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Also known as "Shokojo Sera", "Princess Sara", "A Little Princess Sara", "Princesse Sarah" (France), "Lovely Sara" (Italy), "Sally" (Arabic-speaking countries) and "Die Kleine Prinzessin Sara" (Germany)
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The story remains fundamentally the same: Sara Crewe, a little girl of almost nine, is the daughter of a wealthy English widower living in India. To complete her education, she is sent to a "Select Seminary For Young Ladies" in London, run by the forbidding [[Sadist Teacher|Miss Minchin]] and her kind but ineffectual sister, Amelia. Though Miss Minchin takes a dislike to her, Sara wins over most of the pupils with her kindness and her storytelling skills. Among the most important friends she makes are the [[Book Dumb|kind-hearted class dunce, Ermengarde]], the scullery maid, Becky, and the school's youngest pupil, Lottie (aged 4), who has also lost her mother and whom [[Promotion to Parent|Sara unofficially "adopts"]]. She is also a gifted pupil - especially in French, her late mother's language - which earns her the admiration of the Mayor's wife during a school inspection. The quintessential [[Alpha Bitch]], Lavinia, resents her wealth and popularity, and this gets worse when Sara learns that her father has invested in diamond mines, and replaces Lavinia as the class representative.
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In 2009, a drama of 10 episodes was made, starring Shida Mirai as Seira, Tanabe Seiichi as a French teacher and Higuchi Kanako as the Japanese counterpart to Miss Minchin, Mimura Chieko. This version took more liberties with the original material than the anime, making Sara/Seira an adolescent, and giving her a love interest.
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A lot of the tropes in this series are already covered at ''[[A Little Princess]]''. Tropes exclusive to ''
▲A lot of the tropes in this series are already covered at ''[[A Little Princess]]''. Tropes exclusive to ''Shokojo Sera'' are listed below.
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* [[Girl Posse]]: Jessie and Gertrude play this role as foils to Lavinia.
* [[Good Samaritan]]: Mrs. Brown, the baker, in the episode where Sara {{spoiler|finds a sixpence when she is starving. Sara then continues the chain reaction by giving all but one of her buns to a starving beggar-girl, Anne.}} Donald Carmichael, on two occasions: {{spoiler|when he mistakes her for a beggar and gives her sixpence, and later when he buys matches from her on a cold winter day.}} The dressmaker mentioned below (see [[Redemption in the Rain]]) also qualifies.
* [[Gray Rain of Depression]]: Rain is to
* [[Halloween Episode]]: Near the end of the series, the Seminary stages a Halloween party, which Sara is [[Throw the Dog a Bone|allowed to attend]] thanks to Amelia Minchin's intercession. She even gets to take part in the party games with the other girls, and helps Lottie carve her pumpkin. However, this being ''
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Miss Minchin undergoes one at the very end. She is even seen holding the Seminary cat in her arms, in a fairly obvious example of [[Pet the Dog]], to indicate this.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Sara, when {{spoiler|[[Miss Minchin]] pushes her past her breaking point, causing her to leave the Seminary.}}
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