Sometimes I wonder how we get certain things in anime.

This cute little duck is Alfred, he's the star of the Japanese and Dutch made Alfred J Kwak, now on first glance, it looks like nothing more than a friendly kids show and the first episode certainly sets the tone for what looks like a rather joyful series of adventures with a curious little duck.
Then episode 2 happens and Alfred loses his entire family in a car accident leaving him completely orphaned, the shock and awe of such a massive whiplash in tone likely did it's fair share in upsetting alot of kids, heck even adults.
I didn't watch alot of this series as my memory of it from the late 80s and early 90s is pretty vague but I'm kind of glad I missed that episode.
So how is the series in comparison? Oh lord we aren't even touching the service, it's going to need it's own article just to describe the amount of heavy themes this series tackles.