Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair

The Girl in the Wind: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (風の中の少女 金髪のジェニー, Kaze no Naka no Shōjo: Kinpatsu no Jenī) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Nippon Animation which ran for 52 episodes on TV Tokyo in 1992–1993. It is based on the 1854 song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" by Stephen "Father of American music" Foster, which was in turn inspired by his estranged wife Jane McDowell Foster Wiley.

The action begins in 1838, in a small town in Pennsylvania (USA). The protagonist is the titular Jeanie McDowell, a lovely girl from a well-off family who has very light brown hair, almost blonde. She's sweet, cheerful, a talented pianist and very close to her mother Angela and her best friends, Steven and Bill, who play the harmonica and the banjo respectively.

However, Jeanie's happy and apparently perfect life pretty much goes down when Angela McDowell dies all of a sudden. The poor girl has quite the difficulties handling it, of course, but with the help of her loved ones and especially Steven and Bill, she picks herself up and decides to become a doctor so she can help out people with bad health. . .

Tropes used in Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair include:

• Childhood Friends: Jeanie, Bill and Steven. Considering who Steven and Jeanie were in real life, things will likely be a little different between them.
• Coming of Age Story: For Jeanie, and to a smaller degree her friends.
• Distracted From Death: Angela and Jeanie are playing píano together, and Jeanie is so focused on her playing that she doesn't notice that Angela has suffered her fatal heart attack right by her side. Then she looks at her mom, right as she collapses. . .
• Goal in Life: Jeanie wants to be a doctor and no one will stop her from that.
• Elegant Classical Musician: Angela, like near all Proper Ladies of these years, is an accomplished piano player. Jeanie is a bit too young to fully resemble the trope, but she's in her way there.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Jeanie is supposed to be a light brunette. In practice Steven is the actual brunette while Jeanie is a blonde.
• Hot Mom: Angela is a beautiful woman, and Jeanie resembles her in looks.
• Hope Spot: Episode 3 has Angela apparently starting to recover from her heart illness. At the very end, however, she suffers the Hollywood Heart Attack that kills her. Whiel she's playing the piano with poor Jeanie.
• Ill Girl: Jeanie's beloved mother Angela, who has a weak heart. At the end of episode 3, she's dead.
• Irony: The original Jeanie song is actually about Stephen missing Jane/Jeanie after their married life has come to an end.
• Missing Mom: Within the first three episodes, Angela becomes this to poor Jeanie.
• The Ojou: Jeanie and Angela are of the the Proper Lady kind.
• Slice of Life
• Two Guys and a Girl: Bill, Jeanie and Stephen