grips with the final agony of her daughter Leena, Martii Halme cannot escape the reality that he does not have the optimal configuration to successfully meet the hefty physiological demands of herding cattle like Katri does nor the stormy family politics he is forced to prosecute with Helena at home -- the commute thereof wielded as the backdrop of another impromptu geography lesson about Finland. Katri becomes the genesis of analytical and speculative expository concourse that evening when Pekka comes to Räikkölä-ke to appraise Katri's status and reflects on his prologue with Katri while Teemu and Ulla compare perspectives of the situation along with possible solutions if there is no improvement; while this is nothing insignificant in its own right, it is quite tame compared to when Helena objurgates Martii regarding the exhaustive epilogue of having to chase wayward bovines all day while predicting that he will require the entire next day in order to recuperate. What ultimately ensues is not exactly Helena's prediction but a close second -- Martii oversleeping the next morning and having to power-row across the lake to Räikkölä-ke against Helena's protests and threats to blow the whistle; what Helena overlooks is that while Martii is not being exactly honest and open with it, it is an act of absolute integrity and maturity to keep a promise.
Overview
Katri, Girl of the Meadows is an anime series based on the Finnish novel, "Paimen, piika ja emäntä" by Auni Nuolivaara. The series was broadcast originally in Japan in 1984 as part of the children's anthology series World Masterpiece Theater, also known simply as "Meisaku" from Nippon Animation. The anthology had before and after produced a great variety of animated series based on different children's novels from around the world; among them were "My Annette: Story of the Alps" and "Little Princess Sara". In Europe, where "World Masterpiece Theater" series have found huge success, "Katri, Girl of the Meadows" made its way to different countries including Spain, Italy, France and Germany. The series has never been broadcast or published in Finland where it remains mostly unknown.
Episodes
S01E02 Friends
The ambiance is tense and awkward Katri awaits her grandfather's return with Aapeli and the calf Juura who seem to have sensed the presence of a deviant diagnostic as if by telepathy; while Katri prepares...
S01E03 Spring Storm
An impromptu geography lesson about Finland swiftly yields to a church service that illuminates the scope of damage Katri's grandfather has taken at the hands of a bear prior Katri beginning her home commute when...
S01E04 Decision
A typical quiet evening becomes the backdrop for an ordinary home commute with Juura to become extraordinary when Martii accosts Katri with the preamble to a viable job opportunity on the Räikkölä-ke farm along with...
S01E05 Time of Separation
Upon the affirmative reply arriving in record-breaking time and a lunch pack galvanized with her grandparents' sage counsel for the road, zero hour for Katri's journey to Räikkölä-ke with Aapeli is finally at hand!!! A...
S01E06 The Master
The carriage ride with Pekka's derision as the salary quickly gives way to Katri finding nobody from Räikkölä-ke to greet her with instructions of what to do next; while shooing Aapeli outside, Katri runs into...
S01E07 The Madam
The previous ten days have affirmed quod erat demonstrandum what Ukonniemi-ke, Halme-ke, and now Teemu already know: Katri and Aapeli's prominent proficiency at herding cattle. When Katri finally has her lunch and is able to...
S01E08 The Accident
Even though it should be clear that the safety of the cows is the alpha priority for which she was hired and that the errand Ulla charged her is an illegal order to never be...
S01E09 Affection
Thanks to her collaborative efforts with Pekka, Katri successfully rescued all of the Räikkölä-ke cattle only to have endowed unto her a scathing castigation complete with a cane strike before Teemu has the true nature...
S01E10 The Promise
While Katri might have successfully dodged the bullet of adverse employment action from being sidelined with a cold due to Ulla coming to grips with the final agony of her daughter Leena, Martii Halme cannot...
S01E11 The Fight
While his fatigued arms might digress quite vociferously, Martii Halme prosecutes his workday with the perspective that he is not wrong to have rushed across the lake to Räikkölä-ke where he has promised to herd...
S01E12 The Letter
A foggy morning becomes the ironic backdrop for Katri's illness to have completely resolved itself and for Aapeli to roam all over the Räikkölä farm barking up a storm much to Katri's chagrin when Ulla...
S01E13 A Wonderful Present
Another ordinary afternoon of minding the herd in which Aapeli learns the hidden expense behind partaking in free samples becomes the backdrop for the university student Aki Ranta to walk into Katri's life searching for...
S01E14 My First Invitation
Aki has done a wonderful thing by introducing the Kalevala to Katri and defeating the vindictiveness by which Helena expresses her clumsiness with that book; still, a little excavation will reveal that everything is not...
S01E15 An Unexpected Payment
Morning breaks unto the Räikkölä farm when Teemu charges Katri guidance of the cattle to the north pasture where she and Pekka had to combine efforts to rescue the cattle that wandered too close to...
S01E16 The Little Lost Lamb
An ordinary afternoon of minding the herd on the north pasture where Katri feels that she can work on reading the Kalevala without having an incident on her hands becomes the preamble for a novel...
S01E17 Day of the Wolves Extermination
S01E18 Two Fires
S01E19 Roommate
S01E20 Incoming Person, Outgoing Person
S01E21 Abel Targeted
S01E22 While Waiting for Spring
S01E23 The Bear vs. The Cattle
S01E24 Meeting and Parting
S01E25 Event at the Island
S01E26 The Person Who Saved Us
S01E27 Growing City
S01E28 New Life
S01E29 Seeing Dreams
S01E30 Like a Majestic Swan
S01E31 Book Delivered By Mail
S01E32 Magical Book and the Devil
S01E33 Joy and Sadness
S01E34 Going to Helsinki
S01E35 Father and Daughter
S01E36 The Big Decision
S01E37 Abel Astray
S01E38 Every Road
S01E39 Party at Harma's Mansion
S01E40 On the Road
S01E41 Citizens of Turku
S01E42 Picture Book Without Pictures
S01E43 Rode a Car!
S01E44 Obnoxious Girl
S01E45 Tiresome Day
S01E46 Beautiful Thing
S01E47 Souvenir Bag
S01E48 Ah, School Entrance!
S01E49 Mother's Return
Cast
Hitomi Oikawa
Katri Ukonniemi (voice)
Hisako Kyoda
Ilda
Kumiko Takizawa
Lotta Kuusela (voice)
Naoki Tatsuta
Abel
Toru Furuya
Martti Halmich (voice)
Akiko Takeguchi
Lea
Akio Nojima
Teemu Raykkola (voice)
Asami Mukaidono
Milole (voice)
Atsuko Mine
Noora
Bin Shimada
Kustaa
Daisuke Gori
Salomon
Hisashi Katsuta
Elias Lilack
