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''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' is a Japanese animated series that adapted four of [[L.
The 52-episode series was produced by Panmedia under the title ''Oz no Mahōtsukai'' and debuted in 1986. It has a visual style resembling Nippon Animation's ''[[World Masterpiece Theater]]'' productions; character designer Shuichi Seki worked on both.
It consists of four story arcs, based respectively on ''[[
The English-language adaptation was produced by [[Cinar]]. In addition to re-dubbing all the dialogue, ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' has new titles and credits, which contrive to disguise the fact that it's not a native English-language product (none of the Japanese cast or crew are credited in the Cinar version). Cinar also re-edited each of the four story arcs into movie-length versions. As of this writing, only the movie-length versions are available on DVD, but the full episodes [https://web.archive.org/web/20120430050342/http://jaroo.com/watch/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz stream in rotation on Jaroo].
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** The Nomes trap Dorothy and friends between a river of lava and a deep crevasse, then start catapulting large rocks at them -- and accidentally knock over a stone pillar, bridging the crevasse and providing an escape route.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: In the Cinar title sequence. Including several blatantly anachronistic objects floating around in the tornado, presumably because they had the models on hand.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Any scene with molten lava in the underground kingdom of the Nomes, but especially the sequence where the Nome King diverts a river of lava after Dorothy and her friends: multiple characters stand on the banks of the lava river without harm, and Dorothy and friends escape by climbing up above the lava without getting broiled by the rising heat or choking on noxious fumes.
* [[Costume Test Montage]]: The Princess of Ev, trying to choose a suitable hat for her meeting with Princess Ozma. "...too bossy ...too childish ..."
* [[Day Hurts Dark
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: Dorothy's dream in the first episode (featuring lots of actual footage from later in the series).
* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: When Mombi takes a transformation potion, she drops the flask the potion was in and it shatters.
* [[Efficient Displacement]]: During the escape from the Nome King, Tik-Tok panics and runs straight through a door, leaving a Tik-Tok-shaped hole.
* [[Early
** Mombi and Tip, who don't appear in the first book at all, show up in episode 11, just after the defeat of the Wicked Witch of the West; Mombi has come to visit the Witch, but on learning she's dead settles for trying to steal the magic cap that controls the Winged Monkeys.
** Episode 16 has an early-bird reference to the Nomes.
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* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: The Wicked Witch of the West's eyes glow when she does magic.
* [[Heel Face Brainwashing]]: When Mombi and Jinjur prove to be unrepentant, Glinda casts spells on them to turn them into "model citizens" (with vacant-eyed expressions), then laughs and remarks that "Magic can work wonders when used properly".
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** [[Sumi Shimamoto]] is Dorothy, [[Yoshito Yasuhara]] is Scarecrow, [[Seizo Kato]] is the Wizard, and [[Masako Nozawa]] is Ozma.
** In the English-language version, [[Ian James Corlett]] is Scarecrow and [[Superman (
* [[Hulk Speak]]: The Growliwog.
* [[I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You]]: When Dorothy first meets Tiktok, he's on a secret mission, and when she asks what it is he explains that he can't tell her because it's a secret -- then he gets flustered and winds up explaining in considerable detail precisely what he's not allowed to tell her.
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** The Tin Man says he's so excited about getting to see the Wizard that his heart would be pounding if he had one.
* [[Kitchen Sink Included]]: When the Growliwog goes on an omnivorous rampage through the land of the Winkies, the tally of things he's eaten ends with an entire kitchen bench, including the sink.
* [[Lava Is Boiling Kool
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Some parts of the books were toned down.
** The Tin Man was transformed into tin by a single spell instead of the [[Serial Prostheses]] origin story he had in the book.
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* [[Magic Mirror]]: The Wicked Witch of the West has one, which she uses to track the progress of Dorothy and her friends.
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: When the Wizard's guards refuse to let Dorothy and her friends in to see him, the Witch of the North's protective kiss on Dorothy's forehead glows, and they get [[Mind Control Eyes]] and become much more co-operative.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Particularly noticeable when the Wicked Witch of the West is sending successive waves of minions to destroy Dorothy and her friends.
** The Deadly Desert becomes the Dangerous Desert in dialogue, although it's still "The Deadly Desert" in the episode title.
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: When the Wicked Witch of the West is destroyed, all the people she's turned to stone are released, her magic mirror shatters, and her palace collapses. (The stone people and the mirror fit with the common idea of a witch's magic ending when she does, but there's no previous indication that magic was used in constructing the palace, only lots of Winkie slaves hauling stone around.)
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* [[Power Glows]]: The silver shoes.
* [[Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat]]: When Tik-Tok is telling Dorothy about the Princess of Ev's hat collection, he mentions that she has a magician hat, and that every time she wears it she keeps pulling rabbits out of it.
* [[Punch
* [[Ragtag Band of Misfits]]: Dorothy and friends.
* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Princess Ozma keeps running away from her royalty lessons to climb trees and play in fields.
* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: When General Jinjur's army attacks the palace to capture King Scarecrow, he digs a pistol out of the stuff the Wizard left behind and gives it to the palace guard to threaten them with. One of Jinjur's soldiers takes the gun off the guard, squints down the barrel, announces that she can't see anything so she doesn't think it's loaded, and throws it away. When it hits the ground, it goes off.
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* [[Saharan Shipwreck]]: The travellers in the Deadly Desert find one surrounded by fish skeletons, shells, and other evidences that the desert was once an ocean.
* [[Scaled Up]]: In the final confrontation with the sorceress Mombi, she turns into a dragon.
* [[Scooby
* [[Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum]]: When the Scarecrow gets his new brain from the Wizard, he starts reeling off random facts (from "one and one is two" to "vinegar cleans piano keys") to show that he's intelligent.
* [[Skintone Sclerae]]: General Jinjur and her soldiers.
* [[Sneeze of Doom]]: When the Lion is sniffing out the location of the Prince of Ev, the Nome King's chancellor tries to throw him off the scent by dropping a powder in front of him that makes him sneeze. His first sneeze blows the chancellor clear across the room.
* [[Staircase Tumble]]: When General Jinjur and her army are trying to break into the throne room of the Emerald City in episode 25, the guy who guards the throne room takes a tumble down the very long flight of steps leading up to the door. He doesn't seem to get hurt.
* [[Standard Snippet]]: When they encounter the field of flowers that puts people to sleep, in the English-language version the incidental music quotes a couple of bars of the lullaby "Rock-a-bye Baby". Later in the same episode, there's a group of mice who sing a wordless version of "Three Blind Mice" as they scurry away.
* [[Surrounded
* [[Suspiciously Small Army]]: General Jinjur's army. All five of them.
* [[Take My Hand]]:
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* [[Too Important to Walk]]: When the Nome army marches to Oz, the King gets carried.
* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: A giant bug eats the Scarecrow and the Tin Man, but after a minute it realises neither of them is particularly edible and spits them both out.
* [[Unhand Them, Villain!]]: When the Winged Monkeys attack, they start carrying the Tin Man off. He demands that they let him go, and they cheerfully acquiesce -- letting him fall from the great height they've flown to.
* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: At one point, Ozma tries out her royal magic by creating and enchanting an enormous paper crane. When she tells Dorothy what she's attempting she whispers it in Dorothy's ear, for no apparent reason other than to preserve the surprise for the audience.
* [[Verbal Backspace]]: In the sequence where the Wizard gives the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion their [[Magic Feather|magic feathers]], he keeps accidentally saying what he's really doing and then backpedalling to change it to something more impressive-sounding.
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