Masato Wakamatsu, 16 years old, is working at the beach one summer. Having made a bad impression on his classmate/crush Miyuki Kashima, he makes a pass at another pretty girl. To Masato's shock, the girl turns out to be his younger stepsister Miyuki, who has been living abroad with their father for the past six years. As school progresses, Masato starts dating Miyuki Kashima. He and his sister Miyuki are living alone together, and he is troubled by his conflicting emotions: filial and romantic feelings toward a sister who may or may not know she is not related to him by blood.
The anime television series aired from 31 March 1983 to 20 April 1984 on the Fuji TV network. Because Kitty Film was already producing the popular Urusei Yatsura anime television series, they asked Tomoyuki Miyata from Tatsunoko Pro to produce the Miyuki series, Mizuho Nishikubo to be the supervising director for the series, and had their own in-house studio handle the animation. Fuji TV had wanted Group TAC, the studio which had done the animation for the first Nine TV special, to do the animation, but arrangements had already been made. Subsequent Adachi works were all animated by Group TAC. The lead role of voicing Miyuki Wakamatsu was given to Yōko Oginome after she auditioned for Kitty Film's Shonben Rider. Masatoshi Nagase, the voice actor for Masato Wakamatsu, is known for his passionate acting and his love scenes. Kitty Records was contracted to provide the music for the series, and one group, H2O, supplied the opening theme and two of the three ending themes. H2O's song "'Full of Memories" was a hit, reaching #6 on the Oricon charts. It is considered one of the "standard songs" from 1980's era Japan. The series uses four pieces of theme music: an opening and three closing themes. The opening theme is "10% Chance of Rain" by H2O, with the lyrics of the chorus slightly altered from the original version to be more appropriate to the series. The first ending theme is "Full of Memories" by H2O and was used up to episode 13 and returns for episodes 20 to 22. The second ending theme is "Summer Holiday" by Michiko Kawai and was used between episodes 14 and 19. The final ending theme is "Good-bye Season" by H2O and was used for the remaining episodes. After its original run on the Fuji TV network, the series was rebroadcast on the NTV network in 1986. A Spanish language dub of the anime series was made in Venezuela in 1992 and aired on Telecinco in Spain and in Latin America. The series is known as Vacaciones de verano in Spanish and the dubbers changed the given names of most of the main characters, with Masato becoming Tony, Miyuki Kashima changed to Katia, and Miyuki Wakamatsu altered to Monica. Sources:
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The Miyuki anime television movie aired in the Fuji TV Nissei Family Special slot on 16 September 1983. It was directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu. Screenwriter Yumiko Takaboshi later worked on the composition of Touch anime series. It came out at the same time the Nine the Original movie was released in theaters. The Nine movie was made by the same staff which later worked on the Touch anime series.
