Mila superstar

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Mila superstar
Original title ア タ ッ ク No.1
transcription Atakku No. 1
genre Sports , shōjo , drama
Manga
title Atakku No. 1
Original title ア タ ッ ク No.1
country JapanJapan Japan
author Chikako Urano
publishing company Shueisha
magazine Margaret
First publication January 1968 - November 1970
expenditure 12
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 1969-1971
Studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha
length 25 minutes
Episodes 104
music Takeo Watanabe
First broadcast December 7, 1969 on Fuji Television
German-language
first broadcast		 October 26, 1993 on RTL 2

Mila Superstar ( Japanese ア タ ッ ク No.1 , Atakku No. 1 ) is a manga series by Chikako Urano , which was adapted as an anime television series, among other things . The series is about the initially 12-year-old volleyball player Mila Ayuhara . The work can be assigned to the genres of sports , shōjo and drama and has a special meaning for the sports genre, as it has introduced this into the manga section aimed at girls.

action

Twelve-year-old Mila lives in Fujimi and attends Fujimi Junior (later Senior) High School there. Because of her severe lung disease, she moved there from Tokyo and is expected to recover there. At first she lived there with her uncle and his wife. Mila's father will soon be transferred to Fujimi for work. Her greatest passion is volleyball and her goal is to become the best player ( Attack No. 1 ) in the world. After her full recovery is established, nothing stands in the way of her, at least in theory. At first, however, it is a tough and rocky road, but with her ambition she manages it, even if the situations sometimes seem hopeless to her. Often she sinks into self-pity, but always helps herself and never gives up.

This ambition comes from the fact that she is repeatedly encouraged by her coaches to keep playing, not to give up and to keep doing special training. The great rivalry between the various teams and, to a certain extent, within their own team also contributes to this. Even though Mila only focuses on volleyball, she still remains top of the class. Driven by ambition, she prefers to continue playing until the end of the game than to visit her death-struggling friend Tsutomu. When he dies, she falls into a deep abyss and never wants to play volleyball again. But she takes courage again by the words that Tsutomu once said to her. The words in Tsutomu's diary burn into her mind that he would have adored her if she had become the best player in the world. From then on, her will becomes even stronger.

Mila's best friend is Midori. In the beginning they had a very problematic relationship with each other, a very big rivalry. Midori incited the other players against Mila and pushed Mila from her place as team captain. Eventually, Midori saw that it was wrong to be a loner on a team. From now on, Mr. Hongo also trains the Fujimi volleyball team. He made her the Japanese master. At first, the situation seemed hopeless for Mila, because the Fukuoka School was too strong an opponent, but thanks to the fighting spirit of the team, they won the Japanese championships. Such hurdles were repeatedly put in Mila's way.

The Junior World Championships took place in the United States of America (more precisely in Harlem ). The later world championship took place in Bulgaria , inspired by the volleyball world championship of 1970 , which also took place in Bulgaria. After this world championship, Mila received the title of "best player in the world", which she had always dreamed of.

