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Maple Town: Characters, History, Music & Standards
Maple Town, also known as Maple Town Stories (Japanese: メイプルタウン物語, Hepburn: Meipuru Taun Monogatari), is a 1986 Japanese anime series created by Chifude Asakura and directed by Junichi Sato. The series, produced by Toei Animation consists of 52 half-hour episodes, which aired on ABC, TV Asahi and other ANN stations in Japan from January 19, 1986, to…
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Maple Town topic overview
The analysis highlights Characters, History, Music and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around Maple Town.
Related topics
72
Source areas
9
Connected nodes
81
Extracted relationships
103
Related term clusters
15
Bridge connections
81
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Voice cast · 25 topics
Overview · 15 topics
Broadcast history · 13 topics
Production · 6 topics
Characters · 4 topics
Home video · 3 topics
Reception · 3 topics
Plot summary · 2 topics
Music · 1 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Genre
Adventure, slice of life
Directed by
Junichi Sato · Hiroshi Shidara
English network
CA: YTV · HK: TVB Pearl · US: Syndication (episodes 1-10) Nickelodeon (episodes 11-26) The CBN Family Channel
Episodes
52 (List of episodes) · 50 (List of episodes)
Licensed by
US: The Kushner-Locke Company
Music by
Akiko Kosaka · Akio Kosaka
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Advanced semantic analysis
How Maple Town connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Maple Town shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Maple Town → December, DVD, English, Family Home Entertainment, Multicom Entertainment Group, Multiple Sound Distributors, November, October, Palm Town Chapter, Saban's US, Select, September, TC Entertainment, The Kushner-Locke, Toei, Toei Video, Toei's Recollection Anime Library, Tonka Home Video, UK, US Another extracted example is Maple Town → An English-dubbed, Big Paw, In October, Janice Adams, Karen Hartman, Legend, Maple, Mrs, Patty Rabbit, Pound Puppies, Reba West, Saban Entertainment, Spiral Zone, Steve Kramer, Talkatoo Cockatoo, The English, The Maltese Companies, Tonka, TV, US. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Maple Town
Top relations
related to Home video· 22
Maple Town → December, DVD, English, Family Home Entertainment, Multicom Entertainment Group, Multiple Sound Distributors, November, October, Palm Town Chapter, Saban's US, Select, September, TC Entertainment, The Kushner-Locke, Toei, Toei Video, Toei's Recollection Anime Library, Tonka Home Video, UK, US
related to United States· 22
Maple Town → An English-dubbed, Big Paw, In October, Janice Adams, Karen Hartman, Legend, Maple, Mrs, Patty Rabbit, Pound Puppies, Reba West, Saban Entertainment, Spiral Zone, Steve Kramer, Talkatoo Cockatoo, The English, The Maltese Companies, Tonka, TV, US
related to history· 17
Maple Town → English, Family Channel, Following, January, Japan, New Maple Town Story, Nickelodeon, Palm Town Chapter, Palm Town Hen, Saban Entertainment, September, Shin Maple Town Monogatari, Sunday, The CBN Family Channel/The, The Maltese Companies, TV Asahi, US
related to Plot summary· 12
Maple Town → Bobby, Bobby Kumanoff, Canada, Palm Town Chapter, Patty, Patty Rabbit, Rabbit Family, Soon, United States, West Coast, Wilde Wolf, Wilde Wolf's
related to Production· 9
Maple Town → Asahi Broadcasting, Asatsu, Chifude Asakura, Ikuhara, Junichi Sato, Kunihiko Ikuhara, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Sailor Moon, Toei Animation
English network· 3
Maple Town → CA: YTV, HK: TVB Pearl, US: Syndication (episodes 1-10) Nickelodeon (episodes 11-26) The CBN Family Channel
Directed by· 2
Maple Town → Hiroshi Shidara, Junichi Sato
Episodes· 2
Maple Town → 50 (List of episodes), 52 (List of episodes)
Music by· 2
Maple Town → Akiko Kosaka, Akio Kosaka
Original run· 2
Maple Town → January 18 – December 27, 1987 (1987-12-27), January 19, 1986 (1986-01-19) – January 11, 1987 (1987-01-11)
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
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Maple Town relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 103 structured relationships around Maple Town. Examples in this analysis include Maple Town → Directed by → Junichi Sato and Maple Town → Directed by → Hiroshi Shidara. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
Maple Town
Directed by
Junichi Sato
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
Directed by
Hiroshi Shidara
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
English network
CA: YTV
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
English network
HK: TVB Pearl
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
English network
US: Syndication (episodes 1-10) Nickelodeon (episodes 11-26) The CBN Family Channel
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
Episodes
52 (List of episodes)
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
Episodes
50 (List of episodes)
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
Genre
Adventure, slice of life
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
Licensed by
US: The Kushner-Locke Company
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
Music by
Akiko Kosaka
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
Music by
Akio Kosaka
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
Original network
ANN (ABC, TV Asahi)
1.00
infobox
Maple Town
Original run
January 19, 1986 (1986-01-19) – January 11, 1987 (1987-01-11)
Related term clusters group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Maple Town bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Town, Aired and Series. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Maple Town
Town
Aired
Series
Palm
Also
Patty
Rabbit
Stories
Japan
Anime
Chapter
Original
maple town
Town
Aired
Series
Palm
Also
Patty
Rabbit
Stories
Japan
Anime
Chapter
Original
anime
Original
Stories
Toei
Tv
Palm
Series
Released
Music
Animation
Ann
Asahi
Produced
toei animation
Asahi
Produced
Toei
Ann
Tv
Video
Released
Japan
Original
Series
Palm
Episodes
ann
Music
Asahi
Produced
Episodes
Bobby
Toei
Tv
Japan
Video
Patty
Rabbit
Voice
the wonderful wizard of oz (tv series)
Toei
Town
Released
Original
Tv
Japan
Animation
Asahi
Produced
Episodes
Aired
Entertainment
family home entertainment
Mr
Released
Episodes
Video
Us
Original
Time
Tonka
Series
Rabbit
Patty
Produced
tv asahi
Produced
Toei
Tv
Japan
Ann
Original
Series
Episodes
Music
Voice
English
Wilde
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Maple Town, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Maple Town with Voice cast. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Min side: 3
Maple Town — Voice cast· splits 56 ⟂ 26Maple Town — Overview· splits 66 ⟂ 16Maple Town — Broadcast history· splits 68 ⟂ 14Maple Town — Production· splits 75 ⟂ 7Maple Town — Characters· splits 77 ⟂ 5Maple Town — Home video· splits 78 ⟂ 4Maple Town — Reception· splits 78 ⟂ 4Maple Town — Plot summary· splits 79 ⟂ 3
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Maple Town
Nodes82
Edges81
Triples103
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02439
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Maple Town to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Characters, History, Music & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
