The Little Nemo strips are some of the most beautiful comics ever made, being wonderfully whimsical in each one of its vignettes.
Adapting such kind of episodic work must have been a rather difficult task, hence why the plot of the comic had to be altered in order to follow a more conventional narrative, featuring a hero's journey against a villain (A character resembling Chernabog that didn't exist in the source material), a typical battle of good versus evil.
The first pilot version directed by Sadao Tsukioka is the one that followed the spirit of the comics more closely, the Yoshifumi Kondo and the Osamu Dezaki version would have been interesting to watch too; while this a charming movie, I think there have been certain aspects from it that could have been furtherly explored.
That being said, this is still a decent effort to adapt the work of Winsor McCay, and I sincerely have very little faith in the upcoming live-action flick from Netflix.
Adapting such kind of episodic work must have been a rather difficult task, hence why the plot of the comic had to be altered in order to follow a more conventional narrative, featuring a hero's journey against a villain (A character resembling Chernabog that didn't exist in the source material), a typical battle of good versus evil.
The first pilot version directed by Sadao Tsukioka is the one that followed the spirit of the comics more closely, the Yoshifumi Kondo and the Osamu Dezaki version would have been interesting to watch too; while this a charming movie, I think there have been certain aspects from it that could have been furtherly explored.
That being said, this is still a decent effort to adapt the work of Winsor McCay, and I sincerely have very little faith in the upcoming live-action flick from Netflix.