Characters

Mila Ayuhara ( 鮎 原 こ ず え , Ayuhara Kozue )
Mila is twelve years old at the beginning of the plot. Due to a serious lung disease, she moved from Tokyo to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside in Fujimigahara, where she happened to come to volleyball at school. Her biggest goal is to become number one in volleyball, which she trains very hard for. She has very large, dark eyes, and a characteristic feature is her yellow hair bow. She is two-handed with equal strength, this is determined after a kidnapping with subsequent electromyography . She is coached by Inokuma on the Japan senior team, but is the only high school student. Since a high school student has to be on the roster according to the rules of the Olympic Committee , she is not accepted as a full member by the older ones. Only after she has completely mastered the tornado attack and can use it more often against the Czech volleyball team in the semi-finals of the World Cup, she is no longer a substitute and is accepted. She wins the World Cup in Bulgaria and is chosen as the best player in the world (looking back, she thinks of her beginnings).
Midori Hayakawa ( 早川 み ど り , Hayakawa Midori )
Midori is the same age as Mila Ayuhara and one day joins the volleyball team with the aim of becoming a team captain, but not out of passion for the game, but to make a career through volleyball. That's why she is initially hostile to Mila. Nevertheless, Midori's obsession passes and she becomes Mila's best friend. After Onuma's departure, she is the deputy team captain and is particularly feared because of her statements. Mila and Midori form the Fujimi High School attack duo.
Mr. Hongo ( 本 郷 俊 介 , Hongō Shunsuke )
He is the coach of the Fujimi team. At first it is very tough, but inside it has a soft core. The girls grow to his heart quickly and they would never do without him. Particularly noteworthy are his extraordinarily tough training methods and strategies, which the viewer may not understand, but always work. Also, the Fujimi team is his first volleyball team as he actually plays baseball.
Hiroko Shimizu ( 清水 春 子 , Shimizu Haruko )
She is Mila's class teacher at Fujimi School. She is also registered as a coach of the volleyball team, but de facto she does not take care of the team, but leaves the training to the team leader Onuma and her friends. They have built up a kind of hierarchy in the team and use their high position to vent their anger on colleagues. Furthermore, they make it particularly difficult for newcomers. However, with Mila and Midori joining the team, there is a restructuring. This means that Ms. Shimizu resumes her coaching activity, but her professional competence is not sufficient to continue the team successfully. After unsuccessful games, Mr. Hongo trains the team and Ms. Shimizu becomes his assistant.
Tsutomu ( 一 ノ 瀬 努 , Ichinose Tsutomu )
He is very popular at Fujimi School, a member of the school newspaper and a student representative. He is very good friends with Mila and her second cousin. Feelings develop between the two over the course of the series. Unlike Mila, he decides not to go to high school and becomes a greengrocer to support his ailing father. In episode 52 he falls into a mountain gorge with his vehicle. He dies a short time later, before Mila can reach the hospital.
Mitamura ( 三 田村 裕 次 , Mitamura Yūji )
He is the captain of the Fujimi soccer team. At first he gets along very well with Mila. Nevertheless, he and Midori find each other. It is also he who helps Mila and Midori to be able to accept the enlarged ball of Yamamoto. He was also good friends with Tsutomu.
Nakasawa ( 中 沢 )
She has been Mila's friend since her first time in Fujimigahara. As one of the few of the original junior volleyball player, Nakasawa remains in the sport throughout the series, making Mila and Midori a loyal companion. Nakasawa's trademark is a plait hanging to one side, and she has a boyish temperament. She is also very good friends with Ishimatsu.
Onuma ( 大沼 み ゆ き , Ōnuma Miyuki )
At first she was the team leader of the Fujimi volleyball team until she switched to university, as her studies were ultimately more important to her than playing volleyball. So she appoints Mila as the new team leader.
Kiyoko Makimura ( 真 木村 京 子 , Makimura Kyōko )
Kiyoko comes from a family of intellectuals. In order to be able to keep up there, she is under great pressure to perform and she is busy learning most of the time. Although her passion is sport (she used to play tennis), she gives in to pressure from her strict mother, who thinks sport is nonsense. Later she rebels against the strict hand of her parents and joins the volleyball team. She wanted to be better than Mila and decided (in contrast to Onuma) to play volleyball and not to do well at school. Eventually she and Mila find each other in a tearful ending to an episode.
Takaichi ( 武 市 , Takeichi )
She wears the number 4 on her back. She is one of the key players in Fujimi Senior High School. When Mila and Midori join the new team, she is the one who, together with Ishikawa, dares to revolt against Onuma and her "friends" for the first time. Takaichi and Midori suggest unpredictable information.
Lord (Daigo) Inokuma ( 猪 野 熊 大 吾 , Inokuma Daigo )
He is the coach of the junior and later also the senior women's national team. His trademarks are his sunglasses and his thick beard. He doesn't seem to have any feelings, but those appearances are deceptive, he was once Mr. Hongo's best friend in college. He was the team leader of the local volleyball team and was feared by everyone. His team and he were excluded from the championships because of his brutal style of play. His father died when he was in college, his mother when he was little, which made him hard and cold. Through his hard training, which excluded all love, it got to the point that his right arm was paralyzed. Since his team excluded him, he was forced to leave, leaving his sister Sanyo alone. She is eventually taken to an orphanage when her uncle, with whom she has lived with Daigo since the death of her parents, dies. After Michiru was adopted by a wealthy affluent family, he only focused on volleyball. He changed his name from Ichirō Ōkawa ( 大川 一郎 ) to Daigo Inokuma, went to Russia, Poland, Korea and became a coach. Volleyball became his purpose in life. Initially, he was the coach of the Japanese national team for high school students. He later becomes the coach of Japan's senior national team and takes Mila into his squad as the only high school student.
Kakinouchi ( 垣 之 内 良 子 , Kakinouchi Yoshiko )
She is the team leader of the Fukuoka School and a very good acceptance player. Mila and Kakinouchi faced each other in the final at the junior tournaments. In the first final Mila managed to win with her team, in the second final, however, Kakinouchi took advantage of Mila's foot injury and took the title. Both see each other again in the national team. At the Inter High School tournament, however, Fukuoka is more of a middle class. They are beaten by Jiduin (Yagisawa sisters) and Fujimi.
Sanyo ( 三条 美智 留 , Sanjō Michiru , nee Ōkawa ( 大川 ))
At first, Mila and Sanyo had a problematic relationship with each other because, unlike Mila, she despised volleyball and only tried to excel all other volleyball players at the Junior World Championships to show how stupid the love for this sport is. At the time she thought that her older brother disappeared through volleyball and left her alone, hence her hatred of the sport. But later everything becomes clear to her and she gets along with the Japanese team. She hits very good balls.
Yushima
Yushima's sister passed away and he initially recognized his sister in Mila. Later the "whistling boy" Mila continuously supports u. a. in mastering the tornado attack. Mila seems to have found a second love in him, after Tsutomu. He is the captain of the Japanese men's volleyball team .
Manumba
Manumba is the captain of the Kenyan women's volleyball team and is also known as "the black whirlwind". Despite an injury, she fights until she drops, both in the Junior World Championship and in the World Championship in Bulgaria. Mila becomes one of her best friends. The World Championships in Bulgaria will be their last because they see its in poverty want to support surviving family more.
Scherenina-Schlenina
She is blonde and the captain of the Russian national women's volleyball team . During the Junior World Championship, she and her teammate Voljienskaya played the dangerous attack combination "cross-smash ball". She is seen as the best female volleyball player and won the Junior World Championship. In the circus she learned a new technique for the final of the World Cup in Bulgaria against the Japanese.

