Smart-san

Original title: はいからさんが通る

• 1978 –1979
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• Ended
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• G

• Animation
• Drama
• Comedy

★ 7.8 TMDB Rating · 4 votes

Benio Hanamura is a 17-year-old schoolgirl in Tokyo during the Taisho era. Benio lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy—contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions, and isn't as interested in housewife duties as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love. Benio's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Benio but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms.

Created by

Waki Yamato

Seasons

1

Episodes

42

Episode length

~24m

First aired

Jun 3, 1978

Networks

ANIMAX, tv asahi

Original language

Japanese

Origin

Japan