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Title (English) Bewitching Nozomi

Title (Japanese) Bewitching Nozomi

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Fantasy Novel

Notes aka "Nozomi Witches". 3 OVA sports anime. From a Nobe Toshio manga story.

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Synopsis The young hero is moved to a new town, where he finds another transfer student, the attractive and sporty Nozumi, who is also an aspiring actress and has lived in New Zealand, living next door. Indeed, their bedroom windows face each other. Nozumi actively pursues a friendship, and decides, for secret reasons of her own, that he ought to be a boxer, and enrolls him in the school boxing club, much against his will.

Review Episode 1: One could be forgiven for thinking that this is another Mitsuru ADACHI story, since it has a subject (boxing) that appears in Touch and Slowstep, similar character designs, and even has theme music very similar to the TOUCH 1 movie. In fact, it is from a manga by Nobe Toshio.
Nozumi actively pursues a friendship, and decides, for secret reasons of her own, that he ought to be a boxer, and enrolls him in the school boxing club, much against his will. In fact, the betwitchment is entirely sexual, as where Nozumi catches him peeping at her, and when he hotly denies it, she says "It's because I'm cute, isn't it?" Later, after a wind-blows-short-skirt incident, he thinks "Witch's place. I want that." It turns out that, as Nozumi perceived, he has an excellent "eye" for boxing. This is one of the best school-story anime I've seen yet.
Episodes 2 & 3: Largely ignores the promising relationship between the hero and Nozumi and concentrates on being a straight sports anime. I found these latter two episodes disappointing in Japanese, but they are much more enjoyable subtitled, when one can understand the interaction and relationship of the various characters.

Credits Character design by Mitsuru Adachi
Refs: See "Nozomi Witches" in the Rec Arts Manga Manga Guide.

Episodes 3

Release

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Date 1992

Production Tac

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References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
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Title (English)	Bewitching Nozomi
Title (Japanese)	Bewitching Nozomi
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	aka "Nozomi Witches". 3 OVA sports anime. From a Nobe Toshio manga story.
Classification	-
Synopsis	The young hero is moved to a new town, where he finds another transfer student, the attractive and sporty Nozumi, who is also an aspiring actress and has lived in New Zealand, living next door. Indeed, their bedroom windows face each other. Nozumi actively pursues a friendship, and decides, for secret reasons of her own, that he ought to be a boxer, and enrolls him in the school boxing club, much against his will.
Review	Episode 1: One could be forgiven for thinking that this is another Mitsuru ADACHI story, since it has a subject (boxing) that appears in Touch and Slowstep, similar character designs, and even has theme music very similar to the TOUCH 1 movie. In fact, it is from a manga by Nobe Toshio. Nozumi actively pursues a friendship, and decides, for secret reasons of her own, that he ought to be a boxer, and enrolls him in the school boxing club, much against his will. In fact, the betwitchment is entirely sexual, as where Nozumi catches him peeping at her, and when he hotly denies it, she says "It's because I'm cute, isn't it?" Later, after a wind-blows-short-skirt incident, he thinks "Witch's place. I want that." It turns out that, as Nozumi perceived, he has an excellent "eye" for boxing. This is one of the best school-story anime I've seen yet. Episodes 2 & 3: Largely ignores the promising relationship between the hero and Nozumi and concentrates on being a straight sports anime. I found these latter two episodes disappointing in Japanese, but they are much more enjoyable subtitled, when one can understand the interaction and relationship of the various characters.
Credits	Character design by Mitsuru Adachi Refs: See "Nozomi Witches" in the Rec Arts Manga Manga Guide.
Episodes	3
Release
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	1992
Production	Tac
Broadcaster
Animation
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.