# Episode 1 – *To The Alm Mountain*
**^^^Originally ^^^released ^^^January ^^^6th, ^^^1974**
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**Note to all participants**
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Rewatchers, please be mindful of your fellow first-timers and tag your spoilers appropriately using the r/anime spoiler tag if your comment holds even the slightest of indicators as to future spoilers. Feel free to discuss future plot points behind the safe veil of a spoiler tag, or coyly and *discreetly* ‘Laugh in Rewatcher’ at our first-timers’ temporary ignorance, but please ensure our first-timers are no more privy or suspicious than they were the moment they opened the day’s thread.
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**Daily Trivia:**
> The show’s German dub has new background music by film composer Gert Wilden, which was also utilized in the show’s Italian dub.
**Staff Highlight**
Kōichi Murata – Key Animator
> An animator, animation director, as well as a founder and CEO of Oh! Production. Murata’s known career history largely begins with his time as a the central animator of A Production (now Shin-ei animation), where Murata built a deep relationship with Isao Takahata , Hayao Miyazaki, and acted as animation director on many of their episodes on long-running series. A major change in his career was when he left A Pro to join Oh! Pro in 1970, having been a founding member alongside Norio Shioyama , Kazuo Komatsubara , and Koshin Yonekawa. He died on November 7th, 2006 due to subarachnoid hemorrhage at the age of 67. Some of his most notable animation credits includes *Attack No. 1*, *Cooking Master Boy*, *Ginga Densetsu Weed*, *Kyojin no Hoshi*, *Cyborg 009 (1968), *Lupin III Part 1*, *Ie Naki ko Remi*, *Sonic X*, *Future Boy Conan*, *Raccoon Rascal*, *3000 Leagues Under The Sea*, *Perrine’s Story*, *Anne of Green Gables*, *Little Women*, *Arashi no Yoru Ni*, *Boy of the Wilderness Isamu*, *A Little Princess Sara*, *My Daddy Long Legs*, and *Panda! Go, Panda!*.
**Screenshot of the day**
– [New home](https://i.imgur.com/O9zsnaD.png)
**Questions of the Day:**
1) From what we’ve seen this episode, what do you expect will come of Heidi entering the care of her grandfather?
2) What do you think of Dete’s decision to leave Heidi in the care of her grandfather?
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**Then Heidi, do you understand? From now on, you’re going to live here.**
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