title: Nozomi Witches
text: # Nozomi Witches
  
  Nozomi Witches (のぞみ♡ウィッチィズ, Nozomi Wicchīzu), sometimes also called Bewitching Nozomi, is a manga series by Toshio Nobe which was adapted into a three episode anime OVA series in 1992.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryōtarō Shiba, who decides to join the high school boxing club.
  
  ## Anime
  
  ### Cast
  
  * Nobutoshi Canna - Ryōtarō Shiba
  * Hiromi Tsuru - Nozomi Egawa
  * Kōhei Miyauchi - Eddie
  * Keiichi Nanba - Hongō
  * Ryūsei Nakao - Morino
  * Toshiyuki Morikawa - Nanjō
  * Noriko Uemura - Ryōtarō's mother
  * Michitaka Kobayashi - Announcer
  * Teruhisa Tsuyusaki - Baseball club member
  * Yasuhiko Kawazu - Boxing club member
  * Yukari Takagawa - Buryō
  * Eiji Itō - Cameraman
  * Yūko Sumitomo - Club member B
  * Teruhisa Tsuyusaki - Company employee A
  * Kanako Hoya - Drama club member
  * Natsumi Yamada - Fan
  * Tomomi Ōsone, Muri Wa - Female student
  * Masaharu Satō - Gichō
  * Arihiro Masuda - Ishii
  * Yūsaku Yara - Itsuri
  * Yasuhiko Kawazu - Jack
  * Shinpachi Tsuji - Jackal
  * Yuri Amano - Kitagawa
  * Yuka Ōno - Yōko Kitagawa
  * Mitsuru Ogata - Miyamoto
  * Kiyoyuki Yanada - Ōniwa
  * Kōji Ishii - Ōta
  * Yūko Sumitomo - Private secretary
  * Junji Kitajima - Referee
  * Aruno Tahara - Reporter
  * Kōji Ishii - Ring announcer
  * Toshihiko Nakajima - Sakakoshi
  * Hideyuki Tanaka - Sawamura
  * Hiroshi Tamai - Student
  * Kazuhiro Yamaga - Suzuki
  * Kazumi Tanaka - Tōgo
  * Toshihiko Nakajima - Watanabe-kaichō
  * Miyuki Matsushita - Yamazaki
  * Takashi Taguchi - Yamazaki-kaichō
  * Natsumi Yamada - Hitomi Yamazaki
  * Mitsuo Iwata - Yūgo
  
  ### Releases
  
  Laserdisc
  
  * Volume 1, TSL-5, ¥5800, September 21, 1994
  * Volume 2, TSL-6, ¥5800, October 21, 1994
  * Volume 3, TSL-7, ¥5800, November 21, 1994
  * Volume 1-3 collection, TSL-58, ¥9800, May 21, 1996
  
  ## CDs
  
  ### Nozomi Witches Sound Movie
  
      Drama CD.
  
  ### Nozomi Witches
  
      Toei, TOCT-6290, September 27, 1991.
  
  ### Nozomi Witches Original Soundtrack
  
      Toei/TM Factory, TOCT-6639, August 26, 1992.
  