Yuki no Taiyou Pilot

Yuki no Taiyou Pilot

ユキ太陽たいよー

This pilot is remembered, really, for one notable reason: this is Miyazaki's first time as a solo director. He teamed up with Takahata for the later episodes of the 1971-72 Lupin III series, but Yuki's Sun marked his first time solely in the captain's seat. Yuki's Sun was based upon a popular shoujo manga (girls' comic) by Tetsuya Chiba which was serialized in 1963. It involves a 10-year-old orphan girl who is adopted into a family. The storyline is somewhat complex, and seems to play out like grand melodrama. Chiba's stories were more sophisticated and grown-up than, say, Osamu Tezuka, who of course was the godfather of postwar Japanese manga.

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Type:Special
Episodes:1
Episode length:4 min.
Status:Finished
Airing date:Jan 1, 1972
Season:Winter 1972
Source:Manga
Studio:Studio Ghibli

Ratings

Overall:
5.4

Popularity

Completed:9
Planned:1

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