Anyways I finished Pollyanna. Like I said before it was less suffering than Princess Sara. There was still some suffering, mostly the suffering of others. Largest stint of suffering of the main character lasts little more than half a dozen episodes and winds up used as a tool to resolve longstanding grudges. In Pollyanna there is practically no true malice whatsoever. In Princess Sara there was ample malice toward Sara and Becky to the point where any small happiness they may have had prompted villains to immediately and desperately try to snuff it out with this fucked up attitude of "how dare you not be starving, cold, exhausted, miserable and broken" so Princess Sara was a much rougher experience where I was in amazement at how cartoonishly evil some characters were. Pollyanna was practically a healing experience after the misery of Princess Sara. Pollyanna does get a bit Soap Opera with its dramatic scenes and unrealistic convenient coincidences. They did the "running along the train platform waving goodbye" scene repeatedly. I could predict some happenings just by imagining "what course of events would have the most drama?" because that's how things would go. There were a few red herrings to keep the audience guessing a bit though. Pollyanna's design with the short braids and freckles is adorable and may be up there in like top 10, but there are so many anime with cute girls it's hard to say. I'm not sure what other World Masterpiece Theater series I should look into, but from what I've seen they're really good. I read that the Tom Sawyer series was censored in the English version, has a different intro, and no one had bothered to provide a version with English subtitles + Japanese Audio. An ad for the Little Women series was at the end of Pollyanna so I guess that's next. I saw an ad for Pollyanna at the end of Princess Sara so that's how I wound up watching it. Guess I'm on a World Masterpiece Theater binge. If anyone else is interested here's what I found so far: Princess Sara: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f52b6231af4004cd39db8913c6cd92498cec8d94 Pollyanna: https://mega.nz/folder/RB4GCTTS#QOgJMhIaHMa4eZe7F1WktQ Little Women: https://mega.nz/folder/0dQWSIaZ#4dxE2uoA0uOirpHsLpjNQQ Little Women II - Jo’s Boys: https://mega.nz/folder/JMZSjbJA#HqlHk92TYazZ-AErFlQAuA Pic #1 is Princess Sara in a nutshell. Some horrible misery is in store yet the title card has cheerful music playing. Sara suffers, yet doesn't give up. Pic #4 I noticed Pollyanna moves her face toward a screen in a window and they had a screen shadow appear over her face which was pretty cool.