Yuki's Sun
Yuki no Taiyou Pilot / Yuki's Sun PilotSummary
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.
(Source: TheGhibliBlog)
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Details
- Format
- Special
- Number of Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 5 min
- Estimated total length
- ≈ 5 min (1 × 5 min)
- Start date
- 1972
- End date
- 1972
- Status
- Finished
- Source
- Manga
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Romaji title
- Yuki no Taiyou Pilot
- English title
- Yuki's Sun
- Native title
- ユキの太陽
- Other titles
- Yuki's Sun Pilot
Characters 1
Main characters
- Yuki Iwabuchi岩淵ユキMain
Staff and studios
Key staff
- Hayao MiyazakiDirector
- Tetsuya ChibaOriginal creator