Hana no Ko Lunlun

Hana no Ko Lunlun
Logo for Hana no Ko Lunlun
花の子ルンルン (Hana no Ko Runrun)
Genre	Magical girl
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroshi Shidara
Written by	Shiro Jinbo
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	TV Asahi
Original run	February 9, 1979 – February 8, 1980
Episodes	50 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Hana no Ko Lunlun: Hello Cherry Garden
Studio	Toei Animation
Released	March 15, 1980
Runtime	15 minutes

Hana no Ko Lunlun (花の子ルンルン, Hana no Ko Runrun^?), translated to English as The Flower Child Lunlun and Lulu, The Flower Angel is a magical girl anime by Toei Animation, focusing on a theme of flowers in its stories. It was directed by Hiroshi Shidara and written by Shiro Jinbo. It was greatly successful in the West, particularly in Europe and in Latin America, as well as in Japan. An edited English-language dub of a few episodes titled Angel made this series one of, if not the first, magical girl anime works to reach the United States, well over a decade before Sailor Moon.

A movie adaptation, Hana no Ko Runrun Konnichiwa Sakura no Sono, was released on March 1980.

In 2009, William Winckler Productions produced two all-new English-dubbed movie versions edited from the original series titled Lun Lun the Flower Girl and Lun Lun the Flower Girl 2. Producer William Winckler, known for Tekkaman the Space Knight, wrote, produced and directed the English films, which are seen on broadband in Japan.

Long ago, plant spirits and fairy-like creatures lived in harmony with mankind. Gradually humans began to rise toward greed and cruelty, and the plant spirits immigrated to another world they dubbed the "Flower Star." However, their legacy remained in people who truly knew the meaning of love and kindness. A talking dog and cat pair, Nouveau and Cateau, were sent to Earth to find one such person to find a magical flower — the symbol of the Flowern Star's ruling family — so that a new ruler can ascend the throne.