AniWorthAttack No.1
Introduction
Kozue is a middleschool girl and enthusiastic volleyball player. Her dream is to play in the Japanese national volleyball team. During the series she makes it from the school district league up to the Japanese volleyball finals, step by step till the international volleyball championship. But the faster and higher Kozue climbs the career ladder up, the more she gets confronted with the dark side of success: too high expectations, self-conceit and envy are progressing towards serious problems.
(Source: ANN)
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.85/10 · 4190
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Audience reviews
4 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
LuxuriousHeart
As of now, Attack No 1 is rated lower than a 7. For the life of me, I can't figure out why. This was a great show that holds up well, and is even ahead of the times in certain aspects. Sure, there's some repeated tropes, but the show manages to still be fun while also having tragic moments as well.
The story is simple overall. Ayuhara transfer to a new middle school, and the volleyball team notices that she has some skill. She eventually joins and they train hard in the tournaments. Her ultimate goal is the best the best attacker in the world.
There is a repeating plot point. It has an "antagonist of the arc" type of thing going on. Basically, Ayuhara would meet new people, there would be a girl that's initially cold to her, and Ayuhara would have to work around that. How can you work i…
Read at the sourceIkarugaOne
It was in the early 90s, when TV stations in Germany realized that there was a market for Anime in the west, before that time we only had shows like He-Man or Saber Riders, they were fun to watch but their main focus was on fast paced action and a paper thin story. That's probably one of the reasons why I was fascinated by the tale of the courageous Mila(that was the protagonist Kozue's name in German), a fragile girl on a journey to overcome her health issues to become the best volleyball player there is. The theme was rather dark at times, so to me it was a completely different experience compared to the action packed American animation shows. That said, there was enough action to be found, I remember being quite surprised as to how interesting watching something like volleyball could be…
Read at the sourceBowsahBabeh
I cannot possibly separate my nostalgia goggles from my eyes when talking about Attack No. 1. Or as it was known to me and my fellow German speakers in the 90s, Mila Superstar.
Before Sailor Moon, before Dragonball, before Pokemon and Digimon...there was Mila. This was in more ways than one my entry drug into the world of anime.
While it is rather rough around the edges when you look at it today (I mean it was made in the 60s for crying out loud) but it still had all those tropes I would later come to love/hate in anime. It's a sports show with all the shounen cliches you'd expect. An underdog story with a rival bully who becomes your BFF by the end, ridiculous superpowers and the melodramatic nail biting thrills of...Volleyball. Sure there were no world ending stakes, but it I'll be dam…
Read at the sourcesihaja
Attack No.1 or Mila Superstar as it was called when it aired in Germany is one of the childhood memories I treasure. Though the genre of Anime was not known at all at that time, Attack No.1 used to air with german dub throughout the 90's on german television. It is funny to see that hardly anybody seems to know it here, though most of 10-30 year old Germans have watched the series.
The story is rather old nowadays, young girl joins high school volleyball team, as she gets better and better she does make some friends but also some enemies. As she plays her way up to the world championships, new friends and new funny volleyball techniques show up. Although the story is quite worn out, the anime is still fun to watch, as you can share the thrill with Mila during every match.
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