This lands as a classroom artifact before it lands as anime, and that is exactly the appeal. It was built in Japan as a tool for learning English, so Snow White and Cinderella are paced for a kid still catching the words: slow, flat, calm, zero spectacle, every beat held a half second longer than a normal cartoon would dare. The lineup also quietly tells on itself, billing Grimm and then handing you The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid out of Andersen and Alibaba and the Forty Thieves from somewhere else entirely. And yes, Little Black Sambo sits right there in the episode list, the single reason this set lives in collector shadows instead of on a streaming shelf. Saban chopped five of them up for the West in 1986, because of course Saban did. Put on The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids and feel the patience nobody animates with anymore.

Made in Japan as an aid for learning English, this ten-episode OVA gives each installment its own classic fairy tale. Princess stories such as Cinderella and Snow White sit beside Red Riding Hood, The Little Mermaid and Little Black Sambo. Animal tales fill out much of the set: Puss in Boots, The Ugly Duckling, Three Little Pigs, and the wolf who preys on seven young goats. The tale of Alibaba and the forty thieves completes the collection. Every episode stands alone as a fantasy adventure. In 1986 Saban Entertainment put out an English redub on five VHS volumes called My Favorite Fairy Tales, adding four shorts from a Toei fairy tale series to that release.