Masako Ebisu

The series follows 12-year-old Ayuhara Kozue's hardships with a lung disease and her struggle in becoming a pro volleyball player.

During the 19th Century in Japan, clockwork dolls are very common for festivals and entertainment. But when the Western world comes to introduce its invention of steam engines, clockwork dolls will be more than handcrafted machines.

Failed kamikaze pilot Ken Asuka becomes a rough, tough hooligan who settles all of his problems with karate, until he learns about the legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto in the novels of Eiji Yoshikawa. Resolving to live his life like Musashi, he begins to take karate more seriously. Based on a manga by Ikki Kajiwara and Jiro Tsunoda, itself inspired by the real life of Yasunobu Oyama, the founder of the "hard-knock" Kyokushin Karate school. (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)