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After winning a bronze medal in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and silver in Mexico in 1968, it seems like the Japanese men's volleyball team is in with a chance for gold. A harsh training regime begins in 1972 as the world prepares for the Munich Olympics, with the Japanese team under the firm management of Yasutaka Matsudaira.
Each episode introduces one of the players from the real-life team, often using real-world backgrounds, but using anime to depict the players themselves, since filming them for real would have been in contravention of Olympic rules on amateurs and sponsorship. Although the series ended before the final result, as with Yawara life imitated art, and the men's team won. A bonus "16th" episode, Gold Medal of Tears (Namida no Kin Medal), was made after the victory and broadcast in September 1972, in the timeslot that had been taken by RtM's successor, Mon Cherie Coco. Considering the tragic implications of the title, it seems possible that the subject included not only the Japanese team's victory, but also some treatment of the effect on the competition of the infamous Munich Massacre, in which Palestinian terrorists kidnapped Israeli athletes and eventually gunned down their surviving hostages during an airport shootout with German police.
Each episode introduces one of the players from the real-life team, often using real-world backgrounds, but using anime to depict the players themselves, since filming them for real would have been in contravention of Olympic rules on amateurs and sponsorship. Although the series ended before the final result, as with Yawara life imitated art, and the men's team won. A bonus "16th" episode, Gold Medal of Tears (Namida no Kin Medal), was made after the victory and broadcast in September 1972, in the timeslot that had been taken by RtM's successor, Mon Cherie Coco. Considering the tragic implications of the title, it seems possible that the subject included not only the Japanese team's victory, but also some treatment of the effect on the competition of the infamous Munich Massacre, in which Palestinian terrorists kidnapped Israeli athletes and eventually gunned down their surviving hostages during an airport shootout with German police.
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Road to Munich |
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München e no Michi |
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| Start Year | 1972 |
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