Anyone recognize this Japanese cartoon?

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A friend recalls a Japanese-style cartoon, not really anime’, from about the late 1980s-early 90s. It had the feel of a DiC/Andy Hayward production. A girl was in a forest, perhaps looking for someone or for a special red rose, as a song played which went something like…

At the appointed hour,
remember the red flower.
And so never fear
if you shed a tear.
Remember flower power.

Sound familiar?

I went through Hayward’s credits on IMDB with her, but nothing rang a bell as being that cartoon.

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That’s the Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics version of Jorinde and Joringel.

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Thanks so much! Is that the title of the cartoon?

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Maybe. Is the small amount of information here consistent with your memory of the short?

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Yes, the title of the episode is “Jorinde and Joringel”.

There isn’t all that much info out there on this series and these sites seem to cover most of it between them:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1740

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I read the wikipedia summary to a friend and she agreed that must be the story- as to the production, it doesn’t seem to be the one listed in the IMDB which is a Netherlands production, but rather the Nippon Animations/Saban Entertainment one in the anime link. Those ran on Nickelodeon in the late 80s-early 90s, which is where my friend recalled seeing it.

Alas, used videos of it start at $20 through Amazon’s dealers network. L

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OMG!!!