Manga Sekai Mukashibanashi

Another nostalgic late 80s anime to review~

The anime follows an episodic style, where each episode is a new story, fable, or a folklore from somewhere in the world.
It has both exotic and classic tales told in their brutal reality, and both are entertaining to sit through. I love the classics where a realistic twist is added to the endings (or just being true to the origins).
The stories vary from seeming childish to being extremely impropriate for children (Carmen's story, and Cosette's Mother dying looking terrifying which hunted me for quite a while)!
There are happy stories, depressing ones, tear jerking ones, and frightening ones. And most ... if not all have a lesson to learn.

The animation is average considering the year of the release and some episodes consist of only a slide show of pictures.
While the art is eye-catching considering it changes according to the story, so it's really amusing and solves the problem of having all MCs of tales looking alike in such animes.

I believe it's an ageless classic that deserve a try.