Episode 1 of Toei Animation's popular TV animation seriesMy Three Daughtersfeatured in the Official Selection TV series category at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2009.

 The Annecy International Animated Film Festival was established in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town of Annecy, France. Initially occurring every two years, the festival became annual in 1998. It is one of four international animated film festivals sponsored by the International Animated Film Association. The festival will be held from June 8 to 13 this year and a total of 1,840 works from 61 countries were submitted for consideration. Of the 425 works submitted in the TV series category, 41 works were selected, withMy Three Daughtersbeing one of these.

 My Three Daughtersis Toei Animation's first Flash animation series for television and it has been broadcast every Tuesday at 5:30p.m. on the TV Tokyo Network since April 2008. It is based on a very popular childcare blog by cartoonist Purittsu Matsumoto, and the books based on the blog (published by Shufunotomo) have sold over 1,600,000 copies in total. It is widely popular not only with mothers caring for children who are having similar experiences, but also high school, junior high school, and elementary school students. The TV series enters a its second year in Japan.  We keep on showing more enjoyable episodes ofMy Three Daughtersto more people.

(C)Purittu Matsumoto/Shufunotomo, 3 Daughters Project