attack no. 1

Original title: アタックNo.1 (Atakku No. 1)
Genre: Sports Drama

ALTERNATE TITLES
English: Attack No. 1
German: Mila Superstar
French: Les Attaquantes
Spanish: La panda de Julia
Italia: Mimì e la nazionale di pallavolo

MANGA
Author: Chikako Urano
Publisher: Shueisha
Volumes: 12 (Manga)
Original Run: Jan 7th, 1968 - Nov 29th, 1970

ANME
Director: Fumio Kurokawa, Eiji Okabe
Studio: TMS Entertainment
Episodes: 104
Original Run: Dec 7th, 1969 - Nov 28th 1971

LIVE ACTION
Network: TV Asahi
Episodes: 11
Original Run: Apr 4th, 2005 - Jun 23rd, 2005

ORIGINAL STORY
The story is about Kozue Ayuhara, a girl who transferred to Fujimi College and tried out for the school volleyball team. She develops a friendship with her teammate Midori Hayakawa, and her talents impress coach Hongō more and more each day. Though she showcases extraordinary volleyball skills, she makes enemies with Yoshimura, the star of the current team. Kozue discovers that being at the top would bring stress, incompatibilities and other dilemmas into her life. Her high expectations of becoming the best volleyball player in the school, Japan and eventually the world, set the tone for the drama to follow.

LIVE ACTION SERIES
In 2005 a live action drama based on Attack No. 1 aired on TV Asahi. Ueto Aya, the famous Japanese actress and singer stars as Kozue Ayuhara.
The story is very similar to the original, but is a has a few differences. At the beginning of the manga series, Midori Hayakawa didn't like Kozue that much because Kozue was really good at volleyball, (but they soon became best friends), but in the 2005 drama, Midori has bigger issues with Kozue. First of all, Midori was better at volleyball than Kozue at the start of this drama, and was very jealous when Kozue got called to come and play for Japan's national team (although at this point they didn't play any matches, but trained to become stronger). Secondly, Midori has a huge crush on Tsutomu-kun (his second name is very hard to catch, as everyone in the drama calles him "Tsutomu-kun!" or "Tsutomu-san!"). Midori had known Tsutomu-kun since she was very young, and when she found out that he liked Kozue, she was extremely jealous of Kozue. But when Tsutomu-kun died while saving a young boy, Midori's jealousy sort of evaporated. Thirdly, when Kozue helped some girls who were in her volleyball team, Fujimi, from a drunken man, she became popular, and got the No.1 tracksuit for Fujimi, Midori was very jealous, so she didn't tell Kozue that Kozue had been taken out of Japan's volleyball team because, replacing her,Midori had been called to play for Japan. Despite all this jealousy from Midori, Kozue and her are best friends, and in the end get to play together for Japan, as Kozue is called back. Another difference is, Kozue injures her leg very badly and has to have surgery, but recovers fully. Also, in this drama, it doesn't tell us if Japan won worldwide, since it ends where Japan are playing Brazil.
(Source: Wikipedia)