Miyuki - the 1983 manga and anime series
Miyuki (Japanese: み ゆ き) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Mitsuru Adachi. It was published by Shogakukan from 1980 to 1984 in the bi-weekly manga magazine Shōnen Big Comic (precursor of the current Weekly Young Sunday). The series has been adapted into a film, an anime television series, and a live-action television drama. The manga was very popular in Japan and was one of the winners of the 1982 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen and shōjo manga, along with Adachi's Touch.
Miyuki was Adachi's first manga adapted as an anime. The 37-episode anime series aired from March 31, 1983 to April 20, 1984 on Fuji Television Network. The film version was released on September 16, 1983. The television drama, produced by Fuji TV and Kyodo Television (a television production company), aired on August 4, 1986. The anime has been dubbed into several other languages, including which French and Spanish.
History
Masato Wakamatsu, 16, works on the beach in the summer. After making a bad impression on his classmate Miyuki Kashima that he has a crush on, he tries out another beautiful girl. To Masato's surprise, the girl is revealed to be his youngest stepsister Miyuki aged 15, who has been living abroad with her father for the past six years.
As school progresses, Masato begins dating Miyuki Kashima. He and his sister Miyuki live alone together, and is troubled by his conflicting emotions: filial and romantic feelings towards a sister who may or may not know she is not related to him by blood.
Masato Wakamatsu is working in a summer house on the beach and tries to woo his classmate named Miyuki Kashima. After failing and humiliating himself, he befriends a beautiful girl at the beach; he returns home and discovers that that beautiful girl is his sister by marriage, Miyuki Wakamatsu, who has been separated from him for the past six years and has returned to live with him. At school, Kashima identifies with Wakamatsu's mistakes and the two begin dating.
Meanwhile, Masato's friend Ryūichi Masaki attempts to woo Miyuki who is playing along but is apathetic towards her approach. Meanwhile at home, Masato struggles between seeing Miyuki as a girl and a sister and continues to adjust to his life with her. Later, Masato has a date with Kashimi but is sabotaged by Miyuki who feels neglected by him. Later, Torao Nakata, Miyuki's middle school gym teacher, and Yasujirō Kashima, Kashima's father, fall in love with Miyuki's beauty and attempt to woo her.
A year passes and Miyuki enrolls in Masato's school and is persecuted by Torao who becomes the high school gym teacher. Later, Yasujirō blackmails Masato by inviting him to have a picnic with Miyuki to go out with his daughter. Masato agrees, regrets it immediately, and expresses relief for the bad weather that cancels their trip. Masato's popular classmate, Kenji Kōsaka, attempts to woo Kashima and Miyuki only to be overtaken by Masato.
Masato discovers a letter from his father asking Miyuki to go abroad with him; Miyuki refuses and chooses to be with Masato instead. Torao has a cold and receives a visit from Miyuki; Torao attempts to propose to Miyuki but mistakenly proposes to Miyuki Euhara, Torao's candidate for marriage. Later, Masato and his friends organize a trip to the mountains and are sabotaged by Ryūichi who blackmails them into working at his beach house so they can be with Miyuki.
At the beach house, Ryūichi attempts to rape Miyuki but is tricked by her and falls asleep. Later, Ryūichi needs a blood transplant and asks Miyuki for one; Masato fears that Miyuki may discover that they are not related to blood, but discovers that they coincidentally share the same blood time; Masato then donates blood in its place. After the summer, Torao convinces Miyuki on a pity date and opposes her boyfriend's father to escape the marriage.
Masato's class has a school trip leaving Miyuki alone; Ryūichi, Torao and Yasujirō then intrude into Miyuki's house, hoping to seduce her. Masato is able to deduce Miyuki's situation, despite her facade, and returns home soon. Kashima begins to feel neglected by Masato, who prioritizes Miyuki over her, and asks another guy out. It turns out that that person neglected her family for Kashima, forcing her to end the date and gain new insights into Masato.
During the winter break, a Canadian tries to marry Miyuki but is deported and returned to her boyfriend. School resumes and Ryūichi has to be expelled from school due to repeated repetition. In his anger, he accidentally does good deeds that earn him media recognition and pressures the school to promote him to the next class.
Masato's class organizes a show with Kashima as the heroine and Kenji as the hero; Masato saves Kenji's life and usurps the role of hero due to the latter's injury. Later, Masato's father's plane crashes and the two plan how to survive financially without him; shortly thereafter, they learn that he is alive. This event makes Masato wonder what to do with his life and decides to enter a university with Kashima. Kashima lives with Masato until his parents return from vacation.
