Princess Sarah (小公女セーラ, Purinsesu Sēra?) was a 1985 Japanese anime series produced by Nippon Animation, based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, A Little Princess. Spanning 46 episodes, it originally premiered in 1985 across Japan on Fuji Television as the 11th series of Nippon Animation's famous World Masterpiece Theater staple.
It was also later aired across Japan by the anime television network, Animax, who also later broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide, including its English language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia, dubbing and translating the series into English. Animax's adaptation was the series' only English translation, and the series has yet to be commercially released in the United States. It was translated to many different languages including French, Italian, Arabic and Spanish.
In the Philippines, it was aired by ABS-CBN in the early 1990s, and was a runaway success, even spawning a live action movie and a teleserye.
In the Pan-Arab region, it became the most successful anime based on a novel adaptation in the 90's.