Nozomi Witches
Nozomi Witches | |
![]() Nozomi Witches manga volume 5 cover | |
のぞみ♡ウィッチィズ (Nozomi Wicchīzu) | |
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Genre | Sports, Comedy |
Manga | |
Written by | Toshio Nobe |
Published by | Shueisha |
Magazine | Weekly Young Jump |
Demographic | Seinen |
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 Wicchīzu), sometimes also called Bewitching Nozomi, is a manga series by Toshio Nobe which was adapted into a three episode anime OVA series in 1992.
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[]
- Nobutoshi Canna - Ryōtarō Shiba
- Hiromi Tsuru - Nozomi Egawa
- 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
- - Buryō
- - Cameraman
- - Club member B
- Teruhisa Tsuyusaki - Company employee A
- - Drama club member
- - Fan
- , - Female student
- Masaharu Satō - Gichō
- - Ishii
- Yūsaku Yara - Itsuri
- Yasuhiko Kawazu - Jack
- Shinpachi Tsuji - Jackal
- Yuri Amano - Kitagawa
- - Yōko Kitagawa
- Mitsuru Ogata - Miyamoto
- Kiyoyuki Yanada - Ōniwa
- Kōji Ishii - Ōta
- Yūko Sumitomo - Private secretary
- - Referee
- Aruno Tahara - Reporter
- Kōji Ishii - Ring announcer
- Toshihiko Nakajima - Sakakoshi
- Hideyuki Tanaka - Sawamura
- - Student
- - 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[]
- ^ (in Japanese) Asahi Record. Accessed August 25, 2006.
- ^ (in Japanese) Anime CD. Accessed August 25, 2006.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Anime CD Information: Nozomi Witches. Accessed August 25, 2006.
External links[]
- Nozomi Witches (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Nozomi Witches at IMDb
Categories:
- Manga series
- 1986 manga
- 1990 films
- 1992 anime OVAs
- Boxing in anime and manga
- Comedy anime and manga
- Group TAC
- Seinen manga
- Shueisha franchises
- Shueisha manga
- Theatre in anime and manga
- Live-action films based on manga
- Japanese films
- Japanese-language films
- Manga adapted into films