Miyuki tells her the story of a boy who saved her from a lion he promised to get married in exchange; Kashima discovers claw marks on Masato's back and realizes it was the boy. After the return of Kashima's parents: at school, Ryūichi convinces the students to photograph the girls in their underwear; Masato almost enters the images of Miyuki who has volunteered but reconsiders the thought of people seeing Miyuki's body. Later, Kenji makes multiple attempts to sabotage Masato's relationship with Kashima, but is overwhelmed by the couple.
Returning home from the trip, Ryūichi avoids Miyuki hoping that his disappearance would cause her to see him. He begins to develop withdrawal from Miyuki and becomes ill; a chance encounter with her heals him and he returns to his normal courtship activities. Later, Masato meets his childhood caretaker who he asks to keep his nonexistent blood relationship with Miyuki a secret. Soon after, she realizes she has lost the family register at school. A lonely student finds him and blackmails Masato into treating him with ramen.
Characters
Masato Wakamatsu (若 松 真人, Wakamatsu Masato)
Voiced by: Katsumi Toriumi (anime television series), played by Masatoshi Nagase (film)
A high school student (later a rōnin for a year, then a college student). His mother died when he was young, and his stepmother died when he was young too, and he still misses them both. Masato really likes Miyuki Kashima, the most popular girl in the class, but she keeps messing around every time he tries to talk to her or ask her on a date. Shortly before high school starts, her younger sister (also called "Miyuki") returns from living abroad with her father (Miyuki's stepfather) for six years, and now they live alone in the same house. This Miyuki is her stepmother's daughter and there is no blood bond between them.
This causes some problems as Masato is torn between his growing feelings for his half-sister (who doesn't seem to know they're not blood related, and insists on having a normal brother-sister relationship as he constantly speculates about "if we got married. … ”) And her very evident feelings for her classmate Miyuki. As a result of life with his sister, he constantly sees women's underwear and finds it in his trouser pockets, leading to awkward situations with his classmate Miyuki.
Midway through the series, Masato is the second of two people to have contracted the mysterious "Miyuki disease" (み ゆ き 病, Miyuki-byō), caused by spending a long time without seeing his sister Miyuki.
Miyuki Wakamatsu (若 松 み ゆ き, Wakamatsu Miyuki)
Voiced by: Yōko Oginome (anime television series), played by Yukari Usami (film)
Masato's younger half-sister, unrelated to blood. Her birthday is February 9, 1966. She has short wavy hair, although it gets a little longer as the series progresses (a little over shoulder length at the end of the series). Despite being younger, he gets much better grades than Masato, and excels at sporting events and English proficiency, having lived abroad with his stepfather for six years. It is extremely popular with kids in school.
He has a very bright and cheerful personality. Although Miyuki tries to fend off those who actively court her, they end up causing more headaches in Masato than Miyuki does. Like his brother, Masato tries to protect Miyuki from these intrusive "wild beasts", although this protection slowly becomes indistinguishable from jealousy. Miyuki also begins to see his brother's girlfriend, Miyuki Kashima, as a rival.
Miyuki Kashima (鹿島 み ゆ き, Kashima Miyuki)
Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru (anime TV series), played by Hiroko Mita (movie)
In the same class and classroom as Masato during high school, this Miyuki is Masato's girlfriend for most of the series. He has long hair and is extremely popular with school kids. She has the same birthday as Miyuki Wakamatsu, although she is one year older. He has a crush on Masato since middle school. She is extremely proactive in their relationship, regularly asking him to come to parties and to her house even before they started dating regularly.
Miyuki is a very kind and humble person. However, she can also be energetic, and the start of her relationship with Masato is punctuated by her slapping him frequently due to a misunderstanding or another due to his anger. However, she always apologizes to Masato afterwards, asking him to forgive her for getting angry so easily.
She is a great student, cook and seamstress. In order to be able to attend the same university in Masato (and be in the same year), he deliberately skipped the application deadline despite having successfully passed the entrance exam. She later went to the same narrowness school just to be with him. After hearing the secret of his brother Wakamatsu (who are not related by blood) at the pre-wedding dinner reception for Yūichi Sawada and Miyuki Wakamatsu, he escapes and takes a trip to Hokkaidō to resolve his feelings. While there, he meets Yūichi, who is traveling there after breaking up with the other Miyuki.
Ryuichi Masaki (間 崎 竜 一, Masaki Ryūichi)
Voiced by: Ryūsuke Ōbayashi (anime television series), played by Daisuke Shima (film)
Ryūichi was in the same year as Masato, but purposely failed her high school entrance exams to be in the same year as Masato's sister Miyuki. He is actually a year older than Masato, but it is unclear why he was detained the first time.
After graduating from high school, he was able to pass college entrance exams for the first time. He fell in love with Miyuki Wakamatsu at first sight and constantly tells her how they will be able to go on a school trip together, graduate together, go to class reunions together and get married together. He is very active in his search for Miyuki, who tends to annoy Masato.
