Many of the staff members were from Mushi Production and Tōei Dōga, giving them a solid foundation, and the quality of the animation is high throughout the 52 episodes. The main staff consists of former Tōei Dōga members: Shigetsugu Yoshida as director, Daikichiro Kusube as animation director, and Yōichi Kotabe as assistant animation director. This group included many animators who would later go on to show their unique talents, such as Yoshinori Kanada and Yoshifumi Kondo. The staff working on the storyboards are all people who have done epoch-making work in Japanese animation, such as Toshio Hirata, Hayao Miyazaki, and Noboru Ishiguro. Among them, the work of Osamu Dezaki, who joined under the name Kuyo Sai, was notable, and he worked on 14 episodes, a quarter of the total.