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Nozomi Witches
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 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 Mitsuru Adachi did the character designs for the OVA series, it is sometimes mistakenly attributed as one of his works.
Contents
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
- Nozomi Egawa: Hiromi Tsuru
- Ryōtarō Shiba: Nobutoshi Hayashi
- Eddie: Kōhei Miyauchi
- Hongō: Keiichi Nanba
- Morino: Ryūsei Nakao
- Nanjō: Toshiyuki Morikawa
- Ryōtarō's mother: Noriko Uemura
- Announcer: Michitaka Kobayashi
- Baseball club member: Teruhisa Tsuyusaki
- Boxing club member: Yasuhiko Kawazu
- Buryō: Yukari Takagawa
- Cameraman: Eiji Itō
- Club member B: Yūko Sumitomo
- Company employee A: Teruhisa Tsuyusaki
- Drama club member: Kanako Hoya
- Fan: Natsumi Yamada
- Female student: Tomomi Ōsone, Muri Wa
- Gichō: Masaharu Satō
- Ishii: Arihiro Masuda
- Itsuri: Yūsaku Yara
- Jack: Yasuhiko Kawazu
- Jackal: Shinpachi Tsuji
- Kitagawa: Yuri Amano
- Yōko Kitagawa: Yuka Ōno
- Miyamoto: Mitsuru Ogata
- Ōniwa: Kiyoyuki Yanada
- Ōta: Kōji Ishii
- Private secretary: Yūko Sumitomo
- Referee: Junji Kitajima
- Reporter: Aruno Tahara
- Ring announcer: Kōji Ishii
- Sakakoshi: Toshihiko Nakajima
- Sawamura: Hideyuki Tanaka
- Student: Hiroshi Tamai
- Suzuki: JKazuhiro Yamaga
- Tōgo: Kazumi Tanaka
- Watanabe-kaichō: Toshihiko Nakajima
- Yamazaki: Miyuki Matsushita
- Yamazaki-kaichō: Takashi Taguchi
- Hitomi Yamazaki: Natsumi Yamada
- Yūgo: Mitsuo Iwata
Releases
- 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.
- ^ a b Anime CD Information: Nozomi Witches. Accessed August 25, 2006.
External links
- Nozomi Witches (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
Categories:- Manga series
- Anime OVAs
- Anime series
- Comedy anime and manga
- Boxing anime and manga
- Theatre-themed anime and manga
- Anime of 1992
- Anime of 1993
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