Because he's something of a delinquent, he often does poorly on tests, which causes a lack of sympathy from his friends. He also often tricks his friends into working part-time during the summer. He is very strong, which helps him win the frequent fights he has. He rarely wears a helmet while riding his motorcycle (even when riding Miyuki Wakamatsu), even if he has a helmet. His family owns the Kissaten Dragon, a coffee shop, where he often works part-time. Ryūichi is the first to be affected by the mysterious "Miyuki disease".
Torao Nakata (中 田 虎 夫, Nakata Torao)
Voiced by: Teshō Genda
Bachelor PE teacher at Miyuki Wakamatsu Middle School. She moved to Miyuki's high school as a PE teacher when he graduated from junior high to get closer to her. He considers Ryūichi his rival for Miyuki Wakamatsu's affections, and a stylized Chinese dragon (representing Ryūichi) and a tiger (representing Torao) are often employed when the two meet. He is about 20 years older than Miyuki.
His mother is constantly trying to arrange omiai, or marriage meetings, with potential brides, but Torao doesn't want to be with anyone other than Miyuki Wakamatsu. He was briefly engaged to another woman named Miyuki, but the marriage was canceled after Torao got drunk and talked in a bar while sitting next to that Miyuki's father. At the end of the series, he finally agrees to move forward with his mother's omiai planning.
Yasujiro Kashima (鹿島 安 次郎, Kashima Yasujiro)
Voiced by: Kei Tomiyama
Miyuki Kashima's father. He's a detective from the local police department. He has a fondness for pretty girls. After meeting Miyuki Wakamatsu during a New Year's visit to the local shrine, he starts chasing her and often invites her for coffee. He often abuses his authority as a police detective to get close to Miyuki. In return, Miyuki often abuses her kindness to get free rides to the grocery store and other places she has to go. This really annoys Masato, who always calls him a "dirty old man" for chasing his sister.
Kenji Kosaka (香 坂 健 二, Kōsaka Kenji)
Voiced by: Katsuji Mori
Kenji is in the same year as Masato, a teacher's dream student, good at sports and studies. He is handsome and has many girl fans at school, although he stubbornly only stalks Miyuki Kashima despite the fact that he never shows any interest in him and fails in numerous attempts to separate her and Masato.
During his senior year he was elated that he and Miyuki passed the entrance exam at the local university while Masato failed, but was stunned to find that Miyuki had deliberately missed the application deadline to go to the same one instead. Masato prep school. He tried to drop out of college and also enroll in prep school, but the classes were full. He is one of the three who chases Miyuki Kashima's affections.
Yuichi Sawada (沢 田 優 一, Sawada Yūichi)
An old friend of the Wakamatsu family, Yūichi always played with Masato when they were younger. He was Masato's neighbor until his high school years, at which point his parents moved to West Germany. He is a college student and an excellent soccer player. In the second half of the series, he suddenly returned to Japan to play for the national team during the Olympics.
After returning, he stays briefly at the Wakamatsu home while looking for his own apartment. After he moves, he starts chasing Miyuki Wakamatsu and even asks Masato if it's okay for him to. This makes Masato really consider what his true feelings are for his stepsister. At the end of the series, Yuichi runs into Miyuki Kashima while traveling in Hokkaidō and tries to resolve his feelings.
Yoshio Muraki (村 木 好 夫, Muraki Yoshio)
Voiced by: Kaneto Shiozawa
Yoshio is in the same year as Masato, has similar grades and similar perverse tastes, and can be found almost everywhere Masato goes. He almost always appears when Masato and Miyuki Kashima are having or planning an important time together, and tries to include himself in their plans. He constantly asks Masato how someone like Miyuki can fall in love with someone like him. Yoshio has a younger sister, although he rarely talks about her and doesn't think much about her (at least not that he will admit). She did not attend Yūichi Sawada and Miyuki Wakamatsu's premarital banquet.
Technical data and credits
Manga
Author Mitsuru Adachi
Editor Shogakukan
Magazine Shōnen Big Comic
Target shonen
1 edition 1980 – 1984
Tankōbon 12 (complete)
Publisher it. Star Comics
Series 1st ed. it. Techno
1st edition it. August 18, 2005 - July 18, 2006
Volumes it. 12 (complete)
Anime TV series
Regia Mizuho Nishikubo
Film script Mayori Sekijima
Studio Kitty Films
Network Fuji TV
1st TV March 31, 1983 - April 20, 1984
Episodes 37 (complete)
Duration ep. 24 min
It network. JuniorTV
1st Italian TV 1990
Episodes it. 28 (complete)
Anime TV movie
Regia Kazuyuki Izutsu
Producer Tomohiro Iji
Music Keiichi Oku, Mitsuo Hagita
Studio Kitty Films, Toho
Network Fuji TV (Nissei Family Special)
1st TV 16 September 1983
Duration 97 min
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/
