Unico Wikipedia. Unico,Yuniko is a manga and anime character by Osamu Tezuka. Unico is a baby unicorn with white fur, a pink mane, and little cinnamon bun shaped ears, who was born with the very special gift of making all living creatures lighthearted and happy. His friends in the various manga and anime incarnations of his story include Beezle, the young Devil of Solitude from Scottish Mythology part of Celtic Mythology Chao or Katy in the English anime, a naive little kitty who longs to be a human girl, and to learn magic from a real witch a spunky little Sphinx in the second film, and a warm hearted human girl named Cheri. SummaryeditUnicos way of bringing happiness to others gets him into trouble with the gods, who believe that only they should have the ability to control others emotions. The gods send the West Wind to banish Unico to the Hill of Oblivion, but the West Wind takes pity on Unico and declines to follow the gods commands. The gods are furious when they learn of the West Winds defiance, and send the Night Wind to capture Unico. To protect Unico from the gods and the Night Wind, the West Wind must continually transport the little unicorn from place to place. Whenever the gods discover Unicos whereabouts, the West Wind appears to spirit him away once again, often without getting to say goodbye to any of the friends he has made and without any memory of those friends, as Unicos memory is wiped clean each time. In the 1. 97. 9 film, Unico was a pet to Psyche, the most beautiful girl in the mortal world and he brought her eternal happiness. But the goddess Venus was jealous and angry at Psyche for being more beautiful than her and kidnaps Unico to make the girl unhappy. Venus orders the West Wind to take Unico away where he would be cursed to wander alone and forget everything he remembers. Unico appeared in several comic strips by Tezuka, with an ecological message. Tezukas original manga was serialized in Sanrios Ririka Lyrica magazine from 1. Shogakukan in 1. 98. Unico Black Cloud, White FeathereditIn 1. Unico made his animated debut in Kuroi Kumo Shiroi Hane Black Cloud, White Feather, an ecologically themed pilot film for a proposed anime television series which was soon released directly to video. Unico meets a young girl named Chiko who is ill because of the pollution from a nearby factory, and becomes determined to save Chikos Life in order to cure her by destroying the factory. Unico was voiced in this film by Hiroya Oka. The Fantastic Adventures of UnicoeditAlthough the TV series was not picked up, Unico soon made it to the silver screen in two feature length anime films produced by Sanrio and Tezuka Productions with animation by Madhouse Studios. Unicos first movie, titled The Fantastic Adventures of Unico in English and simply Unico in Japan, was released in Japan on March 1. This musical film, narrated by Iruka, directed by Toshio Hirata, written by Masaki Tsuji, and with animation by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, presents the back story of Unicos banishment and his subsequent travels, as well as his friendships with Beezle to whom he grants his own horn and ChaoKaty to whom he grants the wish of becoming a human girl. Beezle the Scottish Devil known as Akuma kun, or Little Devil, in the original version initially rejects Unicos overtures of friendship, but comes around when he realizes how lonely he really is. After Beezle saves Unico from drowning, the two begin their friendship in earnest, but then the West Wind comes to take Unico away. The next creature Unico encounters is Chao Katy, a black and white cat who dreams of becoming a witch. Katy and Unico befriend a lonely old woman, whom Katy mistakenly believes is a witch and will teach her some magic as well as transform her into a human girl. When Unico changes Katy into a girl, Katy at first believes that the old woman did it, until Unico proves it was his doing by changing her back into a cat but Unico, seeing how selfish Katy has become, refuses to change Katy back to a girl, until one day when Katy saves the old woman from drowning. Katy then becomes entranced by a man posing as a lord Danshaku in Japanese, Baron de Ghost in English. He invites her to his castle, gets her drunk and attempts to seduce her. Unico follows, rescuing Katy with help from Beezle after transforming into a majestic white winged unicorn and destroying the demonic Cow Skeleton Monster that the lord had transformed into. Afterwards, West Wind comes to take Unico away again, and Katy moves in with the old woman. This movie includes several songs, most of which were performed by the movies narrators, singersongwriter Iruka in the original version and Joan Carol OConnell in the English dub however, ChaoKatys recurring theme song, Chao no Kuroneko no Uta The Song of Black Cat Chao, was sung by Chaos voice actresses, Kazuko Sugiyama in the Japanese version and Robin Levenson in the English dub. The movies other songs include Unico no Teemu Unicos Theme, Hontou wa SubishikuteLonely1 BeezleAkuma kuns image song, and Majo Neko Chao Witch Cat ChaoKaty The Kitty Witch, all sung by Iruka or OConnell. For the U. S. release, all of the songs were dubbed into English along with the spoken dialogue, except for the ending song over the closing credits, which is an instrumental in the English version. Unico was voiced by Katsue Miwa in the original version and Barbara Goodson in the English dub.
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