Nozomi Witches
| Nozomi Witches | |
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Nozomi Witches manga volume 5 cover | |
| のぞみ♡ウィッチィズ (Nozomi Uicchizu) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sports, Comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Toshio Nobe |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Young Jump |
| Original run | 1986 – 1996 |
| Volumes | 48 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Ikuo Sekimoto |
| Studio | Matsutake |
| Released | March 17, 1990 |
| Runtime | 100 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Gisaburō Sugii |
| Studio | Group TAC |
| Released | August 5, 1992 – March 10, 1993 |
| Episodes | 3 |
Nozomi Witches (のぞみ♡ウィッチィズ Nozomi Uicchizu), sometimes also called Bewitching Nozomi, is a manga series by Toshio Nobe which was adapted into a three episode anime OVA series in 1992. Because of similarities with Mitsuru Adachi's style, and the fact that the OVA adaptation was made by the team that worked on several of his anime adaptations, Nozomi Witches is sometimes mistakenly attributed as one of Adachi's works.
Plot
Nozomi is a beautiful former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryōtarō Shiba, and decides he needs to join the high school boxing club.
Anime
Cast
- Hiromi Tsuru - Nozomi Egawa
- Nobutoshi Canna - Ryōtarō Shiba
- Kōhei Miyauchi - Eddie
- Keiichi Nanba - Hongō
- Ryūsei Nakao - Morino
- Toshiyuki Morikawa - Nanjō
- Noriko Uemura - Ryōtarō's mother
- Michitaka Kobayashi - Announcer
- Teruhisa Tsuyusaki - Baseball club member
- Yasuhiko Kawazu - Boxing club member
- Yukari Takagawa - Buryō
- Eiji Itō - Cameraman
- Yūko Sumitomo - Club member B
- Teruhisa Tsuyusaki - Company employee A
- Kanako Hoya - Drama club member
- Natsumi Yamada - Fan
- Tomomi Ōsone, Muri Wa - Female student
- Masaharu Satō - Gichō
- Arihiro Masuda - Ishii
- Yūsaku Yara - Itsuri
- Yasuhiko Kawazu - Jack
- Shinpachi Tsuji - Jackal
- Yuri Amano - Kitagawa
- Yuka Ōno - Yōko Kitagawa
- Mitsuru Ogata - Miyamoto
- Kiyoyuki Yanada - Ōniwa
- Kōji Ishii - Ōta
- Yūko Sumitomo - Private secretary
- Junji Kitajima - Referee
- Aruno Tahara - Reporter
- Kōji Ishii - Ring announcer
- Toshihiko Nakajima - Sakakoshi
- Hideyuki Tanaka - Sawamura
- Hiroshi Tamai - Student
- Kazuhiro Yamaga - Suzuki
- Kazumi Tanaka - Tōgo
- Toshihiko Nakajima - Watanabe-kaichō
- Miyuki Matsushita - Yamazaki
- Takashi Taguchi - Yamazaki-kaichō
- Natsumi Yamada - Hitomi Yamazaki
- Mitsuo Iwata - Yūgo
Releases
Laserdisc[1]
- Volume 1, TSL-5, ¥5800, September 21, 1994
- Volume 2, TSL-6, ¥5800, October 21, 1994
- Volume 3, TSL-7, ¥5800, November 21, 1994
- Volume 1-3 collection, TSL-58, ¥9800, May 21, 1996
CDs
- Nozomi Witches Sound Movie
- Drama CD.[2]
- Nozomi Witches
- Toei, TOCT-6290, September 27, 1991, ¥3000.[3]
- Nozomi Witches Original Soundtrack
- Toei/TM Factory, TOCT-6639, August 26, 1992, ¥3000.[3]
References
- ↑ (Japanese) Asahi Record. Accessed August 25, 2006.
- ↑ (Japanese) Anime CD. Accessed August 25, 2006.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anime CD Information: Nozomi Witches. Accessed August 25, 2006.
External links
- Nozomi Witches (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia