Ayane's High Kick (綾音ちゃんハイキック , Ayane-chan Hai Kikku ) is a two episode anime series produced by Nikkatsu Corporation and Rikutai. It was originally released as an original video animation (OVA) in Japan in 1997 and was licsed for release in North America by U.S. Manga Corps in 1998. It follows the story of a girl named Ayane Mitsui who wishes to become a professional wrestler, but due to a series of evts, she becomes a kickboxer instead.
Ayane Mitsui is a 17-year-old very athletic high school girl who wishes dearly to become a great professional wrestler like her idol Manami Toyota of the All Japan Wom's Pro-Wrestling circuit. However, despite many auditions, she cannot qualify. A brilliant kickboxing coach, Kunimitsu, notices pottial within the girl and persuades her to train with him. Ayane hates kickboxing and is very vocal about it, but happs to have a greater pottial with the sport and sticks with it. Meanwhile, some of the less-savory teachers from her high school have become aware of her extracurricular activities and threat to expel her if they get proof.
And if that's not ough, another kickboxer, 21-year-old Sakurako Miyagawa, has tak notice of the girl and wants to fight her in the ring to be her emy next morning wh Ayane and Kayoko are still high school.
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Ayane's High Kick was produced by Nikkatsu Corporation and Rikutai, directed by Takahiro Okao, and writt by Isao Shizuya. Originally planned to be six parts, only two episodes of the OVA series were released in Japan on January 21 and April 25, 1997.
The music for Ayane's High Kick was composed by Nittoku Inoue. The anime features the oping theme Fight for Yourself by The Street Beats and the closing theme Aoi Kaze no Mukou Ni (蒼い風の向こうに , lit. Beyond the Blue Wind) sung by Masako Miyamura. A CD soundtrack composed of 25 songs was released by Victor tertainmt in Japan on April 23, 1997.
A one-shot manga writt and illustrated by Ihara Hiroshi was serialized in Gakk's Monthly Comic Nora from June to December 1997. Hiroshi self-published the collected chapters on August 16, 1998.
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Martin Ouellette of Protoculture Addicts gave Ayane's High Kick a positive review, calling it loads of fun, not complicated to follow, cute and completes its mission: tertaining the viewer. He noted that although the plot is cliché for a sports anime, it is executed very well, has cool character designs, simple yet dynamic animation, an appropriate soundtrack, and healthy mix of action and comedy.
Mania.com's Chris Beveridge similarly noted a light story, copious amount of humor, fairly well defined stereotype characters, and dect artwork for its production period.
Jason Bustard of THEM Anime Reviews summarized, Ayane's High Kick is a fun, charming, double episode pilot that like many others of its era, never managed to take off and become a full series. Fun characters and an interesting premise are marginalized by its short lgth and obnoxious cliches, but for what it's worth, it's a fun ride.
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