publication

The manga was published in the Japanese manga magazine Margaret from January 1968 to November 1970 . A total of twelve anthologies were published by the Shueisha publishing house from 1968 onwards, and new editions have been printed over the years. A version in eight volumes followed from 1994 and 1995, in 2003 in seven volumes by Earth Shuppan .

From September to December 1975 was again in Margaret under the title Shin Attack No. 1 ( 新 ア タ ッ ク No.1 , German about Das neue Attack No. 1 ) a continuation of Attack No. 1 published. The sequel was also published in two edited volumes. From March 2003 another sequel to the manga appeared in Margaret, which was led under the same title and was drawn by Ozawa Kanon . A total of three volumes were created.

Adaptations

Anime

In 1969 the Tokyo Movie Shinsha studio produced a television series directed by Fumio Kurokawa and Eiji Okabe, which comprises 104 episodes. The character design was created by Eiichi Nakamura and the artistic directors were Hisao Fukuda and Jun Ikeda. The series aired from December 7, 1969 to November 18, 1971 by Fuji Television in Japan. The average audience rating was 19.9% ​​and the peak audience rating was 27.1%. In 1986, five VHS cassettes were launched in series for the first time in Japan. The series was first released on DVD in Japan in July 2003, followed by a second release in 2007.

The series was marketed internationally and so broadcast in Spain , Italy , France and Uzbekistan . The anime was broadcast several times on German TV channels; the first broadcast took place from October 26, 1993 to March 18, 1994 on RTL 2 . Episodes 18, 19 and 34 were not shown on German television, but these episodes have now also been released on DVD in Germany, but without German synchronization. In Germany, Concorde Video released two VHS cassettes with a running time of 70 minutes each in the 1990s . KSM released the series from December 7, 2006 to November 8, 2007, and a new edition as a 12-piece box set on March 17, 2014.

synchronization

The German language version was produced by the Hamburg dubbing company Planet Wave Studios . The synchronous directing was done by Claus Wilcke and Lutz Schnell .

