Attack No.1
1969 • Tokyo Movie Shinsha
- Format
- TV
- Aired
- 1969
- Episodes
- 104
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Tokyo Movie Shinsha · Fuji TV
- Genres
- Drama · Sports
Kozue Ayuhara is a highschool girl and enthusiastic volleyball player. Her dream is to play in the Japanese national volleyball team. During the series she makes it from the school district league up to the Japanese volleyball finals, step by step till the international volleyball championship. But the faster and higher Kozue climbs the career ladder up, the more she gets confronted with the dark side of success: too high expectations, self-conceit and envy are progressing towards serious problems.
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Attack No. 1 debuted in 1969 as a pioneering sports anime produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, based on the manga by Chikako Urano. Created during the fervor surrounding Japan’s gold medal performance in women's volleyball at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the series was designed to inspire a generation of young girls to embrace competitive athletics. It introduced a heightened, dramatic intensity to the sports genre that would eventually influence the narrative tropes of later series.
The animation style, directed by Fumio Kurokawa and Eiji Okabe, focused on the grueling emotional and physical evolution of the protagonist, Kozue Ayuhara. By emphasizing the character's internal struggles alongside her training, the production moved beyond simple athletic spectacle to become a cultural touchstone for feminine perseverance. It was remarkably well-received, effectively establishing the template for the 'spokon' or sports-spirit genre for female protagonists.
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