Donbe Monogatari

Donbe's Story · どんべえ物語

Type

Special

Year

1981

Status

Finished Airing

Audio

English sub and dub

Researcher Mutsugoro takes his family to a remote and uninhabited island near Hokkaido, to study the local population of wild bears. Nearby poachers make his life difficult, and he "inherits" an orphaned bear cub, whom the family call Donbe and raise as one of their own.