Nozomi in the Sun (1971)
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Cast & Crew.
Junko Fujiyama
Nozomi Mine (voice)
Asado Tetsuya
Isao Egawa
Masaaki Yajima
Narrator (voice)
Keisuke Fujikawa
Creator / Comic Book / Comic Book / Writer
Chikao Katsui
Creator
Mayumi Suzuki
Creator
Katsumi Handou
Art Direction
Hayao Nobe
Supervising Animation Director
Hiroshi Sakonjou
Sound Director
Satoshi Itō
Editor
Takaharu Bessho
Producer
Yoshikatsu Kishimoto
Producer
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Director / Storyboard
Ryosuke Takahashi
Director
Masayuki Hayashi
Director
Tadaaki Yamazaki
Writer
Michio Suzuki
Writer
Hiroyuki Hoshiyama
Writer
Tsunehisa Itou
Writer
Haruya Yamazaki
Writer
Shun'ichi Yukimuro
Writer
Isao Okishima
Writer
Kazunori Tanahashi
Storyboard
Makio Inoue
ファニー / ファニー / Fanny (voice)
Kosei Tomita
熊五郎 / 熊五郎 / Kumagorou (voice)
Kiyomi Katena
Miki Kouda (voice)
Michiko Hirai
Miki Kouda (voice)
Ikuo Nishikawa
Yumemaro (voice)
Miyoko Asou
Shizuko Mine (voice)
Mitsuko Asou
Tsune (voice)
Waka Tachibana
Yuki Mine (voice)
Takako Kondou
Kazuo Mine (voice)
Ryoko Kinomiya
Michiko Nohara (voice)
Takeshi Aono
Akira Nitta (voice) / Akita Nitta (voice)
Osamu Kobayashi
Daijirou Kouda (voice)
Nobuko Maki
Sumiyo Kouda (voice)
Kinzou Azusa
Shinsuke Mine (voice)
Keiichi Noda
Jun Nohara (voice)
Mikio Terashima
Isao Egawa (voice)
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 8, 1971
Original Nameさすらいの太陽
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes26
Running Time25m
Content RatingTV-14
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
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Wandering Sun (さすらいの太陽, Sasurai no Taiyō), also known as Nozomi in the Sun and Jane e Micci in Italy, is a Japanese manga series written by Keisuke Fujikawa and illustrated by Mayumi Suzuki. It also received an anime adaptation by Mushi Productions which ran for 26 episodes in 1971. Both Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yoshikazu Yasuhiko were involved in the production of Wandering Sun, and would later again collaborate on the ground-breaking and genre-defining series Brave Raideen and Mobile Suit Gundam. The anime toned down some of the more intense and mature elements of the manga for a prime-time TV audience.
Wandering Sun tells the story of two girls switched at birth by the nurse Michiko, out of a grudge against the parents of one of the newborns. Miki was born in the poor Mine family but is switched into the rich Kouda clan, and Nozomi the opposite. Fate cannot separate the two girls who compete to become successful singers after meeting at high school, with the girl-next-door Nozomi working hard and on her own to be the best pop singer in Japan and the rich girl Miki using her family's status to reach the same goal.
This series was itself a ground-breaker in that it was perhaps the first anime series to depict the entertainment industry—specifically popular music, and that would popularize the future concept of Japanese Idols which would be a major plot point in many anime to come from Macross, Creamy Mami and Perfect Blue until Love Live Series.
The TV series was also released in Italy under the title Jane e Micci and in France as Nathalie et ses Amis.