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Someday's Dreamers
魔法遣いに大切なこと (Things that are precious to a mage)
Genre	Fantasy, Drama
Manga
Authored by	Story:Norie Yamada Art:Kumichi Yoshizuki
Publisher	Kadokawa Shoten Génération Comics Planet Manga Kadokawa Media (Taiwan) Norma Editorial Tokyopop
Serialized in	Comic Dragon
Original run	5/2002 – 1/2003
No. of volumes	2
TV anime
Directed by	Masami Shimoda
Studio	J.C.STAFF
Network	TV Asahi and ANN network
Original run	9 January 2003 – 27 March 2003
No. of episodes	12
Manga: Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound 魔法遣いに大切なこと 太陽と風の坂道
Authored by	Story:Norie Yamada Art:Kumichi Yoshizuki
Publisher	Kadokawa Shoten Planet Manga Kadokawa Media (Taiwan) Tokyopop
Serialized in	Comic Dranon Age
Original run	12/2003 – 2/2006
No. of volumes	5

Someday's Dreamers (魔法遣いに大切なこと, Mahō Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto^?, lit. "Things that are precious to a Mage") was a 13-part anime and manga written by Norie Yamada (山田典枝, Yamada Norie^?). The anime series was produced by J.C.STAFF in 2003 and released in America by Geneon. Directed by Masami Shimoda (下田正美, Shimoda Masami^?), it loosely follows the storyline of the manga. However, in the anime Yume is seventeen and the character designs differ from the manga as well. The original artist for the title was Kumichi Yoshizuki. The story is set in present day Tokyo. Much of the setting is based upon real areas, the more obvious ones being the Shibuya Crossing and Tokyo Tower. The main backdrop of the series where they all reside is in Shimokitazawa, roughly 6 minutes west of Shibuya on the Keio Inokashira Line.

Contents 1 Story 2 Music 3 Characters 4 External links

In Tokyo is the Bureau of Magic, which employs Mage Labour for certain special requests by everyday people. However, the mages must only use their magic with special permission, and any unlicensed use results in a penalty. The story is very gentle and centres around the protagonist, a witch named Yume Kikuchi (菊池ユメ, Kikuchi Yume^?), a 2nd year senior high school student from Tono in Iwate prefecture. In order to train as a magic user, she travels to Tokyo during her summer break to apprentice under the charming Masami Oyamada (小山田雅美, Oyamada Masami^?). The story is very peaceful and tells of Yume's trials and tribulations as she works toward her eventual graduation as a full-fledged magic user licensed by the Bureau of Magic. There is a strong undercurrent of romance which is not resolved.

On 7 March 2006, Tokyopop translated the Somedays Dreamers manga for an international release. In December 2006 they also released a spinoff series named Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound (魔法遣いに大切なこと 太陽と風の坂道, Mahō Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto; Taiyō to Kaze no Sakamichi^?).

The composer of the anime soundtrack, Takefumi Haketa, hoped that girls would identify with the lead role and created music which had a nostalgic feel to it, evoking both English and Irish suburbs but also memories of the European Middle Ages. Using traditional instruments such as Irish whistles, he created tracks based on jigs, reels and a real Salsa track. For two themes he employed the voices of a 10-strong choir of schoolchildren. The vocal songs were also arranged by Haketa and sung by Miki Taoka. The cd soundtrack was released in America in 2003 by Pioneer Anime LDC, inc.

TRACKLIST

• Where the sky and the earth meet
• Midnight Summer Dream
• Heart of Ice - After you've left
• Sunflower - Surrounded by the wind of light
• Golden Sunlight
• First job
• Friend
• Memorable scene
• Days of Pachanga
• Home country of a water imp
• I won't forget
• Under the moon light
• Breakfast - I'm fine today, too
• PAIN
• The feeling is magic
• Hot frenzy
• Forever straight
• As human as a witch
• Our future
• Kidokorone - doze
• Destination of magic
• In flower language, it is love
• Sweet Memories
• "Sincerity"
• Poem of hope
• Blue sky without a cloud - no trouble in the world
• Clear/the Indigo
• UNDER THE BLUE SKY (TV Edit: Extra track)
• 29-37 Eye catch (9 versions)

• Yume Kikuchi (Yume Kikuchi (菊池ユメ, Kikuchi Yume^?))-(Seiyu:Aoi Miyazaki, VA:Kari Wahlgren)
• Masami Oyamada (Masami Oyamada (小山田雅美, Oyamada Masami^?))-(Seiyu:Jun'ichi Suwabe, VA:?)
• Angela Charon Brooks (アンジェラ・シャロン・ブルックス) - (Seiyu:Akeno Watanabe, VA:?)

• (Japanese) Anime Official website
• North America Anime website
• North America Manga website
• Tokyopop introduction for Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound