•
Eiko Yamada (
Heidi Lenhart in English dub) as •
Keiko Han as •
Mayumi Shou as •
Rei Sakuma (
Rebecca Forstadt in English dub) as •
Nobuo Tobita •
Taeko Nakanishi as •
Osamu Saka (
Michael Forest in English dub) as • Hisako Okata (
Barbara Goodson in English dub) as , the March family's servant •
Kazuyuki Sogabe (
Dave Mallow in English dub) as • Ranko Mizuki (
Melodee Spevack in English dub) as •
Kohei Miyauchi (
Mike Reynolds in English dub) as •
Toshihiko Kojima (
Ardwight Chamberlain in English dub) as
John Brooke ( in Japanese) •
Kozo Shioya as •
Ryuji Saikachi (
Milton James in English dub) as • Miyoko Aoba as •
Maria Kawamura (
Wendee Lee in English dub) as •
Toshihiko Seki (
Dan Woren in English dub) as , the runaway slave •
Rumiko Ukai (Lara Cody in English dub) as , Aunt March's maid • Asami Mukaidono as , Aunt March's cook •
Masashi Hirose (
Michael McConnohie in English dub) as , Aunt March's coachman •
Fushigi Yamada as , Aunt March's pet bird (credited as Kyoko Yamada) Writer Akira Miyazaki introduced several new supporting characters not in the original novel: • is a Newcord reporter and friend of Jo's. He and Jo get off to a bad start when he criticizes her writing, but eventually become close friends, and Anthony helps her family find a new house in Newcord. He also encourages Jo to keep writing and improve. He leaves for New York in the second-to-last episode, and inspires Jo to do the same. In some episodes he appears to have feelings for Jo, who, in her single-minded quest to become a great writer, does not reciprocate or even seem to notice. • (possibly named after
Rupert Murdoch) is the owner and publisher of
The Newcord Times, and Anthony's boss. He has a high opinion of Jo's talents and reassures her whenever she is discouraged by Anthony's criticisms. • is Aunt March's nephew, a money-grubbing gambler and ne'er-do-well who appears only to care for his aunt because she loans him money. He antagonizes the March family, and Jo in particular, out of fear that he will lose his place as her sole heir. • is a runaway slave. In an early episode, the March family hide him in their house from Confederate soldiers. In a later episode, he returns and gets a job at the Newcord newspaper. • is the March family's pet kitten. She first appears in episode two, when Beth discovers the abandoned kitten half-drowned and nearly frozen to death in the rain. Beth and her sisters nurse the kitten back to health, and Milky Ann becomes a treasured member of the family. • Aunt March had several additional servants introduced in this anime in addition to Esther the maid, including Ben the coachman and Dorothy the cook (who appeared in only one episode). Also, in addition to her bird, Polly, Aunt March has a dog, a
poodle named .
Name and character changes In addition to the town of Concord itself being renamed "Newcord" for the anime version (which carried over into the English dub), several characters also underwent name changes in this series. For example, the March parents, named Margaret and Robert in the original novel, are Mary and Frederic in this series, and Mr. Brooke is renamed from John to Carl in Japanese and some of the European dub versions (although the English dubbers changed his name back to John). Also, the March family's live-in help, Hannah, is
African-American in this version instead of Irish and Caucasian, perhaps to draw more attention with Japanese viewers to the plight of black Americans in the 19th century. == Broadcast ==