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In the Beginning: The Bible Stories is an anime television series based on The Bible's Hebrew Scriptures created by Osamu Tezuka. The series was a coproduction between Nippon TV, Tezuka's Tezuka Productions, and Italy's government-owned broadcaster, Radiotelevisione Italiana. Although the series was in production during a period of several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was not aired in Japan until 1997, on the satellite channel WOWOW. The series has also been aired on TV in the United States, Italy, Spain and Germany. In the Beginning marked the fourth time Bible stories formed the basis of a Japanese-animated television series, following the two Superbook series and The Flying House, which were made for Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network by Tatsunoko Production in the early 1980s. In the Beginning features episodes devoted to most of the major Bible stories of the Old Testament, including the stories of the Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph, Moses, David, and Solomon, with the final episode featuring the birth of Jesus Christ. As with the second Superbook series, some stories were stretched out over several episodes. Unlike Superbook and The Flying House, however, no contemporary characters from modern times were inserted into the stories, save for the series mascot and viewpoint character, Roco the fox .
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- verified Status: Ended
- person By: Unknown
- calendar_month Release Date: 1997-04-01
- update Lastly Aired: 1997-05-09
- video_camera_front Companies Tezuka Productions
- list_alt Seasons & Episodes: 1 Seasons, 26 Episodes
- timer Episode Runtime: 24 Mins/Episode
- star Rating: 5.5 / 10
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Mayumi Tanaka
Roco
Kinryuu Arimoto
Adam
Yorie Terauchi
Eve
Katsuhiro Kitagawa
Cain
Mitsuru Miyamoto
Abel
Yuzuru Fujimoto
Noah
Sho Saito
Noah's wife
SeizĂ´ KatĂ´
Abraham
Junko Midori
Sarah
Ryuji Nakagi
Lot
Akira Kume
Narrator
Hidekatsu Shibata
God
groups Crew
Katsuyoshi Kobayashi
Sound Director
Osamu Dezaki
Series Director
Katsuhisa Hattori
Original Music Composer
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