- Attack on Tomorrow
Infobox animanga/Header
name = Attack on Tomorrow
ja_name = あしたへアタック!
ja_name_trans = Ashita e Attack!
genre =sports ,drama Infobox animanga/Anime
title =
director =Fumio Kurokawa ,Eiji Okabe
studio =Nippon Animation
network = flagicon|JapanFuji TV
network_other = flagicon|ItalyItalia 1
first =April 4 ,1977
last =September 5 ,1977
episodes = 23nihongo|"Attack on Tomorrow"|あしたへアタック!|Ashita he Ataku was an
anime series aired in 1977 in Japan. There were 23 episodes aired at 25 minutes each. It is a spinoff ofAttack No. 1 . It is also known in Europe as "Smash" (French) and "Mimi e le ragazze della pallavolo" (Italian).Original Story
The story is about Mimi Hijiiri, a student with just one school year remaining, who decides to revitaliize a
volleyball team low onmorale from the death of one of its team members from an accident.Concept
The series was strictly created as a tribute to the gold medal Japanese women's volleyball team in the 1976 Olympics [1976 Olympic Result. " [http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp] . " "1976 Women's Volleyball at Olympics." Retrieved on
2006-11-20 .] [ Clements, Jonathan. McCarthy Helen. [2006] (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised & Expanded Edition. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5] .taff
*Additional Director:
Fumio Kurokawa ,Eiji Okabe
*Screenwriter:Haruya Yamazaki
*Producer:Kôichi Motohashi ,Ryûji Matsudo
*Createor:Shiro Jinbo
*Music:Nobuyoshi Koshibe Reaction
While the show would eventually aired in the European market in the 1980s in countries such as
France andItaly , the plot and concept was too similar to its predecessorAttack No. 1 . The show ceased production after only 23 episodes. Another of Shiro Jinbo's works, "Hana no Ko Lunlun ", was much more successful globally as an anime a few years later.Trivia
* In the French version "Smash", Mimi is Virginia Tessier. In the Italian dub, she is Mimi Miceri. In both languages, most of the other character names were changed as well.
*Mitsuko Horie performed both the opening and ending theme songs in the original Japanese version.References
External links
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