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.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Details

Genres

Studios

• Fuji TV
• Tokyo Movie Shinsha

Staff

• Shingo Araki — Animation Director
• Yoshio Takeuchi — Episode Director (eps 28-68 even, 69-70, 72-82 even, 83-104)
• Takeo Watanabe — Music
• Tsunehisa Itou — Script (eps 22-23, 28, 32, 37, 43, 47, 50, 53, 58, 64, 67, 77-78, 83, 87, 93, 99)
• Kumiko Oosugi — Theme Song Performance (Op vers. 2)
• Kazuo Inoue — Editing (eps 1-97)
• Youzou Kataoka — Sound Effects
• Manabu Oohashi — In-Between Animation (OP)
• Keishi Yamazaki — Theme Song Lyrics (OP)
• Satoshi Dezaki — Script (eps 3, 6, 13, 18)
• Takamura Mukuo — Background Art
• Tomekichi Takeuchi — Animation Director (eps 1-3, 6, 8-104)
• Osamu Kobayashi — Animation Director (eps 32-104)
• Haruya Yamazaki — Script (eps 17, 24, 27, 31, 38, 41, 46, 52, 57, 59, 65, 70-71, 82, 86, 92, 97)
• Shigetsugu Yoshida — Animation Director (ep 1)
• Kouichi Murata — Animation Director (ep 4)
• Norio Shioyama — Key Animation (eps 4, 7, 11, 13, 16, 18, 23, 26, 31)
• Masaki Tsuji — Script (eps 1, 5, 9, 16, 21, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, 63, 68-69, 72, 79, 85, 90, 96, 101)
• Fumio Kurokawa — Episode Director (eps 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67)