The 11 year old Robby North and his friend Oscar live in Wisconsin. During fishing they hear a shot. A racoon-mother was shot. Robby takes the baby of this racoon with him and cares for it. The boy names the racoon Rascal.

(Source: Anime News Network)

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Studios

• Nippon Animation

Staff

• Yoshiyuki Tomino — Storyboard (eps 8, 10, 13, 15, 17-20, 24, 26, 28, 30, 33, 37, 39, 40, 44, 47)
• Takeo Watanabe — Music, Theme Song Composition (OP, ED)
• Yasuo Urakami — Sound Director
• Seiji Okuda — Storyboard (ep 1)
• Shigeo Koshi — Director
• Junzou Nakajima — Producer
• Hayao Miyazaki — Animation (eps 4-6, 10, 12-22, 24-27)
• Kouichi Motohashi — Producer
• Masahiro Ioka — Art Director
• Keishichi Kuroki — Director of Photography
• Michiyo Sakurai — Animation Director (eps 1-14, 27, 28, 39-52)
• Kumiko Oosugi — Theme Song Arrangement (OP, ED)
• Masaharu Endou — Director
• Akira Miyazaki — Script
• Yoshio Katou — Producer
• Shunichi Sakai — Layout
• Kyousuke Mikuriya — Storyboard (eps 4, 9, 14)
• Hiroshi Saitou — Director (eps 15-26)