A Devil Play
Foreign titles: Les Attaquantes (French), Mila Superstar (German)
Series titles: アタック No. 1, Attack Number
- Studio
- Tokyo Movie Shinsha
- Animation studio
- Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Characters
Kozue, Midori, Yoshimura, Coach Honma
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Fumio Kurokawa, Eiji Okabe, Yoshio Takeuchi
Writing
Animation
- Animator
- Shingo Araki
Voices
- Voice
- Kurumi Kobato (Kozue Ayuhara), Eiko Masuyama (Midori Hayakawa), Masahiko Murase (Daigou Inokuma), Ayaka Morita (Mari Ishimatsu), Eiko Masuyama (Sherenina), Katsuji Mori (Jiro Yujima), Keiko Yamamoto (Kaoru Yanagizawa), Masako Ebisu (Ryouko Kakinouchi), Reiko Mutoh (Michiru Sanjou), Youko Kuri (Miyuki Oonuma)
Music
- Music
- Takeo Watanabe
Crew
- Based On The Original Manga By
- Chikako Urano
- Art Director
- Hisao Fukuda, Jun Ikeda
- Character Design
- Eiichi Nakamura, Ruyoshi Takeuchi
- Scenario
- Masaki Tsuji, Satoshi Dezaki, Haruya Yamazaki, Tsunehisa Itô, Mon Shichijô
- Technical Directors
- Fumio Kurokawa, Eiji Okabe
- Animation Directors
- Tomekichi Takeuchi, Osamu Kobayashi, Eiichi Nakamura
- Camera Director
- Tatsumasa Shimizu
- Music
- Takeo Watanabe
- Recording Director
- Akira Yamazaki
Production notes
This TV series ran for 104 episodes.
Adapted from Chikako Urano's 1968 volleyball manga.
This was the first sports anime directed toward a female audience.
Four movies made from re-edited footage were released in 1970.
Directors Fumio Kurokawa and Eiji Okabe and writer Haruya Yamazaki teamed up in 1977 for "Ashite e Attack!" ("Attack on Tomorrow"), a TV series designed to capitalize on Japan's recent volleyball World Cup successes. Featuring the character Mimi, this volleyball-themed series was much less successful and ran for only 23 episodes.
Adapted from Chikako Urano's 1968 volleyball manga.
This was the first sports anime directed toward a female audience.
Four movies made from re-edited footage were released in 1970.
Directors Fumio Kurokawa and Eiji Okabe and writer Haruya Yamazaki teamed up in 1977 for "Ashite e Attack!" ("Attack on Tomorrow"), a TV series designed to capitalize on Japan's recent volleyball World Cup successes. Featuring the character Mimi, this volleyball-themed series was much less successful and ran for only 23 episodes.