Wandering Sun

Wandering Sun
さすらいの太陽; (Sasurai no Taiyō)
Genre	Drama, music
Manga
Written by	Keisuke Fujikawa
Illustrated by	Mayumi Suzuki
Published by	shōjo
Original run	August 1970 – August 1971
Volumes	4
Anime television series
Directed by	Mushi Productions
Original network	Fuji Television
Original run	April 8, 1971 – September 30, 1971
Episodes	26

Wandering Sun (さすらいの太陽, Sasurai no Taiyō), also known as Nozomi in the Sun and Jane e Micci in

Brave Raideen and Mobile Suit Gundam

. The anime toned down some of the more intense and mature elements of the manga for a prime-time TV audience.

Wandering Sun tells the story of two girls switched at birth by the nurse Michiko, out of a grudge against the parents of one of the newborns. Miki was born in the poor Mine family but is switched into the rich Kouda clan, and Nozomi the opposite. Fate cannot separate the two girls who compete to become successful singers after meeting at high school, with the girl-next-door Nozomi working hard and on her own to be the best pop singer in Japan and the rich girl Miki using her family's status to reach the same goal.

This series was itself a ground-breaker in that it was perhaps the first anime series to depict the entertainment industry—specifically

Japanese Idols which would be a major plot point in many anime to come from Macross, Creamy Mami and Perfect Blue until Love Live

Series. The TV series was also released in Italy under the title Jane e Micci and in France as Nathalie et ses Amis.

Cast

Junko Fujiyama as Nozomi Mine
Michiko Hirai as Miki Kouda
Kōsei Tomita as Kumagoro
Makio Inoue as Fani
Ryōko Kinomiya as Michiko Nohara
Tesuya Asado as Isao Egawa
Koichi Noda as Jun Nohara
Mitsuko Aso as Tsune
Kinpei Azusa as Shinsuke Mine
Miyoko Asō as Shizuko Mine
Takako Kondo as Kazuo Mine
Waka Tachibana as Yuki Mine
Osamu Kobayashi as Daijiro
Ikuo Nishikawa as Yumemaro
Takeshi Aono as Akira Nitta

Staff

Original Creator: Keisuke Fujikawa, Mayumi Suzuki
Script: Keisuke Fujikawa, Shun'ichi Yukimuro
Character Designs: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Storyboards: Yoshiyuki Tomino
Music: Hideki Fuyuki
Producer: Hiroshi Saito, Noboru Katano
Production:
Fuji TV

References

^ "さすらいの太陽". 虫プロダクション株式会社 (in Japanese). 2010-09-11. Retrieved 2023-02-24.

External links

Wandering Sun (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

[1] "さすらいの太陽". 虫プロダクション株式会社 (in Japanese). 2010-09-11. Retrieved 2023-02-24.

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