![]() ![]() The West Wind is commanded to take Unico through space and time, to the Hill of Oblivion with no memories of Psyche. Once the goddess Venus has Unico, she calls upon the second star, Zephyrus, later known as the "West Wind" in the film adaptation. A series of trickery takes place and leads to the kidnapping of poor Unico. The goddess attributes Psyche's beauty to her happiness and decides to remove the magical creature. She is the first friend to Unico, and is apparently so beautiful that the goddess Venus becomes jealous. The story begins in ancient Greece with a young mortal girl named Psyche. Unico is a young, innocent male unicorn who possesses a special ability to bring happiness to anyone near him. Unico's friends in the various manga and anime incarnations of the story include Beezle, the young Devil of Solitude Chao (or "Katy" in the English release of the 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 anime film) and a warm-hearted girl named Cheri. ![]() The series follows Unico, a baby unicorn with white fur, a pink mane, and cinnamon bun-shaped ears, who was born with the gift of making all living creatures lighthearted and happy. Two theatrical anime film adaptations were produced by Tezuka Productions and Madhouse in the early 1980s. A pilot film for a potential television series was produced in 1979. It was serialized in Sanrio's shōjo manga magazine Ririka from November 1976 to March 1979 and collected in two volumes. Unico ( Japanese: ユニコ, Hepburn: Yuniko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. ![]()
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