Yuki no Taiyou Pilot

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Synonyms: Yuki's Sun Pilot
Japanese: ユキの太陽


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Type: Special
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: 1972
Producers: None found, add some
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Tokyo Movie
Source: Manga
Genre: DramaDrama
Demographic: ShoujoShoujo
Duration: 4 min.
Rating: PG - Children

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Synopsis

This pilot is remembered, really, for one notable reason: this is Miyazaki's first time as a solo director. He teamed up with Takahata for the later episodes of the 1971-72 Lupin III series, but Yuki's Sun marked his first time solely in the captain's seat.

Yuki's Sun was based upon a popular shoujo manga (girls' comic) by Tetsuya Chiba which was serialized in 1963. It involves a 10-year-old orphan girl who is adopted into a family. The storyline is somewhat complex, and seems to play out like grand melodrama. Chiba's stories were more sophisticated and grown-up than, say, Osamu Tezuka, who of course was the godfather of postwar Japanese manga.

(Source: TheGhibliBlog)

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Chiba, Tetsuya
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Reviews

Apr 3, 2021
Mixed Feelings
Miyasaki's first solo director gig. This is a short that seems to serve as a pilot for the manga, but is more like a quick trailer of a larger story.

Perhaps they were hoping to make a full series out of this, which would've looked like many other anime of the time: era animes showcasing the rural life in either Japan, Europe or the United States such as Rascal the Raccoon, Candy Candy, Haha o Tazunete Sanzenri, and many others that were popular at the time.

We're immediately presented the main character and within a minute we're shown her personality, what makes her lovable and what ...
Mar 19, 2020
Mixed Feelings
Surely a product of its time with a pretty cliche story but i think you can really see small hints that of Hayao Miyazaki's famous directing even from back then.I don't know if he had any part in the animation department but it seems way more vibrant and fluid than any of the contemporaries of its era

Obviously it is a 4 minute short and its packed full of content with an easy to follow story,of course it leaves out almost all the details and what we get are only basic calicatures of characters but even that for such a small runtime is an achievement

Would reccomend ...
Nov 7, 2023
So...this exists. And apparently it's come into the limelight now because somehow, for some reason, the streaming website Mubi somehow got their hands on it, gave it English subtitles, and put it up for streaming. That's how I learned about it, along with following the Twitter account WTK, which is a good source of home video news, licensing news, streaming news, and so on. But most old school animation afficionados know something pretty interesting about the Yuki's Sun pilot: This is actually the solo directorial debut of one Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki worked with Takahata on plenty of TV shows and directing some episodes of stuff ...

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