Little ladies is a 1981 Japanese animated television show adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. The show made by Toei Animation for the Kokusai Eigasha business and is led at Kazuya Miyazaki. The show was produced being a follow up to a TV special based on Alcott's book by exactly the same cartoon studio. Even the TV series character designs and those of this TV special differ marginally. Jo, for example, while she's blond in both versions, has curled hair rather than straight hair at the TV series. This series is sometimes confused with Nippon Animation's 1987 World Masterpiece Theater TV series based on Little ladies, Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari, since both show were dubbed in English and broadcast on U.S. satellite tv in the 1980s. Moreover, both tv-series share a voice celebrity: Keiko Han, who plays with Beth in this TV show, was cast as Meg.