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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- I somewhat surprised. This anime had very few watchers and only one scoring (a 4). I thought, a three hour OVA. even if it's bad, I'll get through it. Not bad at all. Weak points? Lots of them, but still quite enjoyable. Animation looks just like Touch! even the dog is exactly the same |
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| well it was nice, the pace is really fast do understand all you must probably read the manga. i have a feeling that this is a really fast recap of the 48 mangas. |
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| This is pretty good! Ryoutaro seems to be doing pretty good, and Nozomi is quite a hottie! |
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| I'm pretty conflicted about this one, I found the characters all completely unlikable but the boxing element was very well done and more realistic than most anime of this type. |
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| Nozomi Witches... According to the fansubber Orphan, it is an unfortunate case of Engrish. A more accurate title in English would be Bewitching Nozomi because that's what she does in the show. Anyways, I first heard of this anime as a rip-off of Touch. I'm not sure it's an accurate description because this OVA was made by the same studio as Touch: Group TAC so they probably shared a lot of the same staff. The biggest draw is obviously the character designer being Adachi Mitsuru himself. I don't think I've ever seen one mangaka being the character designer for an anime adaption of a manga that's written by another mangaka. Another thing this show has in common with Adachi Mitsuru anime from that era is the music composer being the legendary Hiroaki Serizawa. I've seen this anime's OST pop up in a video compiling Adachi Mitsuru anime OST. Really liked Hiromi Tsuru's performance as Nozomi Egawa. She's seemingly in every anime I watch these days. Nozomi Witches (manga) was serialized from 1986 to 1996. It's possible the mangaka Toshio Nobe took inspiration from Adachi Mitsuru. But that doesn't mean it's a rip-off. I find it amazing that this manga ran longer than any Adachi Mitsuru work at the time and also predated Adachi's own boxing manga: Katsu! which was serialized from 2001 to 2005. The story does seem similar to other Adachi Mitsuru works but obviously, the shorter runtime in the OVA format hurt it a lot. You can tell there's a lot of stuff being skipped, like Ryoutarou asking why Nozomi keeps telling him to start boxing. It's a shame cause I would've loved watching a long-running anime series based on Nozomi Witches. |
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