Nozomi Witches

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Nozomi Witches

のぞみウイッチィズ (Nozomi Uicchizu)
Genre	Sports, Comedy
Manga
Authored by	Toshio Nobe
Publisher	Shueisha
Serialized in	Young Jump
Original run	1987 –
No. of volumes	48
OVA
Directed by	Gisaburō Sugii
Studio	Group TAC
No. of episodes	3
Released	August 5, 1992 – March 10, 1993

Nozomi Witches (のぞみウイッチィズ, 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.

1 Plot
2 Anime
- 2.1 Cast
- 2.2 Releases
3 CDs
4 References
5 External links

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] 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, and decides he needs to join the high school boxing club.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Anime

[edit] Cast

Nozomi Egawa: Hiromi Tsuru
Ryōtarō: 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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].