This isn't the MGM version dressed up in anime. It pulls from four books of Baum's actual world, not just one tornado and a yellow road. You get Oz as a place people actually live in, with its own rules and consequences that matter beyond Dorothy's journey home. The voice acting carries real weight, treating the material like literature instead of nostalgia. Watch this if you want to experience the full Oz that inspired everything after it, not the 84-minute shorthand everyone knows. It's a comfort that earns itself honestly.

Dorothy lives peacefully with her dog Toto, Uncle Henry and Aunt Em on a Kansas farm until the girl and her dog are suddenly carried off to the magical land of Oz. Hoping to find a way back home, Dorothy heads down the yellow brick road toward the Emerald City, making friends as she goes, among them the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Cowardly Lion. The city's mysterious ruler, the Wizard of Oz, turns out to be different from what she imagined. He can send her home, but only if she and her companions defeat the Wicked Witch of the West and free the Winkies from her rule. The 52-episode adventure fantasy series draws on four of L. Frank Baum's Oz books.