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Mila Ayuhara / Kozue Ayuhara Kurumi Kobato Daniela Reidies
Midori Hayakawa Eiko Masuyama Marion von Stengel
Hiroko Shimitsu / Haruko Shimizu Hiroko Mori
Mr. Hongo / Shunsuke Hongō Shūsei Nakamura Kai-Hendrik Möller
Tsutomu Ichinose Katsuji Mori Marek Erhardt
Ishi Mazu / Mari Ishimatsu Ayaka Morita Claudia Schermutzki
Onuma / Miyuki Ōnuma Yōko Kuri Kerstin Draeger
Daigō Inokuma Masahiko Murase Thomas student
Sanyo / Michiru Sanjō Reiko Muto Brigitte Böttrich
Kaori Yagizawa Keiko Yamamoto Traudel Sparrowhawk
Yuriko Matsuyama Tina Eschmann
Shigemi Kiyama Brigitte Böttrich
Yoko Furumoto Reinhilt Schneider
Kyoto Sygun Liewald
Kudo Reinhilt Schneider
Yamamato Christin Marquitan
Yushima Katsuji Mori Marek Harloff
Kakinouchi Masako Ebisu
Scherenina / Schlenina Eiko Masuyama

music

Takeo Watanabe composed the music for the series. In the Japanese original, the theme song to Atakku No.1 was sung by 2 different artists. From episode 1 to 5 by Kurumi Kobato , the dubbing voice of Kozue (Mila), and from episode 6 by Kumiko Ōsugi . It has sold more than 700,000 times. The closing song is Ban-Bo-Bon by Kaoko Ishu. A soundtrack for the series has only been released in Japan on March 6, 1996. The CD contains 19 tracks (11 of which are from the Kyojin no Hoshi (Star of the Giants) series). On November 18, 2009, a new edition of the anime soundtrack from Solid Records was released in Japan . This CD contains the complete soundtrack of the series (42 tracks).

In the German version, a different opening song was used instead of the original Atack No.1 . The melody comes from the Italian opening credits of the volleyball anime Mila e Shiro (original title: Attacker You! ( ア タ ッ カ ー YOU!)). The text has been rewritten for the German version.

cinemamovies

Four feature films were produced in Japan. For the first two films two of the three directors of the series were responsible, Eiji Okabe and Fumio Kurokawa . Two new directors were hired for each of the last two films. All four films were produced and broadcast at the same time as the series. Each movie has a running time of approx. 60 minutes.

  • March 21, 1970: Atakku No. 1: Fujimi-gakuen no shinsei ( 富士 見 学園 の 新星 , German: The new star of the Fujimi school )
  • August 1, 1970: Atakku No. 1: Namida no Kaiten Reshību ( 涙の回転レシーブ , dt. Gehechtete ball acceptance of the tears )
  • December 19, 1970: Atakku No. 1: Namida no Sekai Senshuken ( 涙 の 世界 選手 権 , German World Cup of Tears )
  • March 17, 1971: Atakku No. 1: Namida no Fushichō ( 涙 の 不 死鳥 , German phoenix of tears )

The films were produced by Tōhō .

Actual filming

From April to June 2005 a dorama was broadcast on TV Asahi . Aya Ueto played the role of Kozue in it.

meaning

Frederik L. Schodt sees the manga as a trailblazer for the Shōjo-Sport-Manga. It is one of the first popular sports manga for girls. It is also a result of the popularity of sports for women in Japan in the 1960s after winning a gold medal in volleyball at the 1964 Olympic Games . In Germany, alongside Sailor Moon , the series was one of the beginnings of animes in the television channels' youth programs.

The television series was very popular in Germany, especially among children under the age of 14. For example, in January 1995 it achieved a market share of 44.1% in this target group and a total audience of 870,000. At the same time, the series generated increasing interest in volleyball in Germany in the mid-1990s, especially among girls between the ages of seven and eleven.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fuji TV: Atakku No. 1
  2. ↑ AnimaniA 4/2001, pp. 36-37.
  3. ↑ Mila Superstar Episode 1-30 (Volume 1). KSM Film, archived from the original on January 12, 2008 ; Retrieved July 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Mila Superstar - Volume 4 - Episode 81-101 (4-DVD digipack). KSM Film, archived from the original on February 28, 2008 ; Retrieved July 12, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Mila Superstar - The Complete Series (12 Disc Set). (No longer available online.) KSM film, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ksmfilm.de
  6. ↑ Mila Superstar on synchronkartei.de
  7. ↑ Frederik L. Schodt, Osamu Tezuka (preface): Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics , p. 98. Kodansha America, 1983.
  8. ↑ German Film Institute - DIF / German Film Museum & Museum of Applied Arts (ed.): Ga-netchû! Das Manga Anime Syndrom , p. 215. Henschel Verlag, 2008.
  9. ↑ Georg Friedrich: Sportive action models in youth TV cartoons . In: Freizeitwissenschaft & Sportwissenschaftliche Medienforschung (Ed.): Yearbook Freizeit 1998 . 1998, p. 51 ff . ( uni-duisburg-essen.de [PDF]).

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