Aitsu to Lullaby: Wednesday's Cinderella

あいつとララバイ 水曜日のシンデレラ

Aired: 1987

A theatrical anime based on Michiharu Kusunoki's motorcycle manga. Produced by Studio Pierrot, it was screened as a double feature with Shuichi Shigeno's 'Bari Bari Densetsu,' forming a golden pairing of motorcycle anime that generated considerable buzz at the time. The story follows high school protagonist Kenji Hishiki, who rides his beloved Z-II and experiences the bittersweet flavors of youth through a curious encounter with a mysterious older woman named Sonoko who drives a Porsche. The exhilarating motorcycle scenes and jazz-rock-flavored soundtrack earned high praise even from fans of the original manga. With Yu Yoshinaga's theme song 'Namida no Sweet Angel' etched in memory alongside the era's landscape, this became a quintessential youth romance emblematic of Pierrot's motorcycle anime line.