In the eyes of many, anime is nothing but Jonen - stories of guys with spiked hair and superpowers struggling with the power of friendship. And yet, the medium is filled with adaptations of literary classics. Even if the United States really didn't care about the anime as long as the "Dragon Ball", "Sailor Moon", and then Pokémon premiered in the 1990s, international fans - especially in Latin America - know the best thanks to the "World Master's".

This was a TV show produced and distributed by Fuji TV, which will adapt a different classic book or story every year, broadcast first from 1969 to 1997, and then receives a revival from 2007 to 2009. Then through the "World Master -Delo", Hayoo Miyazaki and Isao Takahata began with animationWith shows like "Anna of Green Gables", "Heidi, Girl in the Alps" and "Marko, 3000 leagues in search of a mother." These were very popular shows and also a pretty cool way to experience these literary works - other adaptations include "Les Misrables: Little Girl's Faith" and "Tom Sawyer's Adventures".

Even outside the "World masterpiece" Western literature served as a source of material for many anime. There are extremely loose adaptations that make some incredibly creative shows like "Gankutsuou: Count of Monte Cristo" brought by Alexander Dumas' classical story of revenge of the year 5053And there are also some surprisingly faithful adaptations of unusual novels - like "the great detectives of Agatha Christie, Poor and Marple".

That's the way, the Poor and Marple, as in the Hercule Poor and Miss Janeain Marpl, the two glorious detectives of the novels Agatha Christie, finally - finally - and a way before Kenneth Branag even to think about trying in action live. If you've ever wished to see the large mustache themselves solve crimes with the spinster detective in an animated form, this is the show for you.

By director Naohito Takahashi, who also did Fantastic and Super Dark Adaptation "Berserk" since 1997"The Great Detectives of Agatha Christie, Poor and Marpl" made the company Oriental Light and Magic in 2004 and aired on NHK. Although in the books, the Poor and Miss Marple never meet, but Anime imagines that they share in some cases thanks to their common relationship - an original character named Mabel West. The West is the granddaughter of Janeain Marpl, who begins to work as a new assistant for the post (and is always accompanied by her pet duck). Even with the addition of that character and some minor changes in several episodes (mostly related to changing stories settings in the 1930s), the anime is surprisingly faithful to Christie's work.

Anime is filled with great shows for detective mystery, and even if (unfortunately) "the big detectives of Agatha Christie Poor and Marpl" are not available to be legally transmitted, there are other plays with the same vibration. There is a "Moriarti Patriot" that reviews Moriarti as the hero of the usual folk struggle against the upper class, or "Apotheksky Diaries", "Fantastically Medieval Mysterious Show of China, or the more recent" Inspired Anime House ".