Hiatari Ryōkō!

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Image:HiatariRyokoDVDcover.jpgHiatari Ryōkō! (陽あたり良好!) is a manga by Mitsuru Adachi which was serialized from 1980-1981 in the Japanese manga magazine Shōjo Comic. It was later adapted into a live action TV drama series and an anime TV series.

1 Anime
2 Live action drama
- 2.1 Cast
- 2.2 Video releases

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Anime

The anime TV series consisted of 48 half-hour episodes made for Fuji TV, airing from March 22, 1987 through March 20, 1988.

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Cast

Kasumi Kashimoto: Yumi Morio
Yūsaku Takasugi: Yūji Mitsuya
Shin Mikimoto: Kaneto Shiozawa
Takashi Ariyama: Kobuhei Hayashiya
Kenji Morimatsu: Shigeru Chiba
Shinichirō Ōta: Shigeru Chiba

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Songs

Theme songs for Hiatari were performed by Aki Asakura, Yumekojo, Hiroaki Serizawa, and Ami Ozaki.

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Video releases

The anime series has been released on LD by Toho, and in January 2006, a DVD box set will be released as well.

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Live action drama

The live action TV drama series ran on NTV from March 21, 1982 through September 19, 1982 for a total of 19 one-hour episodes. The role of Kasumi Kashimoto was played by first played by a different female idol (Minako Sawamura). However, due to trouble during the shooting of the first episode, the role was given to Sayaka Itō and principal photography with Itō began the following day. The various theories as to why Sawamura really left include a refusal to do a bath scene and possible schedule conflicts with another TV show in which she was appearing.

Competing against it in the same time slot were two popular shows: NHK's Taiga drama Tōge no Gunzō and TV Asahi's drama Seibu Keisatsu Part II. Due to this kind of competition, the ratings were not very high for Hiatari. As this was Adachi's first work made into adapted fror TV, this was disappointing. In the 8pm Sunday time slot, NTV traditionally ran a school drama of some sort, but after the disappointing rating for Hiatari, they switched to variety programs in the vein of Kume Hiroshi no TV Scramble and Tensai Takeshi no Tenki ga Deru Terebi!!.

The main character, Yūsaku, is from Nagasaki (the same town from which Takayuki Takemoto, the actor who plays him, is from).

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