Nozomi Witches

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
• RyÅ«sei 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
• YÅ«ko Sumitomo - Club member B
• Teruhisa Tsuyusaki - Company employee A
• Kanako Hoya - Drama club member
• Natsumi Yamada - Fan
• Tomomi ÅŒsone, Muri Wa - Female student
• Masaharu Satō - Gichō
• Arihiro Masuda - Ishii
• YÅ«saku Yara - Itsuri
• Yasuhiko Kawazu - Jack
• Shinpachi Tsuji - Jackal
• Yuri Amano - Kitagawa
• Yuka ÅŒno - Yōko Kitagawa
• Mitsuru Ogata - Miyamoto
• Kiyoyuki Yanada - ÅŒniwa
• Kōji Ishii - ÅŒta
• YÅ«ko 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 - YÅ«go

Releases

Laserdisc

• Volume 1, TSL-5, Â¥5800, September 21, 1994
• Volume 2, TSL-6, Â¥5800, October 21, 1994
• Volume 3, TSL-7, Â¥5800, November 21, 1994
• Volume 1-3 collection, TSL-58, Â¥9800, May 21, 1996

CDs

Nozomi Witches Sound Movie

Drama CD.

Nozomi Witches

Toei, TOCT-6290, September 27, 1991, ¥3000.

Nozomi Witches Original Soundtrack

Toei/TM Factory, TOCT-6639, August 26, 1992, ¥3000.

References

External links

• Nozomi Witches (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia