

Season 1 • Episode 65
LatestMoomin is a Japanese anime series broadcast on the Fuji Television Network between 1969 and 1970. It is loosely based on the Moomin books by the Finnish author Tove Jansson.
Score
Theme song lives rent-free in millennial brains.
Writing
Tove Jansson's stories survive the anime adaptation.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tove Jansson famously hated most adaptations; this one earned her grudging respect for keeping the strangeness.
The voice cast included theater legends like Kyôko Kishida, bringing unexpected gravitas to hippo tantrums.